"Water Margin" is well known, the name of "Water Margin First Man" has been debated for a long time, today we are talking about the first person in water margin combat strength, even Lu Junyi, Wu Song, Lin Chong, Lu Zhishen, and even Yue Fei are his apprentices.
This person, called Zhou Tong, a master of northern martial arts and a representative of the Shaanxi Hongquan martial arts school, is known as "Iron Arm Zhou Dong". The young Man Learned Martial Arts, who is said to be a descendant of Jiang Wei of the Three Kingdoms, later worshiped the Shaolin martial artist Tan Zhengfang as a teacher, and obtained the true transmission of Shaolin martial arts. As an adult, he was appreciated by Bao Zheng, joined the army as an officer, and later served as a teacher at the Imperial Boxing Gymnasium of the Beijing Division. The Royal Boxing Hall has three seats for heaven and earth people, and Zhou Tong is the teacher of the word "heaven", with the most respected status and the highest martial arts. Founded five steps thirteen gun poke foot, developed from Shaolin flip boxing, as well as Zhou Dong stick and so on.
So, why is Zhou Dong the first person in water margin combat strength, we can see from several of his disciples how his strength is.
During his time at the Royal Boxing Gym, Zhou Dong officially accepted two apprentices, one was the Jade Qilin Lu Junyi, and the other was the leopard head Lin Chong.
The appearance of the eldest apprentice Lu Junyi is the appearance of a rich and rich gentleman, but we see how Shi Nai'an describes Yu Qilin as "the first in the horse infantry army, the invincible hand in the zhang'er steel gun, and the two supergroups in talent and martial arts", and the appearance is to explain that "the art of sticks is invincible in the world" and watch shi Wengong be captured alive; the fight is not counted; the chaotic army captures Bian Xiang, defeats and captures Sun An; the four generals are forced to fight, and du Is killed; Pick and kill Li Tianyan, force Si Xingfang to die, only one round to chop Fang Yuan, and capture He Conglong alive. All of the above are first-class or even super-first-class martial artists, and they only have the share of being caught alive and dead in front of Lu Junyi. Guan Sheng, Hu Yanzhuo, Xu Ning, Suo Chaozhuan, and other four people who were fighting yelü Zongyun, Zong Dian, Zong Lei, and Zong Lin were also captured alive when they fought lu Junyi alone. The Flying Dragon General Feng Mei, who was tied with Zhu Tong, was captured alive by Lu Junyi, which showed the terrifying combat strength of the personnel. What's more, just the class Yanqing he taught could see how Lu Yuanwai's martial arts were just by relying on the wrestling skill.
Looking at the second disciple Lin Chong, the leader of the eighty-hundred-thousand forbidden army needless to say, looking at the battle record, thirty times without fighting Yang Zhi; ten hesheng captured one Zhangqing; DouHu Yanzhuo did not distinguish between victory and defeat; wang huan seventy or eighty combinations did not distinguish between victory and defeat; Doushan Shiqi seventy or eighty combinations did not distinguish between victory and defeat; Dou Ni Lin's twenty or twenty combinations did not distinguish between victory and defeat, Lin Chong stabbed Ni Lin with a spear; Liu Yuan's fifty-odd combination was not divided, and he attacked Liu Yuan and Pan Zhong, and stabbed Liu Yuan with a loud spear. It can be said that it has not tasted defeat, and more often it is a draw with super first-class masters.
The third disciple, Shi Wengong, was expelled from the division because of the mental misconduct. Yu Zengtou City as a teacher, skilled in bow horses, martial arts world-class. Twenty defeats of Qin Ming, almost gun Qin Ming under the horse, his apprentices, the Five Tigers of the Zeng family, also have great strength. In particular, Zeng Tu, the son of Zeng's family, defeated Lü Fang for more than thirty years, and beat Lü Fang and Guo Sheng, but instead of losing the upper hand, he almost killed the two of them. It can be seen that Shi Wengong is extremely strong.
Zhou Tong's anonymous apprentice is Wu Song, and Wu Song is Zhou Tong, who is the art teacher, and the process of worshiping the teacher is all "chance". Zhou Tong had been Wu Song's master for only a month, pointing out a set of dragon knives, double knives and a set of footwork for Wu Song. Later, in Wu Song's "Drunken Beating of Jiang Men Shen", "Blood Splashed Mandarin Duck Building" and "One-Armed Capture Fang La", the jade ring step and Mandarin duck leg used by Wu Song were also skills taught by Zhou Tong.
Zhou Tong also had an anonymous apprentice, Lu Zhishen, who was recommended by Elder Zhizhen to guard the vegetable garden at the Daxiangguo Temple in the capital. Zhou Tong was practicing zen staff with Lu Zhishen when he passed by the vegetable garden, Zhou Tong turned over and entered the vegetable garden to have a discussion with him, and lu Zhishen was defeated by Zhou Tong several times after more than ten rounds. Subsequently, Lu Zhishen was deeply pleased and sincerely received zhou Tong's guidance for several hours, and later Lu Zhishen repeatedly practiced according to Zhou Tong's way, and his martial arts became more refined.
Zhou Tong's disciple was the famous national hero Yue Fei, and the Biography of Yue Fei of song mentions that Yue Fei's maternal grandmother, Yang Shi, asked an eleven-year-old warrior named Chen Guang to instruct the eleven-year-old Yue Fei in marksmanship. But he was surprised to find that Yue Fei had mastered it in two years. So Zhou Dong was invited to teach him bow skills. "Learn to shoot with Zhou Tong, do your best, you can shoot left and right." It can be seen from this that Zhou Dong is most famous for his archery skills, and it is Yue Fei who has been truly transmitted on this road, which has also laid a solid foundation for Yue Fei to build a meritorious career.
In addition, even Sun Li, the "Sick Lieutenant Chi", who only learned Zhou Tong's one-trick "Refreshing Gun", was also superior in combat strength. It can be seen that Zhou Tong's name as the first person in the Water Margin combat strength is well deserved.
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