There are three village owners on Mount Mangzhong in Pei County, Xuzhou, and the characteristics of the three are different. Fan Rui, the Chaos Demon King of the Great Village, is proficient in spells, and the other two Lords are good at dark weapons. What this article wants to introduce is the third village owner on the mountain, he is the sixty-fifth ranking of the Great Gathering of Righteousness, the Flying Saint Li Gong.
The true meaning of the nickname Of the Flying Saint is very different from what the average person understands. It is neither the god of Sile in Buddhist mythology nor the god of boundless mana in ancient Chinese mythology, but refers to Li Gun's javelin skill, just like flying in the sky.
Li Gong was originally from Pi County, and he fell with Fan Rui and Xiang Chong in the Mangzhong Mountains. For some reason, Fan Rui, the Demon King of the Mixed World, openly declared that he wanted to flatten Liangshan, arousing The strong anger of Song Jiang, and then sent the former Shaohua Mountain leader Jiuwen Long Shijin, the Divine Machine Army Division Zhu Wu and others as the front to conquer Mount Mangzhong. In the first contest between the two sides, Fan Rui did not appear in front of the two armies, but sent Xiang Chong and Li Gong to fight.
Li Gun's narration when he appeared on the scene was interesting. The fifty-ninth time in the novel describes: "Will make a ball of cards, with twenty-four javelins inserted in the back, can also take a hundred steps, the left hand to hold the card, the right hand to fight the sword, behind a recognition flag, written on the book 'Flying Great Sage', out of the front." Judging from this description, Li Gunhun was covered with weapons. The left hand is the regimental card, the right hand is the sword, and there are twenty-four javelins on the back.
The battlefield battles that Li Gong experienced went very smoothly. Li Gong and Xiang Chong did not say a word, and the little minions sounded the war drums, and the crowd immediately rushed to the Liangshan formation. This style of play is different, for a while even good men like Shi Jin and Zhu Wu, who have been in battle for a long time, are very uncomfortable, and they are quickly defeated. Not only did ShaohuaShan's minions suffer more than half of the casualties, but even Shi Jin almost hit the flying knife, and Yang Chun was wounded in the battle, and had to retreat thirty or forty miles.
After that, Song Jiang personally led a large army to the foot of Mount Mangzhong and confronted Fan Rui again. In this battle, Fan Rui's spell was defeated by Gongsun Sheng of the Yunlong Dragon, and Mount Mangzhong suffered a crushing defeat. During the melee, both Li Gong and Xiang Chong were captured by Liangshan. After the war, Song Jiang personally came forward to persuade them to surrender, and finally touched the two. The two offered to return to the cottage to persuade Fan Rui to return to Liangshan. Song Jiang was overjoyed and immediately ordered the release of the two. After the two returned to Mount Mangzhong, they kept their promise and persuaded Fan Rui to return to Liangshan. In the end, Fan Rui came to the bottom of the mountain to meet Song Jiang and invited the people of Liangshan to return to the mountain for warm hospitality. After that, the three of them left Mount Mangzhong with their minions and became good men in Liangshan from then on.
In the ensuing battles of besieging Daimyo Province, attacking Zengtou City, and conquering Dongping Province and Dongchang Province, Li Gong participated in the battle as the leader of the infantry, and did not have the record of killing the enemy before the battle. At the time of the Liangshan Uprising, Li Gong ranked sixty-fifth in the rank of Commander of the Seventeen Infantry Regiments. However, judging from the previous performance, Li Gong basically did not play too much role, and it was inevitable that he would be confused in the fourth place of the infantry general.
However, Li Gun's role was perfectly demonstrated during the four major wars after Liangshan was recruited. In the course of the four major wars, the infantry attack combination composed of Li Gun and Li Kui, Fan Rui, Bao Xu, Xiang Chong and others was extremely powerful. During the conquest of the Liao State, Li Gong and his people attacked the Taiyi Mixed Celestial Elephant Array, and during the conquest of Wang Qing, Li Gong won the Battle of Jishan together with Lu Zhishen, Wu Song and others. During the conquest of Fang La, Li Gong and Xiang Chong captured the Runzhou defender Hetong, and killed the enemy general Yuan Xing in the Battle of Hangzhou.
However, Li Gun's ending was very tragic. During the Battle of Muzhou during the conquest of Fang La, Li Gong, together with Li Kui, Xiang Chong, and others, pursued the enemy general Zheng Biao, but was surrounded by heavy enemy troops because he was lost. In the melee, Li Gong fell into the stream and was killed by Fang La's army with random arrows.
Judging from Li Gun's overall performance, although his ranking was not high, he was one of the leaders with excellent records in the Liangshan infantry. However, in all the battles he experienced, a major question arose: since he "had twenty-four javelins in his back and could take a hundred steps", why had he never used them once in all battles? This is really puzzling.
Reference book: Water Margin