Thousands of miles around, around the four sides of the eight hundred miles - "Water Margin"
There is an old saying in our country, called "The old do not look at the Three Kingdoms, and the less do not look at the Water Margin." "Why do you say that? Because the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is about the intrigues between military generals and strategists, the elderly have a very rich life experience, and after watching the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", they may become "old and refined"; and "Water Margin" tells the story of the children of the rivers and lakes, and the young people may advocate violence after watching "Water Margin", thinking that the fist can solve all problems and become untamed.
But in fact, the good men on Liangshan were all dead or disabled in the end, and only Li Jun, Gongsun Sheng, and a few others spent their old age in peace, the reason being that Song Jiang was sent to conquer the Fang La Rebellion after accepting the invitation of the Great Song Court, and although he won, it was a tragic victory: 70 of the 108 good men died in the course of the battle. Many people felt very strange about this, why were there so many heroes and good men with high martial arts on Liangshan, and Fang La had eight generals, why did he end up injuring the enemy with a thousand self-inflicted losses and eight hundred?
Although there are intellectuals such as Song Jiang, Lin Chong, and Lu Junyi among the good men of Liangshan, there are many people among the 108 generals who are basically grass bandits, such as the Ruan family sanxiong on Liangshan, who were three fishermen before going to Liangshan and occasionally sold smuggled salt; when they were fleas on the drum, they were also a pickpocket before going to Liangshan. Even the upper layers of Liangshan are like this, not to mention the other 100,000 people in Liangshan, and it is no wonder that many people think that Liangshan is not a substitute for the Skywalker, at best, it is a group of cockroach thieves who have become climate.
Moreover, the leader of the troops on Liangshan was actually relatively mediocre, such as Wu Yong, nicknamed Zhi Duoxing, who would only have some small plots and small plots, or make a combat plan for small-scale operations, and put them on a large frontal battlefield, and the ability of this Zhiduoxing would not be enough to see.
Moreover, military operations do not look at the level of personal force, the most important thing is the army's scheduling ability and discipline, although there are many people with high martial arts in Liangshan, most of them are arrogant and proud. Liangshan was not peaceful inside, and when the leader Song Jiang offered to accept Zhao'an, Wu Song and others directly objected to it, and Song Jiang's hardcore younger brother Li Kui even tore up the edict; although Ruan Xiaoqi was silent, he secretly replaced the imperial wine.
It is impossible to think that such an army can do the prohibition, and it can even be said that they are a ragtag bunch. Fang La's eight generals were all characters of wisdom and courage, and they were familiar with the art of war, and took strict army discipline as the focus of governing the army, so on the whole, Liangshan's army only had a numerical advantage over Fang La.
The above are all subjective reasons, at that time there were many objective reasons for Liangshan to suffer heavy casualties in the war, first of all, the Liangshan army in Shandong was not familiar with fighting in the Zhejiang region, but the biggest reason was the distrust of Liangshan by the Northern Song court. The northern Song dynasty court's attitude toward the Liangshan army after the recruitment of an army has always been quite delicate, and many courtiers are even more dismissive of liangshan's bandits who have made their debut, and even repeatedly delay logistics supplies after Liangshan has sent troops.
Liangshan originally had only an eight-hundred-mile base area, and for the sake of its own reputation, it would no longer harass the people, and after Liangshan had 100,000 gangs, it would have been a bit stretched, so how could they support them to conquer Fang La? We all know that in any period of war, we all pay attention to "soldiers and horses do not move grain and grass first", and the combat effectiveness and enthusiasm of hungry soldiers will be greatly reduced.
With so many reasons working together, it is no wonder that Water Margin scholars say that Liangshan and Fang La are not an order of magnitude at all.