Chapter 83: The Deeds of the Sharpshooter Li Shuwen
Chapter 83: The deeds of the sharpshooter Li Shu
"Yes, my great-grandfather was Li Shu, the sharpshooter. It's true. []"
Li Xia noticed Zhou Yi's shocked expression and said with a smile.
After receiving Li Xia's affirmative answer, Zhou Yi's heart beat wildly. He never thought in his wildest dreams that Li Xia's great-grandfather was actually Li Shu's predecessor.
People who practice martial arts probably know a few people: Li Shu, Sun Lutang, Huo Yuanjia, and Ip Man.
Huo Yuanjia and Ip Man are famous because of modern film and television works, so they are known to many modern people.
But in fact, at that time, Li Shu and Sun Lutang were much more famous than Huo Yuanjia and Ip Man.
It can be said that when Huo Yuanjia met Li Shu and Sun Lutang, he basically had to treat them as masters, because when Huo Yuanjia competed with foreigners, it was Li Shu and Sun Lutang who took charge every time. Once he lost,
Li Shu and Sun Lutang would take action, and Huo Yuanjia's martial arts was also taught by Li Shu and Sun Lutang.
Sun Lutang was the master of Xingyi Quan. At that time, people gave him the nicknames "The Best Hand in the World" and "Tiger Head Taibao". He competed publicly throughout his life and anyone could challenge him, but he never lost.
Li Shu, the master of the Bajiquan, was also a master of Bajiquan. At that time, he was also ranked first in the world with Sun Lutang. The two of them cherished each other, but they never fought against each other, which was a great regret.
However, it is said that Li Shu and Sun Lutang actually fought against each other. The two had an earth-shattering battle and ended up in a draw.
In the history of Bajiquan, Li Shu is a figure worthy of special mention. Zhou Yi once heard his grandfather Zhou Shan talk about Senior Li Shu in detail, so he knew the deeds and life of Senior Li Shu very well.
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Li Shu, whose courtesy name is Tongchen, was born in Wangnanliang Village, Yanshan County, Cangzhou, Hebei Province. He was nicknamed "Sharp Gun Li Shu" by Jianghu people.
Senior Li Shu was upright and upright throughout his life, and he hated evil as much as his enemies. He suppressed evil, resisted foreign aggression, and used force to show off his power with his superb skills and pure kung fu. He was well-known at home and abroad. He was the most typical representative of the national martial art of internal martial arts.
Li Shu practiced martial arts like a fish in water in the "Magic Spear Nest" where many celebrities were born at that time. Mr. Zhou Shan and Zhou Yi once said that Li Shu practiced boxing and spear to a crazy level.
According to what Mr. Zhou Shan told the Book of Changes, Li Shu’s home is about ten kilometers away from his master’s gate. He practices at his master’s gate for three hours every night. Then every time on the way back and forth, he doesn’t rush like other people, but punches one step at a time.
He practiced walking with one palm step and one elbow step. When practicing spear, he twisted the big gun rail while walking, held it, stabbed it, practiced diligently, never missed any opportunity and time, and was completely immersed in the world of martial arts.
Senior Li Shu gained extraordinary strength with extraordinary perseverance. After several years of hard training, coupled with his own good understanding, his kung fu improved by leaps and bounds.
Senior Li Shu used the technique of Baji Quan to push and lean against piles near his home. Many jujube and locust trees were beaten to death by his fists and kicks and became his practice piles.
He practiced hitting sandbags ranging from 50 kilograms to 300 kilograms. He hit them with his palms, elbows, shoulders, and backs. He smashed countless sandbags.
He practiced using the big gun, "withdrawing" and "tangling" the gun force to smash the door frame and kill all the jujube trees in front of the door and behind the house. In order to practice "destroying the gun and asking for accuracy", he aimed at the rough
Practice on trees, practice on thin trees, practice on planted sorghum stalks.
Prick the eyes with copper coins during the day, and pierce the heads with incense sticks at night.
