Liangshan's second attack on Zengtou City was by no means to avenge Chao Gai's revenge, but Zengtou City once again robbed Liangshan of the good horses purchased from the north through normal channels.
The first senior leader of Liangshan to receive the report of the robbery of Liangshan's horses was Lin Chong, the head of the leopard: "I saw a person running in anger, and when everyone looked at it, it was Duan Jingzhu, a golden retriever." Lin Chong asked, "You, Yang Lin, and Shi Yong went to the north to buy horses, why did you come in such a hurry?"
Knowing that Zengtou City bullied Liangshan again, Lin Chong should be secretly happy in his heart: After Song Jiang acted as the owner of the village, he was busy redistributing his work, and he didn't say a word about the conquest of Zengtou City, and now that I have a reason, I finally have the opportunity to avenge King Chao Tianwang!
Lin Chong originally thought that the Liangshan army would conquer Zengtou City again, as the leader who knew Zengtou City best, he would definitely go out with the army, but he never expected that Song Jiang and Wu Yong would not use him at all: Thunderbolt Fire Qin Ming, Xiao Li Guanghuarong, Flower Monk Lu Zhishen, Walker Wu Song, Blue-faced Beast Yang Zhi, Nine-Pattern Dragon Shi Jin, Bearded Gong Zhu Tong, and Winged Tiger Lei Heng Eight people are divided into four teams, the commander of the Chinese army will be Song Jiang, the military division is Wu Yong, Gongsun Sheng, and the leader of the Hehou Infantry Army is the black whirlwind Li Kui, Fan Rui, the demon king of the mixed world, not only was Lin Chong, the head of the leopard, not on the list, but even the double whip Hu Yanzhuo and the three heroes of the Ruan family did not have a chance to go together.
Readers who are familiar with the original work of the Water Margin certainly remember that Chao Gai fought in the first battle of Zengtou City, and the twenty leaders led by him were Lin Chong, Hu Yanzhuo, Xu Ning, Mu Hong, Liu Tang, Zhang Heng, Ruan Xiaoer, Ruan Xiaowu, Ruan Xiaoqi, Yang Xiong, Shi Xiu, Sun Li, Huang Xin, Du Qian, Song Wan, Yan Shun, Deng Fei, Ou Peng, Yang Lin, Bai Sheng, these twenty leaders with combat experience in Zengtou City, only the Iron Flute Immortal Ma Lin and the Fire-eyed Fierce Deng Fei went out as Xiao Li Guanghuarong's subordinates, "The rest of the leaders guarded the cottage"—— Others are okay to say that Lin Chong and Ruan's Sanxiong, who have a deep relationship with Chao Gai, don't bring any of them, and if they want to say that there is no cat in them, it is estimated that no one will believe it.
Song Jiang personally conquered Zengtou City, this battle must be won by a big victory, in order to prove that he is more qualified than Chao Gai to sit on the top spot of Liangshan, the reason why he did not let Lin Chong, who are familiar with the terrain, and Ruan's three heroes to fight, must have his own considerations: First, if Lin Chong was lucky enough to capture Shi Wengong, will he let this top spot go or not? Second, if Lin Chong asked Shi Wengong why he was hurting people with a secret arrow in front of the battle, and Shi Wengong pointed to the sky and swore an oath to deny it, how should the scene be cleaned up?
If we take a closer look at the original Water Margin, we will find that Shi Wengong's martial arts may still be above the jade unicorn Lu Junyi - Lu Junyi has never fought with the leader of the Liangshan horse army, but he has suffered a loss under their iron horse: "I saw the thunderbolt fire Qin Ming and the leopard head Lin Chong, leading a biao army horse, waving the flag and shouting, and killing from the side of the East Mountain; Frightened Lu Junyi into desperation. Seeing that it was getting late, my feet hurt and my stomach was hungry, and I was in a panic and didn't choose the road, looking at the mountains and remote paths. ”
Shi Wengong was able to defeat Qin Ming, who was known for his strength, after twenty rounds, not even by exquisite marksmanship but by absolute strength: Shi Wengong rode a thousand-mile dragon horse (that is, the jade lion horse that shines on the night), and he came over with Zhu Yingzhang's two spears in his hand, Qin Ming wanted to take the lead and rushed to meet him, only more than 20 times, "Qin Ming is timid, and he will leave the formation." Shi Wengong hurried over, the spear was everywhere, Qin Ming was early on his hind legs, and he dismounted. ”
Lin Chong followed Chao Gai to attack Zengtou City, and did not see Shi Wengong shoot, only Shi Wengong's four apprentices Zeng Kui went out to fight with Lin Chong, at that time Shi Wengong "bent the bow and inserted the arrow, sat down on the one that was a thousand miles of jade lion horse, and made a Fangtian painting halberd in his hand", but the old god was watching the battle in the big land, seeing that Zeng Kui fell into the downwind, he did not secretly release cold arrows, nor did he wave the painting halberd to rush up, so he collected his troops and went back.
Shi Wengong neither fired arrows nor moved halberds, which is completely understandable: he is a martial arts instructor in Zengtou City, not even a bodyguard leader or mercenary, for the sake of tuition, he has the responsibility to teach the Zeng family's Five Tigers martial arts, but he has no obligation to work for Zengtou City.
