Text: Dutou Yun Ge (author's original authorization)
Previously, the author and everyone read the 127th time in the "Lang Kou Zhi" ("Water Margin" sequel, written by Yu Wanchun in the Qing Dynasty), Yun Tianbiao attacked Laiwu, song Jiang fought with it at Tianchang Mountain, and as a result, Liangshan Shijin and Liu Tang were defeated, and the two were captured alive. Today we continue to read the 128th time of the "Dang Kou Zhi", "The water attack plan Zhu Junshi will be captured, and the wheel war martial practitioners will be exhausted" to see how the follow-up development is.
Synopsis: Yun Tianbiao sent Li Cheng to attack the Song Jiang army that was camped under tianchang Mountain, at first Song Jiang insisted on not fighting, but was insulted by Li Cheng, and finally decided to send Li Zhong and Cao Zheng to lure the enemy, and Lu Zhishen killed Li Cheng. But unexpectedly, Li Zhong and Cao Zheng killed the red eye, and as a result, Cao Zheng was killed, Li Zhong was captured alive, and Song Jiang's plan failed. Li Cheng, seeing that Lu Da was strong in martial arts, asked Yun Tianbiao for support, yun Tianbiao sent the Wind Society forward, and then the two armies fought, Li Cheng took Song Jiang directly, but was killed by Lu Da's Zen staff, but Li Cheng's body still rode forward on horseback, Liangshan was defeated, and Song Jiang and Lu Da fled back to Tai'an. Yun Tianbiao and others surrounded Laiwu, but under Zhu Wu's defense for a long time, Song Jiang sent Ruan Sanxiong to support Laiwu from the waterway, the result was that Ruan Xiao'er's light enemies were captured alive, Ruan Xiaowu, Ruan Xiaoqi and the officials confronted at the Wen River, Yun Tianbiao invited Liu Lin from Yanzhou to help Ouyang Shoutong, and finally Liu Huiniang successfully captured Ruan Xiaowu alive with a water underspring cannon, Ruan Xiaoqi was also captured by Ouyang Shoutong and Liu Lin, liu Huiniang proposed to flood Laiwu with the wen river, and finally Laiwu was breached, and Zhu Wu and others were captured alive. Yun Tianbiao sent Fu Yu and Wen Da to lead the troops to retake Tai'an, before that Bi Yingyuan, Pang Yi, and others had already confronted Wu Song and Hu Yanqi at Qinfeng Mountain, Hu Yanqi went down the mountain and surrendered, Bi Yingyuan borrowed his armor to pretend to be Liangshan soldiers, Tang Meng and Pang Yi captured Qin Fengshan, at this time Fu Yu and Wen Da also arrived, and Wu Song fought with Pang Yi, Tang Meng, and Wen Da wheels, and finally died of exhaustion. Song Jiang learned of the loss of Laiwu and Qin Fengshan in Tai'an, and consulted with the people, abandoned Tai'an, and retreated to Liangshan. On the way, he heard that Wu Song was at Basong Mountain, so he turned back to Tai'an, learned that Wu Song was dead, buried him, and then prepared to withdraw, only to be pursued by the officers, with only more than 10,000 people left, and when passing through Yanzhou, they were intercepted by the officers and soldiers.
