More than a hundred miles southwest of the capital of Tianzhiguo, there is a hill about one hundred meters high.
The vegetation in the mountain is sparse, and only the trees on the east side are slightly denser.
At this moment, eight members of the Konoha reconnaissance team were hiding in the woods.
The leader was none other than Hyuga Hizashi, the younger brother of the Hyuga clan leader.
Hizashi is the master of the Hyuga clan second only to the clan leader in strength. His Byakugan is extremely pure, even surpassing that of Hizashi. Unfortunately, due to the fate of the separation, he was branded with the "Caged Bird" curse, and his Byakugan was also suppressed.
This time, Hizashi took the initiative to ask for information. The accompanying ninjas included Uchiha Munuhito, Uchiha Shisui, Watanabe Juro, Ogata Tou and other jonins who were good at fighting, as well as perceptive jonins like Sakamoto Izawa. There is also Maruhoshi Kosuke, a genin whose actual combat power is only slightly weaker than Kage level.
Since the 'Caged Bird' curse suppresses the Byakugan, Hizashi's Byakugan is extremely pure, but his Byakugan cannot observe a 360-degree range.
So the last person is the newly promoted special jounin Hyuga Tokuma, who is also a member of the branch clan.
The eight-man team's reconnaissance capabilities, counter-reconnaissance capabilities, mobility, and combat effectiveness are all fully maximized.
Even if you encounter a strong person comparable to the shadow level, you will not be in any danger.
What's more, there is Uchiha Shisui who has activated the Mangekyō Sharingan hidden among them.
Unless they directly encounter the Fourth Raikage, or Kumogakure's perfect Jinchuuriki Rabbi, there will be no problem for the eight of them to escape intact.
A group of eight people hid in the forest, squatting on the grass and forming a circle.
Hinata Hizashi took out the terrain map from his arms and spread it out on the ground.
The map is filled with markers and travel routes depicted in different colors.
Hinata Hizashi pointed to the location where the triangle was drawn in the center of the map and said:
"This is the capital of Tian Country, and outside the city is the central camp of Kumogakure's army."
Saying that, Hinata Hizashi pointed to the circles on both sides of the triangle and said:
"Yunyin divided his troops into three. The main camps on the two wings were a hundred miles away from the Chinese camp, but the troops on the two wings were smaller.
In the previous battle, the ninjas sent by Kumogakure were all from the two-wing camp. These people were not strong in combat and only came to harass the border. So far, the elite of the Chinese army camp have not moved.
But this was information from three days ago.
Our mission this time is to find out the truth about Yunyin.
The border is hundreds of miles away. If the Kumogakure troops attack in three groups, we need to know which group the Fourth Raikage and the Eight-Tails Jinchuuriki are in. "
Sakamoto Izawa looked at the map and asked doubtfully: "The Fourth Raikage and the Eight-Tails Jinchuuriki are brothers. Don't they often act together?
Since the Chinese army has the largest number of troops, they must have led the Chinese army in a frontal attack together! "
Hearing this, Hinata Hizashi shook his head and explained patiently:
"Not necessarily. According to Shikaku's analysis, Kumogakure's Todai is good at coming up with strange ideas, and it is very likely that he will do the opposite.
During the Third Raikage period, although Dodai was heavily used, his strategies were rarely adopted by the Third Raikage.
The Third Raikage always fought with one person at the forefront, so he always directly led the army to attack head-on.
After the Fourth Raikage came to power, Kumogakure's fighting methods changed greatly.
Our military strength is only a little more than one-third of Kumogakure's.
Although the quality of ninjas is generally higher than that of Kumogakure, with such a huge gap in numbers, the border is unsafe to defend.
Now that the Third Hokage is injured, if the Fourth Raikage and the Eight-Tails Jinchuuriki attack head-on, with the help of a group of elite jounin such as Nichizu-sama and Fugaku-sama, we can barely block Kumogakure's attack for the time being due to our top-notch combat power. .
The Third Master fought against Kumogakure with the determination to die together, and the opponent could not afford such a loss. "
Hearing this, Sakamoto Izawa fell into deep thought. Shisui on the side reacted and said:
"Therefore, the Fourth Raikage and the Eight-Tailed Jinchuuriki only need one person to lead the army, and our top combat power must also be divided to deal with it.