Shi Wengong is just a "teacher" rather than a "second-in-command", he is taking people's money and eliminating disasters with people, but he has to think about whether this money will be earned or not, so when Liangshan Army fought Zeng Tou City for the second time, he still behaved negatively, and even after Zeng Tu was shot by Hua Rong and killed by Lu Fang Guo Sheng's double halberd, he still put forward the prerequisites for his own action to the surviving four tigers of the Zeng family:" There are a lot of wise and brave generals in the Song Jiang army, if you talk about the foolishness of Shi, it is only appropriate to stick to Wuzhai and secretly send people to Lingzhou, so they will teach Feiyu to play the imperial court, transfer troops and select generals, allocate more officers and soldiers, and divide them into two places to conquer: a dozen Liangshanbo, and one to protect Zengtou City. The thief has no intention of fighting, and he will want to retreat and rush back to the mountain. At that time, Shi was not talented, and he and Brother Ru chased and killed together, and they would definitely get a great success. ”
Not only Shi Wengong was unwilling to play with his life, but the deputy teacher Su Ding also had the same attitude, and it was difficult to delay when he was urged by Zeng Sheng, "Shi Wengong had no choice but to put on the horse", when he singled out Qin Ming, it was also up to the point: If Shi Wengong is good at archery, or wants to take Qin Ming's life, he doesn't have to catch up, and he won't just poke his thigh and not prick his heart after catching up.
Shi Wengong is also a person in the rivers and lakes, people in the rivers and lakes have always paid attention to multiple friends, multiple roads, multiple enemies, and many walls, if you can plant flowers, you will never plant thorns, be a person and leave a line, and see each other in the future - Shi Wengong is still merciful to Qin Ming's subordinates, how could he lower his body and hurt Chao Gai with a quenching poison arrow?
In the rivers and lakes, the use of poison is a trick of the next five doors, the high-grade masters not only disdain to use poison, but even disdain to use bows and arrows, they pay attention to the knife and gun to fight for their lives, fists and feet to see the high and low, can not beat the use of hidden weapons and is still despised, can fight and use hidden weapons, will not make the rivers and lakes laugh off the big teeth?
Readers, you can think about it from Shi Wengong's point of view: He, a martial arts instructor who gets a salary, even if he exterminates Liangshan, the credit and reward belong to the Zeng family's Five Tigers, why should he form a blood feud with Liangshan, the biggest force in the green forest? So when Zeng Kui said to Chao Gai Lin Chong, "I was about to come to get you to dismiss the official and ask for a reward", Shi Wengong neither said anything nor made a move.
Liangshan army fought Zengtou City twice, Zeng Tu and Zeng Suo were killed successively, "Shi Wengong also has eight points of fear", and immediately wrote a letter of peace for Zeng Chang (Zeng Lane), in which there is a sentence that readers must have noticed: "The king of the sun led the crowd to come, and the reason should be attached." However, the unprovoked soldiers cast cold arrows, and they were also guilty of taking horses, although they had no words. ”
"Unprovoked pawn" is definitely not Shi Wengong's self-proclaimed, with his ability, before Liangshan is encircled, he can completely open a bloody road to leave Zengtou City and seek another career, the reason why he is willing to make peace with Liangshan is because he does not know that the black cauldron of "shooting Chao Gai" has been firmly buckled on his head by Song Jiang.
Shi Wengong refused to shoot Qin Ming with an arrow, and with his status and status, he would not disdain to use poison, so he always mistakenly thought that the arrow on Chao Gai's face was shot by a strong man in Zengtou City, but he didn't know that the poisoned arrow still had the words "Shi Wengong" on it.
If Lin Chong followed Song Jiang to fight Zengtou City again, he would definitely "be very red when the enemy met", and challenged Shi Wengong with the poisoned arrow, and accused Shi Wengong of secretly quenching poison and committing a taboo.
Lin Chong and Chao Gai are both very famous in the rivers and lakes, and Shi Wengong is not a second- or third-rate character, both parties are unlikely to tell lies, and they will basically believe that the other party is telling the truth - if you are Lin Chong, seeing Shi Wengong's face full of consternation, will the poisoned arrow in his hand also fall to the ground in shock?
Song Jiang did not give Shi Wengong a chance to confront Lin Chong, and after capturing Shi Wengong alive, he did not go through any interrogation, so he directly cut out his heart and sacrificed him to Chao Gai, from being captured to being killed, Shi Wengong did not say a word, probably knowing that it was useless to say anything.
Whether Chao Gai was shot by Shi Wengong or not, people with positive opinions often use Shi Wengong as the basis for being "entangled by Chao Gai's ghost", but if we think about it from another angle, we will find that Chao Gai did this, and it was not necessarily to avenge the "revenge of one arrow": only by throwing Shi Wengong under Lu Junyi's knife could it be possible to push Song Jiang off the top spot in Liangshan, if Chao Gai really wanted Song Jiang to succeed to the throne, why not send Shi Wengong to Song Jiang's knife - at that time, Shi Wengong had lost his soul and his combat effectiveness was zero, not to mention "learning martial arts" The timely rain Song Jiang is the flea on the drum of the iron knife, and he can also stab him off the horse.
In the original work of the Water Margin, Lu Junyi captured Shi Wengong and did not enter a fierce fight, "there was only a simple knife on the leg and thigh, and when he got off the horse, he tied the rope" - Shi Wengong had no power to fight back at all, how many rounds of the so-called big battle, from the ground to the air, it was just an interpretation of the new version of the TV series.
If Chao Gai entangled Shi Wengong not to avenge an arrow but to prevent Song Jiang from usurping the throne, it would be difficult to explain, readers think about it from another place: If you were Shi Wengong, would you use poisoned arrows to sneak attack Chao Gai? If it was the arrow shot by Shi Wengong, why didn't Chao Gai and the others see the very eye-catching big white horse in the firelight?
These questions may be answered, but there is one question that has always bothered the author, and I have to ask readers here for advice: If Song Jiang and Wu Yong were willing to let Lin Chong and Ruan Thi Sanxiong participate in the second battle against Zengtou City, and they confronted Shi Wengong in front of the two armies, would there be a situation where Song Jiang and Wu Yong would be difficult to contain?