(Illustration of song jiang's death at the end of the Qing Dynasty when he saw Wu Song exhausted his strength and died in the late Qing Dynasty' "Dang Kou Zhi")
DuTou said: This is the time when Liangshan completely lost the three cities of Tai'an, after this return, the eastern barrier of Liangshan was completely lost, and the base camp Liangshan was completely exposed to the eastern Yun Tianbiao, Liu Guang and other officials and troops. In addition to the strategic blow, the most painful thing for readers is that a series of heavyweight good men in Liangshan have ended one by one with the loss of the three cities of Tai'an, as mentioned earlier, Hua Rong, Shi Jin, Liu Tang, etc. This time similar fate finally fell to good men such as Ruan Sanxiong and Wu Song. We have said before that Yu Wanchun, the author of "Dang Kou Zhi", likes to let the good man of Liangshan eventually fall on his most proud skill, before Hua Rong was shot to death is an example, this time the author continues this stroke, so that Ruan Xiaowu and Ruan Xiaoqi, the elders of the Liangshan Water Army, are captured alive in the water, and the most embarrassing and indignant thing is that the tiger hero Wu Song in the original book finally suffered a wheel battle and died, which is difficult for readers who read "Dang Kou Zhi" for the first time, as for how the author treats the character of Wu Song, We will talk about it in detail below, but let's first look at the historical allusions involved in this review.
There is only one allusion involved in this return, when Hu Yanqi went down the mountain to surrender, Bi Yingyuan was ready to let him remove his armor for the use of the officers and troops, Hu Yanqi was stunned: "Hu Yanqi surrendered today, and he was sincere, and he was only ordered by Xiang Gong." With that, he removed his armor and bow and knife together. Fan Jinmen commented here that "Guan Sheng and Hu Yan Burn Armor, Ying Yuan take Hu Yan Qi Armor." Hu Yanzhuo is not trustworthy and believed, Hu Yanzhuo does not have to doubt it, and its unevenness is also there. To make Yun Tianbiao in this place must have his own way of pushing his heart and placing his belly, not like the use of Ying Yuan's technique. However, Ying Yuanquan succeeded in his skill, Guan sheng Tan Yi was able to trap a thief, and he was good at learning Liu Xia Hui Mo Ru Lu man, and Ying Yuan was then able to wind it. The deeds of Liu Xia Hui and Lu Men are recorded in the "Book of Poetry", Liu Xia Hui was a Lu country man in the Spring and Autumn Period, according to legend, on a cold night, he met a homeless woman, Liu Xia Hui was afraid that she would freeze to death, told her to sit in her arms, unwrapped her coat and wrapped her tightly, sat together for one night, and did not commit indecent acts, which is the origin of "sitting with no chaos". Lu man is the Spring and Autumn Lu people Yan Shuzi, legend has it that he once lived alone in a room, a woman asked to stay a day, Yan Shuzi lit candles and torches all night to avoid suspicion, posterity believes that Lu man and Liu Xiahui, is a person who sits in disorder and has high moral character. Here, Fan Jinmen compared Hu Yanqi's true surrender to Bi Yingyuan with Hu Yan's false surrender to Guan Sheng, and believed that although Bi Yingyuan did not treat the surrender general as frankly as Yun Tianbiao, but used power to envelop him, he finally succeeded in surrendering Hu Yanyuan, which was much smarter than Guan Sheng, who blindly trusted people, so Bi Yingyuan's approach was also worth affirming and learning.
After talking about the allusions, let's talk about the highlight of this episode , "The Death of Wu Song". Wu Song, as the famous tiger fighting hero in the original book of "Water Margin", is one of the well-known good men in Liangshan, and the talented son Jin Shengsi is even praised as "Heavenly Man". As a fan of Jin Shengsi, Yu Wanchun of course knows the weight of Wu Song, so in the "Dang Kou Zhi" with words such as "the first divine power of the Pingsheng Tianzi", "the greatest strength, the most delicate mind" and other words to praise Wu Song, seeing this, some readers may think that Wu Song is a special case in "Dang Kou Zhi", and even the author does not dare to do anything with him. In fact, it is too naïve to think so, if we carefully analyze Wu Song's encounters and performances in the whole book, we will find that Yu Wanchun is only secretly "black" Wu Song, which can be seen from several aspects.
