Wang Mou is not talented, and he is good at reading literature and history. Yesterday, I had a group chat with Wenyou and discussed a topic. The topic was: "If Song Jiang does not recruit security, what will be the final outcome of the good man of Liangshan?" ”
The real Song Jiang Uprising in history is not large in scale, and the one hundred and eight good men of Liangshan in "Water Margin" are mostly fictional characters. The Wagang Army in the history has many similarities with the Liangshan Army in "Water Margin".
The author believes that the outcome of the Wagang Army is quite argumentative for the outcome of the Liangshan Army, and it is necessary to take the rise and fall of the Wagang Army in the history as an example to demonstrate the inevitability of Song Jiang Zhao'an.
The Liangshan Army in "Water Margin", like the Wagang Army in the history, is lined with mountains. Liangshan and Wagangjun both have four major factions, none of whom obey anyone, and there is a risk of infighting at any time.
Song Jiang stills, pictures from the network, thanks to the original author.
The four major factions of Liangshan can be divided into the Elder Faction, the Song Jiangyan Faction, the Guanjun Faction, and the Shan Dawang Faction. The four major factions of the Wagang Army can also be divided into the Elder Faction, the Pushan Gongying Faction, the Officers' Army Faction, and the Peasant Rebel Army's Capital-led Shareholding Faction.
Chao Gai's centaurs were the elders of the Liangshan Army, and the representative figures were the red-haired ghost Liu Tang and others. Song Jiang's concubines, with Li Kui and Hua Rong as representative figures. The officers and soldiers sent people and horses, with Qin Ming, Hu Yanzhuo, Xu Ning, Guan Sheng, and others as representative figures. The King of Shanda is a centaur, with Lu Zhishen, Wu Song and Shi Jin as representative figures.
The first leading elder brother of the Wagang Army was Zhai Rang, Xu Shiji (Xu Maogong), Shan Xiongxin, Feng Yuanzhen, Wang Bodang and others, who joined the Wagang Army, and these people were the elders of the Wagang Army. The Wagang army led by the Elder Faction raided houses in Henan and Shandong, and without great development, it was a bandit.
Wang Bodang had great ambitions, and he introduced Li Mi, the dog who had lost his family, to Zhai Rang. As soon as Li Mi arrived at the Wagang army, the Sui general Zhang Sutuo led his troops to attack the Wagang army. Zhang Sutuo was the bitter lord of the Wagang Army, and Zhai Rang fought with him, but he never won. The New Book of Tang records: "Let Su Shu Tuo, want to lead away." ”
Xu Shijie stills, pictures from the network, thanks to the original author.
Li Mi said to Zhai Rang: "Su Tuo is strong and unscrupulous, and it is easy to be proud of sudden victory, so I will break it for the public." ”
Li Mi set up an ambush at Xingyang and defeated Zhang Sutuo's troops in one fell swoop, and also killed Zhang Sutuo. Li Miwei was greatly encouraged, and advised Zhai Rang to say: "Now that the crowd is competing for prosperity, it is advisable for the public to eliminate the group of murderers before the heavens, and it is better to often plagiarize the grass and seek life?" If you take the Xingluocang directly, and send millet to alleviate the poor, millions of people can be attached to the dynasty, and the cause of the Frost King will be completed. ”
Li Mi asked Zhai To not be satisfied with the life of robbing the family and robbing the house, but to go to the cause of the king's hegemony. Zhai Rang said, "Servant Long, who is not as ambitious as this, must be in a hurry, and even more so." ”
Zhai Rang did not have the ideal of the cause of king hegemony, so he divided thousands of troops to Li Mi and let Li Mi form the Pushan Public Camp. Li Mi attacked with thousands of men and horses and laid siege to Xingluocang. Li Mi opened a warehouse to release grain and obtained hundreds of thousands of horses.
Li Mi stills, picture from the network, thanks to the original author.
In this matter, the New Book of Tang and the Zizhi Tongjian were exemplified, and the original text was: "Secretly a thousand people went out of the north of Yangcheng, over the Fang Mountain, from Luokou Toxing Luocang, according to which, the county magistrate Chai Xiaohe was obtained." Open a warehouse to give food, and the number of people is up to hundreds of thousands. ”
Li Mi's Pushan gong camp was far superior to Zhai Rang's Elder Faction. Zhai Rang weighed the pros and cons and gave up the position of the leading big brother of the Wagang Army to Li Mi. Li Mi took the Pushan gongying as his team and formed a consort of people and horses. Li Mi's concubines are represented by Wang Bodang, Zu Junyan, and Fang Yanzao.
