Chao Gai's death was full of doubts, and the poisonous arrow with Shi Wengong's name on it also appeared unreasonable: Shi Wengong's martial arts were superior to the Five Tiger Generals of the Liangshan Horse Army, and naturally far above the Tota Heavenly King, and his ultimate goal was to capture Chao Gai Song Jiang instead of shooting. The living thief is worth more than the dead thief, and Shi Wengong will not risk being laughed at by his peers to make this loss-making transaction.
Some people use the fact that Chao Gai later appeared and entangled Shi Wengong, proving that Chao Gai also believed that Shi Wengong shot him. However, if we look closely at the original work of Water Margin, we will find that Chao Gai's appearance actually had another purpose: he drove Shi Wengong under Lu Junyi's sword, that is, to prevent Song Jiang from stealing Liangshan's top seat -- he could completely send Shi Wengong, who was dizzy and incapacitated, to Song Jiang.
Readers who have read the original book of Water Margin know that Shi Wengong did not appear at the scene of Chao Gai's arrow, if he was there, let alone only Ruan Sanxiong and Liu Tang Baisheng to save each other, that is, the leopard head Lin Chong personally shot, and may not be able to recover Chao Gai, who was seriously injured.
Jin Sheng sighed and saw the "Water Margin", which described the whole process of Chao Gai being led into the encirclement circle by two Fahua Temple monks to the fall of the middle arrow: "Hu Yanzhuo called for a hurry back to the old road. Less than a hundred and ten steps, I saw the golden drums sounding in unison, shouting and shaking, and all I could see were torches. Chao Gaizhong led the army to take the road and walked, only to turn two corners, bumped into a Biao army horse, when the head of the arrow shot into the future, a fluttering arrow, right in the face of Chao Gai, knocked down the horse, but the five leaders of San Ruan, Liu Tang, and Bai Sheng died and will go, saving Chao Gai on the horse and killing out of the village. ”
In this way, Chao Gai was mixed up in the chaotic army and running back, in front of him were the double whips hu yan zhuo and a bunch of minions who took the lead in running, and behind him were Ruan's three Xiong and Bai Sheng.
The group led by Chao Gai was mostly damaged, and the group that escaped with Hu Yanzhuo was unharmed: "When Lin Chong returned to the army, San Ruan, Song Wan, and Du Qian only escaped with their own lives, bringing 2,500 people and horses to stop 1,200 or 300 people, and those who had to follow Hu Yanzhuo all returned to the village." ”
Also caught in the encirclement, the battle losses under the different leaders were hugely different: the Liangshan old minions of the Chao Gai faction were completely destroyed, and Hu Yanzhuo withdrew with all the members who fled first, the mystery of this, not to mention the half pot of old wine, the readers can also guess a few points.
Chao Gai had every opportunity to dodge with his head in the face of random arrows shooting from the head- in a cold weapon war, it was difficult for a helmeted and armored general to be shot by random arrows, and as long as he was lying on horseback, it was difficult for arrows fired from a distance to inflict fatal damage on him.
If Shi Wengong led his soldiers to stop Chao Gai, he would definitely shoot the Prancing Horse to kill him, and the Zhaoye Jade Lion Horse would also be very eye-catching in the flickering of the fire, and the leaders and minions who were trapped in the encirclement would not be able to see it no matter what their eyes were not good. But during and after the battle, no one saw Shi Wengong appear.
So some people came to such a conclusion after analysis: Shi Wengong was not at the scene of the crime, the murderer had someone else, and that murderer was probably the first to run away with the double whip!
Half a pot of old wine once agreed with this analysis, because in the eyes of many people, Chao Gai was anti-Zhao An, Song Jiang was going to recruit An, and Hu Yanzhuo and Song Jiang had the same goal, plus he had a previous conviction of betraying Murong Zhifu of Qingzhou and defrauding the big knife Guan Sheng, the character was really poor, and he completely did this kind of thing that the dark arrow hurt people.
However, after a period of consideration, I felt that the poisonous arrow could not have come from Hu Yanzhuo's hand, and the reason was very simple: Hu Yanzhuo was not worthy of Song Jiang's trust, and Song Jiang's head was a ton of water, and he would not entrust such a confidential matter to Hu Yanzhuo.
