Qi Jiguang thinks traditional martial arts are useless, in the ancient battlefield, traditional martial arts really useless?

In the ancient battlefield most of the moves used in the art of war, although it is also said that there is also the base of martial arts training in, but in the real and the enemy fighting, the soldiers use the moves and traditional martial arts is still very different. Ancient soldiers before going to war, they received a unified training, the same moves, the same movements, and different formations to do how to do. In ancient times, fighting a war was all about unity, and a single person's single shot was no match for a group of people working together.

Traditional martial arts is about one move, but when you really go to the battlefield, this fixed "one move" will have limitations, not so applicable. In the traditional cognition, every action of martial arts is very careful, which step wrong are not, like those martial arts secret books, moves wrong step will be greatly reduced, but in the battlefield, everything is changing rapidly, there is no time to perform a complete set of martial arts.

We all know that when fighting a war, more than 100,000 soldiers fight together, and when lining up the troops, they also pay attention to the movement of the neat and tidy, but the traditional martial arts can't, in the battlefield densely packed pile of people, the traditional martial arts can't be spread out at all. The generals in the battlefield would form their troops and use the same movements to repel the enemy. If you wanted to use martial arts, then you couldn't stay in the formation, and then the formation would have gaps in it and be easily broken by the enemy.

So that's why Qi Jiguang would have thought that traditional martial arts weren't very useful, because no matter how good you were at martial arts alone, you couldn't stop hundreds, or even thousands of people on the battlefield from hitting you at the same time. Staying in a formation, you only have to fight the enemy with your brothers, but with martial arts, you'd have to face a bunch of enemies by yourself. And it's not easy to command a group of people with different martial arts, so it's hard to use the art of war when you're fighting a group of demons.