Is “The official history focuses on his political struggles due to exclusion, while the novel fictionalizes his personal involvement in front-line deployment” true?
based on fact
As a historical figure, the Records of the Grand Historian? Actually, the History of Song, in the biography of Han Shizhong, records the real confrontation: 'Shizhong initially wanted to kill all the people of Jian, but Li Gang rushed from Fuzhou to see Shizhong and said, "The people of Jian are mostly innocent."' However, in the novel The Story of Yue Fei, Chapter 37, he becomes a stereotyped character: 'Li Gang called out, "Wait a moment."
Li Gang
Li Gang's rise and fall at court and his involvement at the front
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