How powerful is the historical Taiji Bagua Palm?

Taijiquan Bagua is created by Dong Haichuan according to the characteristics of Taijiquan's softness to overcome the rigidity of a kind of rigid-flexible traditional boxing. This boxing both Taiji and Bagua's strengths, very fitness and combat value. In the late Qing Dynasty, martial arts flourished and there were many schools of martial arts, including Taijiquan, Bagua Palm and Xingyiquan, which were known as internal schools. At that time, Bagua palm master Dong Haichuan about the same period of six years, for the Yang-style Taijiquan Gong method and Xingyiquan Jin quite appreciated, so the experimental integration of Taijiquan line of work and a small part of the Xingyi Jin, trying to find a better way to Bagua Palm practice, so Bagua Palm Taiji line of work was born, the name of the Bagua Taichi Palm.