The world of "Water Margin" can be described as full of wicked people, full of devastation, and being in that world is a tragedy, so those who are unwilling to give in to fate in the book have chosen to fall into the grass, and the heroes of Liangshan are such a group of people.
However, not all people who go to Liangshan can be regarded as "heroes", of course, it also depends on how you understand the word "heroes", at least it must not be equated with "good people", such as Li Kui , Bao Xu These murderous villains are also mixed with Liangshan, they are just a bunch of ruthless people.
Some people say that there is only one "flower monk" Lu Zhishen who can really be regarded as a good person, this statement is not right for the time being, at least Lu Zhishen's personality is indeed not bad, and he can be regarded as one of the most brilliant characters in the book.
(Ruda stills)
And the reason why Lu Zhishen is brilliant is very simple, just because he is strong enough, but you may not know that there are people like Lu Zhishen who want to kill but can't kill, and that person is also mixed with Liangshan, but in the end he died inexplicably.
1. The top powerhouse Lu Zhishen
"Like the demon lord in the sky, it is really the Tai Sui God in the world", this is Shi Nai'an's evaluation given to Wu Song, as the most popular character in the book, and one of the strongest characters, Wu Song is naturally worthy of this evaluation, after all, the deeds of "Jingyanggang fighting tigers" alone are enough to make him famous, but this evaluation is also applicable to Lu Zhishen.
When Lu Zhishen first appeared, the description given to him by the author is enough to prove that this person is by no means an idle person.
The book only says: "The head is wrapped in a sesame Luo Wanzi turban, two Taiyuan Mansion New Silk gold rings on the back of the head, wearing a parrot green silk robe, a civil and military double-strand crow green silk around the waist, and a pair of eagle claw leather four-seam dry yellow boots." He was born with a round face and large ears, a straight nose and a square mouth, a raccoon dog beard on the cheeks, a body length of eight feet, and a waist of ten girths. ”
And later his series of experiences also proved that he is indeed a top master, if the three punches to kill Zhen Guanxi can only be said to be Zheng Tu's poor physique, then the feat of uprooting the weeping willow is enough to illustrate the problem, if there is no strength of tens of millions of catties, how can you pull down a big tree with your bare hands?
But even Ruda has masters who can't be beaten.
2. The man whom Ruda hates
Because of his fame, many readers think that Wu Song and Lu Zhishen are the kind of people who have not tasted defeat, but in fact, take Wu Song as an example, he was once shaken down by the big yellow dog, and when facing Lu Junyi, he only dared to fight three rounds and ran away, of course, it was not a defeat, and Lu Zhishen was really defeated.
(Lu Zhishen stills)
For example, when he was in the broken clay pot temple, Lu Zhishen, who had been hungry for a few days, was once repelled by Cui Daocheng, the so-called people are iron, rice is steel, which is understandable, where did he get the strength to eat, of course, this is not a frontal defeat, but Lu Zhishen was defeated head-on when facing Zhang Qing.
Although there are not many scenes of "no feather arrows" Zhang Qing, when he appears on the stage, he is the most like the protagonist, and no hero has ever been treated like this, he is the fifteen leaders of Liangshan in a row, including Lu Zhishen.
Lu Zhishen was defeated in his hands, and this defeat was written very bluntly in the book: "Zhang Qingdao: 'This bald donkey has a stone on his head!'" Lu Zhishen was carrying the Zen staff, and when he saw it at this time, he didn't know what to do, and he took great strides and walked, but he forgot to beware of his stones. As he was walking, Zhang Qing shouted on his horse: 'Go! A stone was flying on Lu Zhishen's head, causing blood to burst out, and he fell after looking at it. Zhang Qingjun and horses shouted together, all rushing to the future. Wu Song hurriedly took two swords, died to save Lu Zhishen, and left the grain cart. ”
It is not surprising that Zhang Qing can win against Lu Zhishen, he has great strength, but he has never been the kind of person who is agile, which is also the difference between him and Wu Song, so Wu Song can dodge the stone and save Lu Zhishen, but the two of them dare not fight.
(Song Jiang stills)
And Lu Zhishen's performance afterwards also proved that he was indeed not Zhang Qing's opponent, after all, after Zhang Qing defected to Liangshan, he almost couldn't help but kill Zhang Qing.
The book only said: "Song Jiang and the others gathered in the state government, and everyone met. I saw that the leader of the navy had already relieved Zhang Qing. Many brothers were injured by him, gritted their teeth, and wanted to kill Zhang Qing. Song Jiang thought that in the future, he personally went down to the hall to greet him, and said: "If you mistakenly offend Huwei, don't worry about it." 'Invite to the hall. Before he could say anything, he saw Lu Zhishen at the bottom of the stairs, wrapping his head with a handkerchief, holding an iron Zen staff, and running straight to beat Zhang Qing. ”
If it weren't for Song Jiang to stop it, there would have been a vicious fight between the two, but I am afraid that Lu Zhishen will suffer at that time.
3. The hero who was inexplicably written to death
It is said that Zhang Qing is so powerful, and the later expedition should also be invincible?
It is true that when the two won Tong Guan, Zhang Qing killed Zhou Xin, the governor of Songzhou, together with Gong Wang and Ding Desun.
When Gao Yu was defeated repeatedly, Zhang Qing successively injured Wang Wende, the envoy of the Hongnong Festival in northern Beijing, Mei Zhan, the envoy of the Runan Festival in Yingzhou, and Qiu Yue, the head of the 800,000 forbidden army.
In the process of conquering Liao, Tian Hu, and Wang Qing, he also made many military exploits, such as Aliqi, Yelu National Treasure, Zhu Wenjing, Ji Zongqi and others all died under his flying stone, and it can be said that his flying stone is an insoluble existence.
(Zhang Qing stills)
But Zhang Qing's final ending is inexplicable, it was the battle of Dusong Pass, Zhang Qing cooperated with Dong Ping to find Li Tianyan to take revenge, but he inexplicably started to shoot, but in the end his skills were not as good as others, the gun was inserted into the tree seed, and then he was killed, which is really ridiculous.
This setting is actually very absurd, with Zhang Qing's level, he can completely use flying stones to kill Li Tianyan and Zhang Tao, and there is no need to face them at all, but why didn't he do it?
There is only one explanation, and later he became obsessed with women and abandoned his martial arts.
When he was conquering Tianhu, Zhang Qing had a hot fight with Qiu Qiongying, and the woman later married him, and it is clearly mentioned in the book that the two soon had children.
You read the description of the original book: "Later, Qiongying recovered from illness, Miyue, and gave birth to a son with a square face, named Zhang Jie." Later, when she heard that her husband was killed by a thief Li Tianbou in Dusong Pass, Qiong Ying fainted in mourning, and then went to Dusong Pass with Ye Qing and his wife in person, and went to Zhang Qing's hometown Zhangde Mansion for burial. Qiong Ying observes the festival and raises orphans alone. Later, he followed Wu Jue to break the fourth prince of the Golden Vultures. ”
(Zhang Qing, Qiong Ying stills)
It can be seen that Zhang Qing was indeed tired of being with Qiong Ying, so that his martial arts regressed, which ended in tragedy.
Of course, if he is always allowed to make flying stones, a stone will take away a general in the later stage, and Fang La can surrender directly, so Zhang Qing's death is purely a plot killing.
So the question is, if he and Lu Zhishen come to the last head-to-head confrontation, does Lu Zhishen have a chance of winning.