The Song Dynasty on the Sand Table

Chapter 54 Ah Da
Wu Jialiang was lecturing them: "You are all children of farmers. Your parents and brothers all make a living by farming around the county town. If the bandits and road thieves are not eliminated, they will come down from the mountains to rob one day and set fire the next. How can you and your families concentrate on farming? Spring plowing and sowing are approaching. If you don't seize the time to plant the crops, your whole family will starve to death this winter."

Anger showed on the archers' faces.

Wu Jialiang: "I've already found out. There's a group of about thirty thieves hiding in Longshan, seven miles from the county seat. Let's go there today and catch them all in one fell swoop. This will serve as a warning to all the bandits and tyrants in Jimo County. As long as I, Wu Jialiang, am here, they won't be able to run rampant."

The archers were shocked. "We're going today? Thirty against thirty, we can't win."

Yue Wenxuan, possessing Master Ye, secretly observed these archers, and seeing how cowardly they were, he chuckled inwardly: The advantage of being a child of a good family is that they obey discipline, but the disadvantage is that they are cowardly. With the chaos in Shandong, these people were still able to maintain the status of "children of good families" precisely because of their cowardice. Those who weren't cowardly would have died long ago during the anti-Jin war, so how could they continue to be children of good families?

Wu Jialiang obviously knew this. After recruiting them, he trained them for several days but never put them into actual combat. But today was different. Although he didn't know how good Bruce Lee's martial arts were, he had just seen Master Ye's skills with his own eyes. Together with himself, four old brothers, and thirty or so cowards, he dared to compete with a small group of bandits.

"We will win today, don't be afraid!" Wu Jialiang shouted, "Let's go."

He had a horse, Master Ye and Bruce Lee also had horses, but the four followers and more than 30 archers had no horses. So the three horsemen were followed by more than 30 archers, and they left the county town and headed towards the Longshan area in the east.

Seven miles, not far!

It didn't take long for the group to reach Longshan.

Longshan Mountain is not high. On the mountain there is a small, dilapidated temple. A group of bandits live in the temple. When they see an official coming down the mountain with a group of cowards, the bandits are not afraid. Instead, they laugh and say, "A new official has just taken office and is so bold! He dares to cause trouble for us right after he arrives?"

The bandit leader simply called all his brothers to come down the mountain and set up a fighting position at the foot of the mountain.

Before the fight even started, the thirty or so archers were already feeling like running away. Their body center of gravity was clearly leaning backwards, and they would scatter and flee at the slightest sign of trouble.

Wu Jialiang could naturally sense the low morale. He lowered his voice and said to Master Ye beside him, "Brother Ye Wen, our army's morale is unstable. We need a few of us to lead the charge. As long as we can create momentum, the thirty or so archers behind us will follow. I'll be the first to charge in a moment. I hope you two brothers can lend me a hand."

After hearing what he said, Yue Wenxuan looked at him with a higher opinion. It turned out that the resourceful Wu Yong was not a weak scholar, but a fierce man who dared to rush to the front with a knife.

His willingness to lead by example showed that he truly wanted to eradicate the banditry and help the people resume production as quickly as possible. There was no reason for him not to lend a hand. "Mr. Jialiang! If you want to command, then don't charge. Leave this battle to my apprentice, Bruce Lee. These are only thirty or so stupid thieves who can't even form a formation. They're just a bunch of thugs. My apprentice alone can handle them."

"So this person is Brother Ip Man's disciple?" Wu Jialiang turned and looked at Bruce Lee.

Bruce Lee said calmly: "Use the infinite as the finite, and the lawless as the lawful."

Wu Jialiang: “?”

Bruce Lee: "I'm not afraid of someone who practices 10,000 moves, I'm only afraid of someone who practices one move 10,000 times."

Wu Jialiang: “???”

Bruce Lee: "The greatest ignorance of man is not knowing himself."

Wu Jialiang: “???”

The more he listened, the more confused he became. It seemed like this person wasn't talking to me, but just talking to himself?

Only then did he remember that Yue Xiucai had told him that these two subordinates were a little dull and that orders should be given in a specific way.

Wu Jialiang originally addressed both of them as "brother," but now that he knew Bruce Lee was Ip Man's disciple, he could no longer address them carelessly, thus disrupting the relationship between them. He changed his tone and said, "Nephew Li, you will fight the first round."

As soon as he finished speaking, Bruce Lee dismounted, his hands empty, and walked straight towards the bandits. After a few steps, he took off his shirt and threw it to the side, revealing his incredibly muscular body. He jumped left and right, wiped his nose with his thumb, and pointed forward: "If you want to fight, fight me!"

The bandits on the opposite side: "..."

What kind of person is this? Are we being looked down upon?

The bandit leader waved his hand: "Go!"

Several bandits immediately rushed up...

Wu Jialiang's heart tightened: "Are you really going to let him fight alone?"

Yue Wenxuan smiled but said nothing.

A bandit rushed forward, swung a wooden stick, and hit Bruce Lee on the head, but Bruce Lee took a big step forward, and with such quick movements, he went from long distance to close range in an instant. The long stick fell behind him and was no longer in his hand.

Bruce Lee yelled "Ah-haw" and punched the bandit in the face.

At the same time, he turned his body to the side to avoid the machete swung by another bandit, and moved closer, and with a "ah da" punch, he hit another bandit in the face, leaving him with blood all over his face.

The bandits were shocked: "Go! Surround him and beat him up!"

More than thirty bandits rushed up at the same time...

Bruce Lee jumped to the left and kicked a bandit down with a "wow" kick, then jumped sideways and threw several punches with "ah da da da", hitting one of the bandits so hard that his facial features were almost dislocated.

"Aha!"

"Yoho!"

"Yeah!"

Every time Bruce Lee made a move, it would be accompanied by a strange roar, and at the same time a bandit would be hit and fall to the ground.

In a short while, more than a dozen people had fallen to the ground. The remaining dozen or so people felt their scalps tingling when they heard his "Ah Da" scream...

Later generations have studied why Bruce Lee roared when he attacked, and the conclusions are also different. Some say that he roared "Ah Da" to release the energy in his body and transform it into fist power, some say that it was to shock the enemy's mind, and some even say that it was to form a "cultural symbol."

God knows what the reason is!
All we know is that amid the constant "Ah Da" screams, the bandits fell one after another, and Wu Jialiang and his four old subordinates didn't even need to take action. The thirty or so archers completely turned into cheerleaders.

In a moment, the last bandit fell to the ground with a thud.

Bruce Lee wiped his nose with his right thumb, finished his training, picked up the clothes on the ground and put them on, then walked half a step behind Wu Jialiang and stopped.

Wu Jialiang was completely numb. He was already shocked when he saw Master Ye's attack just now, and now he was even more shocked when he saw Bruce Lee's attack. This master and disciple pair was simply terrifyingly powerful.

Wu Jialiang couldn't help laughing up to the sky: "God is really helping me. With the two of you helping me, I don't have to worry about the banditry in Jimo County."

(End of this chapter)