In the "Lang Kou Zhi", Zhen Xianglin is one of the founders of the early Ape Arm Village. He was originally the commander of Ma Xinzhen, who was under the command of the imperial court, and in order to rescue the Gou brothers who had been framed by the traitors, he resigned from his official post, followed the crowd to use tricks to trap and kill the leader of the Ape Arm Village, occupy the cottage, fall into the grass, and create an independent armed force between the official army and Liangshan. After Chen Xizhen and others joined the Ape Arm Village, Zhen Xianglin sat firmly in the fifth chair in the village. When he led his troops into the Yizhou capital to rescue Liu Qi and snatch Liu Mu's coffin, he provoked and killed the defender of the city, Huang Kui, and then followed the leaders to kill and defeat the Yizhou Taishou Gaofeng, provoked and killed Li Fengming, the governor of The Prefecture, and captured Ruan Zhao'er, the son of Ruan Qixiang, who was defending Dongcheng. After that, Zhen Xianglin followed the army against Liangshan and made many military achievements.
According to the description in the book, Zhen Xianglin was originally the commander of Mazhen Town in Qingzhou, which was ordered by the imperial court, and the people of Qufu County, Shandong Province, who were strong and honest in nature, sick and evil like vengeance, heavy on love and righteousness, delicate in life, good at making a dry red western tying iron tequila gun, wisdom and courage, deep understanding of the art of war, ranked twenty-second among the thirty-six generals of the LeiBu. His debut is in the thirteenth time in the book. In front of the palace, Gou Bangda was tragically persecuted by Tong Guan, and his sons Gou Huan and Gou Ying were also imprisoned and almost killed, but fortunately, many people were able to escape by maneuvering in many ways.
After the Gou brothers escaped from danger, they had nowhere to go, so they fled all the way to the town of Maxin. Zhen Xianglin was once a general of Gou Bangda, and he always remembered the grace of the old lord, and when he saw that the Gou family was in difficulty, he was obliged to leave the two brothers in the palace to provide shelter. Later, Zhen Xianglin saw that the government was tightly arrested, lest the Gou brothers be imprisoned again, simply resigned from the official and hung up the seal, and fled with the two brothers to Lanshan County, the capital of Yizhou, Shandong, and after consulting with his friend Fan Chenglong, he took his relatives and accompanied him to ape arm village to join the gang. Who knows, the leader of the Ape Arm Village, Ping Mine, is narrow-minded and jealous of his ability, and sees that everyone is a hero Haojie, and he refuses to take him in. Zhen Xianglin, enraged, used a trick to trap and kill the thief's head, collected more than 700 thieves, and occupied the cottage and the grass.
Under the painstaking management of everyone, the ape arm village was transformed and the situation was very good, and it did not take long to pull up an independent armed force of four or five thousand people, between the official army and Liangshan. Chen Xizhen and others were framed by adulterers and joined the Ape Arm Village when there was no way to escape, becoming the big boss in the cottage, and Zhen Xianglin sat firmly in the fifth chair in the village. After that, Chen Xizhen consulted with the generals and prepared to kill Liu Guang's mother and Liu Qi in Yizhou, and Zhen Xianglin and the female general Chen Liqing were ordered to disguise themselves as jianghu artists, and only brought a few relatives into the city in advance.
In the middle of the night, Zhen Xianglin drew a short knife and suddenly killed, leading his relatives to kill all the officers and soldiers stationed in the urn city, and opened the city gate to receive the army into the city. For a time, the killing in Yizhou City was incessant and the fire was soaring, and after Huang Kui, the military and horse governor on duty in the prefecture, heard the news, he went out of the street with an axe in his hand and collided head-on with Chen Liqing, who was holding a simple knife, and the two immediately launched a fierce battle. Chen Liqing was good at making pear blossom guns, holding a simple knife to make it unable to exert force, and was beaten by Huang Kui with some difficulty. Just when he was about to be in danger, Zhen Xianglin shouted loudly and killed the battle, and stabbed Huang Kui down the horse with one shot. Subsequently, when Yizhou Taishou led his troops to encircle and suppress the Ape Arm Village, Zhen Xianglin followed the generals to kill the retired officials, and provoked Li Fengming, who was under the jurisdiction of Ti, to capture Ruan Zhao'er.
This Ruan Zhao'er is the son of the traitor Dongcheng Defense Envoy Ruan Qixiang, and his appearance is no different from that of Zhen Xianglin. Chen Xizhen was extremely happy to see this person, and he was sure that he would be useful in the future, so he ordered someone to secretly detain him in the custody of Shanzhai Haosheng. During the Battle of Sheyue Village, Ruan Zhao'er really came in handy. At that time, Chen Xizhen successfully infiltrated Zhen Dayi into Liangshan in order to plan for the fierceness, and secretly agreed with the strategist Wei Fuliang that Zhen Xianglin would kill his mother Gu Dajie before the battle, and shoot the young lieutenant Chi Sunxin, and launch a separate contest with his brother Zhen Dayi. After more than thirty rounds of the battle, Zhen Xianglin returned to the camp in a false defeat, while Zhen Dayi chased after the camp and cut off Ruan Zhao'er's first rank to return to the camp, thus completely winning the trust of Song Jiang and others.
When Chen Xizhen led his troops to retake Yanzhou, Zhen Xianglin's troops were ordered to attack Yangguan, a key town outside the city. In this battle, Zhen Xianglin used the mechanical green lion carefully made by the female strategist Liu Huiniang to make himself covered in blood, and led his generals to hold aloft the green light of the fire and take advantage of the night to approach Zhenyang Pass through the mountains. When the Liangshan generals who were guarding the city saw this scene, they mistakenly thought that Zhen Xianglin had come with ghost soldiers to seize the pass, and they were already frightened and frightened, and they had no intention of fighting, even if Wu Yong personally went to the city to supervise the battle, he could not stop the soldiers and horses from routing, so he had to flee with the remnants of the tribe. After that, Zhen Xianglin accompanied the army to conquest Liangshan, repeatedly built military merits, provoked and killed the Flying Grand Saint Li Gong, and when assisting Tai'an, he provoked and killed Hu Baoyi Song Jiang's mount, and almost captured him.
Reference book: "Dang Kou Zhi"