The martial monks of the Shaolin Temple are very famous, but the battlefield records are well, and some of them can't get their hands on it. The so-called thirteen stick monks saved the Tang King was originally only a Shaolin Temple monk who had participated in the capture of Wang Renze himself, and had no impact on the Battle of Tiger Prison Pass. The Shaolin Temple has also participated in battles such as the Anti-Wu, but they are not MVPs on the battlefield, and they have not beheaded thousands of enemies, and their combat strength is really far worse than that of the Christian monks who appear below.
Christianity was also the earliest religion of self-proclaimed peace, with the monks initially offering the knights with the output of the monastery and the creed of fighting for God for the knights. But in the chaotic world, there were always many knights and lords who were unruly, and more pagans specialized in using monasteries as ATMs, so the Christian church began to absorb a large number of nobles without inheritance rights to join (they did not suffer at all, before the 11th century, more than half of the british church had children, many popes also had N mistresses and illegitimate children), the king and the emperor did not bother to turn many lords who were good at cutting people into bishops, and a large number of knights joined the church during the Crusades to become monks wearing armor. Medieval European monasteries and bishops were also full of martial arts, far more than the Shaolin Temple.
The first to make a name for themselves in the Middle Ages were the German bishops, and in the ninth century AD, two bishops led the charge with the nomadic warriors of the Magyars, spilling blood on the battlefield. At the Battle of Lechfeld on 10 August 955, the Germans decisively defeated Magyar, and the one who rushed to the front of the German knights and slashed the most fiercely was the Bishop of Augsburg, who was appointed by Otto the Great after the battle. The German bishops not only participated in the battle against foreign invasions, but also were the most powerful feudal lords in Germany, and had close relations with the German emperor, who often asked them to finance the invasion when he entered Italy, and in 1136 Lothair attacked the Italian german bishops to provide 70% of the total strength.
The Bishops of Germany could fight, and the bishops of England and France could not. William the Conqueror had a very capable bishop brother, "Bade of Bayoux", who was the bishop of Bayeux in Normandy, who "wielded a mallet spear in place of a tomahawk" and participated in the Battle of Hastings, where he excelled in battle. After the war, when William returned to his hometown of Normandy, "The Ode of Bayonne" was one of the two regents of England, often leading troops to suppress Saxon resistance. The "Ode of Bayonne" was unkind to his peers and did not give any mercy to the Saxon monasteries, and took the initiative to participate in his brother's cause of "plundering all the monasteries in England", and strove to replace the British missionaries with Normandy missionaries.
The French army in the Middle Ages won the largest proportion in Europe, and their monks were also very good at fighting. In the largest knightly melee of the Middle Ages, the MVP of the French side was the Bishop of Bovas. The dude found the Earl of Shrewsbury," William the Longsword, in the battle of the day, and knocked him off his horse with a long wooden stick in a one-on-one head-to-head. William the Sword was the illegitimate son of Henry II, the brother of John the Lionheart and the Landless King, and although not as famous as his brother Richard, he was also the first-class knight master in England, commanding the English knights and john's high-priced mercenaries, and was the supreme commander of the British army. Bishop Bovas's record is equivalent to that of Li Shimin and Wang Shichong in the great war, and the abbot of the Shaolin Temple personally captured Wang Shichong, who was a true master of the First World War.
Eastern Europe also had particularly capable bishops and friars, such as the Ber in Hungary. Archbishop Dumoni had the ability to defeat the Ottoman invasions many times; the most prominent protagonist in the Battle of Kulikovo was the monk Alexander Perezwirt from the Sergei Holy Trinity Monastery, who performed a one-on-one stand-up performance with a warrior of the Golden Horde, and both were killed in battle, inspiring the Rus' courage to resist. In the war of european nations, the monastery was also an important fortress, and the monks of the monastery could even directly change the outcome of the war, in 1655 the Swedish army took the Polish capital Warsaw, including the "Polish lion" Sobieski, the Polish nobles surrendered, it was Yasna-Góra Monastery under the leadership of the abbot to repel the Polish army and save Poland.
The biggest feudal force in medieval Europe was the church, so it was normal for the church to have far more than the Armed Forces of chinese monasteries, and its combat strength exceeded that of the Shaolin Temple. This is a blessing for Europe, but also an unfortunate one.