Could some military generals actually hold their own 1 on 1 against wulin experts?

[Ken Cheng]

In the world of wuxia, it's pretty much a given that soldiers, at least individually, are no threat to wulin martial arts experts. Although soldiers are trained warriors, their individual skills simply cannot compare to those of wulin fighters.

That's the ordinary rank and file soldiers. What about generals, however? Generals are valued for their strategic ability (which is more mental than physical), but a number of them probably also had good individual fighting skills as well. Not saying that most generals would challenge wulin's Greats, but are there a few generals who could hold their own in man-to-man combat against wulin experts? In ROCH, there seemed to be a Mongol general or two who could fight the likes of Lo Yau Gerk to a standstill. In HSDS, there seemed to be at least one Mongol general capable of fighting a Ming Cult Guardian Lord (perhaps not winning, but at least holding his own). Were there such generals in ancient armies?

[CC]

In JY's world, probably Yue Fei and Aobai. But there is a hazy line, if the General learnt kung-fu, is he considered a martial artist or a soldier?

[kyss of the sword]

a soldier is someone who joins the army, a martial artist is one who practises martial arts. someone could be both. some martial artist serve the governemt.

[Candide]

I wonder how good Aobai really was? It seems that the Heaven & Earth folks were sith scared of him. Even with numbers, they weren't sure they could've taken him down. Wonder how he would fare against the best like Chen Jinnan.

Btw Li Jing (the famous Tang dynasty general) was credited in JY's world with half of the Shaolin interpretation of Yijin Jing in DGSD (the other half was done by the Shaolin Abbot at the time) and apparently he was a Great of his time too. Thirteen Shaolin monks also joined the Tang army and became great generals so they should count as well.