How strong is the martial artist, this is a question that has always plagued Li Yingyuan. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Although Li Yingyuan has always wanted to learn martial arts and become a martial artist, he feels that he can't clearly measure how powerful a real martial artist is.

First of all, people like Chen Kun and Musashi Kotaro are considered to be the top martial artists, with all kinds of secret skills and magical powers, but it is a bit too much to say that they are invincible in the world.

Li Yingyuan had seen that the muskets of those English soldiers had choked Musashi Kojiro enough, even if it was not fatal on the spot, but it also seriously injured him, thus giving Chen Kunke an opportunity.

In addition, Chen Kun was also hit by several bullets after killing Musashi Kojiro, in short, the warrior was not invincible in the face of the musket.

Seriously, though, a single musket poses no threat to the top warriors.

According to Musashi Kojiro's observations, in the face of a single musket, the top warriors can rely on their own reflexes to dodge, or even block with weapons, and wait until the opponent finishes firing to make a sudden advance and kill the person holding the musket.

Moreover, the musket bullet does not seem to be very damaging to this kind of warrior. Ordinary people who are hit by muskets, if not critical, will be seriously injured and immediately lose most of their combat capability.

Li Yingyuan now recalled that Dr. Shepud had shot the assassin with a pistol, but now that he recalled it, the bullets did not penetrate deep into the assassin's body to destroy the organs, but as if they were blocked by some force, and only embedded in the skin or muscles, causing very limited injuries.

Moreover, the blood qi of these martial artists is much stronger than that of ordinary people, and they seem to have various secret methods to stop the bleeding by themselves, so that the impact of this damage on their combat effectiveness is not very great.

Of course, the warrior's ability to resist bullets is certainly not unlimited, it is okay to take one or two bullets, but if you take seven or eight bullets, it will have a considerable impact on combat effectiveness.

In short, top martial artists like Musashi Kojiro and Chen Kun are fast and difficult to aim when fighting, plus they have strong reflexes and can avoid bullets or block bullets with their weapons in advance, and these people may also have Chen Kun's ability to attack from the air, and can take seven or eight bullets without completely losing their combat effectiveness, so it will take many, many muskets to deal with them.

If you have to say it, it takes twenty or thirty experienced and brave musketeers to deal with a top martial artist head-on, and you have to line up to shoot before these warriors get close, and you must not let these warriors get close.

By this standard, the assassin who assassinated Dr. Shepud, as well as Musashi Kojiro's men with particularly strong martial arts, are all a little inferior, but they are also much stronger than ordinary people, and they should be regarded as first-class masters.

Dealing with such a first-class master head-on may also require five to ten musketeers to form a formation and deal with it seriously.

When Dr. Shepud's use of a revolver against the Assassin was due to a number of fortuitous factors: for example, the Assassin did not expect Shepud's possession of a firearm capable of firing continuously, and the two sides were too close, or perhaps the old monk Chen Kun had repeatedly interfered with it, which made the Assassin feel it.

In short, when the assassin gave up the assassination and fled, he actually received two or three bullets, and the injuries were not very serious, and it was only because of these factors, coupled with the British soldiers patrolling the streets, that he understood that assassinating Shepudd would make him pay an extremely painful price, so he would leave.

As for the first-class masters and below, the kind of ordinary masters are also powerful with fists and feet or swords, and there is no advantage in facing the musket head-on. Unless you use a sneak attack or take advantage of special terrain to fight a truly fair duel on flat ground, you will not be able to win a musketeer.

If there is no musket, and ordinary cold weapons such as swords are used to deal with martial arts masters, then the number of people needed is only three or four times more immediately.

For example, it may take at least sixty to a hundred people to deal with a top master like Chen Kun with an ordinary swordsman, and at least fifteen to thirty people to deal with a first-class master like an assassin, and this also requires this kind of swordsman and swordsman to be bold enough not to retreat because of the opponent's martial arts.

After such a conversion, the strength of the martial arts master has a preliminary basis for judgment. From this point of view, martial arts masters are certainly much stronger than ordinary people, but like in the novel, Li Yuanba killed hundreds of thousands of enemies by himself or something, it is nonsense.

Thinking of these, Li Yingyuan was slightly relieved and felt a little pity at the same time, no matter how high his martial arts are, there is a limit after all, but he doesn't know what level he can achieve in the end when he learns martial arts. So far, he is just a layman in martial arts, and he will have to work harder in the future.

In the midst of Li Yingyuan's cranky thoughts, a day and a night passed quickly. By the next day, most of the wounded soldiers had basically been dealt with, and the apprentices in the medical department had finally calmed down a little and were in the mood to gossip.

"Did you hear about it, Liu Sanduo from the military department was arrested and beaten. "At noon, when we were eating together, one of the apprentices said mysteriously to everyone.

"I know. It is said that he secretly hid two golden hairpins and wanted to take them out, but he was intercepted at the door and beaten on the ground. Chen Changsheng said, his face was full of my knowing expression.

"Hehe, it's really a dog can't change eating, and now those people in the military department are going to be embarrassed. Several of the apprentices chimed in, snickering.

Li Yingyuan listened to it for a long time, but he didn't understand at all what they were talking about. First of all, the simplest question is, who is this Liu Sanduo, and why the big guy gloated over his arrest without the slightest sympathy.

"Who is this Liu Sanduo?" asked as soon as he thought of it, Li Yingyuan said the question in his heart.

"Liu Sanduo is a thief, a thief. Chen Changsheng explained.

According to him, this Liu Sanduo was originally a thief on the street, and he usually did those things like stealing chickens and dogs. When the English occupied the county seat, he happened to be caught by the bitter lord and was imprisoned in the county jail.

After the English army entered the county seat, they did not want to embarrass the prisoners, so they released all the criminals in the prison. As a result, an officer saw that Liu San was young, only sixteen or seventeen years old, so he asked him why he was arrested.

After knowing that Liu Sanduo was arrested for stealing, the officer did not despise him, but let him perform how to steal in public. This Liu Sanduo's skills are really good, several soldiers have hidden things on their bodies and pass by him, he can steal things with his hands, and the person who is stolen doesn't feel it at all.

So, the officer was overjoyed, saying that this was good material for being a scout, and recruited him into the military department as an apprentice.

The English people like to recruit 15 to 20-year-old Ming boys as apprentices, recruit them and give them all kinds of training, which is an open secret in Dinghai, and there are also many rumors about the good boys of the English people, and Li Yingyuan alone hears several versions.

Ben came here, and everything was normal. It's just that Liu Sanduo's hands and feet are not clean after following the English, and he has stolen the belongings of other apprentices who are also in the military department, and his original background is not good, so he has never been treated well by the apprentices.

However, because he was worried about the face of the English officer, he was caught stealing, and the big guy just beat him up, and he would not continue to be embarrassed.

However, this time he did something that crossed the line. After occupying Musashi Mansion, the English people repeatedly ordered that the Ming dependents were not allowed to steal the things in the house, and all good things must be handed over, but Liu Sanduo made a mess at the peak, secretly hid two golden hairpins, and wanted to smuggle them out.

As a result, he was found by the soldiers guarding at the gate, and he was beaten on the ground, and he was also locked in a small black room, saying that he would be severely punished later. In short, this is a character who is not worthy of sympathy no matter how he is beaten.