The wrong transmigrator assigned by the system

Lu Ming gave his answer without hesitation.

"Don't pursue a desperate enemy."

Hearing Lu Ming's answer, many commanders were displeased, but none dared to question his decision. After all, while Lu Ming might not understand warfare, he was adept at calculation. The Duchy of Erebus currently had 70,000 troops at Mordred Fortress, while the Elven army, detached from its main force, numbered around 200,000. If they pursued them now, they would surely perish!

So instead of waiting for someone else to ambush us, it's better to just go back!

Everyone understood this principle, so everyone was already preparing to go back.

However, a few busybodies who happened to overhear Lu Ming and Ramanlas's less-than-pleasant conversation as they came out were curious to see what would happen next. Would one disagree with the other and they part ways, or would one insist on returning to the fortress while the other insisted on chasing the elven army, ultimately leading to a huge argument...?

"okay."

But what those people didn't expect was that Ramanlas actually smiled and agreed to Lu Ming's idea of ​​returning, without arguing with him. On the way back to the fortress, they even acted like a loving young couple, showing no signs of having just quarreled. It was unclear whether they had been lying before or were still lying now. However, none of this concerned them; they were just watching the show.

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"What?! You were ambushed by the Miracaesars, and even defeated by those monkeys and beasts?!" Upon hearing that his subordinates had been defeated by Lu Ming's army, General Monska of the Elf race was furious. He glared fiercely at his three advisors and roared, "Not only did you three fail to bring Princess back, but you also let so many soldiers die at the hands of those monkeys and beasts! You are utterly useless!!"

Hearing General Monska's roar, the three staff officers felt extremely aggrieved. One of them said, "General, when the three of us were leading the troops to find Her Highness the Princess, we encountered the Erebus army and tried to use their mobility to bypass the enemy. However, a few people jumped out from among the five thousand light cavalrymen. The roaring elves, who are invincible, charged into the Erebus princess's army, which outnumbered us by more than one. We shouted at them day and night, but the soldiers ignored us."

Then, another advisor said, "The commander of the 10,000 heavy cavalry you sent to support us, after seeing the Erebis army retreat, completely ignored our orders. He didn't believe that the Erebis army was feigning defeat to lure us into a trap. He even forcibly tied the three of us together with ropes and took us with him to chase after the Erebis army. As a result, we were ambushed by other Erebis troops and defeated by those damned Miracaesars."

Upon hearing this, Monska frowned, for he detested people who made excuses. Regardless of whether what the person said was true or not...

However, given the precedent of Forest Arrow forcibly depleting their own soldiers, it is quite possible that those mid-to-low-level officers and some deputy generals, if they are truly mysterious individuals, would do something similar to deplete the loyalist faction's soldiers!

Moreover, he knew that his advisors were all cautious and prudent individuals, and under normal circumstances, it was impossible for them to send soldiers to fight to the death against the enemy! What happened today was also highly suspicious.

First, Princess inexplicably took Captain Wenglese to Mordred, the fortress of the Duchy of Erebus. Then, the two armies that Princess had sent to find them disobeyed her advisors' orders and fought to the death with the army of the Duchy of Erebus until the officers who resisted her advisors were killed in action.

These things seem rather strange no matter how you look at them.

First, Princess Miracaissa has no friends in this enemy country. Once she leaves the army and encounters the enemy, her tragic fate is already evident.

Secondly, it seems highly unlikely that one's own officers would disobey orders and lead their troops into a deadly battle with the enemy without any interference from others.

In other words, if it weren't for the fact that the Yousui faction, which was regarded as a savior by the nobles but as a venomous snake by the royal family, was plotting something, none of this would have happened!

Unfortunately, even knowing all this, General Monsca couldn't prevent these things from happening again, because the Deep Ones were the saviors of the nobles, and he himself was a nobleman. Although he disliked the Deep Ones and loathed those nobles who sided with them, he had already been loyal enough to the Queen and the Princess, and there was no need for him to sacrifice his life for a princess who was doomed and a Queen whose ability to defeat the Deep Ones was uncertain!

Chapter Fourteen - Undercurrent

Sitting on the floor of the room, Miral was engrossed in making and modifying his puppet soldiers. Meanwhile, Kate sat on the edge of the bed, bored and dozing off.