In other words, as long as one of the Fourth Raikage and the Eight-Tailed Jinchuuriki can hold back the Third Generation, the other one will be difficult for us to resist. "
Shisui's heart sank. Although he and the clan leader had activated the Mangekyō Sharingan, it would be difficult to say that they would win against either of the Fourth Raikage and the Eight-Tailed Jinchuuriki.
If the eight-tailed jinchūriki enters the tailed beast transformation and releases the tailed beast jade, Zhisui doesn't know if Susanoo, who has just entered the second form, can stop it.
As the defensive side, the initiative lies with the attacking side.
As long as one's own casualties are too high, even if the opponent's first round of offensive is blocked, subsequent battles will be difficult.
Shisui didn't know if his 'Belten God' would be useful to the Perfect Jinchuuriki.
He had no confidence in his heart.
Even though his strength was much stronger than before the kaleidoscope was turned on, he still felt powerless in this kind of battle with thousands of people.
It's just that he never wants to see his companion fall in front of him again.
Hinata almost nodded and said: "Shisui is right! This is what Shikaku is worried about, in addition to top combat power.
In fact, the most important thing for us is to find out the opponent's high-end combat power deployment.
If the opponent thinks differently, disperse a large number of Jonin to the troops on both wings.
The Chinese army has the largest number, but may be the weakest. "
"Damn Iwagakure, if they hadn't been backstabbed at any time, we wouldn't have had to fight so hard!"
Juro Watanabe on the side cursed angrily in a low voice.
If he really wanted to fight Kumogakure in a one-on-one fight, with the current strength of his troops, even if the third generation was injured, Konoha wouldn't be able to defeat him.
It's just that the war reports coming from the northwest border made Konoha a little helpless.
On the border of Iwagakure's country of war and grass, once the loss of troops in the northern border is too large, it is difficult to guarantee that Iwagakure will not take advantage of the chaos to make a sneak attack.
The Kingdom of Rain in the west also had to be on guard.
If it is not handled well, Konoha will once again fall into the quagmire of the Ninja World War.
Compared to Kumogakure, Konoha must not only hold on, but the casualties must not be too high.
As for Kumogakure or Iwagakure, if they really can't fight, they can just retreat.
Their countries are all dangerous and can be defended, and the border is not as long as the Fire Country, and it is still a large area of plains.
Historically, in ninja world wars, Konoha has basically been defensive. It is difficult to extend the front line, but it suffers greatly from the terrain.
"Now we can only wait for Jiraiya-sama's support, and hope that Tsunade-sama can cure Yondaime-sama as soon as possible.
As long as the Yondaime-sama recovers from his injuries, neither Kumogakure nor Iwagakure will dare to be so presumptuous! "
Although Ogatato's words are a bit disrespectful to the third generation, it is the fact.
'If you encounter a golden flash, you can give up the mission directly without any penalty. '
Only the Fourth Hokage, Namikaze Minato, has such a deterrent effect.
Compared to the Third Hokage, who has long since passed his peak and his strength has declined sharply, the Fourth Hokage is the anchor in the hearts of Konoha ninjas.
Not to mention that the fourth generation has fully recovered from his injuries, just the fourth generation coming to the front line can greatly boost the morale of the ninjas on the front line.
Unfortunately, the fourth generation was seriously injured and could only recover slowly.
After hearing Ogata Tou's words, Hinata Hizashi fell into deep thought.
Maybe before he insisted on dying in his brother's place, he might have been able to stop this war.
However, he quickly put aside the distracting thoughts in his mind, and what he wanted to do now was to complete the task.
“According to Shikaku’s request, we will first explore the deployment of troops on both wings during this trip.
Once Lord Jiraiya comes to help, we may even have the opportunity to take the initiative to counterattack.
Of course, in addition to completing the task, ensuring our own safety is also very important. "
After Hinata Hizashi finished speaking, he looked at the others solemnly.
The eight members of the team are all jounin. In addition to having special abilities, they are veteran jounin who have been on the battlefield for a long time. The loss of any one of them is a heavy loss.
Among them, Uchiha Shisui is among the new generation and is known as a genius who is not inferior to Uchiha Makoto and Kakashi.
At first, Hyuga Hizu was opposed to him joining the reconnaissance force.
After all, the combat power of their team is basically sufficient. As long as they have Byakugan's detection ability and Sakamoto Izawa who is good at perception, it will be difficult to be discovered by the enemy.
Unless the opponent's ninjas have ninjas who are good at ultra-long-distance perception.
But even if they are discovered, as long as the Fourth Raikage and the Eight-Tails Jinchuuriki are unable to come, they will be able to discover and retreat in time.
