Fushun Border Fort Majun Danbao
Author: Zhang Song
Ming Dynasty Fushun There are four major border forts in the territory. In addition to Dongzhou Fort, Huiyuan Fort and Sanyangyu Fort, there is also Majun Danbao located in Majun Village, the current reinforcement town.
Majundan is also known as Majundan, Magendan, etc. This place name is transliterated. Some people say it is Mongolian , and some people say it is Manchu , and there is no conclusion yet. The Majun Danbao site was listed as a Fushun municipal cultural relics protection unit in 2002 and was listed as a provincial cultural relics protection unit in 2008.
Majun Dan is backed by the Dongzhou River, surrounded by mountains, and has dangerous transportation. It is a must-pass place to connect to Fushun along the Dongzhou River Valley. There is a plain hill in the mountains. The Ming army built a fort here, which is an important barrier between Dongzhou Fort and Qinghe Fort to block the Jurchens' invasion, and it is a place that military strategists must fight for.
Majun Danbao was built in the fourth year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty (1468). It was built in the same period as the famous Yaguguan . It was also under the leadership of Han Bin, the deputy general of Liaodong at that time.
Majun Danbao originally had only North City, but later the construction of South City was added, perhaps because the original city was small in scale and needed to be expanded. At present, the outline of the North City is relatively obvious, slightly square, 284 meters from east to west, 245 meters from north to south, and 1058 meters in circumference.
Currently, the north wall still exists and the outline is clear and identifiable. The ruins of the city wall are intermittent, some of the blue bricks are built, some of the stones are piled up, and there are architectural relics in the northeast corner of the north city. It is said to be the corner building or the horse face of that year.
There is a section of the southern wall of Majun Danbao, which is more than 100 meters long and more than 4 meters high. It is the only section of the city wall among the castles in Liaodong that has been preserved to this day. Now it has been sealed into a villager's yard to make a courtyard wall.
This section of the south wall is the south wall of the north city and the north wall of the south city. One wall is two-purpose. The south gate connects the two cities, but it is actually a city.
Nancheng, also known as Nanguancheng by locals, the city is square with a circumference of 827 meters, slightly smaller than the northern city. Its south wall reaches the root of the mountain. The ruins are now difficult to find, so we can only roughly estimate the location.
46th year of Wanli (1618), Nurhaci personally led the four flags to attack Fushun City, and sent the four flags to attack Dongzhou Fort and Majun Dan Fort. Li Dacheng, the garrison of Majun Danbao, rose up to resist, but was outnumbered. The city was broken and was captured. He and more than 160 soldiers were captured to Hetuala . After 150 years of persistence, Majundan Castle finally lost its defensive function and gradually became ruined.
After more than two hundred years of calm, the ancient Majun Danbao war fire rose again. During the Russo-Japanese War, Russia set up a military station in Majundan to reserve a large amount of ammunition and food, and specially built a temporary railway from Fushun City to ensure logistics, and put forward a situation of long-term combat with the Japanese army.
However, the aggressive Japanese army quickly captured the highlands near Wuniu Village, Fushun Rescue Town. Seeing that the situation was not good, the Russian army hurriedly burned the troops station and fled north in a hurry. The Japanese army went straight to the south bank of the Hunhe River through this, and then defeated the Russian army entrenched on the Gaoer Mountain position in Hebei until the final victory in the Battle of Fengtian Xingjing.
Today, there are some Ming Dynasty stone carvings and stone building components placed on the roadside of Majun Village, including stone lions, horse-mounted stones, etc., with exquisite carvings, which should be cultural relics left behind after the city was destroyed. The village can be seen scattered low walls made of blue bricks and stones everywhere. The materials of the former border castle wall were used by villagers to divide the vegetable garden and the courtyard.
There is a tall old locust tree in Majun Village, which looks very old. It is a testimony of history, and is always silent.