Due to the language-based curse magic, even chatting was difficult for the two of them. After all, whenever Kate mentioned her name or status, the curse would turn her words into insults. So, in the end, she could only change her name to Catherine in Miracaesar's language and remain silent about her identity and status in order to be able to talk to Miraal.

But for the arrogant Elf Afa, this was practically the same as killing her. No! This was even more unbearable than death. Therefore, she would never speak to Miral on her own initiative.

Mirall was even less inclined to speak, as she had things to do and couldn't possibly abandon them to chat with Kate.

However, after the knights told them that Lu Ming and the others had repelled the Elven cavalry that was pursuing Deucalion and had returned to the fortress, Miral immediately and without hesitation put the puppet soldier into her own phone. Then she sat down next to Kate, grabbed Kate's hand, and started chatting with Kate on her own.

Just as Kate was wondering what was wrong with her, the door to the room opened.

I glanced over there and saw Ramanlas walk in, collapse onto the bed, looking very listless.

"Where is Lu Ming?" Miral couldn't help but ask when she saw that only Ramanlas had come in.

"He and Torres went to the conference room to compare the combat strength of our side with the others." Lamanras replied with her eyes closed, slowly moving herself into the covers after lying on the bed.

Upon hearing this, Miral breathed a sigh of relief and resumed his research on the puppet soldiers.

However, at that moment, footsteps suddenly appeared behind her. She assumed it was Kate trying to escape and ignored her. But while adjusting the puppet soldiers, she suddenly saw Kate sitting not far in front of her...

Stiffly turning her head, she saw Lu Ming standing behind her, looking at her with great dissatisfaction. Miral was so frightened that she almost burst into tears.

“I remember, when we got back to our room after the meeting last night, it was already 5 a.m. And now it’s already past 9 p.m., but you don’t want to sleep at all. Looks like I’ll have to use some extreme measures to get you to go to sleep.” Lu Ming smirked, snatched Miral’s phone, put the puppet soldier and various materials into it, and then stuffed Miral’s phone into his shirt pocket.

Seeing this, Miral immediately put on a pitiful expression, looking at him with a condescending air, hoping he would forgive her and return her phone. Unfortunately...

Lu Ming picked her up and put her on the bed, tucked her in, and said, "Now be a good girl and get some sleep. We'll talk about other things tonight."

Upon hearing this, Miral knew that Lu Ming was determined, so she had no choice but to obediently close her eyes.

Seeing that Miral had obediently gone to sleep, Lu Ming then looked at Kate, and then, to Kate's horrified expression, cast a sleep spell, making her fall asleep instantly and collapse onto the bed.

After settling the three people in, Lu Ming took a document from the table in his temporary room, then turned and left the room to go to the conference room for a meeting.

But before that, Lu Ming kissed all three of them on the cheek...

With her eyes closed, Miral listened as Lu Ming closed the door and walked away. She took a pendant from under the covers, looked into the eyes reflected in it, smiled slightly, and whispered, "I'm not like you..."

After saying that, Miral closed her eyes again and slowly fell asleep.

However, she wasn't actually sleeping; she was also immersed in the dream of the owner of the eye in the pendant, conversing with him.

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"As before, the elven officers are still attriting their own soldiers, as evidenced by their inexplicable charges against heavily armored cavalrymen wielding long spears." Standing in the conference room, Lu Ming repeatedly replayed the footage of Deucalion's battle against the elven light cavalry, saying to the other army commanders, "We don't know if this is the enemy commander's intention, but it might be an opportunity for us!"

"An opportunity?" Upon hearing Lu Ming's words, the commanders were slightly taken aback and looked at him with some suspicion.

“Yes! An opportunity!” Lu Ming nodded slightly, then said, “There are two possibilities for the Elven race’s current practice of depleting its own soldiers. One is that the Elven military is fighting amongst themselves, with one side using this method to disrupt the other and get them blamed or punished by the Elven Queen. The other is that some of them want to seize power from the Elven Queen and want to use the war with our Miracaissa Kingdom to deplete the Elven Queen’s faction’s army in order to achieve their own goals.”

