I, who was eager to retire, became an Imperial General.

Chapter 132 Decoy Intelligence
After successfully winning over the enemy's hearts and minds, and through a similar operation, late at night, a lieutenant colonel who was not a member of the Leila family was selected from among the five battalion commanders of the 1st Infantry Regiment and appointed as the temporary commander of the 1st Regiment.

The next day, John woke up and began to work on improving the atmosphere of the 1st Division. He arranged for members of the 14th Squad to spread Maslow's quotes among the various units of the 1st Division. He also confiscated the wealth of the former Lord of Horseshoe City and members of the Morning Star Clan in the city and distributed it to the soldiers as spoils of war.

Having calmed the morale of the lower-ranking soldiers, John began to tactically deploy the defensive forces around Horseshoe City, based on Leon Lee's combat style. He expanded the existing patrol area and also sent out the 1st Battalion's reconnaissance unit to conduct a detailed investigation of the surrounding terrain.

After identifying several suitable locations near the junction of Horseshoe Territory and Starshine Territory, John deployed his functional company to modify them. He then disguised the constructed bunkers as ordinary small hills, intending to use these traps to launch a surprise attack on the 4th Independent Division, which would be advancing through this inevitable route.

"To be able to do this, Martha, you really haven't disappointed me!"

After personally inspecting the bunker's camouflage with binoculars and finding no flaws even from fifty meters away, John immediately expressed his admiration for Lieutenant Martha beside him.

In fact, he had already prepared himself for shoddy work before he had Martha renovate these 15 locations.

After all, no matter how many functional spells Martha has mastered, she is still just a magic soldier.

As magic soldiers, explosive spells should be their forte.

But the result far exceeded his expectations.

Looking at those dozen or so bunkers, which were indistinguishable from natural structures on the outside and had taken concealment to the extreme.

John immediately realized that unless someone inside fired outwards, or was less than two meters away, the only way out was to fire.

Otherwise, covered by weeds and mud, enemy troops without the Magic Eye technique would not be able to confirm with just binoculars that these 15 locations were not naturally formed small mounds, but rather artificially created camouflage.

Even John couldn't help but feel a surge of amazement, and his gaze toward Martha was filled with astonishment.

This guy is a civil engineering prodigy. Seriously, how did he even think of becoming a magic soldier?
Wouldn't someone with that ability make more money in the construction industry than by joining the army?

I thought he was a complete idiot, but it turns out he's a real genius.

So even I can be wrong sometimes?

"Hehe, it's just so-so, not as good as you praised it, Battalion Commander!"

Martha pursed her lips somewhat shyly. Upon hearing John's approval, any dissatisfaction she had felt about personally overseeing the bunker construction vanished instantly.

Although she continued to speak politely, her uncontrollable upturn of the corners of her mouth and eyebrows revealed her true emotions completely.

Clearly, Lieutenant Martha was quite pleased with John's praise.

This also sparked a different thought in her mind. She immediately pretended to be a little hot and tugged at her collar, and relying on her stunning beauty, she kept throwing flirtatious glances at the young and handsome battalion commander.

She tried to attract the attention of the promising battalion commander by showcasing her charm.

Why does this ugly thing keep blinking at me?
Could it be that the intense construction work in a short period of time caused your eyelids to twitch?

Are magic soldiers really that bad at stamina?
Martha's eyelids twitched constantly, her donkey face was as red as a monkey's bottom from exhaustion, and she even opened her chest because of the heat, revealing her shriveled chest that was almost as barren as the ground.

Major John fell into deep thought. But considering that he still needed to induce Leon Lee to send troops to assassinate him, thereby annihilating the enemy's assassination squad, he gave up the idea of ​​showing concern for his small-chested and ugly subordinate.

Instead, he advised her to take better care of her health and to eat some papaya to nourish her body when she had nothing to do. Then, under Martha's almost questioning gaze, he slung his magic bag over his shoulder and returned to the 1st Battalion's camp.

He then began preparing for his subsequent trap plan.

Under John's arrangement, five days passed in the blink of an eye.

Five days later, in the western part of Horseshoe City, a furtive centaur resident sneaked into an abandoned house under the cover of darkness.

Upon arriving at the house, he did not immediately take action. Instead, he carefully observed his surroundings and secretly used his magical senses to confirm that there were no people following him. Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.

He then quickly arrived at the bedroom, which was covered in cobwebs, and bent down on the huge straw bed made of a lot of hay and animal hides, carefully feeling around for a long time.

After he kept pressing the mechanisms in various locations inside the grass bed and pressing the buttons one by one in the correct order.

With a barely perceptible clicking sound, a hidden compartment suddenly popped out of the wall next to them.

Immediately afterwards, the male centaur, who was ostensibly a centaur resident of Horseshoe City but was actually an external spy member of the Shadow Force, strode to the hidden compartment and pulled the internal handle in sequence, one long, two short, and one long.

The once unremarkable walls slowly unfolded to the sides, revealing more than a dozen steel birdcages inside, each containing a hideous monster with blood-red skin and a worm-like appearance.

He then pulled out the intelligence he had prepared beforehand and stuffed it into the worm's chrysanthemum-shaped teeth.

Watching these 'messenger worms,' carefully bred by the Shadow Orcs and specifically designed to deliver classified intelligence, devour all the information he had collected, and then, with a burst of magical energy, completely transform into a shriveled, grayish-brown corpse, he was utterly astonished.

He finally breathed a sigh of relief, and was just about to quickly take out the destroyed Messenger Bug and eat it to prevent the Empire's terrifying magic soldiers from noticing the unexpected magical fluctuations.

But before he could take any action, he suddenly found that his vision began to spin uncontrollably.

Before his vision truly plunged into complete darkness, what came into his view was a human girl who was only 1.5 meters tall and had a head of bright silver hair as beautiful as the moonlight.

So beautiful.

He murmured unconsciously, and then the headless corpse, which was still gushing blood, collapsed to the ground with a thud. After convulsing for a while, it finally calmed down completely.

"Leah Binot has confirmed that enemy spies have sent out the decoy intelligence."

“Well done, Leia, you can go back now.”

"Yes, Major John!"

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Finished at 6 PM, going to bed now, that's all~
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