When Lu Zhishen is mentioned, people will think of the "Three Mountains Sect" and think that it is Lu Zhishen's Erlong Mountain, Jiuwen Dragon Shijin's Shaohua Mountain, and Li Zhong's Peach Blossom Mountain. However, if we look at the original work of Water Margin, we will find that Juyi hit Qingzhou in fact, Erlong Mountain, Peach Blossom Mountain, and White Tiger Mountain, and the latter two mountains owe ErlongShan Lu Zhi a deep sense of human affection.
In this way, only Lu Zhishen is looking at the "Four Mountains Alliance". Peach Blossom Mountain stole horses and stabbed Lou Zi, and li Zhong, the tiger general, believed that Lu Zhishen would definitely save him; Kong Ming of White Tiger Mountain was arrested, Kong Liang met Wu Song, and Lu Zhishen made a decision on the spot: "Let people go to Peach Blossom Mountain to report that they know, ask Li Zhong and Zhou Tong to lead the children to come, and they will go to Qingzhou together in three places." ”
Song Jiang led the main force of the Liangshan army to support, Lu Zhishen sat on an equal footing with him, and Song Jiang's attitude was also very humble: "No, he is not enough." The righteous men in the rivers and lakes are very much called my teacher Qingde, and today I have learned to be kind and beautiful, and I am very fortunate in my life! ”
In the face of the humble Song Jiang, Lu Zhishen was also very polite: "I ordered the left and right to put the wine pipe to wait, and we all met one by one." ”
Judging from the process of Lu Zhishen's meeting with Song Jiang, the identities of these two people are equal, and the strength of the two sides is not very different: Lu Zhishen's sanshan has eleven leaders, of which there are three top masters; Song Jiang has five teams of people and horses, and there are twenty leaders, of which only Hua Rong, Qin Ming, and Sun Li can compete with Wusong Yang Zhiyi, and Later Mu Hong, Yang Xiong, Zhu Tong, Chai Jin, Li Jun, and Zhang Heng, who are also Tiangang generals, are certainly not Lu Zhishen's opponents.
In addition to Erlong Mountain, Peach Blossom Mountain, and White Tiger Mountain, Lu Zhishen also had the four leaders of Shaohua Mountain of the Nine Dragon Shi Jin, so that in addition, the Four Mountains Alliance had fifteen brothers, including Four Heavenly Gang, who was highly skilled in martial arts, and Zhu Wu, a divine machine army division who was good at platooning troops, and if there was a real fight, almost no gang within Liangshan could compete with it--the Dengzhou faction of the sick lieutenant Chi Sun Li was not good, because only Sun Li alone in the Dengzhou faction could be regarded as a first-class master, and there were only one hundred and eighty subordinates.
However, it is not very accurate to say that Lu Zhishen's Four Mountains Alliance is the strongest force in Liangshan, because in terms of comprehensive strength, there is still an extremely strong force on Liangshan, not only is there a large number of people, but there are also many first-class masters, and even more than one can crush Lu Zhishen's Four Mountains Alliance. But this force was pinched to death by Song Jiang—they had a fatal weakness, and Song Jiang seized on this weakness, taking them for his own use, and treating them as his biggest capital.
Seeing this, the readers may have already issued a heartfelt smile: You are talking about the surrender officer corps composed of the great knife Guan Sheng double whip Hu Yanzhuo and others, right?
You're right, the only one on Liangshan whose strength exceeded that of the Four Mountains Alliance was the surrender officer corps that had sworn to live with Liangshan: Guan Sheng of the Great Sword, Qin Ming of the Thunderbolt Fire, Hu Yanzhuo of the Double Whip, Dong Ping of the Double Gun General, Zhang Qing of the Featherless Arrow, and Suo Chao, all of whom had killed the Liangshan army on the field, they had killed Liangshan's minions, and Liangshan had also killed their generals.
We only take the three people of the Great Dao Guan Sheng, the Thunderbolt Fire Qin Ming, and the Double Whip Hu Yanzhuo as examples, and we know how deep their hatred with Liangshan is.
