In order to conceal the true purpose, Kirigakure's mission signed a temporary armistice agreement with Konoha.
Yes, armistice only.
Although the two sides no longer fought after Kirigakure's defeat on the mainland, Kirigakure was still unwilling to admit defeat, let alone pay compensation, not to mention that Konoha was unable to invade the Kingdom of Water.
As for Konoha, although the Hokage intends to end the war with Kirigakure, Kirigakure is still unwilling to relent on compensation, and there is also the pressure of bond repayment, so the third generation Sarutobi Hiruzen does not want to relent for the time being to achieve unconditional agreement with Kirigakure. Peace.
Of course, the greater resistance is that the hardliners led by the Uchiha clan are unwilling to sign a peace agreement without compensation.
Although the smuggling business between the Uchiha clan and the Kirigakure ninja clan is booming, it is just a "normal exchange" between the ninja clan and cannot be confused with the official business of the village.
Moreover, the longer the state of war is maintained, the longer the contact between the people of the Water Country and the Fire Country will be isolated, which will naturally be more conducive to the smuggling trade of the two villages' ninja clans.
Even after the armistice agreement was signed, the Kirigakure ninja clan secretly reached a verbal agreement with Uchiha Tokumitsu to jointly combat illegal shipping. Both parties strictly inspected domestic ports and routes in the name of 'no capital for the enemy', and resolutely Crack down on idle ships that are not within the smuggling system going out to sea to avoid damaging the smuggling interests of both parties.
…
Two days have passed since the three-day ultimatum issued by Uchiha Tokumitsu to the daimyo at the meeting.
After the daimyo's envoy, Dr. Asakura, left Konoha and returned to the daimyo mansion, no news reached Konoha.
But pretending to be dead won't solve the problem.
The narrow-minded Uchiha Tokumitsu is still bitter about the daimyo's daring to send envoys to hold him accountable.
And if the Uchiha clan doesn't make some big noise, wouldn't Uchiha Tokumitsu's cruel words at the meeting become empty words?
Therefore, Uchiha Tokumitsu sent a message to the northwest border and ordered the second and third divisions of the Tokumitsu Red Guards stationed in the Country of Grass to be summoned to enter the Country of Fire and march openly to Izumi County in Kinki, Daming Prefecture.
On a whim, the Great Elder Setsuna deliberately interfered and asked the Red Guards to change into the traditional red armor of the Uchiha clan.
Of course Uchiha Tokumitsu met the COS requirements of the great elder obediently.
Uchiha Tokumitsu transferred 60 elites from the police department, plus his own secret guards of 32 ninjas to form a direct ninja army, preparing to carry out deterrence strikes.
The Ninja Army secretly left the village through a secret passage controlled by the Police Department and galloped towards Daming Mansion.
Of course, Uchiha Tokumitsu's goal is not Damingfu, but the Fire Temple not far from Damingfu.
As a mountain temple headed by the Daimyo family, the Fire Temple's strength is extraordinary. It has eighteen jounin monks and dozens of monks with the same combat power as chuunin, which is equivalent to the strength of Konoha's medium-sized ninja clan.
But in front of the Mangekyou Sharingan, the ordinary jonin fighting power does not need to be taken seriously at all. Even if the contemporary Five Shadows attack, Uchiha Tokumitsu is confident to compete.
…
"Stop!"
Uchiha Tokumitsu and his ninja army had just left the village and jumped into the dense forest when an angry shout came from behind.
"Um?"
The voice sounded familiar, so Uchiha Tokko stopped.
It's Tsunade.
And Jiraiya.
"Tsunade Ji Ri'an."
Uchiha Tokumitsu said hello to Tsunade, but ignored Jiraiya who looked complicated at the side.
"What are you going to do?"
Tsunade's pretty face was cold and she asked coldly.
"Although Senju and Uchiha have chosen to reconcile, their relationship is not to the point where they can share secret information with each other, right?"
Uchiha Tokumitsu's brows twitched and he replied in the same cold voice.
