There is a classic song in the Yue opera "Dream of the Red Chamber" called "a Lin sister fell from the sky", and what I want to say here is "the sky fell a sick lieutenant late", but the "heaven" here does not refer to the air, but to the tiangang star in the hundred single and eight generals.
What this sentence says is that Sun Li fell from the Tiangang Star series to the Earth Star Group.
According to the various existing historical materials on the Water Margin, whether it is the Great Song Xuanhe relics or the Thirty-Six Praises of Gong Xian, Sun Li was one of the thirty-six people who were the prototype of one hundred and eight generals, at that time, his name was "Stone" Sun Li, and it is estimated that the "stone" in his nickname was the predecessor of Zhang Qing's "Featherless Arrow" (Flying Stone).
As the prototype, these thirty-six people almost all entered the Tiangang Star on the seat of the stone jie, except for Chao Gai, who died early, and the unfortunate Sun Li, so Sun Li should have fallen from the sky to the ground.
So, why did Sun Li fall from the sky?
This question should be answered from both inside and outside the book.
According to the "Great Song Xuanhe Testament", Yang Zhi, Lu Jinyi (Lu Junyi's prototype), Lin Chong, Hua Rong, Guan Sheng, Sun Li, and twelve others were all commanding officers responsible for escorting Huashi Gang (that is, the large fleet that specialized in transporting exotic flowers and stones to meet Emperor Huizong's preferences at that time, usually ten ships called a "gang"), and they were like-minded and sympathetic, so they swore to the Heavenly Alliance to form brothers with different surnames. When Yang Zhi and eleven others escorted Hua Shigang to Yingzhou (颍州, in present-day Fuyang, Anhui), Sun Li was left behind for some reason, and Yang Zhi, as the leading elder brother, asked Lu Jinyi and others to enter Beijing first, and stayed behind to wait for Sun Li.
As the days passed, Sun Li had disappeared, and Yang Zhi's coil had run out. Therefore, the wonderful story of Yang Zhiyingzhou selling knives, killing bullies in anger, distributing Weizhou (present-day Weihui, Henan), Sun Li rushing to Beiliang to report the news, Lu Jinyi and other brothers on the bank of the Yellow River killed and rescued Yang Zhi, and twelve people went to the Taihang Mountains to raise the banner of uprising.
The story is wonderful enough, but after all, giving up his official position, betraying the imperial court, and falling into the grass for Kou is not a good thing for Guangzong Yaozu, and all this is caused by Sun Li's delay, so Shi Nai'an, who has the idea of being loyal to the king, may want to punish Sun Li a little when writing "Water Margin", and beat him from the Heavenly Gang Star to the Earth Fire Star.
This is the reason outside the book, but what is the reason inside the book?
In "Water Margin", Sun Li and Zhujiazhuang's teacher, Luan Tingyu, are martial arts taught by a master, and according to himself: "He also knows the guns and knives I learned." I also know the martial arts he learned. Originally, the division brothers should have fought side by side with the enemy, but when the two met, they were already their own masters, and this was something that Sun Li, as an undercover lurking in the village, was like a mirror in his heart, but Luan Tingyu, who was in the bright place, was completely unaware.
As a result, after the battle, Zhu Jiazhuang was beaten to death, Zhuang was destroyed, and Teacher Luan inexplicably gave his life.
Although Song Jiang had listened to his plan, "Great Joy, and left all his sorrows behind the Nine Clouds", he sighed afterwards: "It is a pity to kill Luan Tingyu's good man." "Teacher Luan, who feels sorry for his righteousness and has no doubts.
Even Chen Chen, a man of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties five hundred years later, was upset with Luan Tingyuming, so he resurrected Teacher Luan in the "Water Margin" and became the commander of the Dengzhou capital, and received an apology from Sun Li for being five centuries late. Even if the author likes the character of Sun Li quite a bit, he still feels that Luan Tingyu, who has no doubt about his brothers, should not die.
Originally, it was not quite right for Sun Li to go undercover with his brother and master, and what was worse was that this plan was not conceived by Zhi Duoxing, but was put forward by himself when he first arrived at Liangshan to make meritorious contributions, which was suspected of "staining his own top with the blood of others."
Although Sun Liyi had lost thousands of years of hatred and fell from Tiangang to the ground, he was indeed a powerful character with outstanding kung fu and comparable to the Generals of Tiangang.
Although everyone recognizes that Sun Li is the "big brother" of the Dengzhou faction, in fact, the Dengzhou massacre was initiated and presided over by the "big sister" Gu Dajie. Zhi Zhi Zhujiazhuang was the first great achievement that Sun Li made after he ascended Liangshan, but because it was an undercover action, it did not show that Sun Ti's martial arts were superior. Sun Li's first great show of skill and eye-catching was before the great battle of the broken serial horse.
