Sun Chengzong, who was still a little unconvinced that the battle situation would change so quickly the day before, finally gave the order to withdraw after weighing it again and again when he learned of the rout in the west of the city. Although Cao Wenzhao, You Shiwei and others still felt a little regretful, Yuan Keli, Mao Wenlong and other civilian commanders of the Liaodong Army, who had some brains, felt that things might not be so simple, and the performance of the enemy's strong army twice in a row had already lost the opportunity for the army to win in the capital again.

"Did our army just retreat? In fact, our army can also set up a large camp outside the city, and our army outside the city already has a relatively strong camp built over the past few months, so that the enemy army in the capital may not dare to act rashly and easily attack our army, after all, although the other party has a small number of elites at this time, but if it takes the initiative to attack, it may not be able to ask for much good... Mao Wenlong's proposal was to leave a strong stronghold of 100,000 troops in the direction of the rear camp outside the city to contain the defenders and cover the retreat of the elite main force, but in the final analysis, it was planned to give up strategically.

Cao Wenzhao felt that he still had enough opportunities to establish a greater feat, and although the defenders in the entire capital had more than 100,000 troops in name, they were only a very small number of elites and a large number of cannon fodder who could barely fight. It is still easy to use the defense of Tongzhou and the surrounding areas to wear down the opponent or at least win the ability to break through and get out of trouble through his own talent in military training.

After ordering some cavalry to continue to reinforce from Liaodong and even Shanxi, Sun Chengzong finally made up his mind to launch another fierce attack and then retreat the whole army.

In this way, on the fifth day of the tenth month of the old calendar, the strategic group led by Cao Wenzhao first took advantage of the fact that the river had not been completely cut off to retreat to Tongzhou by boat, and then Sun Chengzong and Yuan Keli respectively led two roads of tens of thousands of people, including most of the elite backbone troops, to retreat to the south and even the east respectively.

After discovering that the enemy forces outside the city were showing signs of retreating, Sun Yingyuan proposed that the whole army launch a counteroffensive with the volunteer battalion as the lead, but Xiao Xuan rejected this proposal and said bluntly: "The volunteer battalion has experienced two major battles in succession before, and the pure losses have been more than half, and it is difficult to fight as before without a few months of repair and recovery." If the enemy wants to retreat, let it retreat. In terms of the development of combat effectiveness, the enemy army should not be comparable with our army... ”

Xiao Xuan's statement of course has its objective sufficient reasons and basis, under normal circumstances, if a decent team loses more than half of its strength in a major war, it will definitely not be able to recover in a few years, or ten years at most, and the more elite the team, the more so. Because in this era, the top elites who really have amazing combat effectiveness are all elites who have been cultivated since they were teenagers and have spent a lot of effort to form. The claim that combat effectiveness can be restored in a few months is somewhat quite surprising.

However, Xiao Xuan saw a trace of uneasiness from the faces of Sun Yingyuan and the others, and he had felt this uneasiness of the people around him a long time ago. However, Xiao Xuan is not surprised: Chiphobia is not strange in modern times, let alone these beauties around him in this era, after all, not everyone has the same "political self-confidence" as the American ruling class before World War II and before: your road to public-owned socialism just can't go, I can help you in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, don't let you die, watch you entertain guests, see your building collapse.

For this reason, Xiao Xuan also felt that through the mouths of some people in the volunteer camp, many people should understand what a "Datong world" is, whether it refers to "common misery" and "average poverty" under the existing productivity and technological conditions, or at most many people can only live a "well-off" in a rich area under the existing productivity conditions. I don't mind telling you some of my thoughts and the members of the Datong Society, who are quite simple. In some considerations, the current Xiao Xuan has not yet thought clearly about whether to "strictly abide by the party's secrets". After all, the times are different, and when the army's positive combat effectiveness is the main means, it is difficult for Xiao Xuan to predict whether some rules will bring any negative results, if so, it is better to make it clear at the beginning. In Xiao Xuan's view, the peasant army of Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others in the late Ming Dynasty was more successful than the development of the Wenxiang Sect in a harsher environment, and "treating each other with sincerity" and "not engaging in deception" were the most difficult places to compare with other folk religions.

On the seventh day of October, the officers and men of the volunteer battalion, who had been conducting an intense night battle drill all night at the temporary camp not too far from Dongzhimen, returned to the camp in the morning, except for those on duty. The 21 members of the Cosmos Society and more than 80 reserve members who had completed the training in turn in advance gathered around Xiao Xuan for a regular meeting and political study. Political education and learning may be said to be redundant for ordinary armies, because it is simply difficult to make the mediocre army of most peacetime an ideological army. But for an era when the battlefield can be used to eliminate those mediocre laymen, there may be a glimmer of possibility.

Xiao Xuan's previous opinion was that the expansion speed of the members should not be too fast, otherwise it would cause indigestion, but later felt that this hypothetical expansion law was actually not suitable for the results of sufficient military resources and battlefield test conditions. In the entire volunteer battalion and the training camp before the battle, although not all of them can be compared to the company, there are some who dare to sacrifice and fight bravely. People who were slightly injured in the battle and had a proven record of war became members of the Datong Society, and the previous education made many people understand that the members of the club are not officials or official reserves, and they may not only not have much special treatment in the future, but also have greater pay, and the ingredients of it cannot be too bad as a reserve member.

“。。。 The basic principle of the essence of Datong, which is also known as the ABC of the essence of Datong... I've roughly finished talking about it before. As to why the Datong society and the world will inevitably be realized, I don't know, and there are any comrades who have any theoretical doubts. "Because the previous homework was quite sufficient, and the theory was originally processed by himself, even after more than an hour of lectures, Xiao Xuan still seemed confident.

"Your Majesty, Datong society is the public in the world, if it can't be realized immediately, it will go through the stage of capital society, when will it be realized?"

"Yes, when will Datong society be realized, and what will it look like? . . .

(End of chapter)