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Chapter 88 Spear Array

Gao Qiqian finally surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and this stain would definitely not be washed away. However, saying that Gao Qiqian killed Lu Xiangsheng was actually a big blame for Chongzhen.

Let’s talk about Yang Sichang. In fact, Yang Sichang is a very talented person with a very high strategic level. He told Chongzhen very early: The Ming Dynasty should not be arrogant or pretend to be a comparative person. The Ming Dynasty must now respect reality and make up its mind to negotiate peace with the Qing Dynasty. The court does not have to waste its elite troops in the field battle with the Qing Dynasty, because there were various problems within the Qing Dynasty. The Eight Banners system was not a monolithic, and there were also problems in food supply. As long as there was no foreign war, if you agreed to Huang Taiji’s request to negotiate peace, there would be problems within the Qing Dynasty.

On the one hand, we negotiate peace with the Qing Dynasty, and on the other hand, we resolve civil strife and avoid fighting on both sides. At the same time, we unite Mongolia to cause trouble for the Qing Dynasty.

It can be said that Yang Sichang's strategic view is very correct. The mistake is that Chongzhen himself wants to discuss peace, but he doesn't say it out loud, but lets the people below take the blame.

Lu Xiangsheng had strong tactical ability, but the second-level talent in strategic level. His attitude towards the Qing Dynasty was firmly in charge of war, which was a contradiction with Yang Sichang. The key to the problem was that Chongzhen himself was unclear. If Chongzhen did not hide it like that, there would be no tragedy that followed.

In fact, as long as Chongzhen coordinates well, there will be no conflicts at all. From ancient times to the present, no one can make profits from the alliance under the city. Even if you want to be harmonious, you must first rely on being able to repel the enemy and make the enemy feel hopeless to win, so that the peace effect can be achieved.

Just like in the later Korean War, Taizu and the United States wanted to negotiate peace, but the war did not stop. Both sides fought and negotiated peace, in order to gain more bargaining chips at the negotiating table.

Gao Qiqian was just a eunuch. If Chongzhen had no hints, would he dare to harm a dignified Minister of War? Besides, the conflict between Yang Sichang and Lu Xiangsheng was also Chongzhen himself did not know how to deal with it.

The reason why Chongzhen wanted to kill Lu Xiangsheng was because he was afraid that Lu Xiangsheng would win the battle and destroy his peace plan.

Therefore, Lu Xiangsheng was sent away by Chongzhen himself. Even if the one who was the supervisor at that time was not Gao Qiqian, but Wang Chengen or Cao Huachun, they would send Lu Xiangsheng away for free according to Chongzhen's intention.

But Gao Shixin didn't know that his father-in-law was taking the blame for Chongzhen, so he dealt with Gao Qiqian on the surface, but he was very disgusted with this person in his heart.

Gao Qiqian not only did not make things difficult for Gao Shixin, but instead showed his diligence in front of him every day and also worked hard to learn combat skills. As a young eunuch without a backstage, Gao Qiqian had to curry favor with Gao Shixin and asked him to help him say more good things about him in front of Eunuch Wang and Eunuch Zhang. On the other hand, it was also to learn combat skills and be able to truly make contributions to the court, but in fact it was also to consider his own future.

It is because he knew that Gao Shixin was very good at fighting and made many military achievements that Gao Qi sneaked away and spent a lot of money to win the job of coming to Gao Shixin as a military supervisor. He hoped to use Gao Shixin's military merits, and even more so that he could bring up the relationship between Zhang Yong and Wei Zhongxian through Gao Shixin.

Gao Qiqian followed Gao Shixin to the training ground and saw a group of half-grown children carrying spears of one meter long on their shoulders, arranged in neat formations. Following the officer's orders, they either walked in unison, or turned to the right and left in a neat manner. The team was as neat as one person, but they were tossing and turning, and there were a few movements. Gao Qiqian looked at it all morning and saw that they were walking in line without seeing any other tricks.

