What is the level of Li Kui's force? This is a topic that has been debated in the Water Margin community for many years. As a super killer, he has a glorious record of killing a tiger's family alone, but as Liangshan's heavenly killer, he can't beat hand-to-hand combat masters like Yan Qing and Jiao Ting in martial arts competitions, so what level is his martial arts?
It is inappropriate to use the word martial arts to describe Li Kui, the correct statement should be force, because his martial arts and skills basically have nothing to do with it, pure strength work, the reason why he can break through the great name in Liangshan is completely because of his strength and physical strength.
Let's talk about strength first, his ** is a double-plate axe, and his plate axe is not the kind of small hand axe, but a large axe similar to a logging axe, but the axe handle is shorter, which is easy to hold. When normal people cut wood, they all use axes in both hands to slash hard, which shows the weight of the axe, while Li Kui wields an axe in one hand like flying, so Li Kui's strength is definitely one of the best in Liangshan.
Speaking of physical strength, there are many scenes that show Li Kui's physical strength in the Water Margin, let's take his performance before and after killing the Four Tigers in Yiling as an example. From the day before I met the tiger, I read the original book and wrote: I ate until the fourth watch that night, arranged some meals, Li Kui ate it, and took advantage of the fifth watch to see the waning moon and the sun to shine, so he went to the village.
What does this mean? Li Kui didn't sleep that night, paying attention to the fact that he didn't sleep, and then set off with her mother overnight and walked for more than two hours on the mountain road with his mother on his back, and finally had the strength to kill the four tigers, which can only be said to be inhuman. You must know that the soldier's weight-bearing training is only 20 kilograms, and Li Kui's mother has 70 or 80 pounds no matter how light she is, and she is walking on a mountain road.
Under the condition that Li Kui's physical strength and strength are known to be amazing, let's go deeper into Li Kui's level of force, let's first take a look at Li Kui's solo performance, first in Jiangzhou and Zhang Shun heads-up. On land, Zhang Shun was not Li Kui's opponent at all, but as soon as he got on the water, as long as he got on the boat, Li Kui suffered a lot in the waves, and he was beaten by Zhang Shun and had no power to fight back.
On the way to pick up his mother, he met Li Ghost who was pretending to be him, and was knocked to the ground by Li Kui in one round. When he was in Yishui County, the Black Whirlwind had a fight with Li Yun, the county capital. In the original text, Li Kui held up the Pu knife to fight Li Yun, and the two fought next to the road, regardless of victory or defeat, but there is an explanation in the book, Li Yun at this time was fed by ***, and his hands and feet were sore.
Li Kui fought against Zhu Tong, because Li Kui was at a loss first, he mutilated the four-year-old Xiao Yanei, thus blaming Zhu Tong and forcing Zhu Tong to go to Liangshan, Zhu Tong angrily carried a knife and wanted to settle accounts with Li Kui, but the two fought for a few rounds, Li Kui ran away, running faster than a rabbit.
In front of Yan Qing, Li Kui still can't get cheap, the original text said that Li Kui came out of the inn to grab the river, with two axes in his hand, and wanted to go to the edge of the city to split the door, Yan Qing hugged his waist and hips, only one fall, his feet burned the sky, Yan Qing got up from the river, and looked at the path to change, Li Kui had to follow him. There was also a heads-up when Li Kui met Jiao Ting when he went down the mountain privately, and after a quarrel, they started to fight, but Li Kui was beaten by Jiao Ting without using a double axe and couldn't find the north.
Among these people who fought against each other, Zhang Shun's land combat level was basically the level of the big-headed soldiers, and Li Ghost was almost at this level, and Zhu Tong was strong as the eight hussars of Liangshan, Yan Qing and Jiao Ting were among the best sumo wrestling masters in the book, and it was understandable that Li Kui couldn't beat them, so the best representative of Li Kui's heads-up level was his battle with the blue-eyed tiger Li Yun.
Li Yun was the capital of Yishui County before going to Liangshan, and he was at least not weak in martial arts to become a first-line capital, like Wu Zhu Tong and Lei Heng, they were all heads before, so it can be inferred that Li Yun's strength is almost at the level of Liangshan Xiaobiao. In other words, just from the level of heads-up teaching skills, Li Kui is also the level of Liangshan Xiaobiao riding. But does Li Kui, a god-killing star, really only have such strength? What is the level of Li Kui's force? What is the basis for supporting him to enter Tiangang?
The first point is his battle instinct, there is no shortage of outlaws in Liangshan, and they are not afraid of death when they fight. So why is only Li Kui able to become Liangshan's big killer? This is because Li Kui is a natural killer, and when fighting, he is often able to make the most correct choice with his instinctive reaction.
For example, when he was killing a tiger, in the face of the tiger's rapid attack, Li Kui was not in a hurry, and took advantage of the tiger's strength to run out, and directly slashed the tiger with a knife in his hand, which did not belong to the category of martial arts, it was completely instinctive reaction. In addition to killing the tiger, when he killed Zhu Long in Zhujiazhuang, he also relied on his amazing combat instinct, when Zhu Long was escaping, he saw the right time and directly cut off Zhu Long's horse leg with an axe, so that Zhu Long fell off the horse and was killed by Li Kui with an axe.
Some people may say that this kind of sneak attack is not a good thing, but this is a misconception, if you can kill the cavalry by sneak attack, the cavalry will not become a nightmare for the infantry. In the face of a high-speed running war horse, it takes not only courage to go up and chop the horse's leg with a short weapon, but also to accurately grasp the timing.
In addition to cutting off the horse's leg this time, Li Kui also cut off the horse's leg of Fang La's general Shi Bao when he was fighting against Fang La, which shows that Li Kui's ability to cut off the horse's leg is not accidental, but his combat intuition. This kind of combat instinct of his allows him to kill the enemy with the highest efficiency in the war, and even his killing efficiency is far higher than that of the Five Tiger Generals.
In addition to the battle intuition, the terrifying killing intent on Li Kui's body is the most terrifying, and it is also the real reason why he became the King of Water Margin. Let's take a look at Li Kui's description of the killing in the book. The first time Li Kui incarnated as a big killer was when he rescued Song Jiang in the Jiangzhou Law Solving Field, he carried Song Jiang on his back, and a swing of the axe was a human life, it stands to reason that he came to save people, and he ran directly behind Song Jiang's back.
But Li Kui's problem of losing his mind as soon as he kills people appears here for the first time, I saw him carrying a board axe, just go to the place with the most people, and cut down people when he sees them, as long as the people in front of him, whether they are people from Liangshan or ordinary people, are the targets of his attack, and they will be killed until the heads of people are rolling.
During the expedition to Fangla, after Li Kui killed Gao Keli, with the cooperation of Bao Xu, Xiang Chong, and Li Gon, he began to kill the Quartet. I saw that the black whirlwind attached Gao Keli's head to his waist, picked up two plate axes, and stretched them out in it without asking about heaven and earth, and killed a thousand horse infantry troops to retreat into the city, and also killed three or four hundred people, and rushed to the side of the suspension bridge. Killed a thousand infantry troops, and also killed 400 people, this record is quite harmful, it is simply a humanoid killing weapon.
It can be seen from these two killings that Li Kui not only does not feel tired when he fights, but will become more and more excited, as if he has inexhaustible strength, this kind of person is a natural killer, so his role in the war is far from being comparable to others in Liangshan.
To sum up, Li Kui's level of force is probably a small soldier in the eyes of a general, a general in the eyes of a small soldier, personal heads-up is not what he is good at, his strongest thing is the fighting instinct against the sky and the terrifying killing intent.