The great knife Guan Sheng "Long Wen Cao Kou occupied the puddle, infringed on the People of Li, and robbed the city pool", so he rebuked Song Jiang in front of the two armies: "Ru is a common official, and dare to betray the imperial court? When the Heavenly Soldier arrived here, he still resisted! How dare you hide it! If you don't get off your horse, you'll be crushed to pieces! ”
Qin Ming, who was killed by Song Jiang, was killed by Song Jiang: "I don't know which day is not covered, the ground is not loaded, and the thief should be shaved, pretending that I went to fight the city, destroying the houses of the people, killing good people, but the result is my family's old and young." Flashing now I have a home that is difficult to run, a country that is difficult to vote, and I have no way to heaven and no door to the earth! If I find the man, I will just break this mace!" ”
The double whip Hu Yanzhuo family has been favored by the emperor, and although Zhao Li Gao is a traitor, he has only grace and no hatred for Hu Yanzhuo. Zhao Tuoqin gave the kick of xue wuxiao, Gao Li responded to everything he needed, and the strong Hu Yanzhuo killed the Liangshan army in the first battle, and Song Jiang took stock after the battle, and the crying heart was all there: "The whole point of people and horses, folding most of them." There were six people who were hit by arrows--Lin Chong, Lei Heng, Li Kui, Shi Xiu, Sun Xin, Huang Xin, and countless people who were injured with arrows. ”
These three people had a blood feud with Liangshan, but after being captured, they all bowed their heads and surrendered under Song Jiang's rhetoric. Readers who are familiar with the historical materials of the Song Dynasty will find a major feature of the Song Dynasty when they look closely at the original works of the Water Margin: all the civilian officials love money, and most of the military generals are afraid of death.
Everyone is an adult, and Song Jiang's set of lies cannot be blinded, and Shi Nai'an said that Guan Sheng Hu Yanzhuo and others surrendered because "one is the number of heavenly gangs, and natural righteousness is the same; the two see Song Jiang's courtesy and respect", but in the final analysis, these people are still greedy and afraid of death: before going out on the expedition, Liangshan regarded Liangshan as a vendetta, and he was eager to swallow Song Jiang in one mouth, and he also killed the killer during the battle, and with the continuous death of the soldiers around him, the hatred also became high and deep, and how could he write off the blood sea deep hatred because of Song Jiang's two good words?
If we look closely at the twenty-four histories, we will find a unpleasant phenomenon: the more high-ranking officials and rich people, the more cowards there are--the poor are willing to dare to pull the emperor off their horses because they have nothing to lose, and the children of the famous and prestigious families are more afraid of death than the other, that is, the sons of thousands of gold cannot sit in the hall, and the gentlemen do not stand under the dangerous wall.
Guan Sheng, Qin Ming, Hu Yanzhuo, and others can put aside their hatred and commit themselves to being thieves and grassy people, forget the matter of eating the king's loyalty to the king, and also forget the revenge of the killing of the robe Ze, speaking of going, or to save their own small lives, as for the small family that is still under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, it has not been able to take care of so many - the author says that Guan Sheng and other people are selfish and greedy and afraid of death, perhaps a little excessive, but the readers can think about it in another position: civilian officials are not greedy for money, and the military generals are not afraid of death, like the military generals in the Northern Song Dynasty, After being captured, none of them were willing to kill Chengren, so how could such an army fight against the tiger and wolf divisions of Western Xia and Liao and Jin?
Song Jiang himself was a greedy and fearful of death, they were all foxes for a thousand years, no one should talk to anyone about it, he seized the fatal weakness of the court officers who were greedy for life and afraid of death, coveting glory and wealth, and on the surface he was polite, but in essence he threatened death, and drew a big cake, so in the situation of "everyone is happy", those imperial court officers who originally gritted their teeth at Liangshan also changed their smiling faces under the slope donkeys, and turned the fear of death into righteousness.
When I saw the surrender process of those imperial court officers, I couldn't help but want to ask them three questions: First, Zhao Tuo and Song Jiang, which one is better for you? Second, with Song Jiang," how would you feel about the generals and soldiers and their families who were killed by the Liangshan Army? Third, if you drink wine and eat meat on Liangshan Mountain, will the imperial court "sell" your wives, children, old men, and military women?
Many people only see the "loyalty and righteousness of the good man of Liangshan", but forget that those former imperial court officers have insulted the noble title of soldiers.
Speaking of which, Hu Yanzhuo and others are really villains who are ungrateful hypocrites who are greedy for life and afraid of death, and Song Jiang has also seized their fatal weakness of greed for life and fear of death and greed for wealth and nobility, and has packed them up obediently and become tigers who support Song Jiang Zhao'an.
Of course, it may be a bit harsh to say that Guan Sheng, Qin Ming, Hu Yanzhuo, and other former imperial court officers are greedy for life and afraid of death, so in the end, I still have to ask readers: How many former imperial court officers with the highest proportion of the thirty-six days and seventy-two earth fires are not greedy and afraid of death? How many people will sacrifice their lives for righteousness like Lu Zhishenshijin? What if Lu Zhishen's Four Mountains Alliance had a fire with Song Jiang and his cartilage officer corps because of their opposition to Zhao'an?