Earlier, if you had asked Bakudushiri, an elite Jonin of Iwagakure and in charge of the most elite demolition force in Iwagakure Ninja Village, if he was afraid of the ninjas of the Uchiha clan, he would have scoffed and thought that the questioner was insulting him. Here's a human fireworks.
But at this time, the Bakugun Hunter felt a little heavy as he watched the Konoha ninja army and the most arrogant and domineering Uchiha ninjas gathered in the mountain city in the northern border of Grass Country within three days.
For any country, ninja village or ninja force in the ninja world, war has always been a serious matter and nothing to play with.
Unless absolutely necessary, the leader of any force will think twice before launching a war, and try his best to plan the process and response measures before and after the war.
But at this time, the Konoha ninja army opposite the Explosion Hunter was obviously different. They even showed an active attack attitude. As the ninja armies of various ministries continued to gather, each of Konoha's ministries made extremely active tentative offensive moves, although they were thwarted one by one by the Iwagakure ninjas who were adept at defending. However, the offensive nature displayed by the Konoha Ninja Army also made Bakudushiri, the general of Iwagakure, worried about Nakazaka.
Among the Konoha and Grass ninja coalition forces assembled in the northern mountain city, there are more than 1,100 members from Konoha's northwest border defense force, more than 300 members from the Uchiha clan's Tokko Akabei force, and 45 members from Konoha's mobile force. members, as well as 2,500 people from Kusanagi Village mainly used to gather the number of people and fill the battle line.
Simply looking at the number of people invested by both sides, the gap is not very big. In terms of specific combat effectiveness comparison, Konoha's side clearly has an advantage in high-end combat effectiveness above the jounin level. Although the combat effectiveness of the grass ninjas, the largest number in the coalition, is worrying, the Konoha ninjas are still full of confidence.
Regardless of whether they are from the Uchiha clan or the closely affiliated ninja clan, or from the neutral ninja clan such as Hinata, Inuzuka, and Aburame, or even from the ninja clan such as Sarutobi and Shimura, who have many conflicts and nastiness with the Uchiha, they all have confidence. Full and eager to try.
No one said anything like "Don't start border provocations", and no one worried about what to do if the two major powers were provoked into an all-out war.
The hordes of Uchiha that can be seen everywhere make the Konoha ninjas and Grass ninjas feel more confident; in the battle of Whirlpool Country, they defeated the mobile troops of the three major countries with a small number of enemies, making everyone feel that they are sure of victory; and There are "Konoha White Fang" Hatake Sakumo, a well-known strong man in Konoha and even the ninja world, and rising stars like Uchiha Tokimitsu...
The mere difference in numbers is no longer in the eyes of the Konoha and Grass ninja coalition forces.
In addition, the enthusiasm of the war and the rich harvest after imagining victory have also made the Konoha ninja and grass ninja red-eyed.
Uchiha Tokumitsu also ordered the Konoha emblem and the Uchiha clan emblem to be erected on the castle tower in the mountain city. The ninjas in the ninja army followed suit and erected their own family emblems on the city walls.
Uchiha, Hinata, Sarutobi, Shimura, Inuzuka, Shiranui, Nohara, Moonlight, Takauri, Aburame...the emblems and flags of Konoha ninja clans and ninja sects of all sizes were all over the mountain city, and all of them appeared overnight. The famous Konoha ninja clan in the ninja world have gathered in the northern border, intending to defeat Iwagakure in a battle.
The pressure of Explosive Escape Hunting is also great.
At the same time, I dare not act rashly.
The Konoha Ninja Army all along the border, led by the familiar Kusa Ninja, blocked all cross-border reconnaissance roads. Under the white eyes of the Hyuga Ninja accompanying the team, the attempt to ambush and capture the trap never worked. effect.
On the contrary, cross-border probing and short-term offensives by Konoha ninjas are becoming more and more frequent. Iwagakure deployed along the route is originally Iwagakure's southern border force. It belongs to the famous fish-bellied ninja army of Iwagakure Village, and it is difficult to parry it for a while. .
Faced with the increasingly frequent small-scale attacks by the aggressive Konoha, Bakudushi began to feel a little helpless, and the ninjas under his command who did not understand his difficulties also began to feel dissatisfied with him, thinking that Bakudushi was "afraid of wood". "Leaves are like tailed beasts". He was afraid of the enemy and sat back and watched the garrisoned ninja troops being wiped out by Konoha one by one. He was suspected of collaborating with the enemy.
Explosive Dunshou is so miserable that he can't express it.
Before he led his troops to change defenses to the southern border of the Kingdom of Earth, the instructions he received were clearly to "play it by ear and peek into the Kingdom of Grass, and wait for the right opportunity before entering the Kingdom of Rain." However, it is obvious that the current situation cannot be solved by playing by chance. matter, but before receiving further authorization from the Tsuchikage, Bakudunkari would not dare to start a full-scale confrontation as unscrupulously as Uchiha Tokumitsu.