However, Shisui himself strongly requested to join the team, and the leader of the Uchiha clan, Lord Fugaku, also agreed.
Hinata Hizashi then agreed to Shisui joining.
In his opinion, although Shisui is very talented and famous, his strength is only in the middle of the team. He is not good at reconnaissance, so why must he join the team.
In fact, what Hinata and Hinashi didn't know was that Shisui was the thickest thigh in their team.
“Going forward for about ten miles, we will reach a large plain.
In the absence of cover, we can only disguise ourselves as Kumogakure's patrol troops and try to avoid Kumogakure's ninjas.
If you can't avoid them, it's best if you can get past them. If that doesn't work, deal with them immediately and retreat.
do you understand? ! "
"yes!"
After deciding on the route of travel, Hinata Hizashi put away the terrain map.
Then, a group of eight people put on the clothes and forehead protectors of Kumogakure ninjas and walked out of the forest.
Half an hour later, Hinata Hizashi suddenly stopped.
"stop!"
The other seven people immediately stopped and became alert.
"Tokuma, do you feel something is wrong?!" Hinata Hizashi looked at Hyuga Tokuma with a solemn expression.
Hyuga Tokuma nodded, "Hizashi-sama, we have traveled about twenty miles, and we have already encountered five underground sentries.
However, three of the hidden sentries were empty, which was a bit abnormal! "
"Byakugan cooperates with the Sensing Ninja to bypass the secret whistle.
But why did Kumogakure withdraw some of the ninjas from the secret sentry?
Could it be that...the other party has discovered us? Do they really have ninjas with greater sentience? !
Are you letting us go deeper on purpose? "
Hinata Hizashi had a sullen face. As the captain, it was important to complete the mission, but now there was most likely a trap ahead, and he had to be responsible for his team members.
Just when Hinata Hizashi was hesitating, Sakamoto Izawa's face suddenly changed wildly, he pointed forward, his body was trembling slightly, and he shouted:
"Here he comes! It's him! He's here!"
Hyuga Hizashi followed the direction that Sakamoto Izawa pointed and used his Byakugan to conduct full reconnaissance, but there was no one within a one kilometer radius.
Sakamoto Izawa's perception range is more than two kilometers, and he may sense the enemy first.
"This is...this chakra, it's the Jinchuuriki! He has discovered us, Formation B, retreat!"
Before Hinata Hizashi had time to ask, he felt a figure rushing in from the Byakugan's detection range. He was very familiar with the face of the other person. Just by 'looking', he could feel the terrifying chakra that was so powerful that it made people tremble.
It turned out to be the Jinchūriki of the Eight-Tails!
The other party is approaching quickly.
Hinata Hizashi's reminder shocked everyone, but they were all jonins who had licked blood from their swords, and their psychological quality was naturally far superior to that of genin and chunin.
They immediately retreated according to the originally planned B formation.
Hyuga Tokuma and Sakamoto Izawa, the two weakest ones, went first, Uchiha Shisui and Uchiha Munehito were in the middle to provide support, and Ogata Tou, Watanabe Juro, Maruboshi Kosuke and Hyuga Hizashi came to the back.
But as soon as they retreated a few hundred meters, they felt an astonishing surge of chakra.
call out!
A sharp sound broke through the air, and a black object wrapped in an electric arc shot towards the eight people.
"I'll do it!" Seeing that he could not avoid the rapidly flying attack, Hinata Hizashi immediately stopped and stood behind everyone.
'Baguazhang·Huitian! '
Hinata Hizashi assumed the starting position of Baguazhang, and his body rotated like a top. A large amount of chakra was released from the acupuncture points all over his body, and a hemispherical chakra shield formed around his body.
boom!
The black object bounced back to the sky and hit the ground next to Hinata Hizashi. A large crater with a diameter of more than two meters appeared directly.
"It's actually a pencil?"
Looking at the black objects flashing with arcs in the pit, Hinata Hizashi's heart sank.
boom!
Hinata Hizashi felt an afterimage flash before his eyes, and a huge octopus tentacle swept towards him.
He had just dodged the attack of the octopus tentacle, and a larger octopus tentacle appeared in the sky. Seeing that he couldn't dodge it, he was about to use Kaiten to defend again, when he heard a sound of breaking through the sky.
laugh!
A silver-white sword light flashed.
boom!
The huge octopus tentacles were cut off directly.
The octopus fell to the ground and its tentacles were squirming wildly.