"Are they looking down on the people of our Miracaissa Kingdom?! Damn elves!!" After hearing Lu Ming's explanation, many ordinary army commanders were furious at the elves of Aifa's disdain for them.

Seeing this, Lu Ming immediately seized the opportunity and said to the commanders, "Since they look down on us, let's make some plans and give them a heavy blow!"

"What do you mean?"

“Don’t we have some elven prisoners in our hands? Let’s use them to cause some trouble for the elves!” Lu Ming smiled slightly, sat down in his seat, and said with a smile.

"Winning hearts and minds?"

“Not bad, psychological warfare.” Lu Ming handed a document to Lothric, who was standing nearby, and asked him to use magic to project the contents of the document onto the wall. Then, he began to explain his plan.

"Back at the first line of defense, the elven army we fought was the Forest Arrow Vanguard of the Third Legion of the Aifa Empire, numbering 100,000 soldiers. Now, the army we're about to face is the main force of the Third Legion, the 725th Main Force, known as the 'Empress's Scepter,' commanded by Monska Wextutasa. This commander is 1,700 years old and possesses exceptional military leadership skills; even against the army of Dark Aifa, he has never been at a disadvantage. However! He has a fiery temper and is easily angered. He whips his soldiers for the slightest provocation, and when he sees the prisoners and those who escaped, he will surely execute those elves!"

"By then, every elven soldier will be pondering the same question: was the very order that forced them to fight to the death issued by General Wextusar? Some soldiers are suspicious of them. If you were in the shoes of this ill-tempered general, what would you do? Wouldn't you kill those soldiers as an example to others? However, the more he does this, the more the soldiers will believe this suspicion. After all, there's already the precedent of the Forest Arrows. If this kind of forced order to fight to the death happens again, the elven soldiers will completely erupt and kill this invincible general at the hands of his own soldiers!"

After hearing Lu Ming's plan, many commanders couldn't help but swallow hard. Such psychological warfare tactics had never been seen before in Miracaissa's history, making Lu Ming's plan somewhat alarming to them.

What's even more terrifying is that after listening to Lu Ming's words, Lothric added, "However, relying solely on those prisoners and Vixtustassa's bad temper to achieve this goal, we still need to give them a push from the shadows. For example, hypnosis and curse magic!"

“To achieve this, we need one or two mages proficient in language curses to alter the words spoken by the elves, making the other elves believe that the orders that cost the soldiers their lives were given by Vixtusutha! This would further sow doubt among the elven soldiers about their general and make them question his commands. But unfortunately, I don't know language curses, and only two mages in Yogg-Sotus know a little bit about language curses. I'm a little worried about having just the two of them do it.” Lu Ming glanced at Lothric and then said with some concern.

However, Lothric said, "It doesn't matter, it doesn't need to be anything fancy. As long as it makes the soldiers of Aifa even more suspicious of their general, that's enough!"

"Whatever, I understand." Hearing Lothric say this, Lu Ming didn't intend to say anything more. Instead, he told Lothric to send someone to find those two guys and put a language curse on the prisoners, changing the meaning of their words to others.

Seeing this, Lothric frowned slightly, and then continued to discuss with Lu Ming how to deal with Aifa's army and how to deal with Wextusar.

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While Lu Ming and his group were discussing how to deal with Monska Vixtusa, Monska was sending men to search the entire town. Soldiers had discovered a secret room in the town, and the contents were clearly those of the Dark Forces.

Thus, Monsca learned that the crimson monster he had been waiting for was already in this small town. The reason it hadn't shown itself was simply because his soldiers hadn't yet suffered enough casualties.

Yes, the deep, crimson monster Ricard had been in his army the whole time, entering the town alongside them. But that bastard Ricard was waiting, waiting for more than half of his hundreds of thousands of elves to die before he would even show up.

Upon learning of this, Monsca was furious and immediately ordered the arrest and execution of all elves in the army who had any connection with the Church of the Deep. He also declared that regardless of the success of the campaign against the Duchy of Erebus, he would remain irreconcilably opposed to the people of the Deep, for they had deceived him.

Licarta, hiding in the shadows, had no thoughts on this. Even after learning that Beck and another member of the Dark Cult had been executed by Monska, he felt not a trace of anger.

To be honest, he hated the Deep, and he hated Eldridge. The more Deep people died, the better—ideally, all of them!