"Are you going to Daming Mansion?"
Tsunade also realized that there was something wrong with her attitude, and her tone became slightly gentler.
"Uchiha means what he preaches."
Uchiha Demitsu also expressed his attitude.
"Don't you know? This is destroying the one-country-one-village system! It will provoke a war!"
Tsunade couldn't help but show anger on her face, "Do you just want to see the village besieged by the four powers?"
"What a joke..."
Uchiha Tokumitsu felt a little bit dumbfounded. Not long ago, the two powerful Kirigakure clans who were fighting life and death on the battlefield had come to seek an alliance. It would be crazy if the four major countries could organize their own ninja villages to besiege Konoha.
The little guardian nin that the daimyo of various countries have in their hands is probably not enough to fill the teeth of the Uchiha clan.
"Tsunade-hime, times have changed..."
Uchiha Tokumitsu pressed his left hand on the scabbard, and flicked the blade with his thumb, "Please stay out of the way, otherwise I won't be able to explain to the Danjounin..."
"you!"
The anger on Tsunade's face grew even stronger.
"Besides, in what capacity are you questioning me?"
Uchiha Tokumitsu said warmly: "You know, as a Konoha jounin, you do not have the power to control the ninja army of the ninja clan."
"Besides, maybe you don't know or understand... Your teacher, the Hokage of Konoha, is also keen on attacking the authority of the daimyo and controlling the spread of his influence in Konoha. However, this type of thing used to be It’s just up to Danzo to do it…”
"Now that Danzo is dead and his roots are gone, he is naturally happy to see the relationship between the Uchiha clan and the daimyo become bad, isn't it~"
After finishing speaking, Uchiha Tokumitsu flicked the blade open with his thumb, revealing a sharp blade.
The secret guard ninjas also placed their hands on their main weapons.
Jiraiya's expression became tense.
Tsunade was unfazed.
"The ninja of the Uzumaki family!"
Tsunade cast her eyes on the Uzumaki clan members among the ninjas in the police department, "Are you going to mess around with Uchiha too!"
"This is a road of no return, get out of here!"
"Tsunade-hime..."
After the Uzumaki ninja was silent for a while, he responded: "Uchiha is the blood alliance of the Uzumaki. This is the alliance declared by the Ashina clan leader to every Uzumaki clan member!"
Uchiha Deguang also had a smile on his face.
After getting the inside story of the Kirigakure ninja clan's battle to destroy the Uzumaki Kingdom, Uchiha Tokumitsu immediately told Uzumaki Ashina.
In this way, it is strange that the Uzumaki clan still has even a little favorable impression of the daimyo of various countries.
Uchiha Tokko stepped forward.
The Ninja Army moved accordingly.
Tsunade sighed, and finally chose to take a few steps back and get out of the way of the ninja army.
The words of the Uzumaki clan made her no longer interested in trying to stop Uchiha Tokumitsu's ninja army actions.
She now urgently wants to know whether her teacher, the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen, as Uchiha Tokumitsu said, acquiesced or even secretly pushed the Uchiha clan to attack the daimyo.
…
The Temple of Fire, which used to be bustling with incense and crowded with dignitaries, was now filled with a chilling atmosphere.
The iron wall that says no one can break the seal is tightly closed.
The great monk is leading the monk soldiers to prepare for the attack.
What he wanted to do was to prevent the ninja army of Uchiha Tokumitsu's headquarters from directly attacking the Fire Temple, so as to avoid losing the daimyo's face.
The Tokumitsu Akabei team, which moved south from the northwest border, had easily defeated the Daimyo's army and occupied a county north of the Daimyo. However, the Daimyo, who originally planned to mobilize his troops to go north for a crusade, got Uchi killed from Konoha. Information on the march of the Hamotobu Ninja Army.
The daimyo's claws were also numb.
I originally thought that a cold treatment would be enough, but I didn't expect that Uchiha Tokumitsu actually dared to attack with his army.