In the jujube forest near his home, Li Shu stabbed jujubes with a big gun, one jujube at a time, hundreds of jujubes with a hundred guns, hundreds of shots.
Then senior Li Shu practiced in front of the mirror, reaching the state of being able to touch without being hurt, no matter how cold or hot the weather was, he never stopped. After twelve years of diligent study and practice, Li Shuji's masters Li Da, Zhang Keming, Huang Shihai, and Zhang Jingxing were four
The master of human boxing skills and spear skills has formed his own martial arts style.
As long as the big gun shakes, the gun head will draw a circle with a diameter of more than one meter like lightning. Its momentum is like the water of the Yangtze River, majestic for thousands of miles; when the gun is struck, it is like a meteor chasing the moon, frightening ghosts and gods, fast speed and fierce force.
And the degree of preparation is extremely high, reaching the state of perfection and reaching the pinnacle.
According to Mr. Zhou Shan's recollection, Mr. Li Shu was not a tall person. Mr. Zhou was only about 1.7 meters tall. Mr. Li Shu also looked "short, thin, and powerful." He was less than 1.7 meters tall.
Very inconspicuous.
However, for people who practice Neijiaquan, tallness does not necessarily mean they are powerful. It is said that senior Li Shu struck the air with his palms in a row at a distance of five feet, and the paper penetrated the paper and made a sound.
And he stabbed the fly with a big spear, and the fly fell to the ground but was shot intact. His strength and control of power were so terrifying that it was astonishing.
It is said that Li Shu's ancestors and fellow villagers often said that when he was helping the villagers collect grain, he turned his back to the large cart carrying grain, picked up the 300 kilogram grain bag with his feet, lifted it over his head, and threw it onto the cart.
When Senior Li Shu helped the villagers build houses and add beams, he used a big gun to lift the purlins one by one to Fangshan. He used the big gun to lift the eighty-pound cart and spin it like a windmill, effortlessly.
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In addition, Li Shu also did many earth-shattering things.
It is said that at the end of the 19th century, Yuan Shikai began to train troops at a small station in the southern suburbs of Tianjin.
Yuan Shikai used various means and relationships to win over people with strong martial arts skills, and paid heavily to hire Japanese karate masters and moral instructors to train his elite troops.
Li Shu's master, Huang Shihai, received a letter of appointment from Yuan Shikai. Because of his old age, he asked Li Shu to teach as a special disciple.
After Li Shu arrived at the barracks, he sent someone to take him to the martial arts hall to see Yuan Shikai. Yuan Shikai and the instructors saw that he was ordinary, thin and withered, carrying a big gun, and mistakenly thought he was a servant or a servant of Huang Shihai, a big gun.
When they asked about the situation and found out that Li Shu was the instructor on behalf of the master, everyone laughed.
Taro Ito, the martial arts instructor of Yuan Shikai's bodyguard, said contemptuously to Li Shu: "The big sick man of East Asia." He pointed downwards with his little finger, insulting Li Shu.
Although Li Shu was a low-key man, he showed his pride in front of the Japanese. In an instant, Li Shu used his gun to pick off a lock of the little Japanese's hair at lightning speed.
As a result, everyone was shocked, and Ito was furious. He swung his Japanese long sword and struck Li Shu's head with the force of a mountain.
Li Shu flicked his big gun, causing the knife to fly away. He then shot "Loach Over Flowers" and pierced Ito's throat. He then raised his big gun and threw the dead body out of the martial arts hall.
Everyone screamed in shock. When the Japanese martial arts instructors Akino, Inoue and Noda saw their companions being stabbed to death by Li Shu, they all rushed towards Li Shu fiercely with their swords.
Li Shu didn't mess up at all, he came in and out like lightning, retreated like arrows, flicked his spear like a dragon out of water, stabbed left and right, and blood and flesh flew everywhere.
In an instant, the bodies of the three Japanese martial arts masters were thrown out of the martial arts hall.
