The central villain in this novel starts out as a street urchin, but he befriends government officials and becomes prime minister of the Song court.
At one point in this work, a man kills a musician after the latter slaps his mother. Later, Lone Dragon Mountain is assaulted and two of the main characters are dismembered during fighting against imperial forces, even though their earlier attack on the Liao Tartars had been successful. The central villain in this novel starts out as a street urchin, but he befriends government officials and becomes prime minister of the Song court. That villain, Gao Qiu, leads five military expeditions against a group of 108 men whose activities center in and around Mount Liang and who are led by Song Jiang. FTP, identify this classic Chinese novel about bandits living in a swamp.
At one point in this work, a man kills a musician after the latter slaps his mother.
Outlaws of the Marsh or The Water Margin or All Men are Brothers or Shuihu Zhuan