Hardly. Most fighting men are simply given a spear and told to make them work.

[ After all, the guy lived in the Warring States era. He's plenty familiar with what many warlords demanded of their serfs. Armies need to be populated with fodder. ]

Simply fighting is easy, any fool can do that. To master the martial arts however, is another matter altogether.

[ Not everyone has magic animal powers, okay? Surely he knows a swordmaster or two. ]