Water Margin: This person can't win Yang Zhi, nor can he win Sun Li, why can he still rank among the Five Tiger Generals?
I have to say that Song Jiang is indeed a good hand in managing talents, and he knows that from the perspective of seating alone, one hundred and eight people will inevitably have unfair places, so he has found another way to engage in tricks such as "Five Tiger Generals" and "Eight Horse Riders", and on the other hand, he will praise these good men in disguise. It seems that the Five Tigers general should be the most powerful, but Hu Yanzhuo and the master have not won the battle, it seems to be very watery, so why can he become one of the five tiger generals? Let's take a look at his record first.
Yang Zhi was one of the Eight Horsemen and had fought against Hu Yanzhuo. After Hu Yanzhuo and Yang Zhi played forty rounds, they still had no chance of winning, and they beat a drum in their hearts, believing that the other party was not an ordinary person in the green forest, and they were timid. Sun Li was one of Xiao Biao's generals, and both he and Hu Yanzhuo's weapons were steel whips, and the two of them were also entangled together, and there was no high or low in thirty rounds.
Hu Yanzhuo's heart was broken at that time, after all, he was a famous general, and he was a general whom the emperor had personally met, and he could not defeat an unknown petty officer, which really made him lose face. However, Song Jiang still let Hu Yanzhuo rank in the front position and gave the honor of the five generals the tiger, if for no other reason than to show his attitude.
Song Jiang was bent on recruiting security, and he would naturally be respectful to the people in the imperial court who could surrender Liangshan. He gave Hu Yanzhuo benefits, on the one hand, he let Hu Yanzhuo's dead heart serve Liangshan, on the other hand, he also implied that the imperial court itself had no objection, and what he was doing now was only temporarily unavoidable. Hu Yanzhuo's ancestors were the famous general Hu Yanzan, the family martial arts, so don't look at Hu Yanzhuo's difficulty in dealing with Yang Zhi and Sun Li, but he still has his hands on some small roles such as Zhou Tong.
And Hu Yanzhuo's real advantage is not to fight alone, but also to line up troops! In other words, it was condescending to let Hu Yan burn up and charge and fight, and he should sit in the middle of the line and command the overall situation against the sand table. His use of the serial horse tactic had caused Liangshan to suffer a big loss, or Song Jiang tricked Xu Ning into the mountains, and liangshan's men and horses retrained for a long time before hu Yanzhuo was defeated.
After being captured, Hu Yanzhuo did not frighten half to death, but calmly negotiated with Song Jiang, and saw that Song Jiang's attitude was very sincere, and then chose to surrender. This also made Song Jiang look up at him, because Song Jiang understood that after being a famous general, Hu Yanzhuo had more appeal than other generals, which was one of the reasons why he praised Hu Yanzhuo as the Five Tiger Generals. In the end, Hu Yanzhuo was heroically martyred in the anti-Jin struggle, but he did not fall into the name of his own tiger general!