Shisui held the sword in both hands and stood in front of Hinata Hizashi. The small sword in his hand kept flashing silver-white arcs.
'so hard! '
Zhisui looked at the octopus tentacles on the ground. Even with his strength and the thunder escape swordsmanship taught by Captain Cheng, he used all his strength to cut off the octopus tentacles.
'Is this the strength of a perfect Jinchuuriki? '
Looking at the man opposite who retracted the octopus tentacles, Shisui's heart sank and his eyes changed.
At this time, Kirabi stopped attacking, took out a notebook and pencil from his ninja bag, and wrote this quickly.
"Konoha ninjas meet on a narrow road and become rivals. The loser will leave, Oye~
Well, that doesn’t rhyme enough!
Konoha ninja, narrow road..."
Listening to Kirabi's outrageous rap, Shisui was shocked. There was something wrong with this Eight-Tails Jinchuuriki.
Seeing that the other party was concentrating on writing and drawing, the eight of them ran away.
"Idiot! The enemies are running away!"
Although the eight tails in Kirabi were used to this kind of torture, they still cursed helplessly.
"Huh?!" Kirabi finally reacted and immediately burst out chakra and chased the eight people who were escaping.
'Supersonic Thunder Escape Knife'
call out!
Kirabi infused the four ninja swords behind his back with thunder escape chakra and threw them towards Shisui.
'Fire Release· Impatiens flower claws are red! '
The flight paths of the four ninja swords flying towards them were all captured by Shisui's Sharingan.
Shisui threw a dozen shurikens, and the moment the shurikens flew out, he completed his fire escape.
Ding ding ding ding!
The shuriken wrapped in flames was easily knocked away by the four speeding ninja swords, but the thunder escape chakra besides the ninja swords was also consumed.
Then, Shisui used the Kodachi in his hand to block all four ninja swords.
Four ninja swords flew out, all blocked by Shisui, and he felt numbness in both arms holding the swords.
What a strength!
As expected of a jinchuriki, chakra is free to use.
'Shuriken·Shadow Clone Jutsu! '
After Shisui blocked Kirabi's attack, Maruboshi Kosuke next to him threw a kunai, and then quickly completed the seal.
The kunai shot out spawned thousands of clones in the air, and the dense kunai covered the entire direction of Kirabi's advance.
However, Kirabi's body surface suddenly erupted with Thunder Chakra. At the same time, in addition to the Thunder Chakra, a Tailed Beast Chakra coat appeared.
Ding ding ding!
Kirabi directly relied on double chakra defense and rushed through.
His speed increased dramatically, and his figure turned into an afterimage, and the next second he appeared ten meters in front of Kosuke Maruhoshi.
'Thunder plow hot knife! '
Kirabi hit a large amount of chakra on his wrist and hit Kosuke Maruboshi's neck.
Kosuke Maruhoshi was suddenly startled, burst out chakra and retreated, while quickly forming seals with his hands.
It's just that Kirabi was faster and bullied him again.
'Fire Release: Dragon Fire Technique! '
Shisui completed the seal while using a special instant form.
He suddenly stood in front of Maruhoshi Kosuke, and a huge fire dragon spurted out of his mouth and flew straight towards Kirabi at close range.
Kirabi directly exploded with chakra, punched the fire dragon, and passed through the middle.
The next second, Kirabi appeared in front of Shisui.
'Thunder Plow Hot Knife'
"Succeeded!" Shisui looked at Kirabi who suddenly appeared in front of him, with no trace of panic on his face. The three magatama in his scarlet eyes quickly rotated, and then connected with the pupils and turned into a dart shape.
'This is? ! Mangekyō Sharingan? ! Oops! "
Kirabi looked at Shisui at close range and was instantly struck.
His figure suddenly stopped, but he rushed forward too fast. Even if he stopped, his 'Thunder Plow Hot Knife' still hit Shisui's neck.
But there is no feeling of hitting the entity.
The next moment, Kirabi felt like the world was spinning and stopped in place.
Shisui used teleportation to avoid Kirabi's attack. When he saw that he was trapped in his illusion, he felt certain in his heart and immediately shouted:
"He fell under my illusion, let's attack together!"
As soon as Shisui finished speaking, he saw the Kodachi sheathed in his hand, and at the same time he was accumulating chakra.
Hearing Shisui's reminder, although he was shocked by his powerful illusion, his reaction was not slow at all.
They immediately released their ninjutsu with all their strength.
