Among the many good men in Shuipo Liangshan, Wu Song is undoubtedly one of the most famous good men, and in the whole "Water Margin", so many chapters can be set aside for him alone, which shows Wu Song's row of noodles among good men.
Shi Nai'an is also very partial to Wu Song, not only arranging plots such as fighting tigers, but also through his own excellent description, so that Wu Song's image becomes very distinct, becoming one of the best portrayed characters.
In the whole book, Wu Song has too many brilliant plots, he is indeed a well-deserved hero, however, Wu Song is not like Lu Zhishen, he is a relatively perfect hero, there are many black spots on him.
For example, in Wu Song's life, the most controversial is the blood-spattered Mandarin Duck Tower, in this period, he has just experienced the bloody battle of Feiyunpu, took a knife to kill the Mandarin Duck Building, and hand bladed the Jiang Men Shen, Zhang Dujian, and Zhang Tuanlian who framed him.
However, Wu Song went on a killing spree in the whole process of revenge, not only killing the three enemies, but also the men and women in the Mandarin Duck Building.
So, how many people did he kill?
First of all, Wu Song sneaked into the Mandarin Duck Building, first took the back trough responsible for raising horses with lanterns, killed him, jumped off the wall and entered the kitchen, just in time to encounter two fire cooking squirrels, both of whom were also killed by Wu Song. Next, he entered the Mandarin Duck Tower and killed Jiang Menshen and the other three.
After the killing, Madame Zhang came downstairs with two relatives to check it out, and Wu Song killed all three of them. Subsequently, Zhang Dujian's adoptive wife Yulan heard the movement with two young maidens, and the three of them were also killed by him.
After killing these people, Wu Song did not stop, he went out of the middle hall, closed the front door, turned back, found two or three women in the house, and killed them all inside the house. Later, the official government counted that Wu Song had killed fifteen men and women before and after, and Zhang Dujian's family had all been killed, and this big case also forced Wu Song to go to Erlong Mountain.
In the Water Margin, this kind of revenge plot is also not uncommon, and with the values of the time, Wu Song's approach is not a big deal. It's just that for people, Wu Song killed so many innocent people in the process of revenge, which makes it difficult for people to accept.
He killed a lot of people who couldn't resist him at all, like those female relatives, which were weak people, but they were all killed tragically, why did Wu Song do this?
There are also many explanations for his behavior, some people think that Wu Song has experienced a series of things, at this time he has a heart breakdown, this time is his final revenge, and some people think that It is the beginning of Wu Song's major transformation.
In fact, combined with the original work, it can be found that Wu Song wants to kill these people, the ultimate goal is revenge, and there is no such situation as killing the red eye and collapsing in his heart.
Why did Wu Song kill the trough and the cooking mane? The original book explains very clearly that Wu Song will not fly over the wall, he can only find an opportunity to sneak in, which is a sneak attack battle.
In order to sneak up on the target, secrecy is the first element, Wu Song sneaks in from the back door, he needs to trick open the corner door, and the back slot is here to watch. Wu Song maintained a rare calm, he made a noise trick to open the back slot to open the door, and then rushed in to force the back slot mandarin duck tower, and after getting the information, he killed the back slot.
He killed hou trough and the two squirrels for the same purpose, in order to hide the trail and lurk upstairs, to avoid being discovered in advance by Zhang Dujian and others. The kitchen where the two girls were located was downstairs, and they had to go through here to go upstairs, so Wu Song killed them too.
Kill these three people to ensure that Wu Song can quietly go upstairs, thus completing the revenge later. So, how to explain his subsequent killing? This was the same reason he had killed the two relatives and Mrs. Zhang, the three people heard the movement upstairs, the relatives came up to check, and the lady then came up.
Wu Song definitely did not kill Red Eye at this time, he still maintained absolute calm, he avoided the possibility of the two relatives running out to report the news, he first hid, let them go over, and then jumped out to block the retreat of the two of them to kill people, and then went down to intercept and kill only his own wife.
The murder of the adoptive mother Yulan and the two servants she carried with her was also part of Wu Song's revenge, because Wu Song was framed, and this Yulan was the direct perpetrator, and she was definitely Wu Song's enemy. The two girls met Wu Song with her, so they were killed together.
It can be said that this night, the people That Wu Song killed here had three reasons. The first is definitely revenge, the second is to sneak into the Mandarin Duck Tower to avoid being discovered in advance by Zhang Dujian and others, and the third is to avoid being discovered by others, so he kills all the people in the palace who may leak information.
The whole process of Wu Song has always been calm, when the crime did not even forget to change the clothes to facilitate action, replace the broken knife, and even escape is to see the city wall, the moat is weak, this practice itself is the characteristics of Wu Song.
So, the first two reasons why he killed people can still be understood, why should he continue to kill for the third reason? After all, after Wu Song killed Zhang Dujian's three people, he wrote down his own names.
You must know that in the past, Wu Song took revenge on his brother, the first reaction was to report to the official, and there was such a good opportunity before the cross slope, he still did not have a bad killing official, but this time, he handled the matter in a very contradictory way, not only writing his own name, but also killing others in order to hide his whereabouts.
Because these people were not innocent people in Wu Song's eyes, he did not reject killing these people. Wu Song's intentions were obvious, he just wanted to hide the news for the time being, how long he could delay, and buy himself a time to escape.
It turned out that his approach was successful, and such a major case of extermination was only discovered the next day, at which time Wu Song had successfully escaped from Mengzhou City. He couldn't fly over the wall, and if he had alarmed the government at that time and the whole city had been hunted down, he wouldn't have been able to run at all. So why did he leave his name?
In fact, Wu Song left his name or not is the same, because he could not hide this matter, he made a big fuss about Fei Yunpu and killed so many people, and the next day he must have been discovered, and there were also officials who escorted him.
The official government is not a fool, a prisoner disappeared from Feiyun Puzhong, Zhang Dujian's family was killed again, and It is not easy to contact Wu Song who has just been sent to Zhang Dujian for a crime to be convicted, is it not easy to determine the prisoner?
This is Wu Song's style, in fact, from the beginning, Wu Song's style of acting is like this, he restrained killing before, because those people did not threaten him, really threatened himself, Wu Song was never soft.
Even if the tiger was killed in a big fight with him, Wu Song did not forget to drag his tired body to fight and punch and make up countless knives, and his style was also the most in line with the style of those underworld cruel people at that time.