introduction
There is an article in "Mencius Gongsun Ugly", "Many Help for the Tao, Little Help for the Lost", which summarizes the basis for the victory of the ruling war by comparing the three aspects of "heaven and time", "geographical advantage", and "people":
The weather is not as good as the location, and the location is not as good as the people."
If you stand in the perspective of justice and benevolence, you will get the support and help of the majority of the people, on the contrary, if you violate morality and do not believe in your words, this will inevitably lead to disasters and isolation. Ancient wars paid more attention to natural climate, geographical advantages and people's hearts, and it was recorded in the "Art of War of Sun Bing": "Heaven and time, geographical advantages, and people, the three cannot be, although victory and disaster are lost." ”
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In addition, the size of the army also determines the advantages and disadvantages of the war, and history proves that the situation of "the enemy is outnumbered" is not optimistic, and most of them lose battles. There is such a scene in "Water Margin" - the battle between Fang La and Liangshan in Shuipo was fierce, 108 good men of Liangshan suffered heavy losses after the first battle with Fang La and his generals, 59 good men of Liangshan died on the battlefield, and the remaining 10 also died of disease... On the other hand, on Fang La's side, there were only 8 military generals participating in the war, and there were only 8 generals, so why could the good men of Liangshan beat them to the point of?
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When the road is uneven, he roars, and when it is time to strike, he will strike
At that time, the imperial court regarded the Liangshan power group as a "thorn in the eye, a thorn in the flesh", which was essentially no different from the Fang La group, and the reason why the 108 military generals of Liangshan "fought hard" against Fang La was on the one hand because Song Jiang had already given the order and could not help himself, on the other hand, it was actually because of the chivalrous spirit of the good man of Liangshan who "saw the road unevenly and drew his sword to help". The Fang La clique was fierce, and in the area under its jurisdiction, the people complained bitterly about Fang La, and the good men of Liangshan were many heroes and righteous, and they believed that they could not sit idly by and ignore this matter, so they intervened to uphold justice. What is embarrassing is that the good man of Liangshan not only failed to be a hero who acted heroically and righteously, but was beaten by the 8 generals under Fang La's command, and the Liangshan power group also lost soldiers and was seriously injured, but in fact, it existed in name only!
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So, what is the origin of the 8 generals under Fang La's command? Why can they all be one and ten in the battle against Liangshan?
The first person under Fang La's command was named Shi Fangjie, and this person was Fang La's nephew. Shi Fang Jie was the first general of the Southern Kingdom, holding the Fang Tian Painting Sword, who had personally killed Qin Ming and had the courage of a thousand men. Fang Jie even fought Guan Sheng, Hua Rong and others, and his courage was invincible, but he was stabbed in the back and killed by the undercover Chai Jin.
The second person was Lü Shixiang, who made good use of the Zhangba Snake Spear as a military division of the Fang La Group, made good use of the art of war, and eventually fell under Xu Ning's golden gun.
The third person was Wang Yin. He was the "Bingbu Shangshu" of the Fang La clique, and in the Battle of Shuipo he killed Li Yun and Shi Yong successively, and was later besieged by five military generals of Liangshan and died.
The fourth was Pang Wanchun, who was good at using bows and arrows, and once shot Yang Chun and Chen Da. Li Zhong and the others, but were eventually ambushed and killed by the Liangshan clique.
The fifth person was Deng Yuanjue, who was called "Baoguang Rulai Guoshi", using the Zen staff as a weapon, even Lu Zhishen was unmatched, and when Lu Zhishen was in the downwind, Wu Song arrived in time to defeat him.
The sixth man was Si Xingfang, who was a protector general of Fang La's forces, who killed the winged tiger Lei Heng, and finally fell into the water and died.
The seventh person was Li Tianyan, who beheaded Zhou Tong and Dong Pingren and was later killed by Lu Jun.
The last man, named Shi Bao, wielded the Meteor Hammer, and even Guan Sheng saw that he had to avoid three points, and after the defeat of the army, Shi Bao killed himself.
In contrast, although the Liangshan Clique sent famous generals such as Wu Song and Lei Heng, most of the remaining martial generals were just a bunch of rabble-rousers, and when faced with many famous generals under Fang La's command, their outcome could be imagined. In addition, the good men of Liangshan came from afar, and compared with the "host" Fang La, they lost the time and place, and the people's hearts were uneven. Although there were only 8 people under Fang La's command, they were all highly skilled in martial arts, all of them were wusong and Lu Zhishen-level figures, plus they were familiar with the terrain and united as one, and it was not surprising that they were ten! In this battle of Fang La and Liangshan, although Liangshan won the victory, it was "bloody"! Presumably, the Liangshan power group is also unable to look back on this "heroic battle": after losing more than 70 brothers, it is better not to be nosy, and to stay in Liangshan to eat a large piece of meat and drink wine.
epilogue
All in all, although there were only 8 generals under Fang La's command, liangshan lost more than 70 good men in the green forest, on the one hand, because the generals under Fang La's command were indeed brave enough, on the other hand, they could only be said to have achieved "time, place, and people"!
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