How powerful is Zhou Tong in history? Why can you teach the four masters of Liangshan, as well as the national hero Yue Fei?
In the Water Margin, the martial artist who has never appeared but has a great reputation should be Zhou Tong's elder. In the Water Margin, Zhou Tong had at least four apprentices, all of whom were well-known martial arts masters.
Zhou Tong's apprentice was Lu Junyi, the second chair of Liangshan Po, "Jade Qilin", and it is said in the Water Margin: "The horse infantry is the first to push, the number of heavenly gangs is respected, and the evil stars are descended from the heavens." The eyeballs are like dot paint, and the face is like engraved silver. Zhang'er steel gun invincible, riding fast horse Tengyun, talent and martial arts two superior. Lu Junyi of Liangshan, Jade Qilin of Hebei. ”
Zhou Tong'er's apprentice was the head of the 800,000 Forbidden Army, and the good Han Lin Chong of Liangshan. Lin Chong is one of the five tiger generals in the Water Margin and is a top famous general. The Water Margin says that he was "firmly worn with a treasure-inlaid helmet and heavily cloaked in silver armor." Embroidered branches on the robe of Su Luo, the lion belt Qiong Yao densely built. The spear of the eight snakes was tight, and the frost flower horses were frequently hissing. The mountains are full of xiao Zhang Fei, and the leopard head Lin Chong is. ”
Zhou Tong was once appreciated by Bao Zheng and worked as a teacher at the Imperial Boxing Gym.
Zhou Tong's three disciples were Shi Wengong, the head of the Zengtou City Sect who shot Chao Gai. Shi Wengong once defeated Qin Ming in twenty rounds and is considered to be the top famous player in water margin. As a teacher in Zengtou City, Shi Wengong taught the Five Tigers of the Zeng family, who were highly skilled in martial arts. According to Emperor Daizong, the Five Tigers of the Zeng family vowed to oppose Liangshan and would definitely capture Chao Gai, Song Jiang, and others. Liangshan, who dared to be strong and strong, should not be inferior in martial arts.
There is also a theory that Zhou Tong's three disciples were not Shi Wengong, but Zhujiazhuang's teacher Luan Tingyu. Luan Tingyu is also a super first-class master in the Water Margin. He once fought with Hu Yanzhuo for 30 rounds without winning or losing, and also destroyed the master Kou Zhenyuan in more than 20 rounds. Fang Qiong, Zhang Wei and other generals also died under his tiger's eye steel whip.
If Luan Tingyu was Zhou Tong's apprentice, chi Sun Li, the sick lieutenant, could also be Zhou Tong's apprentice. Because these two people in the Water Margin world did have a master-brother relationship, Sun Li used the division-brother relationship to break into Zhujiazhuang and became an internal response. In fact, Sun Li also took advantage of Zhou Tong's relationship before he was promoted by Zong Ze to the post of Dengzhou Terracotta Warriors and Horses Governor.
Because Sun Li's martial arts skills in the Water Margin Tradition are high, but the ranking is too low, many people are reluctant to mention his shimen inheritance. Maybe it was because of Luan Tingyu's involvement?
Among the Heroes of the Water Margin, there is a saying that "Lin Chong immediately, Wu Song under the horse". Wu Song was the first to fight, and it is said that he learned the martial arts of Zhou Tong. Wu Song's killer mandarin duck leg may have come from Zhou Tong's teacher. Later, Wu Song taught his good friend Shi En the skill of Mandarin duck legs.
Of course, Zhou Tong's most famous apprentice was his closed disciple Yue Fei. Yue Fei learned martial arts here in Zhou Tong, and also befriended Wang Gui and four other brothers, and several of them joined the army together to defend their families and defend the country, creating the most powerful army in Chinese history, the Yue Family Army.
Zhou Tong not only taught Yue Fei martial arts such as archery, fists and feet, but also taught Yue Fei the method of platooning troops. Perhaps it was because of Zhou Tong's teachings that Yue Fei could go from an ordinary soldier to the supreme military commander of the Great Song Dynasty. In books such as Yue Quanchuan, Yue Fei was very grateful to Zhou Tong for his teachings and often went to visit his grave.
However, in the canonical records, there are too few records about Zhou Tong. It is only in the "Biography of Yue Fei" that Yue Fei once "learned to shoot at Zhou Tong, did his best, and could shoot left and right." With death, Shuowang set up sacrifices on his tomb'''.
Folk literature works such as Water Margin highly respect Zhou Tong, probably because of Yue Fei's great contribution to the Han nation!