关胜天勇星 · 5
Leaf 5 of the marsh · 大刀 Great Blade
Guan Sheng 关胜
In Water Margin 水滸傳 (c. 1400) · rank 5 of the 108 Stars · nicknamed 大刀 “Great Blade”
Guan Yu's descendant, who came to destroy the mountain and stayed to lead its vanguard.
The great deeds 大事記
- ch. 63
Siege Answered with Siege
大刀征梁山Sent to crush Liangshan, he answers siege with siege and nearly ends the war in a month.
- ch. 64
Rope-Hooks from the Water
水軍賺大刀A feigned retreat and rope-hooks from the water take him; Song Jiang cuts his cords and offers him his own seat.
結局 The ending
Given a garrison command after the amnesty, he drank, fell from his horse, and died of the fall. The book keeps the line short: a general's death in a courtyard, with no enemy in it.
The book itself: how it ends, and who was left — The ending