Uchiha Tokumitsu stood on the hills three kilometers away from the Iwagakure Camp, looking at the Iwagakure Camp in the distance.
Although the distance is far, the vision bonus obtained after opening the Sharingan is not as good as the Byakugan, but the shadowy figure of the Iwagakure ninja in the distance can still be seen roughly.
Akimichi Kaifeng did not let go. Just yesterday, nine ninjas from the Ino, Deer and Butterfly combination came to the northwest border defense force with Konoha orders to report, and were immediately assigned to the frontline ninja army where Uchiha Tokumitsu was located by Uchiha Kamon.
The ninjas of the Yamanaka clan were also very quick and agile. According to Uchiha Tokumitsu's instructions, they forcibly used their spirits to invade the brains of the captives. After creating three patients with cerebral palsy and dementia, they successfully obtained the required information.
——This Iwagakure is just a second-line Iwagakure force that is hiding from others!
The truly elite Iwagakure, one confronts Kumogakure in the western border of Earth Country, and the other secretly lurks in the Rain Country area to prepare to attack the Rain Ninja Village.
Therefore, in this case, whether to continue attacking the Iwagakure Army became a difficult decision.
The reason is very simple. The main camp of the Iwagakure Ninja Army is still in the Land of Earth.
There is a difference between large-scale cross-border ninja operations and elite squad raids.
As long as one ensures that no one is left alive or the operating personnel are captured, it is a normal ninja village conflict; but if hundreds or thousands of Konoha ninjas are led into the territory of the Earth Kingdom to attack its ninja camp, regardless of the success or failure of the attack , both the Earth Country and Iwagakure must regard it as a war of aggression and fight back with all their strength; this is an insurmountable red line.
For ninjas, it is the power of the shadow and the daimyo to start a war; provoking a war without permission is not just a matter of contempt for the Hokage's authority.
Among the three newly transferred teams of the Ino Shika Butterfly combination, one of the Nara clan's special jounin Nara Shikahira, who is regarded as a think tank by the three clan team members, analyzed this.
In this regard, Uchiha Tokumitsu also felt helpless.
If it were an ordinary matter, he might not take the Hokage seriously, but he still had to be cautious when it came to national war.
After all, he only has a thousand ninja troops under his command, and most of them are Uchiha tribesmen. Although it is not a big problem to defeat the Iwagakure in front of him based on the strength comparison of the intelligence, a large-scale camp-breaking attack is a serious national war behavior. , has exceeded the authority of the border force commander.
Uchiha Tokumitsu still felt unwilling.
Based on the test and attack operations in the past few days, as well as comprehensive intelligence analysis, there is no doubt that the Iwagakure ninja army in front of them is indeed a weak force.
A piece of good fish belly is placed in front of you, but you still have to look at the person's eyes before deciding whether to eat it. This is really uncomfortable for a hungry cat.
The same is true for the Uchiha clan, which has cat slaves per capita.
The Uchiha ninjas who went to war with the army found Uchiha Tokumitsu many times, patting their chests and requesting to fight, willing to be the first to be the vanguard and enter the enemy's formation, and teach Iwagakure a profound lesson with swords, ninjutsu and Sharingan.
Uchiha Tokumitsu rejected them all.
Ordinary Uchiha people don't have to have a political mind, but he, as the designated heir of the radical faction, cannot live without him.
Ninja conflict on the border and Ninja invasion operations are two completely different concepts.
However, although he did not approve of directly ordering the ninja army to launch an attack on the Iwagakure camp in the Land of Earth, it did not prevent him from continuing to launch raids to strangle Iwagakure's secret sentries and communication ninjas.
And he himself came directly to the Yanyin Formation with the idea of luring the enemy to pursue him.
However, Iwagakure acted like a tortoise and used Earth Release to create many high walls. Once Uchiha Tokumitsu showed signs of approaching, he used earth bombs, earth spikes and other mid-level and low-level ninjutsu to interfere, and used earth wall techniques to destroy them. The terrain obstructed the siege, and a large group of ninjas defended it together, making it impossible for Uchiha Tokumitsu and a group of Uchiha jounin to seize the opportunity to attack.
"Let's go back……"
Uchiha Tokumitsu turned around and said to the accompanying Jonin beside him.
Facing Iwagakure who looked like a tortoise with an iron shell, there was no chance to attack and kill him, so there was no point in waiting any longer.
There is no other way for the Uchiha ninjas. After all, they are facing a ninja army from the five major countries. Even if it is just a small force, without a large-scale ninja army using combined ninjutsu attacks, it is definitely not just a few top ninjas. It can be shaken with patience.
"Hasn't the village replied yet?" Hinata Toshiki asked unwillingly.
Although he has great achievements, he can see but not eat. Even the Hyuga ninja, who is known for his aristocratic demeanor and indifferent temperament, is a little ready to make a move.
"not yet……"
"Hmph! The village bureaucrats are really ridiculous. They haven't been able to make a decision on such important information!" Kensuke Uchiha, a member of the guard class accompanying him as a bodyguard, complained with some annoyance.
Others heard the words and acted as if they had never heard it. For Uchiha, it was just a daily routine to count down the Hokage line, and there was no need to avoid people.
"I just don't know if Iwagakure will send support troops. If the intelligence is timely, I can still try to encircle the area and call for reinforcements." Although Uchiha Tokumitsu also felt depressed, there was nothing he could do. He insisted that the Iwagakure camp was never on his side. All the Uchiha ninjas in the Ninja Army were his favorites, but he couldn't bear to waste their lives in storming the heavily guarded camp.
"Iwagakure is famous for its persistence..." Nara Yukihei considered his words, "Generally speaking, based on past experience, it is not cost-effective to storm the Iwagakure position without more than twice the numerical advantage..."
