One afternoon in the autumn of 1941, Xu Shiyou, the commander of the Eighth Route Army, came to Qingshan Village in Jiaodong with several cadres and guards and visited Gong Baotian, a martial arts master. Gong Bao Tian Yuan was a master of Ouchi in the late Qing Dynasty, and served as a bodyguard for the Empress Dowager Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor in the imperial palace. On this day, he performed wonderful Bagua boxing and knife techniques for Xu Shiyou, and the scene was thrilling, and the audience was dumbfounded. Just when everyone was amazed by Gong Baotian's martial arts, Xu Shiyou suddenly said: "Look at me!" Then he also showed some amazing martial arts, what happened to the amazing scene?
Gong Baotian's martial arts roots
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a low-key hermit-like figure in the martial arts, and he was Gong Baotian. Gong Baotian was poor since he was a child, but he was gifted and intelligent, and when he was 6 years old, he was taken by a martial artist and accepted as an apprentice to start practicing martial arts. His master was Dong Haichuan, a well-known master in the martial arts at that time, Dong Haichuan not only had profound internal skills, but also was good at internal boxing techniques such as Bagua boxing and Tai Chi.
Gong Baotian has followed Dong Haichuan for more than ten years, studied hard, and finally learned the essence of Bagua Boxing. Dong Haichuan admired Gong Baotian's qualifications very much, and before his death, he taught him his painstaking work "Bagua Boxing". With this boxing book as a guide, Gong Baotian's martial arts were refined again, and the Bagua Boxing was brought into full play.
However, Bagua Boxing alone is not enough. Gong Baotian also devoted himself to studying the boxing method of Shaolin Temple, integrating the essence of Baguazhang and Shaolin boxing, and created a "Bagua Swimming Chain". This boxing technique is both rigid and soft, attacking and retreating, moving like lightning, changing thousands of times, and can be called the pinnacle of martial arts in the world.
With his extraordinary martial arts, Gong Baotian quickly became famous. During the Xianfeng period, he was recruited into the palace and served as the head of the royal martial arts, responsible for teaching the martial arts of the royal children. Later, he was exceptionally promoted and became the last chief of the internal guards of the Qing Dynasty, specializing in the guard work of the Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu.
During his tenure in the palace, Gong Baotian's martial arts were highly appreciated. Once, the Empress Dowager Cixi watched him practice Bagua Boxing, praised him, and personally inscribed the four big characters of "Wandering Bagua" for him, which shows the high level of his martial arts. Emperor Guangxu also ordered Gong Baotian to teach Bagua Boxing to the crown prince and imperial grandchildren, hoping that they could carry forward the martial arts like Gong Baotian.
Gong Baotian performs stunts
On that autumn day in 1941, when Xu Shiyou and his entourage came to Qingshan Village, Gong Baotian was practicing kung fu on the martial arts training ground in his backyard. Seeing that the brigade commander of the Eighth Route Army, who had been known for a long time, came to the door in person, Gong Baotian was very happy, and immediately put down the weapon in his hand and personally entertained the distinguished guests.
Xu Shiyou has always respected his predecessors in martial arts, and he is also extremely yearning for Gong Baotian's martial arts. During the conversation, he made a straightforward request, hoping to see Gong Baotian's true mastery. Gong Baotian happily agreed, and immediately began to perform in a clearing on the edge of the woods.
First of all, Gong Baotian picked up a short knife and played with it a few times in his hand. Suddenly, he gave an order for one of the guards to fetch buckets and bowls and pour water on him. The guard did so, but Gong Baotian's skills were too fast, and the flash of the knife actually blocked all the water droplets, and he didn't have any stains on himself.
Then, Gong Baotian swept with one leg again, only to hear a "click", and a pine tree with a thick bowl mouth broke in response to the sound, and was kicked in two by him. The power of this "gossip swimming chain palm" can be seen.
Gong Baotian didn't stop there, he picked up a mung bean from the ground, put it in the palm of his hand and rubbed it gently, and the mung bean turned into powder. This kind of internal force is deep and strong, which is really breathtaking.
Finally, Gong Baotian pointed to a resting sparrow on the tree and asked everyone who could knock it down. One of the guards was very conceited and immediately drew his gun to aim, but the moment he pulled the trigger, Gong Baotian disappeared! I saw him dodge into the cornfield next to him and dodge the bullet.
It turned out that Gong Baotian's hand was a mastery of light skills, and his body technique was even faster than a bullet! Everyone was stunned and convinced when they saw this. Even Xu Shiyou, a well-informed old-timer, couldn't help but admire: "The sword is not old!"
