"Water Margin" is the only book among all the famous books that describes the mountain thief uprising and is still loved by a wide range of readers. But even if it depicts a group of mountain thieves, they are all heroes and good men. One hundred and eight good men on Liangshan, each with their own skills and strengths, such a group of people gathered, it is also difficult to deal with, in many battles, the Great Song Court was defeated, so later the imperial court came up with a way to recruit security.
Song Jiang, who was loyal by nature, immediately agreed as soon as he heard that there was such an opportunity to get rid of the identity of Cao Kou, but after Zhao'an, the good men of Liangshan did not have a good end, and officials and thieves could not coexist after all. Just think, if Song Jiang had refused to recruit An, would the ending of these heroes have been different? When the imperial court sent people to recruit these good men, Song Jiang led them to surrender to the imperial court.
And behind the crusade against Fang La, they Liangshan this branch was sent out to fight, in so many battles they have fought, this one should be the most tragic one, in this war, the good men of Liangshan at the beginning, almost all left, the hunter-born Xie Zhen lost his hand in the night attack on Wulongling, was found by the defenders, and finally fell off a cliff and died, the white stripe Zhang Shun in the waves was also killed by the defenders with random arrows and chaotic worlds when they raided the Golden Gate, and it has to be said that the hunters died in the mountains, and the water thieves lost their souls to the sea, and it was also doomed in the dark.
Anyway, after the Battle of Fang La, they only had one or twenty good men left, and the imperial court only used their troops, and even Song Jiang was finally poisoned by design, and there was almost no good end. Knowing that the imperial court's zhao'an had other uses, but the loyalty in their bones made them agree without hesitation, they just wanted to get rid of the identity of the mountain thief, but what if Song Jiang did not take them to surrender? Will they have a different ending?
At the beginning of Liangshan, there were only a few hundred people, most of whom were farmers and hunters under the mountain, and they did not have much knowledge and insight, let alone strategy. Then Song Jiang and many good men joined, so that Liangshan grew stronger, all kinds of fierce generals and military divisions, so that Liangshan began to take shape, and then in the first battle with Gao Taiwei, we can deduce that Liangshan at that time should have more than 100,000 troops. But in front of the entire Song army, hundreds of thousands of them were really like ants, although the Great Song army was gradually defeated.
However, if they really attack Liangshan with all their might, it is only a matter of time before they fight down, and in the end they may not only be destroyed but also carry the name of mountain thief for a lifetime. Secondly, the area occupied by Liangshan was not large, but it was obviously a bit difficult to feed these dozen people, so they later went to loot many villages and daimyo. Every time under the banner of the Heavenly Path, the people may not be able to distinguish it for a while, but in the long run, can't the people see the beginning of it, over time, they will definitely lose the hearts of the people, and this is a fatal blow to them.
Moreover, Song Jiang himself was a person who was very loyal to the imperial court, if he obeyed the brothers on the mountain, or became a free mountain thief, in the future together, he would gradually reveal differences and contradictions, and he would begin to disintegrate from within, and even worse than Zhao'an.
Therefore, even if they were not recruited by the imperial court, they would not be able to escape a miserable end, and they would still fall apart and die tragically. Of course, this is only the Song River and Liangshan in the book, and the Song River recorded in the canonical history launched a peasant uprising in Shandong in 1211, but his men did not have so many outstanding generals and military divisions, and they were defeated within a year, and the next year he revolted again, and finally beheaded under the horse.