When it comes to the Water Margin, the first thing we think of is the one hundred and eight generals who are highly skilled in martial arts, and everyone above Liangshan is a good man, although they are heroes of the green forest, they can also be regarded as characters, although they are grassy and reckless, occupying the mountains as kings, but in that era when the world is dark and the peasants' lives are miserable, the good men of Liangshan rob the rich and help the poor, and for the Heavenly Path, they can also be regarded as a clear spring in the rolling torrent.
Most of the good men who were forced to go to Liangshan were dissatisfied with the government at that time, or were forced by the government to be suppressed, and they had no choice but to fall into the grass, and the days under the mountain were too bitter to be suppressed by the government everywhere, it was indeed not as good as going to Liangshan, eating meat in large mouths, and drinking in large bowls, but those who could be taken in by Liangshan were not idle, they were all skilled, in order to have a place in Liangshan.
Such a leisurely life, after Song Jiang accepted the imperial court edict, there was no longer anymore, Song Jiang was bent on getting a proper name, in order to let the imperial court see the sincerity of the good men of Liangshan, Song Jiang accepted the dispatch of the imperial court, went to various battlefields to recover the lost land for the imperial court, quelled the rebellion, but he did not know that the imperial court only used up and abandoned the attitude of Liangshan, and did not care about the good men of Liangshan.
After Liangshan quelled two battles for the imperial court, the imperial court did not let him rest and reorganize, and sent him to the south to recruit Fang La, the strongest of the rebels' strength, Fang La's tent had four generals, who were the founding generals of Fang La's establishment of power, and among the four, there was a fierce general, "The Great General of the South", Shi Bao, who was the most fierce, and he killed 13 generals of Liangshan in succession, and 6 people of Liangshan besieged and killed him.
1. One of Fang La's generals, Shi Bao.
In the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty, peasant revolts broke out, Fang La in the south can be regarded as the strongest rebel army, Fang La's brave generals are countless, although it is a peasant uprising, but his military generals are not ordinary people who only know that they are facing the loess and turning their backs to the sky, most of the generals under Fang La have courage and strategy, and the famous four generals under him are the solid cornerstones of his establishment of political power.
And among the four people, the strength of the "Great General of the South Departure" Shi Bao is definitely in the upper reaches of the four people's strength value, attacking the city and pulling out the village, Shi Bao has made a lot of hard work, Shi Bao is like Li Yuanba in the Sui and Tang heroes, born with divine power, but Li Yuanba's intelligence is indeed far inferior to Shi Bao's, Shi Bao in the confrontation, most of them are force and strategy.
He held a splitting wind knife in his hand, and also hid the meteor hammer, many opponents who had fought with him were defeated under his meteor hammer, whenever he fought with people, he used the knife in his hand to feint, and then lured the enemy to go deep and pretend to escape, and then used the meteor hammer in his hand to defeat the opponent under the horse, it can be seen that Shi Bao is not only strong in martial arts, but also has a deep heart.
Even the Liangshan army that later recruited Fang La for the imperial court also had many lives lost under his meteor hammer, and Duan Kai, the general who guarded Xiuzhou for Fang La, said after surrendering to Song Jiang, the strongest martial artist among the four was Deng Yuanjue, and Shi Bao was very impressed after witnessing Lu Zhishen's fight with Deng Yuanjue, slightly feeling that he was inferior to the two, and Lu Zhishen's martial arts were already at the top level in Liangshan, and Shi Bao only felt that he was slightly inferior to the two, enough to see Shi Bao's strength.
2. The Battle of Hangzhou City: Shi Bao's First Appearance.
After accepting the dispatch of the imperial court, Song Jiang led his army straight to the city of Hangzhou, because the Liangshan army had already won two battles before, and both were zero casualties, so Song Jiang and others did not attach great importance to the strength of Shi Bao's defenders, so they did not do any pre-war preparations and went straight to the battlefield.
After Song Jiang led a large army, he sent Hao Siwen and Xu Ning to explore the way, because he did not pay attention to Shi Bao's strength, thinking that they were no different from the previous two battles, so they did not dress up too much, but unexpectedly, the two were directly recognized by Shi Bao, and Shi Bao planned to lure the two of them into the city.
Hao Siwen was directly beheaded by Shi Bao's army on the spot, and Xu Ning, who wanted to escape, was also poisoned by an arrow, and soon after he was poisoned to death, the defeat of the pioneers of the exploration made Liangshan realize that Shi Bao's strength should not be underestimated, and it was not possible to spy on intelligence by land, and Song Jiang sent Zhang Shun, the "white stripe in the waves", to infiltrate the city from the waterway.
Unexpectedly, he was still recognized by Shi Bao at a glance, Zhang Shun was in front of everyone, he was killed by several arrows in his body, and he lost three generals in succession, and the people of Liangshan were a little overwhelmed, and Song Jiang sent several generals to fight Shi Bao in succession, but they were all beheaded by Shi Bao with a strategy and relying on dark weapons.
However, after all, Liangshan had many people and horses, and after Liangshan sent generals one after another, Shi Bao's army was finally defeated by Liangshan, and under the pressure of the army, the defeated Shi Bao had to retreat to Wulongling, although Shi Bao failed in the Battle of Hangzhou City, but the examples of his successive defeats of Liangshan's good han all pointed out his unskilled ability.
3. Retreat to Wulongling - Shi Bao was defeated by the Liangshan Wheel Battle.
Shi Bao, who retreated to Wulongling, did not hold his head like the traditional defeated army, and hurriedly thought of an escape strategy; after he led his troops to Wulongling, he reorganized the large army, straightened out morale, made preparations for defending Wulongling, built military buildings, dispatched troops to set traps, and waited for the pursuing Song Jiang army, Wulongling had geographical advantages, it was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the pursuing Song Jiang knew Shi Bao's ability after experiencing the Battle of Hangzhou City, so he did not dare to act rashly and rush to attack.
Song Jiang stationed a large army under the Wulong Ridge, sent the Xie brothers to spy on the military intelligence through climbing the cliff, up to the Wulong Ridge, how to know that Shi Bao had already set up an ambush here, and when the Xie brothers were halfway up, he ordered people to throw the boulders from above, and the two people who were suspended in mid-air were suddenly helpless, and before they could dodge, they were smashed by the rolling boulders.
Shi Bao was defended, and in the absence of reinforcements, he successively killed several generals of Liangshan, which made the Song Jiang army chaotic into a pot of porridge, many people shouted to avenge the dead brothers, the military Wu said that the reckless behavior seemed to be unable to deal with Shi Bao, so he had to have a plan to lure him out of Wulongling, without natural danger, Shi Bao would definitely lose the front.
Who knew that Shi Bao had seen through Wu Yong's strategy, and closed the gate of the village at all, so several generals under Song Jiang went to fight Shi Bao without authorization, but unexpectedly died as usual, Shi Bao saw that the morale of his army soared, so he led his army out to meet the enemy, trying to spell out a bloody road to escape the heavens, but did not want Song Jiang to arrange for the big knife Guan Sheng to lead the army to be stationed on Shi Bao's escape path.
Shi Bao saw that Guan Sheng was stationed, and his heart was eclipsed, knowing that his martial arts were inferior to those of others, and most of them could not be desperate, but he still had to go to fight With Guan Sheng, how did he know that no matter how he pretended to attack, Guan Sheng would not pursue and kill forward, and naturally there was no chance to make a dark weapon.
Just when Shi Bao and Guan Sheng were engaged, Lin Chong brought troops to help the battle, and Shi Bao saw that he did not want to be captured by the Liangshan army, so he killed himself under the horse, and a generation of tyrants died here.