If there is a martial art in "Water Margin", Lin Chong's ranking is definitely within the top ten, but we all know the shadow of the famous tree of people, and if a person in "Water Margin" only has martial arts and no reputation, it must not be recognized by everyone. So what is Lin Chong's "name"? When Lu Zhishen first met Lin Chong, everyone introduced Lin Chong to Lu Zhishen like this:
"This official is Lin Wushi, the head of the 800,000 Forbidden Army's Gun sticks, and his name is Lin Chong."
Lin Chong's "name" is "the leader of the 800,000 Forbidden Army."
Lu Zhi listened deeply to the name of "Eight Hundred Thousand Forbidden Army Sect Leader" and was really impressed, and immediately said:
"When Zhi Shen first came here, he didn't know each other, and he had to be accompanied by these big brothers every day; now he has to teach his head not to give up and become a brother, which is very good."
So how big is the leader of the 800,000 Forbidden Army, who can make Lu Zhishen, an unruly, reckless hero who robs his family and robs his house, worship him?
We can first see what the 800,000 Forbidden Army sect leaders mentioned in "Water Margin" look like.
There is another forbidden army leader in the Water Margin called Wang Jin, and Wang Jin is also a great master, how can he see him amazingly? One of his disciples was all Water Margin Heavenly Gang Star level, and his disciple was Shi Jin.
So was Wang Jin's official position high in the Song Dynasty court at that time? Water Margin wrote that Wang Jin could not report to Gao Li on time because he was ill, and then he was angrily reprimanded by Gao Li. Wang Jin, who was sick, rushed to Gao Li to report for duty, and was beaten up by Gao Li's men.
What was Wang Jin's first reaction to being so unjustifiably humiliated?
"Thirty-six, walk up."
He did not think of using his official position to complain to other superiors to protest Gao Li's unreasonable behavior, but his first thought was to run quickly and not be killed by Gao Li. This was enough to show how humble Wang Jin was as a leader of the Forbidden Army.
In addition, there were three "800,000 Forbidden Army Sect Leaders" who were all officers, namely Qiu Yue, Zhou Ang, and Wang Wenbin.
Qiu Yue's appearance is like this:
Zhang Qing held down the spear, gently went to the inside of the jin bag, stole a stone in his hand, twisted back to his body, saw that Qiu Yue was coming closer, and shouted in his hand: "Yes! "A stone is right in the middle of the hill facing the door, turning over and falling off the horse."
However, considering that Zhang Qing hit people with a dark weapon, the level was also difficult to define, and Qiu Yue's beating could not show that his level was worse, but his ability was inferior to Lin Chong, because Lin Chong could block Zhang Qing's dark weapon. Qiu Yue here is the position of a vanguard officer.
Zhou Ang's performance, who appeared at the same time as him, was quite eye-catching:
When Zhou Ang saw this, he and several generals came to save Qiu Yue. Zhou Ang fought Zhang Qing, and the generals saved Qiu Yue and went to the horse. Zhang Qing and Zhou Ang fought less than a few times, and returned to the horse and left. ”
Zhou Ang saw that Qiu Yue was injured by Zhang Qing's dark weapon and rushed to the rescue, Zhang Qing was entangled in him, there was no way to use the dark weapon, and finally had to return in vain. Zhou Ang was also in the position of a vanguard officer who charged forward.
How did Wang Wenbin appear? He took the people's husband to send clothes and logistics materials to Song Jiang, who was fighting, and he was the captain of a logistics brigade. However, he himself was pretentious, since he had arrived at Song Jiang's side, of course, he had to fight a battle and go back to his superiors to ask for credit, Song Jiang just lacked someone to test the enemy's false reality for him, and pushed the boat along the water to let him go to the battle, and then the painting style was like this:
"Fan took the turn of the knife, looked at Wang Wenbin and kissed him, turned over and slashed a knife on his back, cut Wang Wenbin's shoulders and chest into two pieces, and died under the horse."
Judging from the situation of these 800,000 forbidden army leaders, we can basically infer what kind of position the 800,000 forbidden army leaders are:
1 The position of the leader of the 800,000 Forbidden Army is inferior to that of a general who fights alone, which is roughly equivalent to the status of a vanguard officer who charges into the battlefield.
2 The martial arts skills of the 800,000 leaders of the Forbidden Army are uneven, including Lin Chong and Wang Jin, who are highly skilled in martial arts, and Wang Wenbin, who is relatively poor in martial arts.
3 The head of the 800,000-strong Forbidden Army also occasionally made a cameo appearance as a civilian worker captain, responsible for delivering supplies to the army on the front line.
Combined with these three points, the official position of the head of the 800,000 forbidden army is indeed not high, and his role is not very great for the imperial court, and it can even be said that it is dispensable, otherwise the 800,000 forbidden army godhead will not be allowed to transport materials as a migrant worker captain.
But why do everyone still respect Lin Chong, the leader of the 800,000 Forbidden Army, so much? Because the status of the warriors in the Song Dynasty was not high, although the status was not high, but Lin Chong's martial arts were very high, and people were particularly kind (the kind that could not be robbed), so although the official position was not high, he still got the recognition of many people who were also warriors.