ALL NOVEL Chapter 140
The reason why they didn't notice it at that time was that although both sides were fighting on the front line, they were not in the same direction, but stretched for more than ten miles.
Those numerous white-eyed ninjas could also do this, but even if they noticed it at that time, they only saw a hidden summoning beast.
Without special circumstances, this is usually a target that can be ignored.
But when Jiraiya led his men back to the front line of Iwagakure to try to raid, he found the appearance of another third generation Tsuchikage Ohnoki and another Jinchuriki.
They joined forces, cooperated with Deidara and the sealing troops to suppress the rampaging Four-Tails, allowing Lao Zi to regain consciousness.
At this time, the opponent's high-level power has far exceeded his own. Now even if he uses the Sage Mode, he has no chance of winning, not to mention that he has not found the initiator of the curse.
Therefore, Jiraiya had no choice but to choose to return here without success.
The consequences of this delay and this risky action are disastrous.
The Konoha ninjas who lost their leader, although they were also assigned a new commander, could not convince the public because of their strength and qualifications. The sudden death of two or three ninjas from time to time touched everyone's heartstrings.
Some ninjas had left the team and left their companions' bodies to try to escape. The remaining Konoha ninjas were also in a state of panic and were frightened. They almost fled back to the border of the Land of Fire in a way of retreat and competition for life.
Even if they came to their own territory, the god of death was still entangled with everyone's heads. Now the number of deaths is no longer three or five people at a time like at the beginning, but may be only one or two people, because the blood will be repeated.
But the fear of the people did not alleviate this. Just like this, when Jiraiya reorganized the team and gathered everyone together, he found that there were only a little over a thousand Konoha ninjas who could follow him.
Except for the ninjas who died on the front line of Iwagakure, the rest either died in the curse or fled.
The latter number is even greater. In the end, this almost collapsed ninja army rushed to the Konoha Ninja Village without sleeping for several days.
Those ninjas who had been injured before were almost killed or wounded. The only ones left were some Konoha ninjas who had no external injuries and could not be cursed by the blood of the death master, but were about to scare themselves crazy.
If there were psychologists in this world, they would most likely be deemed no longer suitable for the duties of a ninja, and could only do logistical work in the rear.
This was the scene that appeared in front of the people of Konoha Village who were looking forward to victory. Facing this scene, Tsunade, who learned the information Jiraiya said, could only remain silent.
As a Hokage, she did not have much time to think about the gains and losses of this matter. She could only ask the members of several parties to avoid injuries as much as possible when fighting with the Hidden Rock Village in the combat meeting held later - this would make her own people tied up and affect their combat effectiveness, but it was also a helpless choice.
There was another bigger thing that was going to give her a headache. The huge military of the Hidden Cloud Village had already crossed the neutral country and marched towards the Land of Fire.
This time, Konoha could no longer keep the enemy out of the country, but could only rely on the layers of defense on its own land to try to obstruct it.
This means that their territory will be ravaged like the Rain Country before.
And there is another piece of news.
That is, two days ago, the ninjas of the Hidden Mist Village, the bloody mist village that has always been famous for killing each other and being poor, also launched an attack on Konoha.
As the thick fog came, several border posts were attacked by the Hidden Mist Ninjas, and the leader seemed to be a powerful female ninja.
Because of the long-term isolation from the world and the lack of intelligence from the outside world, the consultants could not give a good response plan. They could only ask to avoid places where fog is easy to generate, such as lakes, rivers, and forests, when fighting with the opponent.
Try to choose to fight in open areas, so that the opponent's silent killing technique can be suppressed to the limit.
A few days ago, the news came that the Cloud Hidden Mist Village had officially decided to go to war with Konoha because the time for the ultimatum had passed. Due to an additional clause in the alliance treaty between the two parties, Yang No immediately manipulated the Mizukage to ignore those objections and directly announced the conclusion of the war at the meeting.
And then announced that a grand military parade would be held in front of the Mizukage Building in the Hidden Mist Village, at the newly named Water Will Square.
In fact, in Yono's plan, at least in the first stage, she would not withdraw a large number of ninjas from the Hidden Mist Village to support the front-line operations.
At this time, there were about 3,000 ninjas of varying quality under the command of Terumi Mei. They were all troublemakers from various factions and were exiled to the front line for various reasons.
In addition, all the forces patrolling the border were mobilized, and then about 600 of the rebel ninjas led by the newly promoted Seven Ninja Swordsmen Higobo were also sent to Terumi Mei by Yono.
Although they basically didn't have to be expected to follow Terumi Mei's arrangements, it was also her nominal strength.
In this way, the Hidden Mist Village had more than 3,600 troops stockpiled on the outlying islands near the Fire Country on the front line.
This force was not considered large. In the subsequent Ninja World War, the five major ninja villages concentrated more than 80,000 troops to fight against 100,000 White Zetsu.
Those are all genuine ninjas. Even if the number of ninjas from each village is not equal, Kirigakure can at least provide more than 10,000 ninjas at that time.
In short, these first batches of forces are just a small help to fulfill the obligations of the alliance with Kumogakure.
Yang No would rather hold on to stronger forces and not put them into use than use them before all parties have really come to an end.
After all, it is better to say that she is considering it from the perspective of her own interests first, Kirigakure and Akatsuki are her pawns, just like the Hokage and the clan leader on the night of the Uchiha Rebellion. She has her own plans....
On the other hand, according to the intelligence from Kumogakure, the Fourth Raikage plans to gather more than 16,000 ninjas, as well as a large number of logistics and medical support forces.
If the two sides join forces, the force may exceed 20,000, and this force will attack the Konoha Ninja Village head-on with a magnificent formation.
However, the role of the Kirigakure is still to harass Konoha in another secondary direction, distracting its attention and troops.
On the high platform in the Water Will Square, Uchiha Haruno, as the Mizukage's advisor, gave an exciting speech on behalf of the Mizukage who could not attend for some reason.