On the sixth day of the twelfth lunar month in the third year of Kaiyun, Wang Qing, commanded by the capital, led 2,000 infantry and hundreds of warriors to fight at Zhongdu Bridge. Exhausted, the entire army was annihilated. For three days, the water in Hutuo River became red.
It may be said that there were survivors from the battle, but their names are unknown. A few years later, at the top of Hengzhou City, someone was drinking alone on a snowy night, looking north and crying.
Mud bones are used as fuel - the remains of the war dead sank into the frozen soil and turned into firewood to light the way forward for future generations. Where twenty-five hundred people fell, the fire never went out.