Xu Shiyou showed extraordinary skills
Seeing such a strong martial art of Gong Baotian, Xu Shiyou couldn't help but admire. But as a generation of martial arts masters, he himself is also full of martial arts. When Gong Baotian asked him about his specialty, Xu Shiyou showed his skills.
First of all, Xu Shiyou picked up a small pebble and said to Gong Baotian: "Senior, see if I can hit your hat with this stone?"
Gong Baotian stood up as he said, counted three times, Xu Shiyou's hand waved, and the stone flew out with a "whirl", shooting straight to the top of Gong Baotian's head. Who knew that this flying stone was impartial, hit the red heart, and pierced Gong Baotian's felt hat!
The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who were watching were all amazed. It turned out that Xu Shiyou had practiced a "stone bullet skill" stunt since he was a child, and within thirty steps, he could hit every shot. He learned this kung fu at the age of 8 at the Shaolin Temple, and later in his hometown of Macheng, Hubei, where he put it to life.
At that time, Xu Shiyou's family was poor, and he often went to the mountains to hunt and sell game to make a living for his family. He is so good at flying stones that hares and pheasants have never been a problem, and even wild boars have been killed by his stone bullets. Xu Shiyou's flying stone is powerful and accurate, and it is simply a silent pistol.
Later, after joining the Red Army, Xu Shiyou carried forward this stunt. When the Red Army attacked the county town of Huang'an, the enemy prisoners found that the Red Army had only a few guns in their hands, and the others were armed with stones and broadswords, so they tried to escape. As a result, a tall and strong Kuomintang soldier was hit in the leg by a flying stone from Xu Shiyou, and he fell down on the spot in pain, and the other prisoners no longer dared to act rashly.
In addition to stone balls, Xu Shiyou also has his own set of experience in knife techniques. When Gong Baotian asked him to show his hand, Xu Shiyou picked a date from the tree, took Gong Baotian's short knife, and threw the date up, only to see that the knife flashed, and the date had been split in half!
Seeing this, Gong Baotian praised repeatedly: "Commander Xu's sword skills are fast and accurate, better than me, and then he is terrifying!"
The two had a wonderful move
Seeing Gong Baotian so praised, Xu Shiyou couldn't help but feel a little proud. He has always regarded himself as extraordinary in martial arts, and when he saw Gong Baotian's superb skills today, he suddenly had the idea of competing with each other.
So, Xu Shiyou proposed to move to the martial arts training ground with Gong Baotian and have a good competition. Gong Baotian readily agreed, and the two began to make a move in the open space under the shade of the tree.
The first is boxing. Gong Baotian first used a superb gossip chain palm, and the fist shadows flew one after another, and there were thousands of changes. Xu Shiyou responded calmly, with a Shaolin palm and an iron sand palm, to resolve Gong Baotian's offensive one by one.
Then the two of them used their own secret weapon stunts. Although Gong Baotian's darts were good at archery, Xu Shiyou's flying stone kung fu was also extraordinary, and he shot down the darts with a flying stone. The two sides come and go, and they are on equal footing, and it is difficult to distinguish between them.
In the end, Gong Baotian and Xu Shiyou had no choice but to come up with their own specialties. Gong Baotian brandished a short knife, and the knife wind was fierce, like a dragon playing with a phoenix. Xu Shiyou is handling a ghost-headed knife, the knife technique is calm and ruthless, and the momentum is like a rainbow.
The two of them went back and forth on the martial arts training ground, and it took more than three hours, and no one could help anyone. It wasn't until it was getting dark, and both sides were a little exhausted, that they stopped, looked at each other and smiled.
Gong Baotian stepped forward and patted Xu Shiyou on the shoulder and said, "Commander Xu's martial arts are really good, and when I saw it today, it really deserved its reputation." I've got you some practice with this old bone. ＂
Xu Shiyou said humbly: "How dare you, how dare you." The old-timers are superb in their arts, and I am really ashamed of myself. ＂
The two of you are humble, but it is difficult to hide each other's sincere appreciation for each other's martial arts. Although it was difficult to distinguish between the superior in the end, through this dragon and tiger fight, both sides really learned each other's extraordinary martial arts.
At this moment, a sound of footsteps came, and several guards who turned out to be Xu Shiyou saw this scene vaguely. They stepped forward one by one and bowed to Gong Baotian, actually expressing their highest respect to this martial arts senior.