The noble officials of the Daming Prefecture also truly saw the huge combat effectiveness gap between the Ninja Army and the Prefecture Army in the battle of Izumi County in the north.
According to the description of the defeated soldiers, the Uchiha ninjas wearing Sengoku armor roared towards them like evil ghosts. They ignored the bows, arrows and fire blunderbuss attacks of the ninja army, and sent out huge fire dragons that blew up the formation of the army and turned them upside down.
No matter how noble the bloodline, no matter how noble the status, no matter how superb the commanding skills, no matter how well-trained the army is, in front of the bloodthirsty Uchiha, it is as useless as a paper shield, being beaten by kunai one after another. Easily cut off the dust.
The high-ranking ministers woke up from a dream, as if they just remembered that now is the era of ninjas, and even this world has been called the "ninja world".
With the Konoha ninjas choosing to stand by and unable to stop Uchiha's military force with their own force, the only hope of the daimyo and noble officials was that the Fire Temple could stop Uchiha Tokimitsu's ninja army, and then slightly defeat them. After the fierceness of the Uchiha ninja army, in exchange for a decent chance for peace negotiation-the daimyo was unwilling to surrender without a fight!
As for contacting the other four major countries to launch ninja armies to "purge the unjust," this idea ran through the daimyo's mind for a moment, and was pushed aside by the imminent crisis.
After all, distant water cannot save the near fire.
…
The Uchiha ninja army was getting closer.
The great monk of the Fire Temple was standing on the bell tower, looking sadly at the Uchiha ninja army that was running steadily towards them in the Crane Wing Formation.
The ninja army gathered around Uchiha Tokumitsu, and the Uchiha secret guards wearing light armor and carrying a finger flag on their backs reminded him of the Warring States period of endless wars and endless killings.
At the same time, he also thought of a man.
Known as "Shura of the Ninja World", the man who reprimanded the Daimyo in front of the alliance meeting...
"Uchiha Madara..."
The great monk was reciting this nightmare-like name with great sadness.
Like the daimyo, ministers and noble officials, he had never thought that in the era after the five major kingdoms were established side by side and the one-country-one-village system was established, there would still be people who dared to imitate the lords of the Warring States Period and lead their troops to Luo.
"In the public holy land, the ninja army stops!"
Under the instructions of the great monk, a young monk was shouting at the Uchiha Ninja Army.
The Uchiha ninja army switched from running to advancing slowly.
"The immortal talent inherited from the Temple of Fire is said to be unparalleled in the ninja world in terms of suppressive power. I am here to learn from you!"
Uchiha Tokko took the lead in drawing out the sword.
"Clang Clang Clang!!!"
All the ninja troops drew their main weapons.
The sharp blade shone with an icy edge under the sunlight.
The monks at the Fire Temple suddenly felt as if they were falling into a snow cellar.
"Stop it! Uchiha!"
The great monk had no choice but to say it himself: "If you continue to insist on your own way, no other big country will let you go!"
"Open the door!"
Uchiha Tokumitsu shouted: "Uchiha has wiped out the Nami Ninja. If you don't lift the barrier and accept the test, once the Ninja Army launches an attack, you will be responsible for all the consequences!"
The defensive iron wall of the Fire Temple is actually a large defensive barrier formed by the fusion of barrier ninjutsu and sealing techniques. The iron gate and the two stone statues are only part of the barrier, including the sky and underground space of the Fire Temple. Within the protective range of the barrier.
The great monk's face became even more sad.
Neither the daimyo's order nor the dignity of the monks of the Fire Temple allowed him to lift the barrier and allow the ninja troops to enter the temple without fighting.
He set his sights on the six conspicuous red-haired ninjas in the Uchiha Ninja Army.
Those were Uzumaki ninjas, but at this time they were wearing the combat vests of police department jounin.
As we all know, the Uzumaki clan is the most proficient in sealing ninjutsu in the ninja world.
"The Fire Temple is the direct leader of the Daimyo family. Please, Tokugutsu Jōnin, please step down..."
