Chapter 588 The Best in the World

Dongchangfu, Shandong.

Dongchang City was built in the third year of Xining in the Northern Song Dynasty. It was originally a earthen city. In the fifth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, it was covered with bricks. The city wall was seven miles in circumference, nearly twelve meters high, and nearly twelve meters thick.

Dongchang City is also called Phoenix City. The inner wall is built with rammed earth and the outer wall is built with bricks and stones. During the Wanli period, more than 2700 piers and 27 enemy towers were built on the city wall.

Most importantly, Dongchang City is surrounded by water! Located in the vast Dongchang Lake, it is a city completely in the lake, and it is tall and solid, easy to defend and difficult to attack. It has the saying of "Phoenix that can be trapped without losing".

On the Wangyue Tower in the northeast corner of the city, there are mountains ..