In "Water Margin", in addition to hand-to-hand combat, the heroes of the rivers and lakes who lick the blood from the knife edge and the officers and generals who fight on the battlefield often master some unique "stunts", such as the more common bows and arrows. These auxiliary means sometimes play a greater role in the battle than their own martial arts, and there are many masters of this way in the book, and the power is foolish to think that the following ten will be the most.
Yunzhou people's clan, good at making muddy iron point steel guns, hiding five flying knives on their backs, can take people in 100 steps, and are haunted, known as "Fighting the Sky Eagle". This is the owner of Lijiazhuang in Dulonggang, and Zhujiazhuang and Hujiazhuang formed a three-village alliance to advance and retreat together, but because of the housekeeper Du Xing (Yang Xiong is kind to Du Xing) to repair the book Zhujiazhuang to move from time to time, was refused, so he turned against Zhu Biao, the two fought, and finally Li Ying was injured by Zhu Biao's hidden arrow. However, this reflects Li Ying's little-known extraordinary bravery, and it only took seventeen or eighteen to make Zhu Biao, the strongest of the three heroes of the Zhu family, unstoppable, and this ability is not much better than the five tigers and eight biaos.
Although the book specifically describes Li Ying's elusive flying knife, there are not many specific performances, only the killing of Wu Yingxing, the general of the Southern Army, with a flying knife during the Southern Expedition to Fangla, which may be related to the fact that he served as the deputy chief of money and grain most of the time.
Originally a Ti jurisdiction, skilled in arching and horses, forced by Gu's sister-in-law, had to give up the future and fall into Caoliangshan. On the surface, he seems to be the boss of the Dengzhou faction, but in fact, I have always felt that Sister-in-law Gu has more say than him, of course, if there is no conflict, Sister-in-law Gu will not tear down the platform of the eldest uncle, after all, they still need Sun Li to support the façade.
Sun Li has at least two displays of bows and arrows in the book, one is when he was in charge of the big rebellion against Dengzhou, covering everyone to be responsible for the break, and holding back the pursuers with a bow in his hand, so that no one on the other side dared to approach; Later, in the battle of Liao, he and Kou Zhenyuan staged the most exciting heads-up battle in the book, and finally killed him. Of course, although Sun Li won this battle, his archery skills were not better than Kou Zhenyuan's, and he was able to kill the enemy general, all thanks to his witty mind and rich combat experience.
In fact, there are many generals who are good at shooting in the book, after all, bows and arrows are compulsory courses for martial artists, but most of them are more described than shown, and there is no actual combat support, so Sun Li was able to stand out and be lucky to be on the list.
Since the death of his parents when he was a child, he was raised by the Lu family, and he was born very handsome, with a graceful posture, embroidery all over his body, proficient in sumo, agile skills, and versatile. At the same time, Yan Qing was born with a seven-trick exquisite heart, and in today's words, her emotional intelligence is extremely high, so whether it is readers or characters in the book, there are few people who don't like Yan Qing.
Unlike most battlefield generals, Yan Qing's martial arts path feels more suitable for walking the rivers and lakes than fighting on the battlefield, he is an extremely intelligent person, and naturally knows how to use his strengths and avoid weaknesses, so he almost never fights with others. In order to adapt to the battlefield, he practiced his crossbow arrows very accurately, not only shot Dong Chao and Xueba when saving Lu Junyi, but also made important contributions in the first battle of Dongchang Mansion, not only shooting Ding Desun, but also shooting Zhang Qing's war horse. You must know that Liang Shan was once beaten by Zhang Qing in this battle, and Yan Qing has somewhat recovered some fields.
A foot general in the Southern Army, born as a blacksmith, is very powerful with six flying knives, although there is not much pen and ink, but the record is excellent, and at least three leaders in Liangshan died because of his flying knives.
First of all, one of the five tiger generals, "Thunderbolt" Qin Ming, originally fought with Fang Jie in full swing, but Du Wei saw that Fang Jie was fighting Qin Ming, so he flashed out from behind the horse, grabbed the flying knife, and threw it in Qin Ming's face. Qin Ming reacted quickly, and hurriedly dodged, although he was not stabbed, he was caught by Fang Jie, and he was stabbed to death under the horse.
