吴用天机星 · 3
Leaf 3 of the marsh · 智多星 Resourceful Strategist
Wu Yong 吴用
In Water Margin 水滸傳 (c. 1400) · rank 3 of the 108 Stars · nicknamed 智多星 “Resourceful Strategist”
The schoolmaster who never threw a punch and won most of the war.
The great deeds 大事記
- ch. 15
The Drugged Wine Takes the Convoy
智取生辰綱Monsoon heat and one cart of drugged wine take the birthday convoy without a blow being struck.
- ch. 66
The Lantern Siege of Daming
燈節破北京Daming fortress is opened from inside a lantern festival he staged.
- ch. 81
The Borrowed Brush and Name
借筆議招安He negotiates the amnesty in the capital with a borrowed brush and a borrowed name.
結局 The ending
He hanged himself under the trees at Song Jiang's grave; Hua Rong came to mourn and hanged from the same branch. The pen that moved an army could not arrange its own last afternoon.
The book itself: how it ends, and who was left — The ending