However, due to the corruption of the Deep, he turned into a monster, and because of Eldridge's power, he was bound and forced to obey Eldridge's orders and work for him and the Church of the Deep. Therefore, he could not kill the people of the Deep himself, and could only try to get the elves and the humans and beastmen of Miracath to kill the lackeys of the Church of the Deep.

However, there is one person who must die!

That's Lu Ming.

Lu Ming ruined his plan to seize Hector's territory, and from there, to further conquer Niflheim, Erebus, and even the entire kingdom of Miracaiser. He also turned Lu Ming into Eldridge's slave, forever enslaved by the Deep.

This hatred drove Licarta back to Miracaissa and Erebus, all for the purpose of taking revenge on Lu Ming!

Of course, if one could eat Lu Ming's wife and children alive, that would be the best revenge against Lu Ming.

However, he knew he was being watched by Lu Ming, every single minute, every single second. If he were to break away from Aifa's army and carefully bypass Mordred Fortress to assassinate Lu Ming's family, Lu Ming would definitely hand over Yogg-Sotus to Ramanras and then hunt him down alone. He might even use the very things he had prepared to deal with Eldridge on him, thus causing his revenge to fail.

Therefore, Likat must now hide in Aifa's army, waiting for them to become impatient and begin their attack on the city, so that he can hide among the soldiers and kill Lu Ming with an arrow.

Otherwise, neither Shoggoth, nor the Shadow Demon, nor the Seraph are beings he can handle. If those beings target him, he's doomed!

Hiding in a secluded spot, Likat watched a group of soldiers walk by outside, but couldn't see him, and he couldn't help but want to laugh.

After hiding for nearly several hours, Licat suddenly realized that it seemed that no one in the city was looking for him anymore, which made him feel a little strange.

Just then, several soldiers walked by, allowing Licat to overhear their conversation.

"Have you heard? Several soldiers ran away from the battlefield, only to be executed by the general!"

"So what if a few deserters are executed? What's the big deal?"

"What deserters! They were soldiers who got separated during the retreat. They were only executed by the general because they discovered that he had given their commander an order to fight to the death!"

"What? Those orders were issued by the general? That can't be right."

"Why is it impossible! The nobles all have some shady dealings with You Sui, and our general is also a nobleman, so it's not surprising that he has a relationship with You Sui. It's just that we people are pitiful! The nobles want us dead, and the Queen and the royal family want us to fight. None of these forces are good elves!"

Shh! Don't talk nonsense!

Several elven soldiers cautiously looked around, and only breathed a slight sigh of relief when they saw that no one was around.

But they didn't know that Licarte had overheard their words.

Licarte smiled slightly and said, "Monska, you're in trouble yourself now!"

Chapter Fifteen - Mutiny

Sitting in his room, General Monsca was writing to his two colleagues who were leading the attack on Tartarus and Ampu, hoping they could give him some advice on how to deal with the current situation.

Erebus's unconventional psychological warfare tactics caused him to lose control of his army overnight. Although a large portion of the soldiers still trust him, the army is highly likely to mutini if ​​an attack on Mordred is forced in this unstable state of mind.

However, if he doesn't lead his army to attack Mordred Fortress, he might face relentless scrutiny from the Queen, who could bring up past grievances and kill him. He might even be executed by the royal family on trumped-up charges. At that point, it wouldn't just be a matter of mutiny. If the Queen orders his execution, his family would also be in grave danger, with a high probability of being executed as well!

This is the last thing he wanted to see, so he hoped his two colleagues could give him an answer.

However, the moment he had just sent a letter to his two colleagues by his pet birds, one of his guards rushed into the room.

Seeing this, he couldn't help but angrily ask, "What kind of behavior is this, all flustered and panicked?!"

The guard said in a panic, "General, some soldiers are talking about those rumors about you again, and..."

"And what?!" Monska shouted in dissatisfaction when she saw the guards hesitating.

"Moreover, while they were discussing this, they were also spreading even more malicious rumors!" After being reprimanded by Monska, the guard gritted his teeth and told her what had happened: "General, those people say that you are a person of the Deep, and that you are plotting with the Deep Saint Eldridge to assassinate Her Majesty the Queen!!"