ALL NOVEL Chapter 131
The plan proposed by Mitomon En was that Konoha would first pretend to partially accept the Raikage's ultimatum, and try to delay the opponent's action. At the same time, they would deploy layers of defense on the border, with a large number of ordinary ninjas using fortifications, and consume the opponent's spirit through continuous defensive battles. At the same time, our main force would launch a surprise attack on the Hidden Rock Village, solving this big problem in the rear in one fell swoop. When these words came out, everyone was shocked.
Might Guy looked puzzled and said hurriedly;
"Although the Iwagakure Village has made some moves, it has not officially declared war on us. But we are going to attack them directly, which is not a good idea."
Tsunade frowned, waved her hand, stopped everyone's discussion, looked at Mito behind her, and said;
"Go ahead, I want to hear your reasons."
"The reason is very simple."
Mito said in the wheelchair.
He and Nara Shikaku looked at each other and both nodded. It was obvious that Shikaku had contributed to this plan, but he asked Mito Kado En, who had more experience, to say it on his behalf.
"First of all, the Third Tsuchikage Ohnoki is ambitious and has been trying to make his village surpass our Konoha. I believe you have all heard of this. In addition, since he publicly announced that he would accept the rebels of the Uchiha clan as his own clan members, he has been hoarding a large number of troops on the border of the Land of Earth.
The reason why he did not launch an attack is that he did not want to be the first to do so.
His plan is obvious. He wants to wait until the Hidden Cloud Village and our Konoha are both defeated, and then launch a surprise attack from behind.
Therefore, if we launch a surprise attack now, it will be beyond their expectations and can have a surprise effect. On the contrary, if we launch a surprise attack on the Hidden Cloud Village or the Hidden Mist Village on the isolated island, it will be difficult to achieve the expected effect, and it is likely to evolve into an encounter battle.
Secondly, the strength of the Hidden Rock Village is weaker than that of the Hidden Cloud Village with three tailed beasts. They only have two Jinchuriki, and it seems that their strength is not as strong as the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki.
It is far less threatening to us than the combination of the Hidden Cloud Village and the A and B.
After the Fourth Hokage passed away, I couldn't think of anyone in Konoha who could resist the AB combination of the Cloud Village.
Now, the opponent has an additional 6-tailed Jinchuriki, the Uchiha clan, and the people of the Mist Village to help. Facing such an opponent, it is impossible to defeat the opponent by surprise attack.
In addition, although the Rock Village is in a terrain that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, the opponent mistakenly hoarded a large number of troops on the front line, which gave us an opportunity to take advantage of it.
Finally, according to Jiraiya's intelligence network (here, he looked at Jiraiya and Itachi) and Uchiha Itachi's reconnaissance, although they hoarded troops on the front line, they were not ready to start a war in a short time.
There are still a lot of supplies that are continuously transported to the front line from the rear. In addition, there is only one Jinchuriki stationed on the front line, and the two often rotate.
At this time, launching a surprise attack is our best opportunity.
As long as we successfully launch an attack on the front line of Rock Village, we can get rid of another problem in the shortest time, and the Sand Village will be shocked by this attack and dare not stab us in the back.
In this way, we can completely solve the troubles on the western front, and transfer troops back to Konoha continuously, so as to have a decisive battle with the coalition forces of Kumogakure and Mist Village outside Konohagakure. The final result is likely to be that we will defeat the exhausted Kumogakure with our elite troops, thus completely laying the foundation for victory in this war."
This analysis is well-organized. It doesn't look like he could come up with it alone. It is a combination of Nara Shikaku's strategic wisdom, Itachi's intelligence and Jiraiya's command talent. It can be said that Konoha's wisdom has been brought to its limit.
However, it is a bit unreasonable to use diplomatic means to delay time for a ninja village that has issued an ultimatum to oneself, and to use one's elite troops to raid a ninja village that has not officially torn its face with oneself. It is also difficult to explain to the daimyo.
As a Hokage who has to consider the overall situation, it is understandable that Tsunade seems a little hesitant.
Her nail-painted fingers tapped the table subconsciously, making a series of noises, and her brain was working in a wrong way, considering the gains and losses of this matter.
Soon, she suddenly looked up, not at Mito Kado En, but at Jiraiya and said;
"How do you plan to carry out this raid? How confident are you that it will succeed?"
Jiraiya said after a moment's hesitation;
"For this raid, apart from the Hokage who must stay in Konoha to command, and the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki who is still in training and can hardly participate in this battle, we also need to extract the remaining most elite ninjas, at least those with strength above the Chunin. In order to conceal, the number of people does not need to be too large, more than 2,000 people will be enough."
After saying this, he looked around.
"I, Itachi Uchiha, Kakashi, Might Guy and others will act together, while the rest will set up layers of defense on the eastern front, using various explosive ninja tools to wear down the enemy's spirit, and we will take advantage of the situation to launch a surprise attack.
According to the analysis of my intelligence network, there is about a 70% chance that we can defeat the elite troops of Iwagakure on the front line. The enemy is likely to have only one Jinchūriki on the front line, and our strength is absolutely dominant.
And because we are on the front line, the geographical factors of Iwagakure cannot be brought into play. As long as we can succeed this time, casualties are secondary. We can destroy nearly half of the supplies of Iwagakure Village, thereby hitting the opponent's war potential.
However, the next battle..."At this point, Jiraiya shook his head.
"I am not completely confident about the upcoming battles with the Hidden Cloud Village and the Hidden Mist Village."
Tsunade pondered;
"If we can't get past this, what can we do to fight the Hidden Cloud Village and the Kirigakure Village? I agreed to this risky plan, and I will bear the most infamy alone."
This was also a helpless move.
Then she began to pass on various orders, including sending envoys to the Hidden Cloud Village to make diplomatic efforts, and sending secret envoys to explain to the daimyo why they did so. The final appointment was finally issued.
That is to let Jiraiya be the chief, Uchiha Itachi as the deputy, lead Kakashi, Might Guy and others, secretly select elite ninjas, launch a sneak attack on the front-line troops of the Hidden Cloud Village, so as to completely stabilize the situation on the western front, and then transfer the troops back to the eastern front to fight a decisive battle with the Hidden Cloud Village coalition.