Last winter, on a sunny day, tourists drove from Yulin city, along the 2 10 national road all the way south, and arrived at Guide Castle Village in about 20 minutes. On the left side of the national highway, there is an obvious colorful gate of "Guide Fort Village". The road into the village is a cement road, with pine trees and willows planted on both sides.
Guide Castle is one of the famous castles in the fortress. It was built in Chenghua period of Ming Dynasty, 25 kilometers north of Zhenbeitai and 20 kilometers south of Yu He Castle. There are 480 soldiers and 1 17 horses and mules. Viewed from the air, Fort Guide is built on the ridge, which is higher than the surrounding area, occupying favorable terrain and facilitating defense.
People in Guide Castle live under the walls of the castle, which is a row of ancient caves facing the sun. It seems that no one has lived there for a long time, and there are many weeds. Some cracks have collapsed, bricks and stones have fallen, and loess has leaked inside.
Along Panshan Road, you will reach the top of the mountain soon. Turn half a circle around the castle wall and you will reach the east gate of the castle. The gate is a little low, and you can't see the majestic appearance of the famous castle. On the street lamp outside the east gate, there is a banner with the slogan "It is everyone's responsibility to protect the Great Wall".
There are two newly-built small temples and a theater in the castle, and there is no shadow of ancient buildings. But in the newly reclaimed land, you can see many broken bricks, which should be the fragments left by the original building of the castle.
A fragment of a porcelain dish was found under a remote city wall. You can see that there are two rings at the bottom of the dish. After washing with water, it returned to its original appearance. I'm going to take it back as a small ornament on the bookshelf.
The north wall and the east wall of the castle are relatively complete. The rammed earth wall looks very solid, covered with Caragana and weeds, and the shady place is covered with moss. Hundreds of years of wind and rain have made the city wall much lower, and even the wild elms outside the wall are much higher than the city wall.
Inside the silt of the city wall, there are large and small city bricks buried. According to the old man in Guide Castle Village, in the 1960s, the village engaged in construction, and dug up a perfect city brick in the soil outside the north gate. There is a very precious brick with the words "Wanli" engraved on it. The villagers used it to weigh, and it is obvious that a brick weighs 25 Jin, which shows that the material is solid.
Standing on the earth wall of the castle, in the distance are the buildings in Yulin city, one after another rising from the ground; On the 2 10 national road at the foot of the castle, large trucks carrying coal are one after another; The clear Yuxi River still nourishes the people in the border areas. The castle is quiet, but it is bustling in the distance, which has the illusion of time travel.
In the old days, there was an urn at the east gate and an urn at the south gate. The north gate is low in terrain, and all the rainwater in the city is discharged from the north gate. The pilot fort covers a small area, with a circumference of less than 2 kilometers. Because it looks like a stirrup, the locals call it "stirrup city". It is said that there used to be a west gate, which was not very feng shui when it was opened, but it was closed later.
According to records, there were only a dozen shops in Guidebao in ancient times. Its main function is to distribute grain and grass and ensure the grain and grass supply in Yulin town. From ancient times to the present, the villagers in Guide Castle have concentrated outside Xiguan, which has been propagated from generation to generation.
In the 1970s, Sino-Soviet relations were tense, and everyone dug bomb shelters. Yulin is in the north, and it is no exception. Under the west wall of Guide Castle, there is a bomb shelter. Except the entrance was destroyed, the cave remained basically the same. It is said that there are three caves with a total length of more than ten kilometers.
There are still many past events in Guide Castle, waiting for future generations to explore.
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