"Water Margin" as we all know, is one of the four famous works in China, "Water Margin", Liangshan one hundred and eight good men are divided into thirty-six heavenly gangs and seventy-two earth fires. The first-class masters on Liangshan were concentrated in the Thirty-Six Heavenly Stars, such as Lin Chong, Wu Song, Yang Zhi, Guan Sheng, Lu Zhishen, and so on. There are also masters in the Seventy-Two Hells, but not many. As long as the Seventy-Two Hells of Liangshan are mentioned, no matter what the theme of the article, there will definitely be readers who are upset for chi sun liming.
We all know that the ranking of the 100 single and eight generals in Liangshan is a "personnel arrangement" carefully planned by Song Jiang and Wu Yong, in other words, it is the embodiment of Song Jiang's personal will. Overall, the ranking of most good men is fairer, but there are also a few good men whose rankings are controversial.
There are many nicknames on Liangshan that are somewhat bizarre, such as this sick lieutenant Chi Sun Li, Wei Chi is very easy to understand, taken from the famous Sui and Tang general Wei Chi Gong, how to understand this "disease" word, is it difficult to be "sick Wei Chi Gong"?
This is obviously unreasonable, and the meaning of illness is actually: an abnormal state of physical or psychological occurrence. Therefore, we may be able to understand the sick lieutenant Chi Gong as an abnormal Wei Chi Gong, and this is indeed the case, according to legend, Wei Chi Gong's face is like black charcoal, riding a black horse. Sun Li, on the other hand, is "wide-faced like makeup gold", but he also makes a steel whip and rides a black horse, which makes people look very similar to Wei Chigong, but it is a little different.
When Sun Li appeared in the forty-ninth time of the Water Margin, there was an introduction: "Shoot a hard bow, ride a bad horse, make a long gun, swing a tiger's eye bamboo whip on the wrist, the seaside people see it, look at the wind and fall" This is the author's evaluation of him, especially the four words of "looking at the wind and falling", and also writes Out Sun Li's majesty and murderous spirit.
In actual combat, Sun Li's martial arts were even more unusual, for example, in the Battle of Lianhuan Horse, Sun Li made a single whip against Hu Yanzhuo's double whip, and did not lose the wind for thirty rounds; when he was fighting Tian Hu, Fang Qiong had the upper hand, and with the help of Hua Rong's arrow, he beheaded Fang Qiong; during the conquest of Liao, the vanguard of the great war, Kou Zhenyuan, lost within twenty rounds, and chased him down; when attacking Suzhou, Zhen Cheng fought for thirty rounds, regardless of victory or defeat; when attacking Yuling Pass, he captured Lei Jiong alive.
Sun Li was proficient in kung fu, and his original post was a middle-level officer under the jurisdiction of Dengzhou Soldiers and Horses, which was much higher than many good men in Liangshan. Moreover, in the "Great Song Xuan and Testament", "Sick Lieutenant Chi Sun Li" ranked twenty-fourth among the thirty-six people of Song Jiang. This book is considered by later generations to be the blueprint for "Water Margin", so why did Sun Li's position in Shi Nai'an's version of "Water Margin" be suppressed to the ground?
Therefore, Sun Li's rank ranking, or the ranking of heroes, is very debatable among Water Margin fans, and has become a question that has always lingered in the hearts of countless readers.
The characters in the book "Water Margin" were basically all capable people who were arranged into the Thirty-Six Heavenly Gang, except for Sun Li, who was arranged into the Seventy-Two Hells, and he did not know what the author's intention was.