If we look closely at the original work of the Water Margin, we will know that Chao Gai has never said that he will never recruit peace, and there is only hatred and no love between Hu Yanzhuo and Song Jiang: the "elite soldiers and brave generals" under the former "Ru ning County" Hu Yanzhuo, with the help of Gao Li, formed a three-thousand iron-armored series of horses, and as a result, they were annihilated by the Liangshan army led by Song Jiang.
There is also a more important point, that is, Hu Yanzhuo is an extremely selfish person, in order to survive, he can betray Zhao Li and Gao Li, he can betray Murong Yanda and Guan Sheng, and of course, he can also betray Song Jiang in order to please Chao Gai.
The master who could really shoot Chao Gai's henchmen for Song Jiang was The little Li GuanghuaRong, the brother-in-law, the short-legged tiger Wang Ying, and the iron powder black whirlwind Li Kui, but these people all stayed on Liangshan Mountain, and it was almost impossible to sneak down the mountain--Liangshan was surrounded by water on all sides, and if you wanted to go out, you had to contact the drylands in advance to ignore Zhu Guihe, and Zhu Gui was definitely not Song Jiang's confidant, if you sent any leader down the mountain, it would certainly not be able to hide the eyes and ears of everyone, Song Jiang was stupid, and he would not send Hua Rong or Wang Ying down the mountain.
The black whirlwind Li Kui would only be hit by arrows and would not shoot arrows, and the mountain thief Wang Ying might be able to shoot arrows, but he should not be too worried about handing over the third lady to his brother Song Jiang to "take care of", which was equivalent to asking the weasel to watch the chicken and let the old cat sleep with the salted fish. The only thing that could be dispatched was Xiao Li Guanghua Rong, and if Hua Rong secretly went down the mountain and was discovered, then Song Jiang's trouble would be great.
Guan Sheng knew who Hu Yanzhuo was, Lin Chong was the leader of the eight hundred thousand Forbidden Army, their understanding of martial arts was of course much more profound to others, that arrow was pulled out of Chao Gai's face by Lin Chong's own hands, he could find at a glance: this arrow was not strong enough, it could never come from a world-class master like Shi Wengong - if Shi Wengong shot an arrow in Chao Gai's face, the arrow would definitely come out from the back of the head, and this arrow was not deep, originally it would not cause fatal damage to Chao Gai, the real fatal thing was that the arrow was quenched, and Lin Chong did not know what kind of poison it was.
As soon as the connoisseur makes a move, he knows if there is one. Whether it was Shi Wengong firing an arrow or Hu Yanzhuo's sneak attack, that arrow could be directly killed, quenching the poison of this method of the next three abuses, only the little minions could make it out, their ordinary bow and arrow strength was insufficient, and they had to compensate with poison.
Mr. Cheng Shanzhi described the big knife Guan Sheng in front of Ruan's three xiongs and questioned Song Jiang in front of him: "According to Brother Lin Chong, who later caught Shi Wengong and once paid attention to the checkpoint, none of the arrows in his pot had their names engraved. Moreover, the engraved arrow did not match the length of the bow worn by Shi Wengong. Afterwards, one day, two colonels got into a fight, one said that you put a cold arrow to kill the Chao Heavenly King, I want to take revenge, and the other said to frame. You drew your sword yourself and beheaded both of them. Wu Junshi said how you are so grumpy, you told Wu Junshi not to mention it again. Is there such a thing? ”
Ruan's three xiongs stared at the fire-breathing eyes around him, and Song Jiang was dumbfounded, closing his eyes and waiting to die.
Cheng Shanzhi was an expert on the study of Water Margin, and believed that Chao Gai was neither shot by Shi Wengong of Zengtou City, nor died at the hands of Liangshan Tiangang, but Song Jiang bribed two young minions who went out with Chao Gai to do this.
Half a pot of old wine agrees with Mr. Cheng Shanzhi's statement, but there is also a problem that cannot be explained: Song Jiang instructed two unknown minions to shoot Chao Gai with poisonous arrows, why didn't he kill people afterwards and kill them?
Song Jiang's old treacherous giant was fierce and fierce, and it was reasonable to say that he would not have made such a low-level mistake, and if Mr. Cheng Shanzhi's statement was untenable, then in the end he could only ask the readers to express a high opinion: Chao Gai's later appearance could not prove that the murderer of the poisonous arrow was Shi Wengong, so who did the arrow that shot in Chao Gai's face in the dark come from?