When everyone was shocked, Li Shu swung his big gun and stabbed the fly at the hall pillar. The fly fell and left marks on the hall pillar.
Immediately, Li Deng burst into thunderous applause in the hall, and Yuan Shikai repeatedly shouted: "A divine spear! A divine spear! It is truly a divine spear!"
From then on, "Li Shu, the sharpshooter" became famous all over the world.
Senior Li Shu is Li Xia's great-grandfather. At the same time, he also has another identity, that is, he is the master of Mr. Zhou Shan. Mr. Zhou Shan's Bajiquan is the true inheritance of senior Li Shu.
In fact, it is strange to say that Senior Li Shu had many disciples and descendants, and he also produced many masters, but the most powerful one was Zhou Baji Zhoushan.
When Zhou Shan met Senior Li Shu, Senior Li Shu was already seventy years old.
Senior Li Shu is already old, so he has no intention of accepting disciples.
But Zhou Shan's talent impressed him, and he accepted Zhou Shan as a registered disciple. However, due to various reasons, he taught Zhou Shan martial arts for a month.
Zhou Shan was only a registered disciple, and of course he was not a formal disciple of the eighth-level sect. However, Zhou Shan's future achievements were the highest among the registered disciples. Zhou Shan's martial arts was already a few steps away from Li Shu's.
However, Senior Li Shu died at the age of seventy-two, and he did not know what would happen in the future. Otherwise, he would have been lucky to have accepted such a named disciple and carried forward the essence of Bajiquan.
Zhou Shan had many masters, and he was a great master who integrated hundreds of schools of thought. However, the one who had the deepest influence on Zhou Shan was Senior Li Shu. Therefore, Zhou Shan had great respect for Li Shu, and Zhou Yi naturally also admired Senior Li Shu.
Speaking of senior Li Shu’s past, there are a few things that must be mentioned.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the famous Russian boxing champion Malotov came to China, set up a ring in Beijing, put up posters, and boasted that he had no rivals in the country. He insulted our Chinese people and aroused the Chinese people and people with lofty ideals.
of great indignation.
However, the martial arts masters from Beijing and Tianjin competed with him, but all ended in failure.
So Li Shu's second master, Zhang Jingliang, taught for the Tianjin "Chinese Martial Arts Association" and sent a message to Li Shu, asking Li Shu to come forward and defeat the famous Russian boxing champion Malotov.
At that time, Li Shu was waiting on the bedridden master Huang Shihai.
Senior Li Shu was a very filial man. He always believed in the saying, "Once a teacher, always a father." Because Huang Shihai was his son, Li Shu always took care of his old and sick master Huang Shihai.
After receiving the letter, Li Shu knew that he was carrying a heavy responsibility and immediately went to Beijing to compete in the competition as ordered by his master.
After signing the life and death certificate and completing all the formalities, Li Shu flew to the ring and saw that Malotov was as strong as an ox, like the six hundred kilogram sandbag he usually used for practice.
Russian boxing champion Malotov saw that Li Shu was thin and withered, so he put his arms around his shoulders and spat at Li Shu with disdain, despising Li Shu very much.
Li Shuyi was filled with anger, and his Dantian was filled with anger. He casually struck Malotov with his "Overlord's Whip" lying wind palm, which made Malotov dizzy and knocked off a piece of skin the size of an egg from his left cheek.
Before Malotov could react, Li Shu summoned up his might and used the "Six Big Open Elbow" move. At lightning speed, he exerted tremendous force to crack Malotov's ribs and knocked him off the ring.
Everyone watched and shouted, and the government officials were also watching this life-and-death duel. When they saw how powerful Li Shu was, they wanted to make Li Shu a fifth-grade commander, the chief martial arts instructor of the bodyguards, and wanted Li Shu to serve the court.
Li Shu declined because his master Huang Shihai required him to fulfill his filial piety.
Emperor Xuantong and his courtiers gave him a golden Buddha statue as a token of appreciation.