Chapter 200 – Baptism of Zhang He
The northern mountain areas of Shangdang was full of tall hills, high cliffs, and steep mountain ranges. Shangdang City wall was built using the geography of nature as its advantages. The north wall edges embedded into the mountain cliffs as if it was part of the environment.
The sloping cliffs on both sides of the valley were steep and taller than the wall. The rock within the cliff revealed the age of these mountain ranges as they were here for hundreds of thousands of years.
The width of the valley was over 500 meters. This path led to the northern Nie Country, the only county between Jinyang and Shangdang City, and it was a hundred kilometers in length.
If any onlooker visited this gate from the outside, they would think that this was a check-point within the valley road instead of a city wall.
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