Chinese martial arts: From being shot and killed by the armed police during a mountain search to bec

Chen Hongwu's figure shot out like an arrow.

From the threshold of the side hall to the center of the main hall, a distance of six zhang, he only used a tiger pounce and a dragon leap.

With the tiger-like pounce, the spine arches backward, the toes grip the ground, and the whole body leaps out close to the ground; with the dragon-like landing, the waist and hips twist, the knees fold and spring open like springs, and the person is already three zhang away.

The Dragon Form is a skill of the spine. The spine is like a dragon, arching and contracting with the momentum of an arrow. Chen Hongwu has practiced the Dragon Form to the point of "Dragon Turning Body", with each vertebra of the spine connected and each segment propelling the body forward.

When Wong Fei-hung and Ip Man chased after Chen Hongwu out of the side hall, Chen Hongwu had already swept through most of the hall.

A drunkard slumped over a corner table was grabbed by the back of his collar and lifted up like a chick. The man had disheveled hair, his face smeared with leftover wine and food stains, and wore a gray cloth short jacket. As he slumped over the table, a tattered felt hat was tucked under his elbow.

The moment the drunkard was lifted up, a sharp glint suddenly flashed in his drowsy, drunken eyes.

His body reacted before his brain did. His waist and hips sank, his spine cracked twice, and he dropped three inches. At the same time, his arms wrapped around his chest from the outside, his left hand protecting his heart, and his right hand forming a drill-like fist that slid out from under his ribs.

This is the starting move of Xingyi School, "Wrap and Drill in One". "Wrap" means to block the door, and "Drill" means to strike. The wrap and drill are completed at the same time, combining defense and offense. It is the most common instinctive reaction of Xingyi School disciples when they are ambushed.

When Li Cunyi taught his disciples at the Chinese Martial Arts Association in Tianjin, the first lesson he taught was this technique: "It's better to practice a boxing style for a thousand days without using it than to have one ineffective punch when you need it. The combination of wrapping and drilling is your life-saving punch."

This man's wrapping and drilling technique was extremely solid. The wrapping force emanated from his shoulder blades, and his two arms were brought together like iron hoops, with a force of no less than three hundred pounds. The drilling force of his right fist started from his waist, rushed along his ribs to the surface of his fist, and before the fist even arrived, the wind from the fist had already made Chen Hongwu's throat feel slightly cold.

But Chen Hongwu didn't even glance at it.

He grabbed the other man's collar with his left hand and pulled him back, while his right hand formed the Bajiquan "Horse-Probing Palm" and thrust straight in through the gap between the other man's wrapped arms.

The strike landed not on the face or throat, but in the clavicular fossa, the depression above the collarbone. The fascia is thinnest there, directly pressing on the brachial plexus.

The "Probing Palm" technique of Bajiquan originated from the Wu family of Mengcun. Wu Zhong used this palm technique to break through the closed-door stances of seventeen martial arts schools in Cangzhou. The principle is "If you can probe in, you can strike in."

Chen Hongwu's palm struck the opponent's collarbone socket heavily.

With a crisp "crack," the fascia was instantly crushed by the heel of the palm. As soon as the fascia broke, the brachial plexus nerve above the collarbone was instantly subjected to immense pressure, and the opponent's right arm twitched as if electrocuted, causing the binding force to collapse on the spot.

The drunkard grunted and stumbled back three steps, knocking over an empty table with his lower back, scattering dishes all over the floor.

He managed to stay upright, grabbing the back of a chair behind him with his left hand to steady himself, while his right arm hung at his side, still twitching.

The drunkenness had completely vanished from his face, his brow bone throbbed violently with pain, and a fine layer of sweat appeared on his forehead, but his eyes had turned completely cold.

"You—" He opened his mouth to speak.

Chen Hongwu did not give him a chance to speak.

With a stomp of his foot, the "Boating on Dry Land" footwork of Bajiquan rolled out from the ground.

