徐宁天祐星 · 18
Leaf 18 of the marsh · 金枪手 Golden Lancer
Xu Ning 徐宁
In Water Margin 水滸傳 (c. 1400) · rank 18 of the 108 Stars · nicknamed 金枪手 “Golden Lancer”
The imperial instructor whose family armour was the price of his freedom.
The great deeds 大事記
- ch. 56
Kidnapped for a Coat of Armour
湯隆賺徐寧Kidnapped by his own cousin over a stolen heirloom armour, he wakes up on the mountain.
- ch. 57
The Hook-Spear Taught to Liangshan
鉤槍破馬He teaches Liangshan the hook-spear that breaks the linked horses in a single morning.
- ch. 118
The Poisoned Arrow at Muzhou
箭殞睦州A poisoned arrow at Muzhou ends him in the last month of the war.
結局 The ending
A poisoned arrow at Hangzhou, and he died on the boat going home. The mountain had stolen him from his family to teach its men how to beat the very armour he wore; the last enemy he trained against was the one that killed him.
The book itself: how it ends, and who was left — The ending