Why is there no record of traditional martial arts masters engaging in war to kill the enemy in our country, what are they doing?

In the official history, there are few records of martial arts masters going to war to kill the enemy, because their kung fu is not suitable for the battlefield to kill, the battlefield is more concerned about the formation and cooperation, rather than heroic solo fight. Even if the masters went to the battlefield, it is expected that they would not be able to play much of a role and would die under the unknown swords. So they would kill the enemy outside the battlefield, or teach their disciples.

First of all, let's make one thing clear, Can traditional martial arts fight or not? Is it powerful or not? The answer is yes, martial arts in ancient times, in addition to strengthening the body, or killing techniques, is an important means of fighting for their lives, people on the battlefield will also be practicing some of the basic martial arts, to strengthen the basic qualities of combat. However, soldiers do not spend a lot of time and energy practicing martial arts in the middle of the training process, but rather to practice the use of weapons, practicing the coordination of the formation, to play the power of the combined attack.

Secondly, we have to understand that martial arts, despite its usefulness, is not as mysterious as it is boasted in the movies and novels, and the masters of the martial arts are also human beings, only that they are a little stronger than the average person, and are not invincible. Let the martial arts masters go into battle to regress a team of heavily armed soldiers, undoubtedly let these masters to send people's heads. If the martial arts masters can really ride a thousand, they do not open a martial arts school in the folk, they have long run to the battlefield to build a career, when a great general is bound to be more powerful than when a master.

No matter whether it is domestic or foreign, the battlefield is all about formation and strategy, rather than personal courage, martial arts masters here role is not effectively played, those masters also understand this reason, in the folk open martial arts hall, recruit disciples, strengthen their physical quality, teach them to fight skill, these apprentices went to the battlefield, the bottom is certainly better than the ordinary soldiers.

For example, the famous Qi Jiguang of the Ming Dynasty, who invented the ? Yuanyang Formation? It was made up of 12 soldiers working together, plus professional martial arts masters who taught them stick skills, and when the two were combined, their power was multiplied, and they were unrivaled at the time, and it also spread the fame of the Qi family army far and wide, and there are still a lot of people studying this formation today.

So, although the martial arts masters could not kill the enemy directly on the battlefield, they also made a certain contribution to the troops.