First, the book uses the word "thief" many times to refer to Wu Song. For example, during the Battle of Anle Village, Yun Tianbiao was not in a hurry, exerted his divine might, and fought against the two thieves (referring to Wu Song and Di Lei). When Xian'e Town was assassinated, Chen Xizhen shouted, "This is the Liangshan thief Wu Song, Hugh let him go!" ”
The second is that the characters in the book joke about Wu Song. During the Battle of Mengyin, Chen Liqing said, "I'm afraid he'll do even more!" He'll hit tigers, I'll hit tiger people. In addition, in order to suppress Wu Song, the author specially designed a character Tang Meng to compete with it, and wrote a story of Tang Meng's capture of the divine leopard, during the Battle of Qin Fengshan, Tang Meng even ridiculed Wu Song: "You don't panic, my surname is Tang." The leopard is the king of the tigers, and if you beat the tiger and I fight the leopard, I will still be strong. ”
Third, Wu Song's martial arts were restricted. In the book, Wu Song never killed an officer and army general head-on, and the battle record that he could get was to join forces with Lu Zhishen and Li Kui to beat Wang Tianba to death by serious injuries and vomiting blood. He slashed Ateyi's right shoulder alone, causing him to lose all his martial arts, but he failed to take the head. In addition, Wu Song was also scratched and captured by the flying knife of the Sorghum clan in Zhaojia Village, and was later redeemed by Song Jiang with a golden bead to avoid death.
Fourth, Wu Song's character has been invisibly reduced. After the assassination of Chen Xizhen failed in Xian'e Town, Wu Song and Shi Qian retreated together, and in the original text, Kang Jie chased after the two alone, and later Kang Jie said to Xi Zhen: "I went up to wa to look around, saw this thief and a big man, and went with Pingyang after leaving the house." Rushing to catch up, the big man slipped away, ate him and left, only to catch the thief back. That is to say, Wu Song and Shi Qian faced Kang Jie alone, and they did not dare to fight back. To know that Kang Jie is just a divine skill, its martial arts compared to Wu Song is not a grade at all, close combat is not an opponent at all, coupled with the help of Shi Qian, it is very possible for the two to kill Kang Jie, and Wu Song left Shi Qian to escape alone, which is simply a slippery slope.
Seeing this, some readers may say that although Yu Wanchun was "black" Wu Song, he arranged for him to be saved by the strange wind before his death, "quite sticky and angry, mighty and majestic" and died, not killed, quite high treatment, and was considered the first person among the one hundred and eight good men in Liangshan. For this idea, we may wish to look at the criticism in the text again. When Wu Song was about to be unable to stop Wen Da, Yang Tian sighed, "My Wu Er has been upright all his life, but I didn't expect to die like this today." Fan Jinmen commented [Miao, a life of integrity four words, the author of the self-expression, pardon Wu Song's whole corpse meaning.] When Song Jiang called Wu Song should not, he pressed his face closely, cold as ice, and Fang knew that he was already dead. Fan Jinmen commented again, "Wu Song is gone." Writing about the death of Wu Song is very imposing. Fang Wu looked back on Li Cheng's death and contributed to the description, especially for this reason. The author of Gai did not want Wu Song to die suddenly, so he would contribute to describing the might of his death in order to claim the prequel. But there are such people among the thieves, who can be officers and soldiers without any care? It is a close-up of a Li Cheng to suppress it also. It can be seen from the criticism that although the original author wrote that Wu Song was "angry and angry and mighty" before his death, he arranged at the beginning of this return for a Li Cheng who was killed by Lu Da and his body was still riding on a horse to defeat the Liangshan army. Afterwards, the author also borrowed Yun Tianbiao's mouth and sighed: "This person is strong, and he is still dead!" "So what kind of person is this Li Cheng in the book?" It was he who was captured by Liangshan and surrendered and sneaked in to kill his former friend Yang Zhi, a blue-faced beast. Before his death, the author used Tang Meng, who could only catch the leopard with the help of others, to suppress Wu Song, who single-handedly killed the tiger. After his death, the author arranged for a perfidious person like Li Cheng to suppress the upright Wu Song for a lifetime, and his inner intentions were self-evident.