The series of small-scale offensives that Konoha is currently executing are also the result of strategies discussed by Uchiha Tokumitsu, Hatake Sakumo, and Uchiha Kamon.
'The combined forces of Konoha and Grass Ninja Village are at a disadvantage in terms of the total number of personnel and the quality of the grassroots genin. The only ones who have the advantage are the elite combat forces at the jounin level. If they start a large-scale ninja decisive battle, and also attack Konoha was at a huge disadvantage in the Iwagakure position, which was known for its good defense.
Therefore, after the joint discussion of the three people, based on Konoha's stronger combat capability in terms of squad size, it was decided to adopt small-scale and frequent continuous attack tactics in order to consume and contain Iwagakure's ninja army.
Obviously, war is a game for the brave, and Uchiha Tokko, whose strategic purpose is more pure, determined and unscrupulous, clearly has the first-mover advantage.
On the fifth day of the invasion battle, Uchiha Tokumitsu and Hatake Sakumo summoned the commanders of various ninja armies to make arrangements to expand the scale of the military conflict in the next stage.
After five days of continuous attacks, the ninja troops from Konoha killed and captured more than 140 Iwagakure, and captured almost all the highlands and traffic arteries along the border between the two countries. Unexpectedly, he adopted a posture of shrinking back and taking the beating, giving up border stations one after another, and had almost retreated to the point where only the ninja army's main camp remained.
As the planner of the attack, Uchiha Tokumitsu recited the recent achievements and then handed them over to Uchiha Fire Gate to be rewarded for his military exploits.
The one who made the greatest contribution in this battle was not the ninja from the Uchiha clan, but the fifth detachment of the border defense force led by Ribei Sarutobi.
As for the reason, Uchiha Tokumitsu privately asked the Uchiha ninjas who participated in the attack, and the most ridiculous thing was that Iwagakure did not pursue the defense when facing the attack of the Uchiha ninja army, and immediately gave up his position as soon as he realized that the timing was not right. He used the earth escape ninjutsu of "Reflecting Fish in the Earth" to escape.
The reason why Sarutobi Ribei and Nara Rikutoki gained a lot was mainly because Iwagakure discovered that the attacking ninja army did not have red-eyed Uchiha ninjas, so they mostly adopted a defensive or even attacking posture to deal with it, and after the battle, they naturally Easier to get more gains.
This can be considered a powerful trouble.
Uchiha Tokko felt happy with such troubles.
After the rewards are distributed, the next stage of combat arrangements will be made. This part of the notification and deployment will be presided over by Hatake Sakumo.
"Dear friends of Konoha and Kusanagi."
Hatake Sakumo's sonorous voice echoed in the Central Military Hall.
The ninjas present here, whether they were the Uchiha clan of Konoha or Sarutobi and other ninja clans, including the three captains who commanded the ninja army from Kusanagi Village, all straightened their backs and listened attentively to Hatake Sakumo's orders. .
"In order to further expand the border advantage and suppress the scope of Iwagakure's activities, after discussions and deductions with Huomen-kun and Tokumitsu-kun, the headquarters now plans to change the next phase of the operation target from the attack on the small fulcrum to the attack between Iwagakure's stations. Fight at the starting point!"
"The goal of this round of operations is to destroy and occupy the eight positions outside the Iwagakure Camp in one fell swoop through point-taking operations! The strategic goal of completely besieging the Iwagakure Camp garrison has been achieved!"
"Snapped!"
The shuriken thrown by Hatake Sakumo accurately struck the position of the Iwagakure Camp on the big map.
"promise!"
All the jonins in charge suddenly agreed.
"Do you have any questions about combat objectives and strategic objectives?"
The proud Hatake Sakumo asked loudly.
A hand was raised.
It's Nara Rikutoki again.
"What's your problem?" It was not Hatake Sakumo who spoke, but Uchiha Tokimitsu.
Toward Nara Rikutoki, a staff member who had repeatedly shown himself to be particularly ignorant, Uchiha Tokumitsu also felt a little angry in his heart.
"Sakumo-sama, Tokimitsu-sama..." Nara Shikatoki said with a hint of panic, "Excuse me...the form of this battle must be a large-scale cross-border ninja attack. How should I report to the village at this time?"
Uchiha Tokko's face became even more ugly.
"Sir Tokumitsu... I have no intention of informing, but according to the rules of the village, any cross-border operation involving more than thirty people, or ten teams, must be reported to the Hokage, and can only be carried out after obtaining permission and authorization... "
"Yukihira!"
Uchiha Tokumitsu did not directly answer Nara Rikutoki's intention, but called Nara Yukihei who was sitting respectfully below.
"Lord Tokumitsu!" Nara Yukihei quickly stood up and lowered his hands in salute.