Bajiquan footwork emphasizes "stomping the feet to generate power." Every step is like driving a stake into the ground, with the soles of the feet striking the blue brick floor, causing the dust in the cracks between the bricks to bounce up.

Within three steps, Chen Hongwu had already reached the other party.

He punched out from the center line with his right fist, using the Xingyi Bengquan (形意崩拳) stance, which is based on the "Horse-shaped Cannon" (马形炮) posture.

The Bengquan (崩拳) is shaped like an arrow, and the Ma (馬) is shaped like a crash vehicle. The two forces are combined, and the fist has both the penetrating power of the Bengquan and the impact power of the Ma.

The boxing manual says, "The Beng Quan is like an arrow, and the Ma Xing is like a chariot." The arrow is to pierce, and the chariot is to crush. Chen Hongwu's punch combines the two together.

The opponent instinctively used his left arm to block horizontally, while simultaneously taking a half step back with his left foot, assuming the "San Ti Shi" defensive stance of Xingyi Quan.

The front hand supports, the back hand protects, the front knee pushes, and the back hip sits. The Three-Body Stance is the foundational stance of Xingyi Quan; if mastered, it can withstand immense force.

The fact that this person could instinctively perform the Three-Body Stance despite having his right hand crippled demonstrates his exceptionally strong foundation.

But the Three-Body Stance couldn't stop Chen Hongwu's punch.

The Bengquan (a type of punch) struck the opponent's outstretched arm, the force penetrating the muscles and directly into the bone.

Wang Hu felt as if he hadn't been punched, but rather hit head-on by a moving carriage.

The bracing with the front hand crumbled instantly, and the protective stance of the rear hand was also shaken apart at the same time. The Three-Body Stance split open in the middle, and the two arms opened outwards like two broken doors.

Once the frame collapses, the vital points are fully exposed.

Chen Hongwu's second strike arrived in an instant.

His left knee struck the opponent's chest without warning; this is a variation of the "Heart-Piercing Elbow" move in Bajiquan.

Originally, the intention was to strike the solar plexus with an elbow, but the distance was too close to allow for an elbow strike, so he used his knee instead. The knee is the hardest joint in the human body, and the knee techniques in Bajiquan are different from those in Muay Thai; they don't target the thigh but instead aim for the solar plexus and soft ribs.

The boxing manual says, "A knee strike to the groin leaves no place to defend."

That knee strike landed squarely.

"Bang!"

The sound of the knee slamming into his chest was dull, like the beating of a drum. Wang Hu's sternum made a slight cracking sound, and the entire sternum caved in half an inch.

His heart was violently squeezed in that instant, and blood was forcibly pumped to his limbs. His face turned a deep purplish-red, his eyes bulged outward, and his lips turned purple.

The force of the knee strike sent his feet flying three feet backward before his back slammed heavily against a pillar in the lobby.

The pillar was made of cedar wood, as thick as a bowl, and it hummed loudly when it was hit, causing dust to fall from the beam.

Wang Hu's body slid down the pillar and collapsed to the ground. A mouthful of blood gushed from his mouth, trickling down his chin and into his collar. His consciousness was fading, but the instinct for survival still compelled him to speak.

"I am Qing—"

Before he could utter the fourth word, Chen Hongwu's iron palm had already descended, landing on his head.

This palm strike uses the power of Hung Kuen's "Iron Sand Palm," but the way it is generated is the "sinking power" of Bajiquan. The power originates from the Yongquan point (Kidney 1), passes through the knee, hip, waist, and shoulder, and runs through the spine segment by segment, with the weight and power of the entire body pressing down on the palm.

The palm struck like an iron felt nail.

The skull was crushed instantly!

Blood gushed from Wang Hu's seven orifices at the same time. His mouth opened like a fish that had been slapped ashore, his tongue stretched out straight, and the capillaries in his eyes burst all at once, turning the whites of his eyes deep red.

His body twitched twice, his palms weakly dug two white marks on the ground, and then he remained completely still.