Among the 108 generals of Liangshan, Chai Jin is undoubtedly a special person. Many people feel that Chai Jin died by himself, but he let go of a good life, but he fell into the grass as a thief; some people said that Chai Jin was burdened by Li Kui and had to go to Liangshan.
The reason why I think so is only because of Chai Jin's identity, he is a former imperial family, with a prominent position, and he is incompatible with the grass for Koge.
Chai Jin is a former imperial family, although it is only a former dynasty, but it is quite rich, and as soon as he appears, he wears a dragon pattern robe and a jade belt around his waist, and his status is obviously very high. However, these are the faces after all, and in fact he has his own grievances. Even the brother-in-law of Gao Li's cousin dared to bully Uncle Chai Jin, which showed that the former imperial family was like that.
In addition, even a prominent person like Chai Jin was forced to go to Liangshan, which could also reflect the chaos of the world at that time.
Some people say that Chai Jin is a flower rack, and Wen is not good, nor is Wu Cheng. After going to Liangshan, he did not have any skills, although he was responsible for money and grain, but in fact, he relied on Li Ying and Du Xing and others. If you think so, you're wrong. Chai Jin may not have much of a skilled martial art, but he was quite strategic.
For example, after Lin Chong killed Lu Qian, Fu An and others in the hay field, he was caught by the doormen who entered the wood for drinking wine. Later, Chai Jin took him to his own Zhuangzi. After Lin Chong stayed for a few days, he was worried that his sin would affect Chai Jin, so Chai Jin wrote a letter recommending him to go to Liangshan to join the company.
The question is how to send Lin Chong out of the city? Chai Jin thought of a way, he likes to hunt, so he let Lin Chong pretend to be a pro-him, mixed in with his own team. When passing the customs, he also deliberately said "Lin Chong is in my group", which is a typical example of not cheating and cheating, so he deceived the people who guarded the pass.
Of course, in order to avoid the appearance of the dressing gang when he came back, he had already called a person to wait outside and follow the team when he returned, so that there would be no different numbers before and after.
After going to Liangshan, Chai Jin's performance was quite a lot, but there were no highlights, and he used the meter twice after Zhao'an, and his performance was very wonderful.
During the conquest of Wang Qing, Chai Jin, Li Ying, and others were responsible for escorting grain and grass. During this period, they caught a traitor, and learned from the mouth of the traitor that at that time, Wang Qing's fierce general Qi Yan had already found out and led an army of 10,000 to burn the grain and grass of the Song army. When Li Ying heard about it, he immediately said that he had taken his troops to meet the battle, but Chai Jin stopped him, and he thought of a plan and decided to outwit him.
Chai Jin left five or six hundred people and one or two hundred grain trucks, planted gunpowder, firewood, and so on in the car, and let Li Ying and others ambush. After the arrival of the soldiers, the ambush troops rose up and directly threw fire to light the gunpowder. As a result, Qiqi was killed, and the 10,000 troops he brought with him, except for more than a thousand people who escaped, all the rest were killed.
In this battle, Chai Jin used a plan to kill the fierce general Ji Yan, the two deputy generals, and more than 9,000 of his men. The Song army had almost no losses because of the ambush in advance and the preparations.
Ji Yan had fought with Suo Chao for fifty rounds without winning or losing, and had also killed the Song army's Hebei generals Wen Zhongrong, Tang Bin and others, Chai Jin's plan, it can be said that in addition to a fierce enemy.
Chai Jin also had a wonderful performance, that is, he went undercover at Fang La.
It is not so easy to go undercover, because Fang La's rebellion was in Jiangnan, so Chai Jin should be familiar with the customs and customs of the south, and the people are sophisticated, so Chai Jin asked Yan Qing to join him.
Chai Jin first deceived Lou Minzhong and then Fang La, and the undercover was quite smooth, and Fang La also married his daughter Princess Jinzhi to him. When Fang La's army was defeated and retreated, Chai Jin stepped forward, went head-to-head with the Liangshan generals, and won several times, which made Fang La more trusting. Later, Fang Jie fought with Liangshan and returned to his horse because he was besieged by Guan Sheng and others, at this time Chai Jin stabbed him off the horse with a shot, and Yan Qing caught up with a knife and killed the last fierce general under Fang La's command.
Song Jiang's army took the opportunity to attack the city, and under the combination of inside and outside, Fang La was completely defeated, until finally he himself was captured alive by Lu Zhishen.
Judging from Chai Jin's performance, although his martial arts are not outstanding, his strategy is still good. In the end, he was also soberly aware that he might have been killed by a traitor, so he resigned from his official position early and went into hiding, and thus died well.
It can be seen that Chai Jin is not just a flower rack, he is very smart.