The greatest pain of man is that he cannot get it.

Franz Josef Haydn (founder of the Viennese Classical School and father of the symphony)

The Swift Thieves were a military force secretly developed by Prince William with the support of Duke Cullen, and the generals of the Swift Thieves Regiment led by Montgomery were all loyal generals carefully selected by Prince William and Duke Cullen.

Among them, Montgomery, who was the leader of the Swift Wind Thieves, was one of the most promising Wing Captains of the Imperial Military Department before accepting this appointment, and at that time, Marquis Bernard, who later became the Commander of the Fire Legion, was also only a Wing Commander.

It's just that Marquis Bernard is a very ordinary wing captain in the Fire Legion, while Montgomery is the most successful wing captain in the Imperial Standing Army, and it is conceivable that if Montgomery had remained in the Imperial Army, he would have had a position at this time.

Auchinleck, Paresi, Cunningham, Carswall, Slim, and other five people can be selected by Duke Cullen to become the people who created the Wind Thieves Group from scratch with Montgomery, and their ability is naturally beyond doubt.

Of all the people, only Mountbatten has the most special status, he is the second grandson of the Duke of Cullen, and the cousin of Prince William, whether it is a general loyal to Prince William or a general loyal to Duke Cullen, it is difficult to wait for him equally.

If Prince William can really ascend to the throne in the future, then among all the people of the Wind Thieves, the highest title will not be Montgomery, but Mountbatten, because of Mountbatten's background, his status cannot be the same as Montgomery and others.

To put it another way, all the generals of the Swift Wind Thieves can die on the battlefield for Prince William and Duke Cullen, but Mountbatten must return to the imperial capital alive, even if Bai Feng captures Mountbatten, he can't arbitrarily dispose of the noble Mountbatten.

In the Heavenly Dragon Empire, where the aristocracy is supreme, Mountbatten, who was born in a high nobility and has close ties and relatives with the royal family, is destined to be born superior;

For example, the struggle between nobles cannot be fought by means of assassination, assassination, etc., and the fight between nobles adheres to the principle that disaster does not harm the family, etc.; Bai Feng is familiar with cutting grass and eradicating the roots, and there is no market in the aristocratic circle of the Heavenly Dragon Empire and even the entire continent.

Although the rules of the vast majority of the aristocracy have existed in name only, the last fig leaf hanging on the faces of the nobles is absolutely not allowed to be torn apart, otherwise, it will directly shake the ruling foundation of the entire aristocratic class!

Mountbatten's existence is the face of Prince William and Duke Cullen, even if Bai Feng personally led the army to exterminate the Wind Thieves, he would not be able to attack Mountbatten;

Mountbatten, who had lived in the imperial capital's elite circle since he was a child, naturally knew a lot about this, so after Montgomery said that he would keep him by his side, he opened his mouth and finally said nothing.

With Montgomery personally intervening, the chaos in the Tempest base was quickly quelled, but the real trouble had just begun, and when the Tempest generals pacified the chaos, they would inevitably take too heavy action, which led to the death of thousands of refugees in the chaos.

The refugees who were able to stay in the Tempest base were basically all members of the Tempest Thieves' new army, and in this way, the death of thousands of refugees was equivalent to the killing of thousands of family members of the Tempest Thieves' new army, and it was the elite veterans of the Tempest Thieves who killed them.

After this time, the contradictions between the two sides were directly put on the table, and the elite veterans refused to fight the enemy together with the untrustworthy new army, and even if they defended the same wall, the veterans were not accepted by the veterans.

The recruits, who were four times the number of veterans, gritted their teeth with hatred for the veterans who slaughtered their relatives, and if it weren't for the generals above, maybe Bai Feng's army hadn't come over, and the angry recruits would have attacked the veterans.

In desperation, Montgomery had no choice but to abandon his plan to mix the old and new armies, and re-demarcate the defensive area for the old and new armies, and the eastern wall of the Tempest base was given to 10,000 veterans, and the other three walls were given to 40,000 new soldiers.

Montgomery, who was not worried about the combat effectiveness of the new soldiers, also divided his 500 personal soldiers into five parts; he himself left only 100 personal soldiers, and the other 400 personal soldiers were strengthened into the new army, with an average of 100 personal soldiers for every 10,000 new army soldiers.

Montgomery's move was not so much to use his own soldiers to strengthen the fighting capacity of the new army, but to use his own soldiers to serve as the overseers of the new army; but could 100 soldiers of the new army be supervised by 100 personal soldiers?

The Storm Base with the city gates closed can stop ordinary people, but it can't stop the powerful battlefield ghosts, and on the night of the internal chaos, a battlefield ghost quietly left the Wind Base with relevant information.

At this time, Bai Feng, who was still half a day's way away from the Hurricane base, set up temporary barracks on both sides of the road, and before the army arrived at the Hurricane base at noon tomorrow, Bai Feng must give his soldiers enough rest to ensure their combat effectiveness.

At midnight when he inspected the barracks, Bai Feng just wanted to lie down and rest, when Adrien, who had arrived in a hurry, appeared in the military tent, and the chaos that broke out in the Storm Base made Bai Feng keenly aware of the opportunity to deal with the Wind Thieves without blood.

Bai Feng, who looked slightly excited, immediately gave Adrien two new orders: the first order was to let him personally bring a batch of grain to the Storm Base secretly, and the second order was for him to deliberately stir up the conflict between the veterans and recruits of the Wind Thieves Regiment.

The so-called intensification of the conflict is that Adrien intervenes to secretly distribute food to some hungry refugees, and then arranges for the netters to report to the veterans that the refugees have hidden food, so that the veterans can collect the food from the refugees.

When it comes to the most precious food resources, there will inevitably be a conflict between the refugees who are sworn to defend it and the veterans who are bound to take it away;

After giving these two orders to Adrien, Bai Feng called Ivan, who had been following him all along, and decided to add a fire to Bai Feng, and let Ivan take a group of shadow killers to the Wind Base to find some lone veterans of the Wind Thieves to assassinate.

With the strength of the Shadow Killer, it would be easy to assassinate some veterans of the Wind Thieves Regiment, and after that, re-camouflage the assassination scene and leave one or two weapons and equipment belonging to the new recruits of the Wind Thieves Regiment will definitely have the effect of adding fuel to the fire!

The blindly expanding Wind Thieves Group has too many internal unstable factors, and Bai Feng, who is good at seizing opportunities, may deal a fatal blow to the Wind Thieves Group if he only grasps this key instability factor.

After deploying new tasks to Adrien and Ivan one after another, Bai Feng had to make new adjustments to the battle plan for leading his troops to the Hurricane Base at noon tomorrow.