In the seventh episode of "Water Margin", "The Flower Monk Pulls Out the Weeping Willow, and the Leopard's Head Mistakenly Enters the White Tiger Hall", Lu Zhishen performs martial arts for the crowd in the vegetable garden of the Great Xiangguo Temple, and puts a Hun Iron Zen Staff "Fluttering, and there is no half a bit of jaggedness on the body". Because the performance was so wonderful, an official who passed by the wall could not help but applaud: "The end is good!" ”
Lu Zhishen did not know this official, but the people were very familiar with him, and introduced himself to Lu Zhishen: "This official is Lin Wushi, the head of the 800,000 Forbidden Army Gun and Stick Sect, whose name is Lin Chong. ”
This is Lin Chong's first appearance in "Water Margin", and it is also the beginning of the tragedy of Lin Chong's life - if he had not been obsessed with watching Lu Zhishen make a stick, but personally accompanied his wife to the temple to burn incense, his wife would not have been teased by Gao Yanei, a series of bad things in the back would not have happened, Lin Chong would have been the head of his 800,000 forbidden army guns and sticks, the years were quiet, and the wind was light.
The Forbidden Army was an army directly under the Imperial Court. Zhao Kuangyin, the grandfather of the Song Dynasty, once served as the commander of the Forbidden Army of later Zhou. There was the Song Dynasty, and the forbidden army had a high status, a high number of soldiers. At the beginning of the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty, there were more than 200,000 forbidden troops. By the time of Emperor Renzong of Song, it had increased to 826,000. There are "800,000 forbidden troops" in "Water Margin", which is not an exaggeration.
However, the "Eight Hundred Thousand Forbidden Army Gun stick instructor", this official position sounds very frightening, but it is actually just a low-level military attaché, responsible for the training of soldiers. Lin Chong is specifically responsible for training soldiers with gun sticks, so he is called "gun stick instructor".
During the Song Dynasty, there were two kinds of religious leaders, both teaching heads and teaching heads. The level of the head coach is higher than that of the head coach, which is equivalent to the senior coach; the head coach is equivalent to the general coach. The Song Dynasty has always been "heavy on literature and light on military force", and the status of military generals is lower than that of civilian officials, and they belong to the gods of low-level military officers, so naturally they cannot talk about any status and status. When Lin Chong met Gao Li, he was left with only his share of being bullied.
It needed a lot of gods, and there were many more forbidden troops than Lin Chong.
In the second episode of "Water Margin", "Wang Jiaotou secretly went to Yan'an Province, and the Nine-veined Dragon made a big fuss in Shijia Village", there was an 800,000-strong forbidden army sect leader Wang Jin, and Wang Jin's father was the famous martial artist Wang Sheng, whose family had a great skill. Before Gao Li had no trace, he had learned to make a stick, but was unintentionally injured by Wang Sheng. After Gao Li became a lieutenant, he sought revenge on Wang Jin and intended to put him to death. Wang Jin was forced to flee Tokyo with his old mother, passing by Shijiazhuang and teaching Shi Jin martial arts. Later, Wang Jin went to Yan'an Province and defected to the old breeding of the Jing Xiang Gong.
Many of the characters in "Water Margin" are fictional, but Wang Jin has actually had his own person in history, and his life experience is roughly the same as the story described in "Water Margin". After Wang Jin defected to laozhong, he guarded the border pass and fought against the Western Xia army many times, and finally died in the Battle of Taiyuan.
In addition, there are 800,000 forbidden army leaders with names and surnames in "Water Margin", and there are 3 more. They were Qiu Yue, Zhou Ang, and Wang Wenbin, all of whom were officers and soldiers.
Qiu Yue and Zhou Ang appear in the eightieth episode of "Water Margin" in "Zhang Shun Chiseled a Leaky Loach Boat, and Song Jiang Defeated Gao Taiwei Three Times": "Yang Taiwei knew that he had lost the festival, and then selected two generals from the Imperial Camp Division, and in the four battalions of Long Meng, Tiger Wing, Pengri, and Zhongyi, each selected five hundred elite soldiers, a total of 2,000, followed by two generals, to help Gao Taiwei kill thieves." Who are these two generals? One was the head of the 800,000 Forbidden Army, with the commander of the Left Yiwei Pro-Army and escorted general Qiu Yue; the other was the deputy head of the 800,000-strong Forbidden Army, with the commander of the Right Righteous Guard's Pro-Army, and the General Zhou Ang. ”
Qiu Yue and Zhou Ang were Gao Taiwei's confidants, "accumulating Qigong, famous overseas, deeply proficient in martial arts, weizhen jingshi". As soon as Qiu Yue came on the field, he was knocked out of 4 teeth by the stones thrown by Zhang Qing, a featherless arrow, and then killed by Yang Lin, the golden leopard, while directing the water battle. Zhou Ang's strength was higher than Qiu Yue's, defeated Zhang Qing, saved Qiu Yue, and fought with Lu Junyi in the subsequent water battle.
Wang Wenbin appears in the eighty-eighth episode of "Water Margin" "Yan Tongjun Array Mixed Celestial Elephant, Song Gongming Dream Teaching Xuannu Law": "The head of the 800,000 forbidden army guns and sticks of the imperial court is being trained by the Zhengzhou regiment, surnamed Wang, double name Wen Bin. This humanistic and martial artist, admired by the Manchu Dynasty, will take more than 10,000 people from the Beijing Division, lift up the vehicles of the people, escort the clothes and 500,000 collars, and go to the Song vanguard army to deliver..."
Wang Wenbin, like Lin Chong, was the head of the 800,000-strong forbidden army. At that time, The good Han of Liangshan coordinated with the Song army to resist the liao invasion and fought a decisive battle with the Liao army in Youzhou. The Liao army put up a Taiyi mixed celestial array, which made the good Han of Liangshan and the Song army suffer a lot. At this time, Wang Wenbin was ordered to send clothes to the Song Army. After Completing his mission, Wang Wenbin, in order to show his ability to go into battle to attack the Liao army's Taiyi Mixed Celestial Array, was cleared by the Fan general Qu Li in the formation, "shoulders and chests, cut into two pieces, and died under the horse."
It seems that most of the eight hundred thousand forbidden army leaders in "Water Margin" are not very good.
[References: Water Margin, etc.]