索超天空星 · 19
Leaf 19 of the marsh · 急先锋 Impatient Vanguard
Suo Chao 索超
In Water Margin 水滸傳 (c. 1400) · rank 19 of the 108 Stars · nicknamed 急先锋 “Impatient Vanguard”
The Impatient Vanguard, who always went through the gate first.
The great deeds 大事記
- ch. 13
The Draw That Won the Post
北京鬥武He fights Yang Zhi to a draw for a place in Daming's drill hall, and wins the post anyway.
- ch. 64
Taken in a Snow Pit
雪坑被擒Taken in a snow pit outside the same city he defended, he joins the mountain that dug it.
- ch. 114
First Through the Hangzhou Gate
杭州先登He went through the gate first at Hangzhou, as always, and the gate kept him.
結局 The ending
Struck down at Hangzhou in the open field, first into the charge as always. He was still impatient at the end, which is the only thing the book has ever said about him that its readers would dispute.
The book itself: how it ends, and who was left — The ending