In the later battle, Du Wei killed Sun Erniang and Yu Baosi with a flying knife, which is really underestimated.
The daughter of Hu Jiazhuang Hu Taigong, and Zhu Biao of Zhujiazhuang have a marriage contract, when Liangshan attacked Zhujiazhuang, Hu Sanniang led the army to rescue, and the performance was very outstanding.
But most people have misunderstandings about Hu Sanniang's cognition, one is that she is strong in martial arts, and the other is that she is a woman with a lot of character. In fact, Hu Sanniang's melee ability is very average, aside from being captured by Lin Chongsheng, he has no obvious advantage over Ou Peng and Ma Lin, and the general level is the level of the middle of the sixteen Xiao Biao. As for the battle with Hu Yanzhuo against Lily, it was changed blindly by the director of the TV series "New Water Margin".
In addition, Hu Sanniang is not only not an independent woman with a distinct personality, but on the contrary, she is a typical representative of submissiveness. Not to mention the despicable three-inch nail of marrying Wang Ying, when Wang Ying fought against Qiong Ying's heart in the back, not only did he not blame his husband for being cheap, but secretly scolded Qiong Ying "This slut is rude", and he didn't even have a minimum view of right and wrong. And in the whole book, counting this psychological activity, Hu Sanniang's lines are no more than five sentences.
However, it must be admitted that his red cotton lasso is still quite powerful. When Hu Yanzhuo conquered Liangshan, she fought against Peng Xi for 20 times and then left in defeat, and then secretly threw a lasso to capture him alive; When Guan Sheng conquered Liangshan, Hu Sanniang took Hao Siwen by surprise and captured him with a lasso. These two battles not only show that Hu Sanniang's hand is not small, but also can see that she is quite confident in her own ability.
The general Nanli, one of the four generalissimos of the Southern Kingdom, obeyed orders under Fang Tianding, and made a splashing knife, which was once praised by Guan Sheng as not under the knife technique. But in terms of actual performance, this is similar to Guan Yu's statement that Zhang Liao is not under him and Zhang Fei, which is a bit exaggerated. More than ten times have no advantage over Suo Chao, fifty times only let Lu Fang show his defeat, and he still needs a sneak attack to kill Bao Xu, so it can be seen that Shi Bao's hard power has not reached the height of Guan Sheng.
Shi Bao's real strength lies in the fact that he doesn't talk about martial arts, as long as he can win, it doesn't matter to him what kind of means he uses, and the role of the meteor hammer cannot be ignored. Suo Chao, whom we just mentioned, was killed by his flying hammer while chasing Shi Bao. In addition, the brocade tiger Yanshun was also killed by Shi Bao with a hammer head-on, of course, an opponent of such a level, Shi Bao was enough to kill him even if he didn't count with a knife.
A real master of archery, known as "Little Yoyuki". When he ambushed Shi Jin and other six outpost leaders, he made a big fuss about comparing arrows with Hua Rong, and in order to show his means, he shot Shi Jin head-on with an arrow. It is said that although Shi Jin is not the top, he is also the best in Liangshan, and he failed to avoid it when he had sufficient time to prepare, which shows the mastery of Pang Wanchun's archery.
In addition, Pang Wanchun also showed his Lianzhu archery technique, when shooting Ou Peng, the first arrow was held in the hands of the other party, here it is clear that Ou Peng is quite accomplished in this way, but unfortunately he didn't expect Pang Wanchun to play Lianzhu arrows, so that he didn't have time to dodge the second arrow, and was shot dead under the horse.
When he was ten years old, his father was killed by Tian Hu, and his mother Song was taken captive to be the wife of the village. Soon she was also taken captive by Tian Hubu's Wu Li, who loved her beauty and considered her a righteous daughter. After learning about his life experience, he set things right and helped Liangshan break the enemy.
Speaking of which, Qiong Ying's martial arts skills are good, at least a few points higher than the three female leaders of Liangshan, and she once fought against Hu Sanniang and Gu Sister-in-law to join forces and not fall behind. And her most powerful thing is the flying stone method, which was taught by Tianjiexing in a dream, and Zhang Qing and Zhang Qing are also a thousand miles of marriage.