The great monk still refused to give up and tried to persuade him with his advice: "It's not too late to step back from the brink. Please lead your troops to retreat. I will persuade the daimyo not to hold him accountable..."
"hehe……"
Uchiha Tokumitsu sneered, and the three magatama in his eyes rotated rapidly, turning into the Mangekyō Sharingan.
The monk immediately lowered his head to avoid Uchiha Tokumitsu's gaze.
"Susanoh!"
Uchiha Tokumitsu didn't waste any time, he directly stirred up chakra, extracted the power of his eyes and released it to form a huge half-length demon.
"boom!"
Susanoo hit the iron door with his fist, causing ripples in the barrier.
The monks inside the sealed iron wall were shocked by the violent echo and turned pale.
I can hardly hold the stick and sword in my hand.
The monk who maintained the sealing barrier was shocked to the point where his mouth bled.
"Are you still unwilling to open the door?"
Uchiha Tokumitsu, who was wrapped in Susanoo, said faintly: "If you wait until I break the barrier, you will suffer the same consequences!"
Then, he controlled Susanoo to punch the iron gate.
"boom!"
The body of the great monk was shaky.
Eighteen monks quickly gathered around the great monk, working together to output chakra to maintain the existence of the barrier.
Da Sengzheng's heart was even more miserable.
Susanoo only used two punches to hammer the barrier into shock, and consumed nearly half of his own chakra.
If Uchiha Tokko had punched him twice more...
This is no longer a question of whether the barrier can block it, but that the chakra of himself and the monks in the temple simply cannot maintain the existence of the barrier under such a fierce attack.
What's more, the Uzumaki ninjas in the Uchiha ninja army haven't cracked it yet.
There is only a dead end if you continue to hold on.
The great monk was taking the initiative to jump up to the temple gate.
"How dare you show up..."
Uchiha Tokko was a little surprised.
The monk was taking out a bottle of military food pills from his arms and poured them all into his mouth.
"...Don't you want to see the talents of the immortals from the Fire Temple lineage?"
The great monk's face no longer had the compassionate look of the past. Surrounded by the released golden chakra, his expression became serious.
"Come to welcome Thousand Hands Killer!"
A golden thousand-armed Buddha appeared in front of the monk.
The Thousand-Armed Buddha struck Susanoo with his golden chakra fist.
"Susanoh·Yasaka Qiong Magatama!"
Uchiha Tokumitsu quickly extracted chakra and filled it into Susanoo's body to resist the ultra-high-frequency chakra fist hammer blows. At the same time, Susanoo's right hand condensed a huge red magatama, and he did not throw it, but Hold it directly and stab it into the body of the Thousand-Armed Buddha.
"boom!"
The sharp magatama penetrated the Thousand-Armed Buddha's body, arousing a huge chakra explosion that resounded throughout the world.
The monks inside the Fire Temple were tossed around by the violent shock wave.
Chakra splashed everywhere, setting off purple fireworks on the colorless barrier.
Among the ninja troops behind Uchiha Tokumitsu, the Uzumaki ninja quickly used a barrier to block the shock wave.
When the smoke cleared, Susanoo maintained his forward thrusting posture.
The Thousand-Armed Buddha has disappeared without a trace.
The monk's body was shaky and he was coughing up blood.
"If you don't lift the barrier, don't blame me for destroying the law!"
Uchiha Tokko said with a sneer.
The monk was about to say a few words in defense, but when he saw Uchiha Tokumitsu's cold and solemn eyes, he finally gave up.
He jumped down from the temple gate and pushed open the iron gate of the Fire Temple himself.
The sealing iron wall was also lifted.
"Lord chicken and dog!"
Uchiha Tokumitsu snorted coldly, and withdrew the Susanoo. With a wave of his right hand, the Uchiha ninja army behind him strode forward with strong armor, and rushed into the Fire Temple with blades in formation.
The place name of the northern prefecture of the Fire Country Daimyo Prefecture in this chapter is a direct reference to [Izumi], one of the five districts of Kyoto during the Warring States Period in the East.
(End of chapter)
