Under the Third Infantry Regiment's charge, John's group quickly took Horseshoe City, which had fewer than eight hundred defenders, by relying on their numerical advantage. After occupying the city, John had Wendy lead men to lock the Centaur higher-ups from the City Lord's Manor in the dungeon, then had someone bring him a map of the area around Horseshoe City.
"Major John, what should we do next? Should we garrison this city and wait for friendly forces to arrive?"
Inside Horseshoe City's City Lord's Manor, Samuel watched John frown in thought, his face filled with fervor. He was so excited that he could not stop trembling.
He had never imagined that the siege of a major city with nearly five hundred thousand residents could be this easy.
Under the arrangements of the young major before him, he had not even cast his prized "Rousing" spell from beginning to end. He had merely led the soldiers in a charge when the city gate shattered.
And then this city, like an iron fortress, had been completely occupied by them.
Other than two unlucky men who had been wounded after being carelessly ambushed by several Centaur soldiers while clearing out the guards, not a single soldier had died in this siege.
In his fifteen years of service, he had never heard of such a record!
Not even the Allied Forces' famed Star of Dawn had achieved it in recent years.
And considering the chain reaction Horseshoe City's fall would trigger, this surprise attack—turning the overall situation on the Iron Horse Mountain Front completely around by raiding an enemy city—would be enough to become a classic case in military instruction.
It was practically art!
The more Samuel thought about it, the more amazed he became. The respect in his gaze toward John reached an