In terms of combat record, except for Wang Ying, who was directly defeated by his martial arts because of his poor ability, several other Liangshan leaders who had fought with him were all defeated by Qiong Ying's flying stones. First, Hu Sanniang was hit in the wrist, and then gave Lin Chong a full face, and then injured Li Kui twice and defeated Xie Bao. If it weren't for Zhang Qing's last move, I am afraid that the Liangshan Army would face the crisis of annihilation again in the fighting generals.
It was originally Qingfeng Zhai Deputy Zhizhai, and a bow crown was unbeatable in the world, so it was called "Little Li Guang". At the same time, because of his good use of silver guns, he is also known as "gold and silver gunners" with Xu Ning.
Hua Rong's martial arts skills are quite outstanding, and his ability to fight Qin Ming is fifty times indistinguishable, it can be said that if Dong Ping hadn't joined Liangshan at the last moment, Hua Rong would definitely become one of the five tiger generals. However, even such an excellent martial art is still overshadowed by his marksmanship.
Arrows shoot Qin Ming's helmet; shoot away the leopard tail Caiqian that Lu Fang and Guo Sheng are entangled; Shooting the third head of the flock of geese is like following the word; shoot down the red light of Zhujiazhuang to guide the way; Gao Tangzhou shot Xue Yuanhui; The Daimyo's Mansion shot and killed the deputy general of the Heavenly King, Li Cheng; Zeng Tou City shot over Zeng Tu; The Northern Expedition to the Great Liao and shot the Liao army general Qiong Demon Nayan; conscription Tian Hu shot Dong Cheng to death; The Battle of Gaizhou shot Fang Qiong, Zhang Xiang, and Yang Duan; shot Feng Yi to death; Nanzheng Fangla shot Wang Ren, Wang Ji, and Chao Zhong to death; Shoot over the treasure light, such as Deng Yuanjue, ......
If it is only about defeating the enemy, Hua Rong should be the undisputed first person in the book.
Zhang Qing has been called "ordinary marksmanship" by the author many times, in fact, in my opinion, it is acceptable, and the strength level of defeating Yan Shun in a few times is barely enough to reach the strength of the Eight Hussars. Of course, the featherless arrow does not rely on this "food", and the flying stone is his "trump card".
When Liangshan conquered Dongchang Mansion, Zhang Qing wounded Hao Siwen in the first battle, and after the arrival of the Song Jiang army, he fought the golden gunner Xu Ning, Jinmao Tiger Yanshun, Baisheng General Han Tao, Tianmu General Peng Xi, Choujun Ma Xuanzan, Double Whip Hu Yanzhuo, Red-haired Ghost Liu Tang, Blue-faced Beast Yang Zhi, Beautiful Bearded Gong Zhu Tong, Winged Tiger Lei Heng, Dadao Guan Sheng, Double Gun General Dong Ping, and Urgent Pioneer Suo Chao. Then in the case of the scheme, he also injured the flower monk Lu Zhishen. For this reason, the heroes of Liangshan once hated Zhang Qing very much, and after he was captured, they were eager to kill him to vent their hatred.
When Gao Yu was defeated three times, Zhang Qing successively injured Wang Wende, the envoy of Hongnong Jiedu in northern Beijing, Mei Zhan, the envoy of Runan Jiedu in Yingzhou, and Qiu Yue, the head of the 800,000 forbidden army; During the conquest of the Liao State, he killed Aliqi and Yelu Guobao, injured the Dongxian Shilang, and scattered the deputy generals around Wu Yanguang, so that he was finally killed by the three generals together; When courting Tian Hu, Zhang Qing injured Zhu Jing and Shan Shiqi, the guards of the pot, subdued Qiong Ying and tied the knot with her; When he conquered Fangla, he overturned the Xuanzhou guard Pan Jun's ......
In general, although Zhang Qing's lethality rate is not as high as Hua Rong's, his generals are higher than Hua Rong in both quantity and quality, and he can be called the "king of middle distance" in the book.
In addition to the above ten generals, there are actually many characters in the book who also have similar means, such as Xiang Chong, Li Gon, etc., but relatively speaking, their descriptions and achievements are slightly inferior, so they miss the "strongest ten".