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The flying knife is a long-range offensive weapon in the Water Margin, and there are also several good men in the Water Margin, such as the rich man Li Ying, such as Xiang Chong, and Du Wei under Fang La. Each of them is a good throwing knife player, and they all have their own unique places in this skill, so from the perspective of their achievements, Li Ying and Du Wei, who is more powerful in the end?
Let's first look at Li Ying, after Li Ying attacked Zhujiazhuang in SongJiang, Li Ying surrendered Liangshan, and because he contributed all his property, he ranked very high. However, many people only pay attention to Li Ying's property confiscation, but ignore Li Ying's martial arts, in fact, Li Rich Lord is still a martial arts master.
According to the description of him in the Water Margin, Li Ying is able to make a steel gun with iron points, hide five flying knives on his back, take a hundred steps to take people, and be haunted. This description reveals several pieces of information, one is that the interests of martial arts are very high, and they can use the iron point steel gun as a weapon and can use a flying knife to kill people. Second, Li Ying, especially in the use of flying knives, his kung fu has been pure fire, reaching the level of being mysterious, and can take people's lives from a hundred steps away.
And how many flying knives does Li Ying have on his body? The answer is four. That is to say, what Li Ying was carrying was not four flying knives, but four lives.
Judging from Shi Nai'an's description of Li Ying, his evaluation of Li Ying is very high, and friends who have watched the Water Margin know that there are many definite words about the characters in the Water Margin, and these fixed words can largely see the martial arts level of this person.
And Fang La's Du Wei and Shi Nai'an's description of him was not as detailed as Li Ying's, and the evaluation was not so high. The Water Margin book only says that Du Wei will make six flying knives, and he was a blacksmith in Shezhou City before, and he can fight military weapons, it is precisely because he is a blacksmith, so Du Wei created two flying knives in the process of fighting weapons, and later joined Fang La's camp and became a trusted person of Fang La.
Judging from Shi Nai'an's description of the two, it is undoubtedly Li Ying who is more powerful, so what about their record?
First, let's look at Du Wei.
What was most brilliant about him was when Qin Ming and Fang Jie were fighting, when the two were fighting to the point and were about to divide the victory and defeat, Du Wei shot, because he saw Fang Jie fighting Qin Ming behind the horse, flashed out from behind the horse, took off the knife, and hoped that Qin Ming's face would fly early in the future. And the flying knife sent by Du Wei this time did change the outcome of the battle between Qin Ming and Fang Jie. Although his flying knife did not hit Qin Ming, it did play a role.
In the course of Du Wei's confrontation with other good men of Liangshan, Yu Baosi and Sun Erniang were both killed by Du Wei with a flying knife. Although killing Yu Baosi and Sun Erniang could not fully prove anything, it could also be seen that Du Wei's flying knife skills were still very passable.
And what about Li Ying's side? Judging from the Water Margin, he rarely used the flying knife, but after The Liangshan Army was recruited, Li Ying followed the army into Muzhou City, and then Li applied the flying knife to kill a man named Wu Yingxing. And this man is obviously not a big man.
Therefore, judging from the record, Li should be inferior to Du Wei. That is to say, in terms of comprehensive strength, Du Wei's flying knife was more powerful than Li Ying's.