Not far from the northwest of Koumen, Chencun Township, Mianchi County, there is a small village called Hongtupo. It is surrounded by white soil and gravel mountain roads. Only this village has dark red soil, which looks like blood stains. Speaking of which, there is also a magical historical legend.
It is said that when King Wu of Zhou defeated Zhou, the army of expeditions in the east went to Mianchi and encountered the tenacious resistance of Zhang Kui, the general of Zhou, and Zhang Kui, the general of Zhou, and interpreted the story of Zhang Kui fighting against Hunchiguan in history.
Legend Zhang Kui is tall and big, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and has great martial arts skills, and will escape from earth and appear impermanently, making it difficult for people to defend themselves. His wife, Gao Lanying, has unique skills, which can make the sun needle nail a person's soul and be slaughtered like a corpse. As a result, , Martial King , lost his troops and generals, and failed to fight for a long time.
Later, Zhou Wuwang’s military camp transferred Yang Ren , Wei Hu , Tu Xingsun several generals. Yang Ren had a hand in his eyes, and he could look up at the heavens and hell. It was difficult for ordinary people to escape from his palms. Wei Hu had a flying emperor who could fly around and beat people in the air. Tu Xingsun is even more skillful in martial arts and can also escape from earth. Moreover, his body is light and flexible, and he comes and goes freely. He can see everything clearly when he is wide open underground. When Zhang Kui escapes underground, he cannot open his eyes and relies on his feelings to distinguish the direction. He walks underground slowly. In this way, when Zhang Kui escaped underground, he often could not escape Yang Ren's stare and Wei Hu's Feitian Juanzi's pursuit. Especially, he was chased and teased by Tu Xingsun and a pair of golden sticks everywhere. As a result, he is very passive, poor to deal with it, and in a mess. He had to move the camp and retreat, and he couldn't stand it, waiting for King Zhou to send troops to rescue him.
One day, Zhang Kui and his wife fought with King Wu at Mianchi Pass and the earth was dark and the earth was shaken. Gao Lanying became more and more brave as he fought. He sacrificed the sun's magic needle and wanted to nail the Tu Xingsun and his wife. Tu Xingsun saw that it was not good and hurriedly escaped. His wife Deng Chanyu could not hide in time and was nailed by a magic needle. Zhang Kui slapped the horse and waved the knife and killed him under the horse. Seeing that the situation was not good, Tu Xingsun became wise in a hurry, and hurriedly escaped and sneaked into Mianchi Pass, wanting to kill Zhang Kui's mother to avenge his wife's murder. Who knew that the inner gate was already prepared and could not take action. Then he went to the back camp and burned Zhang Kui's grain and grass warehouse. Tu Xingsun dived back to Zhouying from underground, and asked Jiang Ziya to allow him to go and ask his master fear to stay Sun , and used the technique of forming a steel to trap Zhang Kui. Zhang Kui’s wife Gao Lanying calculated with her fingers.
knew that Tu Xingsun was going to ask his master to help kill her husband. He would leave from Koumen Mountain at the time of Yin, cross the north of Yellow River to Erlong Mountain to move troops. Gao Lanying quickly informed Zhang Kui about Tu Xingsun's whereabouts. When Zhang Kui heard this, he was overjoyed and was worried that he could not catch Tu Xingsun. He could not avenge Tu Sun's revenge for teasing and beating. He hurriedly led his troops to lurk on the red earth slope of Komen Mountain and waited for Tu Xingsun to be unearthed.
Tu Xingsun was eager to take revenge, and he didn't think much about whether there was an ambush on the ground. As soon as he arrived at the red earth slope, he hurriedly arched out of the ground. Unexpectedly, as soon as he showed up, Zhang Kui cut off his head and his body was still underground with his shoulders below. Because of the anxiety of unearthing, the blood was strong, and the blood flowed around the hillside, soaking the mountain skin into blood red. To this day, the soil color of this slope is still dark red. Local people have been telling the story of the red earth slope from generation to generation.
Dong Zhaoyang