"When you draft the document, write that a genin from our headquarters disappeared during the exercise. In order to find his missing comrade, after the search on the Grass Country side failed, the headquarters tried to cross the border to conduct personnel search and rescue..." Uchiha Tokimitsu After a pause, he picked up the tea cup and took a sip of water.
Everyone in the audience was stunned.
"...At the same time, in order to protect the safety of the search and rescue team, there may be a slight breakthrough in the number of personnel; but our department will also take comprehensive measures to ensure that the safety of the search and rescue personnel is not threatened by Iwagakure, so as to avoid causing greater disasters. "
"That's it..." Uchiha Tokumitsu thought for a while and asked the other two people, "Commander Kamon and Commander Sakumo, do you have anything to add to this?"
The two people witnessed and heard this scene where right and wrong were reversed in person. They were still in a state of shock and subconsciously shook their heads.
"That's it, Staff Officer Yukihira, please send a message quickly!" Uchiha Tokumitsu ordered. When he looked at Nara Riku again, he asked, "Do you have any more questions?"
"Don't dare, don't dare...I mean no, no." Nara Rikushi shook his head repeatedly.
Uchiha Tokko nodded, "Sakumo-kun, please continue to deploy the tasks of various ministries."
The clampdown initiated with the help of the Hokage's power was directly resolved by Uchiha Tokumitsu in an extremely absurd and crude way, and the normalcy of mission deployment returned to the Chinese Army Command Hall.
"In order to achieve the strategic purpose of this operation, all ministries are specifically ordered to perform the following tasks -"
"The 1st Border Defense Detachment and the 5th Patrol Detachment of the Border Defense Force! The two units jointly attacked the 1st and 2nd Stations in the eastern part of Iwagakure!"
"yes!"
The two jounin stood up and took over the task.
"The 1st Uchiha Detachment, the 3rd Joint Detachment of the Border Defense Force, and the 1st Detachment of the Tokumitsu Red Guards jointly launched an offensive to sweep the fifth and sixth stations on the north side of Iwagakure, and pay attention to the Iwagakure area. If there is any movement in the battalion, you must immediately command the headquarters!"
Three more jounin stood up to accept the mission.
"The second Uchiha detachment, the 1,000-strong Kusaku Ninja team! The men are launching an attack on the seventh and eighth Iwagakure stations. They must be defeated and captured within a short period of time!"
"yes!"
The voice of the Grass Ninja Captain was louder than that of the Uchiha Jounin.
The grass ninja who went into battle with the strong ones naturally had different courage than usual.
"There is also the 2000 Kusanagi team. After the battle at Iwagakure's first and second stations begins, you will go to the front line to deploy support to contain the support of Iwagakure's third and fourth stations. Did you know that?"
"As ordered... Lord Tokumitsu..." The voice of the commander of the 2000th Kusaku Ninja Team was obviously trembling. For the ninjas from the small country except the Rain Ninja Village, it was simply impossible to face the attack of the ninja army from the big country independently. Something I dare to believe.
"Other departments that have not been assigned the task of pulling out the point will serve as the command headquarters for this battle. They will approach the Iwagakure camp in an offensive posture to contain the ninja army of Iwagakure headquarters as much as possible! Let the partners who are performing the point outing operation Able to complete the combat mission!"
"yes!"
The rest of the jonins all stood up and answered loudly.
In addition to the ninja troops that have been arranged to carry out the extraction point, Uchiha Tokumitsu and the other three also retained more than 200 people from two divisions of the Tokumitsu Red Guards, nearly 400 people from two detachments of the Border Defense Force, and a mobile unit. All members, plus the 3,000-strong Kusaku Ninja team, formed this formation to perform what may be the safest and most dangerous Iwagakure garrison camp suppression mission.
Although the thousand-man team of Kusanagi is called a thousand people, the actual number is roughly around 800 people. In other words, the three of Uchiha Tokimitsu will command a team composed of almost 1,500 ninjas with varying grass-roots quality and combat capabilities. The ninja army faced Iwagakure's standing ninja army, including Iwagakure's most elite demolition troops.
"The difference in number of people is almost 2.5 times..."
Hatake Sakumo dragged his chin, calculated the strength announcements and comparisons between the two sides again, and said to Uchiha Tokimitsu: "Tokumitsu-kun, are you confident?"
"It's only two and a half times." Uchiha Tokumitsu was somewhat disapproving. "In the battle of the Whirlpool Kingdom... wouldn't the gap in numbers between the mobile forces and the coalition forces of the three major countries be even greater? Didn't we also defeat them?"
"That's right~" Hatake Sakumo also had a proud smile on his face.
"One thousand five versus three thousand five..." Uchiha Kamon held his head high, full of confidence, "In this battle, the advantage lies with me!"
(End of chapter)