Hu Yanzhuo made two water-milled eight-edged steel whips, seven stars on his body, and kicked Xue Wuya under his crotch, while Sun Li made a bamboo tiger eye whip, wearing a hundred flowers and dots of green soap robes, and also rode a Uya horse, the two of them fought, the fire was good-looking, the martial arts were roughly equal, more than thirty rounds were not victorious or defeated, and there were many wonderful additions to the good looks, and even Song Jiang, who had seen many battle scenes, applauded endlessly, and the readers were even more fascinated and intoxicated.
In this battle, Sun Li and Hu Yanzhuo seemed to be on an equal footing, and it was difficult to distinguish between them; before Mount Manai, the two had also been side by side with the other six fierce generals; but when it came to the Heavenly Stone Jie and the hero ranking, they were far apart, and Hu Yanzhuo swept the eighth place, while the unlucky Sun Li only ranked thirty-eighth; there was also a big difference in positions -- Hu Yanzhuo's five tigers would be the first camp of the Ma Army, and the xiao Biao general to which Sun Li belonged was the third camp that even a three-legged cat like Zhou Tong could enter.
If you are Sun Li, can you not be depressed? There was another thing that made Sun Li depressed, which also happened to be related to Hu Yanzhuo, this time I didn't blame Song Jiang or the heaven that fell off the stone jie, I blamed Shi Gong Nai'an.
Let us first look at Comrade Sun Li's performance in the eighty-seventh time:
When the Kou Pioneer (of the LiaoGuo) saw that Qiong Xianfeng had been slashed, his anger rose from his heart, and evil turned to the side of his boldness, and the Prancing Horse raised his gun, and went straight out of the battle, shouting loudly: "How dare a thief conspire against my brother!" "When there was a sick lieutenant Chi Sun Li, pegasus went straight out and came to benkou town far away. The war drums in the army were noisy, and the shouts in the ears were incessant. That Sun Li's golden spear was haunted, and Kou Xianfeng saw it, and he was afraid of it for eight minutes.
After fighting for more than twenty years, Kou Xianfeng returned to his horse and left, not daring to return to the front, for fear of bumping into his position and walking around the northeast of the front. Sun Li was about to make a contribution, and there he was willing to let go, and he rushed to the horse. Kou Pioneer went far. Sun Li was on his horse, holding the gun, holding the bow in his left hand, taking the arrow in his right hand, mounting the arrow, dragging the bow full, and looking at Kou Xianfeng's heart, only one arrow. General Nako listened to the sound of the bowstring and turned his body upside down, but the arrow was easy to shoot, and he only had one hand, and he nicknamed the arrow.
Sun Li saw it and secretly applauded. Kou Xianfeng sneered, "This guy is playing with bows and arrows." So he bit the arrow in his mouth, took the gun with himself on the ring, quickly took out the hard bow in his left hand, and the arrow in his right hand was wound, twisted around, and shot an arrow into Sun Liqian's heart socket. Sun Li had already peeked at it, and was on the horse to the left and right. The arrow reached his chest, and when he looked at it, he fell down. The arrow flew over his body. The horse could not hold back and just ran. Kou Xianfeng put the bow on his arm, twisted back and saw Sun Li fall on his horse. Kou Xianfeng thought:
"You must have been hit by an arrow." It turned out that Sun Li's legs were strong, he clamped the shackles, and fell on the horse, pretending to be so, but not falling off the horse. Kou Xianfeng turned his horse to capture Sun Li. Two horse heads, but they are facing each other, and they can't come and go at a distance. Sun Li jumped up and shouted:
"Take you without mercy, you have to go!" Kou Xianfeng was taken aback and replied, "You only hide from my arrows, you must not hide from my guns!" Wang Sun Li's chest was shot with a shot. Sun Li straightened his chest and was shot by him. The tip of the gun went to the armor, slightly to one side, and the gun was released from the rib socket. But General Nako threw himself into his arms.
Sun Li lifted the tiger's eye steel whip on his wrist and flew down to the head of the Kou Pioneer, cutting off half of the Heavenly Spirit Bone. General Nakou served as a half-time official in Zhenyuan, and died at the hands of Sun Li, and his body fell in front of his horse. Sun Li returned to the front with a gun. Song Jiang's three armies covered up the battle. The Liao soldiers had no master, and the east and west were chaotic, and each fled for his own life.
This is Sun Li's most splendid performance, and it can be called one of the most wonderful performances of the good man of Liangshan, and it is also the biggest highlight of the eighty-seventh time, but the title of this time is called "Song Gongming vs Youzhou, Hu Yan Scorching Force Capture Fan General".
If Sun Li could come out of the book, he would definitely have to find Shi Nai'an's theoretical theory: "Why do you always elevate his whip and ignore this whip, is it because he has an ancestor with an empty name, Hu Yanzan?" ”