"Are these the most elite servants of Gaobaihu?" Gao Qiqian showed a look of disappointment on his face. "Not only are a group of half-grown children, they practice walking all day?"

"A army must be obeyed, acted consistently, and the military laws are like a mountain. The training of this team is to train them to obey orders, move forward bravely, and not fear death. If Eunuch Gao doesn't believe it, it will naturally open your eyes when you go to the battlefield." Gao Shixin was really too lazy to talk about anything more with this guy who was not under him, just casually doing it.

When the assassination and chopping training of various troops began in the afternoon, Gao Qiqian saw that the spear soldiers had only one stab, while the long sword soldiers had only one chopping movement, without any tricks, nor any moves. Although the long swords of the long swords of the long swords were not equipped in place, after all, this weapon was too expensive, and the court agreed without knowing whether the long swords were agreed or not, but the long swords trained with wooden swords also seemed to be much more exciting than the spear soldiers.

"Gao Baihu, your spearmen only know one move, not our family bragging. If we ask our family to go down to fight, it will be fine for our family to beat four or five of them by one." Gao Qi said in a slump.

"Eunuch Gao, you can do martial arts, too?" Gao Shixin was shocked.

"Come on, borrow your knife for us!" Gao Qi turned around and shouted.

Two Dongchang Actors following behind competed to hand over his knife. Gao Qiqian took the knife, weighed it in his hand, chose one of the knifes, and with a "brush", the sword was unsheathed, and the scabbard was returned to the sword. He started to dance the knife himself.

The sword light flashed, and a precious sword danced in the high-rise diving hand that was dazzling.

"Get basin of water!" Gao Qiqian shouted.

The two fans hurriedly went to make a full wooden basin of water. Then one of them kept pouring water from the basin and pouring it on Gaoqian. The sword light flashed, and all the splashes were blocked by the knife, and even a drop of water could not be poured on Gaoqian! This sword technique was really water-free.

"Eunuch Gao is good at it!" Gao Shixin applauded.

Gao Qiqian performed a set of swordsmanship, returned the knife to Fanzi, turned around and asked Gao Shixin: "Gao Baihu, what do you think of our swordsmanship?"

"It's as fast as lightning, and it's really a good skill! It's no problem for you to beat four or five personal soldiers alone!"

"The more than ten players we brought to us are also well-chosen from the East Factory. There is no problem with one hitting you three or four personal soldiers."

Gao Shixin smiled and said, "If you let Eunuch Gao take your twelve players to deal with the fourteen spearmen who are all fourteen, I think you will definitely not win them."

Gao Qiqian laughed: "Gao Baihu, if you say that there are archers and long sword weapons among the fourteen people, our family will not win; but can all spear soldiers still win? Then our family will not believe it! As long as each of our thirteen people takes a shield, will they cut off all spear soldiers without any force? Gao Baihu, don't you know that the sword player wins the spear soldiers, right?"

If a short sword is not equipped with a shield, the short sword warrior meets a spearman, one inch long and one inch stronger, the sword hand is really not the opponent of the spearman. However, after being equipped with a shield, the sword hand becomes a sword player, and uses the shield to block the attack of the spear or spear. With the protection of the shield, the sword hand hits forward, swings the spear, approaches the spear or spearman, and fights closely. The spearman or spearman cannot attack the enemy close to him at all, and can only watch the machete cuts down on his neck.

A sword player is an expensive type of troops, and the training difficulty is much higher than that of a spearmen. A spearman is a cheap type of troops. Whether it is the cost of weapons or equipment, the training cost of soldiers is much lower than that of a sword player.

Therefore, during the battle back then, the spearmen were a kind of cannon fodder, mainly to resist the impact of cavalry. The real killing of the enemy was still relying on the sword player.

Gao Shixin's cooking was a bit incredible. His personal soldiers were actually all spearmen, and those sword players and long sword soldiers were ordinary recruits. Moreover, Gao Qi looked at those ordinary recruits. They were not only adult men, but also carefully selected burly men. Those people were used as ordinary soldiers, which was too strange.
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