"Water Margin", as one of the four famous works, tells the story of Liangshan Thirty-six Heavenly Gangs and Seventy-two Earth Fires, a total of one hundred and eight generals for The Heavenly Path, robbing the rich and helping the poor. Today we are also going to talk about a well-known figure. His surname is Ling Mingzhen, people sent nickname "bombardment cannon", this person is extremely good at making artillery, artillery range in fourteen or fifteen miles, in that era can have such a long range is definitely a powerful killing weapon.
Ling Zhen
In addition, he was proficient in martial arts and highly skilled in horsemanship, and was then the deputy gunner of the Tokyo Kokuku. At that time, he was acting under Hu Yanzhuo, and when he attacked Liangshan, he was captured alive because of Wu's plan to invite Jun into the urn, and Song Jiang cherished his skills and personally untied him. At that time, Hu Yanzhuo's deputy general Peng Xuan had already submitted to Liangshan, and under his persuasion, he also submitted to Liangshan. After returning to Liangshan, he built a large number of artillery for Liangshan, which made a great contribution to the later attack on Qingzhou and the surrender of Huyanzhuo. During the attack on the Daming Mansion, Ling Zhen even studied a new type of artillery, called the "Wind and Fire Cannon", which shocked the defenders of the Daming Mansion, Wen Da and Li Cheng, and also made great contributions in this battle. After that, he also attacked Dongchang Province with his army, but there was no more prominent performance.
In the following row of seats, Ling Zhen was in a platoon of fifty-two, responsible for the large and small artillery of Liangshan. However, looking at his skills, he has not been brought into play, if Wu Yong can't see his skills, then Song Jiang's words should not be invisible, but he has not been reused, his artillery is no longer used to kill the enemy, but in the big war to increase the prestige of the army, sometimes he also needs to charge with cold weapons, which has produced subtle changes in his heart.
But he still played his part, and when attacking Fang La, Wu Song was cut off by Fang La's men in the process of fighting, and he never got the opportunity to take revenge. But this vendetta was repaid by Ling Zhen, what was going on? If it was a single challenge, Ling Zhen was definitely not Bao Daobing's opponent, he used his artillery to blast Bao Daobing under the horse, but Bao Daobing of Ling did not understand what was going on, so he died.
Everyone knows Wu Song's strength, in Liangshan, they are all the top few figures in strength, and even the people he failed to kill were killed by Bao Daobing's artillery, which shows where his strength lies. Ling Zhen's experience could be bumpy, if his skills were important, Liangshan would suffer many fewer casualties in the battles after Zhao'an, and it may be that firearms were still not valued in that era, so Ling Zhen's true strength was not fully exerted.