The reason why the four masterpieces of our country can be called classics is that they are not only prominently written, but also clearly expose many unknown facts and scenes, and even have profound reactions to the dynasty in which they live.
And the most powerful thing is that the authors of the four masterpieces have written a macro picture, but they have not used too grand a writing to narrate, but have used every vivid character to reflect.
We can see the joys and sorrows of the little people and see the darkness and helplessness of their times.
One of the most representative is "Water Margin", because it is a work directly written about the uprising, in which there are many characters and each has its own characteristics.
But for the readers of "Water Margin", there are also many puzzles, such as why after the good Han of Liangshan was attached to the imperial court, the combat effectiveness took a sharp turn.
It should be known that the good men of Liangshan all have their own housekeeping skills, and it is their wit and bravery that prompt them to achieve the Liangshan righteousness.
After returning to the imperial court, it was difficult for even Fang La to defeat him, and even after a confrontation, Fang La only lost 8 generals, while Liangshan actually lost 70 good men, which was really incomprehensible.
01 Gone are the days when the mountains were king
Before the good men of Liangshan did not return to the imperial court, the imperial court regarded the good men of Liangshan as a flood beast, and their annihilation did not stop.
However, when fighting against the imperial court with considerable military strength, the good han of Liangshan was not at a disadvantage, but won the battle many times, so that the imperial court was more jealous of Liangshan, and also made readers admire the good man of Liangshan even more.
But why was it that when the good man of Liangshan fought against Fang La, his strength was greatly reduced.
The main reason was that when the good han of Liangshan fought with the imperial court, he was on his own territory, and when he went to attack Fang La, he left his own mountain and changed from defending to attacking.
In fact, looking at the overall strength of the good men of Liangshan, it can be said that they have extremely strong combat capabilities in both the land and water systems.
For example, the Nguyen brothers were extremely familiar with water, and when fighting with the imperial court, they could directly dive to punch the imperial court's warships out of the hole, and Zhang Heng and Zhang Shun's water nature was also notoriously good.
However, in the battle with Fang La, it was particularly weak.
What is even more surprising is that Zhang Shun was directly killed just by shuttling from the water to inquire about Fang La's military intelligence, and it can be said that the war had already lost the general before it began.
The original text reads: "Zhang Shun jumped from the middle of the city into the pool, and when the water was running out, the crossbow, hard bow, bitter bamboo arrow, and pebbles on the city all shot down at the same time." ”
The difficulties encountered on the water made the good men of Liangshan led by Song Jiang at a disadvantage in the early stages of the war, and also laid the groundwork for the subsequent defeat.
02 Power dispersion is easily defeated
In the past, when Song Jiang led the good Han of Liangshan to confront the imperial court, Liangshan's troops were very concentrated. Every time they go to war, they just need to gather a group and guard their camp to the outside world.
However, the situation of attacking Fang La this time was very different from before. Fang La occupies a vast area, if you only concentrate on attacking one place, it is definitely not enough, and you may be raided by the opponent.
Therefore, Song Jiang decided to use the combat method of dividing troops to confront Fang La.
In this way, Song Jiang divided himself and Wu Yong into a team, Lu Junyi and Zhu Wu into a team, and their soldiers fought against Fangla in two ways.
However, the premise of being able to divide the troops is that their own strength is strong, and their own strength is already weak, and another branch will only weaken the strength even more.
Song Jiang made this mistake, compared to Fang La's military strength, Liangshan was far behind, and the imperial court asked them to attack Fang La without giving any supplies.
Therefore, Song Jiang once again divided the already weak troops.
The result is also conceivable, the combat effectiveness is greatly weakened after the casualties on the Liangshan side quickly increased. Song Jiang's team sacrificed Zhi Zhen, Xie Bao, Hu Sanniang and Wang Xiaohu and others.
The battle situation on Lu Junyi's side was also quite tragic, sacrificing Shi Jin, Shi Xiu and others respectively. This misplaced deployment really severely damaged Liangshan's strength, and the subsequent battles could only be more tragic.
For such a tragic situation, many people believe that the imperial court betrayed Liangshan. Because Fang La itself is already a successfully divided regime, it can be said that the strength of the imperial court is already on par with that of an independent dynasty.
And Liangshan is just a group of good men occupying the mountain as the king, to put it bluntly, it is still in the bandit stage. To let a brother on a hill attack a dynasty had little chance of winning, and the court had not yet provided any supplies.
Obviously, the imperial court obviously wanted to see both sides lose. If the imperial court attacked Fang La itself, there would definitely be sacrifices, and Liangshan was nothing more than a group of bandits, even if it belonged to the imperial court, it was not a concubine army, and the imperial court was always wary of it.
It would be better to let this non-organization unit fight, and the imperial court itself would not have any losses. It's just a pity that the good people of Liangshan were forced to Liangshan by the gray society, but they were calculated by this gray system.
03 No experience in long-distance raids
The lack of help from the imperial court was a big reason for Liangshan's failure, but the good men of Liangshan were indeed not suitable for taking the initiative in other people's territory.
First of all, they are a bunch of lazy troops who dominate the mountains, and they can't be compared with professionally trained armies.
Fang La's territory is not only huge, but also the terrain is intricate, and it is necessary to fight guerrilla warfare and carry out long-distance raids. But the good man of Liangshan had no relevant experience at all.
We all know that there are all kinds of heroes in liangshan, not everyone is resourceful, many people just have a reckless strength.
Therefore, in the battle on the way to the attack, many times we must have the ability to adapt to changes, but also have the ability to be good at hiding.
However, many of the good men of Liangshan did not have this ability, and it was inevitable that the war would be defeated in the end.
In the battle between the good han of Liangshan and Fang La, both the military strategy, military strength and combat ability were far apart, and in the end, Fang La only had 8 generals, so why Liangshan lost 70 good men was inevitable.
epilogue
Liangshan's weakening of combat ability after his return to the imperial court is not a new thing, and the same is true in another of the four famous works "Journey to the West", since Sun Wukong returned to tang monks and is no longer stubborn, he is no longer the former Qi Tian Dasheng, and he is helpless in the face of a small demon and needs to ask rescuers to help deal with it.
Both masterpieces show this, from which we can see that when you have a belonging, you can no longer do a lot of things as you want, but you have to be scrupulous everywhere. Whether this is a pro or a con is still up to us to weigh.