Why doesn't Wu Song go head-to-head with first-class masters? After you saw the blood spattered the Mandarin Duck Building, what did he do
"The martial pines, the heavenly people also." This is what Jin Shengsi once said when commenting on the characters of "Water Margin". It can be seen from this that Jin Shengsi is extremely praised for Wu Song as a person.
"Water Margin" is one of the four famous works in China, writing about the story of a group of civilians who were persecuted by the old bureaucratic system in the case of fierce social contradictions and conflicts at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the story of Wuthering Mountain Forest. Among all the heroes and good men, each of them has an extremely good skill. And Liangshan, because of the gathering of heroes, became famous.
Among them, Wu Song's story occupies a large part of the novel. Whether it is "Jingyang Gang Fighting Tiger", or "DrunkenLy Beating Jiang Men Shen", or "Blood Splashed Mandarin Duck Tower", etc., all the stories are well-known in China. And the image of the walker Wu Song is also praised. However, if you read the original novel carefully, you will find a strange thing, that is, Wu Song has never singled out with other first-class masters in Liangshan.
Jingyang Gang fights tigers
Wu Song is a native of Qinghe County, Shandong Province, and his parents have been dependent on his elder brother Wu Dalang since his death. Compared with Wu Dalang's short stature and ugly face, Wu Song can be described as a tall man with excellent physical fitness. Because of the hard practice of kung fu since childhood, Wu Song's skills can be called good in the jianghu. In this way, coupled with Wu Song's good reputation and jealousy and hatred, he has also broken into some heroic names in the jianghu.
However, what made Wu Song famous was the jingyang gang fighting the tiger. In fact, if you carefully read the original novel, you will find that Wu Song's fight against the tiger in Jingyang Gang was just an accident. In advance, Wu Song did not know that there were tigers in the local area, nor did he take the initiative to ask for the tigers to be removed. However, he ate wine in Jingyang Gang, and after finishing, he happened to meet a tiger.
In desperation, Wu Song, who did not want to die tragically in the mouth of the tiger, directly exploded his full body strength and fought with the tiger. In the end, Wu Song was superior and beat the man-eating tiger to death. After this matter was passed out, the reputation of fighting tigers and good Han Wusong was even greater.
To tell the truth, people fighting tigers, under the condition of bare hands, can beat tigers to death, which is indeed not what ordinary people can imagine. Therefore, Wu Song's skills were naturally exaggerated in the process of praise. However, even if these factors are put aside, there is no doubt that Wu Song's skills are far superior to ordinary people.
If so, why didn't Wu Song go head-to-head with the first-class masters? In fact, from the blood-spattered Mandarin Duck Tower, it can be seen what Wu Song did.
Blood spattered Mandarin Duck Tower
After Wu Song killed Pan Jinlian, he surrendered himself to the official palace and was then sent to Mengzhou. In this place I met a man called Shi En. As a result, a man named Jiang Zhong (Jiang Men Shen), relying on Zhang Tuanlian's forces, took away Shi En's "Happy Forest" hotel.
After Shi En told Wu Song about this, Wu Song drunkenly beat Jiang Men Shen and took the hotel back. As a result, Jiang Menshen was not convinced, and colluded with Zhang Tuanlian to supervise Zhang Mengfang and framed Wu Song to Be sent to Enzhou. On the way, Jiang Menshen did not succeed in his actions, and as a result, Wu Song killed and spilled blood on the Mandarin Duck Building.
This paragraph is so wonderful that people can see that it is also blood boiling. However, after the blood-spattered Mandarin Duck Building, Wu Song, on the way to Erlong Mountain on the advice of Zhang Qing and his wife, came across a large yellow dog after coming out of a hotel to eat wine.
The drunken Wu Song was looking for something to do when he was bored, but the yellow dog kept barking at him. Enraged, Takematsu pulled the sword out of its sheath and slashed at the yellow dog. As a result, Wu Song slashed the air with a knife and fell into the stream with too much force.
To be honest, this description of Wu Song beating a dog is really jaw-dropping. The same is drunk, fighting a tiger in Jingyang Gang, before taking a knife, you can beat the tiger to death, but this time drunk with a knife is not a yellow dog, it is really speechless.
Perhaps, it can be seen from here that Wu Song's martial arts level is really too undulating, so he has not fought with first-class masters.
Anecdote
However, when it comes to Wu Song's heroic posture of fighting tigers, there is also an interesting story circulating. It is said that when Shi Nai'an wrote the paragraph about Wu Song fighting the tiger, he thought and thought about it, changed it after writing it, and was not satisfied with how he wrote it. Because he really didn't know how to vividly show the fierceness of the tiger when fighting the tiger.
While Shi Nai'an was in trouble, a dog barked outside the door, so he simply put his pen aside, walked out of the door and looked out, but saw a drunk man fighting with a vicious dog. The drunk man flashed violently, quickly fell over, and pounced on the evil dog as soon as he turned around. Then, the drunk man grabbed the top of the evil dog's head and began to greet him with his fist.
At that time, Shi Nai'an's inspiration seemed to be like a gushing spring, and it came out endlessly, and then quickly returned to the house to write the classic scene description of Wu Song fighting the tiger. Thinking of the scenes of the drunk man fighting with the evil dog, flashing and other scenes, Shi Nai'an's hanging eye white-fronted insect has the means of swooping, lifting and cutting. In the end, Wu Song also beat the tiger to death with his fist.
It can be seen that although Wu Song is fighting a tiger, his performance is all made up of the action of beating a dog. In this way, it is no wonder that his martial arts have aroused criticism from everyone. However, this also shows why Wu Song did not fight with first-class masters, after all, although his strength is good, it is still worse than that of first-class masters.
Of course, there may be many people who don't think so, otherwise, why can Wu Song be so famous? In fact, a careful study of some of Wu Song's deeds can be found that Wu Song's killing people is actually not directly crushing the enemy to win victory, but is very particular about strategy, and can be small and broad, in order to win every battle.
It is precisely because of this that what level of Wu Song's martial arts are among the good men of Liangshan will cause many people to discuss. In fact, it is indeed difficult to have a definite conclusion.
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When talking about the liangshan heroes and good men in "Water Margin", the skills of the good men are inevitably mentioned. As for who has the highest martial arts skills, everyone has expressed their opinions, but basically no one can convince anyone. Some people say it is Lu Junyi, because he has several records of playing alone against the crowd several times.
However, some people say that it is Lin Chong, because Lin Chong, as the leader of the 800,000 Forbidden Army, has high skills and is beyond doubt. However, who has the highest martial arts skills is still an uncertain mystery. At least, Wu Song was absolutely impossible.