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Cabaye's cavalry had been roaming the outskirts of the mountains where the Tempest base was located, and Montgomery had no intention of sending troops to expel them, and the chaotic situation within the Tempest Thieves attracted Montgomery's full attention.

Even if Montgomery had the intention to organize a defense against the White Peaks' army until the chaos within the Tempest Thieves was pacified, he would not be able to take action, as he had completely lost control of the 30,000 New Army soldiers in the chaos of last night.

The tragic death of more than 10,000 soldiers of the New Army made the officers and men of the New Army who had survived the bloody night no longer trust Montgomery and his generals, and the officers and men of the New Army, armed with weapons, split into small independent armies with their own families as the core.

It is said that it is a small army, but in fact the size of each army is not less than 3,000; due to the impact of last night's melee, the small groups that were originally small in size have united in order to survive, and have formed seven slightly larger groups.

Among them, the New Luke group, which was jointly formed with the original Luke group as the main force, is the strongest of the seven joint groups; perhaps it was Lu Jie's performance last night that won the recognition of the refugees, and with the support of Luke Jr., he became the top leader of the New Luke group.

In return, Lu Jie appointed Luke's eldest son, Luke Jr., as the commander of the New Army attached to the New Luke group, and Luke Jr., who was a squadron leader of the New Army yesterday, became the supreme commander of the 8,000 New Army soldiers of the New Luke group!

It stands to reason that little Luke, who was only a squadron leader before, was suddenly appointed by Lu Jie as the commander of the 8,000 New Army officers, and the other officers at all levels among the 8,000 New Army officers and soldiers will definitely be dissatisfied, especially the officers who were originally higher in rank than Little Luke.

In fact, this did not happen in the army belonging to the New Lukes, because Montgomery, in order to take full control of the 40,000 New Army, did not appoint the Refugee Young as senior officers of the New Army, and all the officers of the Forces nouvelles at the rank of Captain and above were veterans of the Storm Thieves.

Even the position of squadron leader of the new army, which totaled as high as 400, was actually filled by no more than forty refugee young people, and the rest were all elite veterans from the Wind Thieves Regiment, and those elite veterans of the Wind Thieves Regiment had all been killed in last night's battle.

After losing all the mid- and high-ranking officers, including the ninety percent squadron leader, the 30,000 new army, which was divided into seven independent armies, was all controlled by their former squadron leader, and Luke Jr., who was entrusted with the important task by Lu Jie, was himself the best of the squadron leaders.

Of course, Luke Jr.'s appointment as the commander of the army of the New Luke group is not only due to Luke Jr.'s own ability, but also to his father Luke, after all, in the eyes of everyone in the New Luke group, Luke is Luke's confidant brother.

If Lu Jie does not take care of little Luke after his death, then his own position will fall into an unstable situation, you know, Luke's two younger brothers, little Luke's second and third uncles, are the main forces supporting Lu Jie's ascension.

After dealing with the internal affairs of the new Lukes, it was a matter of alliance and cooperation between the seven new groups, and the top leaders of the seven new groups understood that in order to survive each other, they must form an alliance to support each other.

The 10,000 soldiers of the Swift Thieves Regiment lost nearly half of their soldiers, and there are still 5,000 elite soldiers available to Montgomery; these 5,000 veterans of the Swift Thieves Regiment may have a hard time dealing with 30,000 soldiers of the New Army, but it is absolutely easy to deal with the scattered New Army, which is no more than 8,000 at most.

With the presence of the five thousand elite warriors of the Swift Bands, seven new groups in constant danger of annihilation have formed a defensive alliance that advances and retreats together, and if the Swift Thieves' army attacks whichever group first, the other six groups will immediately join forces to reinforce the group.

Naturally, it was impossible to hide such a big matter as the integration of the refugee groups and the split of the Forces nouvelles, and Montgomery, who had temporarily lost control of the Forces nouvelles and the refugee groups, took the most passive approach to this.

"Chief, the mob in the base has already divided our 30,000 new troops, if we don't send troops to disperse them, I'm afraid their next plan is to unite to attack us!"

"Send troops to disperse them?" Cunningham, who had his own views on the current situation, took over with a wry smile and said: "General Slim, we only have 5,000 soldiers left, and they are divided into two parts, how can we send troops to disperse them?"

"This ......" Cunningham's big truth suddenly made Slim, who couldn't sit still, speechless.

"General Cunningham, I do not think that General Slim's advice is not necessarily completely unfeasible. Mountbatten, who has never participated in major decisions, took the initiative to relieve Slim and said: "Instead of sitting back and waiting for Bai Feng to destroy us, it is better to fight out!"

"That's it!" As soon as Mountbatten's words were finished, Paresi, who was known for his bravery, chimed in, "I don't believe that our elite army will be suppressed by those mobs and recruits;

Although Paresi, who took the initiative to ask for help, was in a commendable spirit, Montgomery, who had a good idea, still shook his head and refused: "General Paresi, I believe that you have the strength to defeat the refugees and the new army in a battle;

Hearing Montgomery say this, Auchinleck, who had followed Montgomery for the longest time and was most relied on by Montgomery, said: "Chief, do you want to gradually break down the resistance of the refugees and the New Army and reconquer them through the food that is still under our control?"

"Not bad. Seeing Auchinleck say what he was thinking, Montgomery admitted: "As long as we have food, how long will those refugees and the new army survive? At most two days, they will lay down their arms and surrender!"

Montgomery's description of the prospect was good, but the pessimistic Cunningham nodded: "Chief, that's two whole days, and the White Summit has given us these precious two days?"

As soon as these words came out, the huge conference hall fell into a deathly silence, yes, did the White Summit give them two whole days of precious time?

The 3,000 well-equipped cavalry that had already appeared on the periphery of the Storm Base were only the vanguard cavalry of the White Peak Army;

Can he and the others stabilize the situation inside the base before the arrival of the White Peak army? The core members of the Swift Wind Thieves Group who asked themselves had a very clear answer in their hearts; they were in a dilemma, and it seemed that they really didn't even have the slightest chance of luck.

While Montgomery and the others were struggling to advance and retreat in the Chief's Mansion, the army led by Bai Feng had already approached a position only about five miles away from the Hurricane base, and the vanguard of the First Division of the Yulin Legion had joined forces with Cabaye's cavalry wing.