Song Jiang Wisely Takes Wuwei Army; Zhang Shun Captures Huang Wenbing Alive

This lyric is titled Nian Nu Jiao and was written by Su Dongpo of the Northern Song in memory of the Red Cliff. At the end of the Eastern Han, the realm was divided among Wei, Shu, and Wu. Cao Cao led a million troops by land and water. Zhou Yu used fire, Zhuge Liang borrowed the great wind, and a great battle was fought by the Yangtze, dyeing the river red and piling corpses like hills. Why begin with this old matter? It is to contrast with the story before us. Now, in the White Dragon Temple outside Jiangzhou city, the Liangshan heroes had just gathered together after raiding the execution ground and rescuing Song Jiang and Dai Zong. Chao Gai, Hua Rong, Huang Xin, Lü Fang, Guo Sheng, Liu Tang, Yan Shun, Du Qian, Song Wan, Zhu Gui, Wang Ying, Zheng Tianshou, Shi Yong, Ruan the Second, Ruan the Fifth, Ruan the Seventh, and Bai Sheng—seventeen men in all—brought with them eighty or ninety fierce young underlings. From the Xunyang River came Zhang Shun, Zhang Heng, Li Jun, Li Li, Mu Hong, Mu Chun, Tong Wei, Tong Meng, and Xue Yong—nine heroes with more than forty......