'Fire Escape·The great fire is extinguished! '
'Fire Release·Fire Dragon Flame Bullet! '
'Wind Escape·Big Breakthrough! '
'Wind Release·Tornado Hurricane! '
The fire took advantage of the wind, and the combination of wind and fire ninjutsu doubled the power of the fire escape. The sea of fire hit Kirabi instantly with a heat wave that burned everything.
boom!
At this time, four huge octopus tentacles suddenly grew out of Kirabi's body, protecting his body within them.
In an instant, the octopus tentacles outside Kirabi's body were half-cooked by the sea of fire. Along with the sound of sizzling, the aroma of meat filled the air.
Shisui's figure flashed and suddenly appeared in front of Kirabi's octopus tentacles.
'Uchiha Style·Sword Jumping Flame! '
Zheng!
Shisui pulled out the Kodachi from his back with the force of thunder. The blade was covered with chakra of wind and fire.
laugh!
The flaming blade with the power of the wind instantly cut off the octopus's tentacles.
However, Kirabi's body surface once again sprouted new octopus tentacles, and he also launched a counterattack towards Shisui who was already close.
'Uchiha Style·Blizzard Sword! '
'Uchiha style: Halo dance! '
Shisui, who had learned the true sword skills of Uchiha Makoto, developed a variety of new sword skills on his own. In one second, he directly completed the combined attack of the three sword skills.
The sword light flashes wildly!
Shisui continued to appear in all directions around Kirabi with the help of his teleportation technique.
laugh!
Kirabi was now deeply trapped in Shisui's illusion, and the octopus tentacles generated on his body were just the eight tails in his body to help him defend.
Tailed beasts mostly rely on instinct in their battles, and compared to Kirabi's exquisite control, their fighting skills are much rougher in an instant.
Seeing Zhisui's figure flashing around Kirabi in the lightning and flint, the other seven people were all shocked by Zhisui's strength!
No wonder Shisui strongly demanded to follow him, and Uchiha Fugaku also insisted.
It turns out Shisui was here to protect them!
Is this youngest boy the strongest in their team?
The other seven people could only watch. When Shisui launched his attack, they did not take action.
It wasn't that they watched and paddled at the critical moment, but that Shisui's attack frequency was too high.
Once they get close, they can't help at all, but they are easily injured by Shisui.
The seven of them were watching Shisui intently, ready to wait for the moment when his attack paused, and then go up to assist him.
laugh!
'good chance! '
Shisui's high-frequency attacks created holes in the Eight-Tails' defense.
The moment he cut off the octopus tentacles with the kodachi in his hand, the octopus tentacles on Kirabi's neck were unable to regenerate.
Shisui's Mangekyou Sharingan condensed, and then he used the teleportation technique, split his body into eight, passed through the intensive attack of the eight tails, and slashed towards Kirabi's neck.
' Got it! ' Zhishui was delighted.
Ding!
————
'not good! '
Just when Shisui's ninja sword was about to hit Kirabi's neck, there was a sound of gold and iron clashing, and his attack was blocked by the ninja sword across his shoulder.
Kirabi's eyes became clear again from the chaos just now, and he blocked Shisui's ninja sword.
Seeing that Kirabi was out of the control of the illusion, Shisui was shocked, but he took advantage of the opportunity and followed Kirabi's blocking power and flew backwards.
Kirabi suddenly stood up and stepped forward. This time he burst out a large amount of chakra. The tailed beast's coat instantly increased in size, and the chakra at his elbows quickly became substantial, and the tailed beast's skeleton appeared.
'Thunder plow hot knife! '
"Not good!" Seeing Kirabi's sudden outburst, Zhishui's expression changed suddenly.
boom!
Kirabi's elbow hit Shisui's neck head-on.
Shisui's body flew out like a cannonball, drawing a gully dozens of meters long on the ground, leaving a large crater in the end.
"Shisui!"
"Shisui?!"
The situation suddenly reversed, and everyone was shocked.
boom!
Just when Kirabi was about to attack the others, Shisui slowly walked out of the pit. The corners of his mouth were stained with blood, and his eyes were bloodshot. Blood was oozing from the corners of his eyes, making him look a little ferocious. .
"This is the Mangekyou Sharingan?! Susanoo?!"
Only then did Uchiha Zonghito notice that Shisui's eyes had changed drastically, and his body was covered with rib-shaped green chakra.
The powerful aura emanating from Shisui shocked everyone.
'Compare! careful! 'Bachio immediately reminded him.
