Chao Gai was originally Baozheng of Dongxi Village, Yuncheng County, and had a good strength, liked to practice guns and sticks, and beat bones and bones. Before going to Liangshan, Chao Gai often gathered a lot of farmers together, liked to help others, and was very righteous and loose money. Since he and Wu Yong and others took the birthday of Liang Zhongshu to the old man Cai Jing, Chao Gai had to disband Zhuang Ke and go up Liangshan to fall into the grass.
After going to Liangshan, Chao Gai's extraordinary leadership ability was quickly recognized by Lin Chong and others, and he sat on the first chair in Liangshan. Although it is the first chair in Liangshan, to tell the truth, Chao Gai does not seem to have done anything major, cumulatively added up, during Chao Gai's tenure, the main downhill war is also twice, the rest such as the mountain to meet others, especially to meet Song Jiang twice, because there is no big story, it is not counted. Chao Gai went down the mountain twice to fight, the first time down the mountain, so that he quickly lost his position in Liangshan, and the second time down the mountain, let him lose his life.
The first time he went down the mountain was when Chao Gai took more than a dozen good men from Liangshan and made a long-distance attack to Jiangzhou to rob the law field and save Song Jiang. At that time, Liangshan, under the leadership of Chao Gai, almost went to Jiangzhou to rescue Song Jiang, and finally succeeded, and also brought Song Jiang to Liangshan. As we all know, Chao Gai was gradually emptied after the Song River went up to Liangshan, and every time he wanted to go down the mountain to show his skills, he was retained by Song Jiang for various reasons, especially his brother was the lord of the cottage, and he could not move this sentence lightly, and it is estimated that Chao Gai's ears were cocooned when he heard it. Song Jiang had just been rescued, so he took it upon himself to take the good han of Liangshan to fight the Wuwei army, and this action, Chao Gai was resolutely opposed, but it was useless, and the good men all listened to Song Jiang. Of course, to tell the truth, more than half of the people in Liangshan at this time were originally Liangshan recommended by Song Jiang, and it was reasonable to listen to Song Jiang. Chao Gai originally advised Song Jiang to go to Liangshan first and then discuss the fight against the Wuwei army, believing that after the incident of the robbery of the law field in Jiangzhou, the Wuwei army had long been prepared and the attack could not be successful. However, Song Jiang insisted on fighting the Wuwei Army, and Hua Rong and others unanimously supported Song Jiang. As a result, Song Jiang fought very well against wuwei army, captured Huang Wenbing alive, and Chao Gai estimated that his face was nowhere to be put, and from this moment on, his status in Liangshan slowly began to decline.
The second time Chao Gai went down the mountain to fight was Zengtou City, and this time, Chao Gai was completely angry. As a bloody boy, Chao Gai couldn't help but be angry, because Chao Gai found that he couldn't go down the mountain to do something again, and even a person couldn't command it. Chao Gai's decision made under the fury of anger naturally did not turn out too well. He was shot in the cheek by a poisonous arrow in zengtou city and died shortly after. Chao Gai went down the mountain for the second time and took his own life.
Chao Gai is a capable leader, but compared with Song Jiang's leadership ability, Chao Gai is thousands of miles away. On both occasions when he went down the mountain to fight, Chao Gai paid a heavy price, one marked the beginning of his decline in Liangshan, and the other marked the end of his life, which was impressive.