Uchiha Tokumitsu naturally knew that Iwagakure was good at guarding, and that the discipline of ninjas was the best among the five ninja villages. In the future, he would kill the third generation of Raikage simply by relying on their numbers.
"Of course I know this..." Uchiha Tokumitsu certainly wouldn't be impulsive, "It's just a pity that I didn't have the chance to compete with Iwagakure."
"It would be easier if we could lead out Iwagakure..."
A group of Uchiha ninjas believed this. In the past few days, they saw that Iwagakure couldn't get out, so they tried to sneak into the Iwagakure camp to cause chaos. However, before they even got close to the camp, they were attacked by a lot of earth escape ninjutsu. He was confused and had no choice but to retreat.
"Forget it, don't worry about it. After all, the lives of Konoha ninjas are much more valuable than Iwagakure, so they can't be lost in vain." Uchiha Tokumitsu also knew that he couldn't do anything, so he spoke to comfort everyone.
All the Jonin nodded in agreement.
…
Just when Uchiha Tokumitsu was having a headache over the turtle shell of Iwagakure, the Hokage Building far away in Konoha was already quarreling over the battle reports coming back from the front line.
"Arrogant! Uchiha is so unscrupulous!" Mito Kadoyan was furious. "He dared to ignore the edict and cross the border to attack Iwagakure without permission. Isn't he afraid of provoking a war between the two countries?"
The scope of Mito Gate's power includes diplomacy with other ninja villages. In his eyes, Uchiha Tokumitsu's behavior is an evil act that deliberately provokes war.
"Yes, Hiruzen, you must punish this kid this time!" Koharu said after sleeping, "The Uchiha clan are all unreasonable war lunatics. The consequences of their provocation of war are extremely bad!"
"How to punish him? Punish him for defeating Iwagakure?" Sandaime Sarutobi said without raising his head, "Or punish him for purging the underground forces in the entire Grass Country after getting permission from the Daimyo of Grass Country?"
"Hiruzen, you can't favor him anymore!" Mito Kadoen said dissatisfiedly, "Uchiha Tokumitsu sent ninjas to ambush and strangle the Iwagakure ninjas in the Land of Earth. If Ohnoki gets into trouble, the two major ninja villages will declare war. , I don’t know how many ninjas the village will lose!”
"And he ignored the edict." Xiaochun went on to say, "The purpose of provoking war is to drag the village into the quagmire of war. This kind of wanton behavior must be severely punished!"
The third generation was also speechless.
"Have you forgotten? The first edict has been refuted by Huomen using his power of dissent."
"Hmph! The Uchiha clan is full of arrogant people!" After sleeping, Koharu was still furious.
"...Okay! There's no need to get angry with Uchiha!" The Sandaime sighed helplessly. Danzo was not here, so why did these two advisers become so radical?
"The point is, should Iwagakure fight or make peace? We need to come up with a response plan quickly."
"Most of the village's mobile power has been drained. If we start a war with Iwagakure, we must regroup the ninja army." Koharu turned to bed and frowned, a little worried. "In addition, we have to recruit family ninjas to join the war. This is another deal. Huge amounts of money…”
"Financial issues..." As a Hokage, the Sandaime is also worried about money.
As the saying goes, a cannon is worth a thousand taels of gold.
The same applies to the Ninja Army.
From the gathering of ninja troops, the supply of ninja tools, the purchase of medicines and treatment, etc., it all requires a lot of financial investment.
"Yan, if you are free, can you go to the capital to meet with the daimyo and ask him to allocate more funds." After thinking about it, he still had to pay for the gold coins from the big family.
"Okay." Mito Menyan nodded calmly.
"Then...back to the topic." The Sandaime looked around the two of them, "Iwagakure...war or peace?"
"Let the Uchiha withdraw their troops." After calming down, Koharu thought for a while, "Even if Iwagakure's border troops are defeated, the village will not be able to continue to send more ninja troops to support and expand the results. It is better to withdraw directly, so as not to cause trouble during the war. The Ninja Army is attrition."
The Sandaime and Mito Katoyan also felt that this was the only way to go.
"In addition, Huomen also requested that the Ninja Army be allocated to carry out the so-called 'strategic counterattack' against Iwagakure, and sent back a list of material requirements." The Sandaime handed the information to Mito Kadoen.
"Uchiha has so many demands?" Mito Kadoyan looked at the list of required supplies and felt his head hurt.
"We can't send any more ninja troops. We just need to make it clear to him that we will stick to the Country of Grass." Koharu went to bed and continued, "At least the material requirements are required. Let's talk about materials after we get the allocation from the daimyo."
"Indeed, the situation in the direction of Rain Country is the most dangerous." Mito Kaden agreed with Koharu's words, "Iwagakure's border defense force is just a smoke bomb for Iwagakure. Not only Iwagakure, but also Sunagakure's ace puppet troops It has also appeared on a large scale in the Country of Rain, and the war there is more important, so we can’t lose the big for the small.”
"In that case, then write back and order Uchiha Tokko to withdraw his troops and return to the Kingdom of Grass." The Sandaime thought for a moment and felt that the battlefield of the Kingdom of Rain was more important.
"...Tokumitsu-san, at such a young age, he can lead the ninja army to defeat Iwagakure. It's really better to look down on him." Mito Kadoen sighed with emotion.
"With one clan and one country..." The Sandaime picked up the battle report of the northwest border defense force, "Uchiha... is really quite ancient."
The two advisors were silent.
Except for the Warring States Period, since the establishment of the Five Great Ninja Villages, there has never been an example of leading a ninja army in battle at such a young age.
"It's really similar to... Uchiha Madara's style when he was young..."