Li Mi defeated the Sui general Liu Changgong at Xingluocang, and Liu Changgong, fearing responsibility, pushed the cause of the defeat to Pei Renji. Liu Changgong impeached Pei Renji for "missing the deadline", and Xiao Huaijing, the superintendent of the army, impeached Pei Renji with different intentions.
Pei Renji was cornered and forced to go to Wagang Village. Pei Renji dedicated the Tiger Prison to Li Mi, and also brought Qin Qiong, Luo Shixin, Cheng Yaojin, Pei Xingyu, and four tiger generals.
Pei Renji and other officers who surrendered formed the official faction of the Wagang Army. Representative figures include Pei Renji, Qin Qiong, Luo Shixin, Cheng Yaojin, Pei Xingyu, Chai Xiaohe, Yuan Baobao, Wei Zheng, Xu Jingzong and others.
Wang Bodang stills, picture from the network, thanks to the original author.
The strength of the Wagang Army became stronger and stronger, and anti-Sui forces from all over the country defected to the Wagang Army. The New Book of Tang and the Zizhi Tongjian record that "the thieves Li Yang Li Wenxiang, Huanshui Zhangsheng, Qinghe Zhao Junde, and Pingyuan Hao Xiaode were all secret. ”
The rebel army that defected from all over the country formed the Wagang Army with capital into the shareholding faction, represented by Meng Rang, Wang Bo, Hao Xiaode, Wang Junkuo, Xu Yuanlang and others.
The elder faction of the Wagang Army clashed several times with Li Mi's Pushan Gong camp. For the sake of the unity of the Wagang army, Li Mi strictly ordered the generals of the Pushan gong camp not to fight back against the bullying of Zhai Rang's men and horses. Even so, the Elder Faction remains proud of itself.
The Zizhi Tongjian records that Li Mi's concubine Fang Yanzao laid down today's Zhumadian. Fang Yanzao did not pay tribute to Zhai Rang, and Zhai Rang said to him: "Junqian broke Runan, the treasure of the big treasure, du and Wei Gong, all with me!" Wei Gong I have established, the matter is unknown! ”
Qin Qiong stills, picture from the network, thanks to the original author.
The Zizhi Tongjian also records that Zhai Rang was looking for Li Mi's secretary (secretary) Xing Yiqi to play with money. Xing Yiqi arrived a little late, and Zhai Rang beat Xing Yiqi. (Let the Marshal's Office Record Room Xing Yi Period Bo, the patrol is not complete, the staff of the eighty.) )
In the face of the bullying of the Elder Faction, Li Mi could only endure it again and again. The Elder Sect had to advance, and Zhai Rang's eldest brother said to Zhai Rang, "Heavenly Son Ru should be self-righteous, and he should be with others!" If you don't do it, I should do it! ”
It was this sentence that made Li Mi intolerable, and only then did he kill Zhai Rang, the leading elder brother of the Elder Sect. After killing Zhai Rang, the Elders were dissatisfied with Li Mi. When the Wagang army was victorious, the elders and the capital-bearing faction could still obey Li Mi's orders.
When it came time for the Wagang army to fight a decisive battle with Wang Shichong, the Pushan battalion and the official army faction that sincerely followed Li Mi fought in blood. Both Cheng Yaojin and Luo Shixin were seriously injured, and Qin Qiong and Wang Bodang both fought bravely.
In order to preserve its strength, the faction with capital into the shares chose to watch the fire from the other side. The Elder Faction was a little better like Shan Xiongxin and Xu Maogong, and chose le bing to wait and see. A little worse, like Bing Yuanzhen, directly surrendered to Wang Shichong, turned the gun and hit the Wagang army.
The failure of the Wagang Army was, in the final analysis, due to the fact that each of the four major factions was pregnant with a ghost fetus. The situation of the Liangshan Army is very similar to that of the Wagang Army. When the Liangshan Army won the war, there was no major problem. Once a powerful opponent is encountered, there will be a situation where each of the four major factions is pregnant with a ghost fetus. Song Jiang had no choice but to actively promote the recruitment of security according to the will of the officers and soldiers.
If the Liangshan army did not recruit security, the imperial court would send troops again and again to suppress it. Once the war is glued, there will be the Liangshan version of Feng Yuanzhen and the Liangshan version of the wait-and-see faction. At that time, the Liangshan Army would collapse like the Wagang Army. In such a grim situation, Song Jiang had no other way out except zhao'an.
References for this article: Water Margin.
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