Special Kill Team: A Boxing Champion's Legendary Resistance War

Qiuqiu, a three-time champion at the Lumpinee Boxing Stadium and a master of modern Muay Thai, transmigrates and wakes up in Nanjing in 1938.

He is a Muay Thai champion, and he is Chinese.

Amid the ruins, Japanese troops run rampant. With his iron elbows, knees, and legs, Qiuqiu saves six instructors from the Central Guoshu Institute from three Japanese soldiers. These martial arts masters, skilled in Baji, Xingyi, and Tai Chi, are deeply shaken by the simplicity and effectiveness of Muay Thai.

“Your fighting style kills quickly. Teach us!” Chen Gang, a Baguazhang master burdened by deep regrets over the bloodshed, makes his request to Qiuqiu.

An unprecedented force in the war against Japan is born: the Special Strike Team. Qiuqiu brings modern Muay Thai combat training into the war, discarding flashy moves and keeping only the lethal ones. He sets up three thousand targets and has the team strike them with their knees ten thousand times a day. He binds their hands so they can train exclusively in devastating elbow strikes. He hones the techniques of the ring into an instinct for killing on the battlefield.

From Nanjing to the Taihang Mountains, the Special Strike Team strikes fear into the Japanese army. One mysterious codename appears again and again in their reports: “Ghost Elbow.” They have no idea that this swift, elusive team is using a deadly martial art they have never seen before.

As the Special Strike Team’s fame spreads across North China, even greater challenges follow. How will Qiuqiu use his fists to show the Chinese people’s mettle in this age of war?

This is the story of a champion, and the legend of a team. I dedicate this novel to the unsung heroes who built a Great Wall for their nation with their own flesh and blood.