Recently, led by Li Wending, vice chairman of the CPPCC Gangu County, a team went to Wushan Iron Cage Mountain to inspect Jiang Wei's cultural relics, and was warmly received by Gaolou Town and Daping Village in Wushan County.
The investigation team first came to the monument of the Red Army's Long March to forcibly cross the Weihe River in Yuanyang Town, Wushan County, and paid respects to the revolutionary martyrs. At dawn on September 26, 1935, Mao Zedong led the Red Army to cross the Wei River north at Mandarin Duck and camp at Feijiashan that night. According to research, Mao Zedong's famous "Seven Laws: The Long March" was written in Feijiashan. In August 1936, the Red Fourth Front Army was stationed in Yuanyang, carried out revolutionary activities for more than 40 days, and established the first and only red regime in the Tianshui area, the Wushan County Soviet Government, in Jiemen Village.
The cliff of the iron cage mountain is steep, the lonely and dangerous clouds are high, the hope is like a hanging pot, the rapids are rolling, the valley turns to thunder, its mountain shape is like a birdcage, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is the place where soldiers must fight since ancient times.
The inspection team listened to the introduction of the legends and stories of Jiang Wei's battle against Tielong Mountain by cadres at the town and village levels, inspected the unearthed Jiang Wei waist knife, and went into the top of Tiecage Mountain and the ditch for field investigation to obtain first-hand information.
According to the 109th chapter of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", in the sixteenth year of Yanxi of the Shu Han Dynasty (253 AD), Jiang Wei raised 200,000 troops to attack Wei, and met with the Wei general Xu Zhen in Dongting (now south of Wushan County), Jiang Wei was defeated and retreated with a strategy, Sima Zhao sent Xu Zhen to approach closely, just when Xu Zhen attacked the Shu soldiers' grain trucks, Jiang Wei led the army to kill left and right, the Wei soldiers were defeated, and the general Xu Zhen died tragically under the Shu army's chaotic knife, and Sima Zhao was trapped by Jiang Wei on the iron cage mountain. There is only one road in the Iron Cage Mountain, steep on all sides, there is only one spring on the mountain, only enough for 100 people to drink, and at this time there are more than 6,000 people under Sima Zhao, trapped by Jiang Wei, the spring water on the mountain is not enough, the people and horses are thirsty and unbearable, in the face of such a serious situation, Sima Zhao looked up to the sky and sighed: "I died here." Later, due to the rebellion of King Qiang in Gangu and Wushan, Sima Zhao turned defeat into victory, and Jiang Wei was forced to return to the Hanzhong camp in defeat.