Chapter Thirty-Eight: In the Name of the Water Shadow
The Eastern Border Fortress of the Oni Country, in the conference room.
Now it is not Loess who is presiding over the meeting of the Iwakure Kamishinobi on the front line, but the third generation of Tokage Onoki himself.
Due to the fact that Loess was attacked by an artillery shell before the previous operation, his body was wounded, and although it was not hindered by his movement, his strength was still somewhat damaged, and he was being treated in the infirmary of the fortress at this time. Therefore, at this time, Onoki, who is the Tsuchikage, had to take action and personally go to the front line earlier than expected to stabilize the situation on the Iwakure front.
Not only that, but in this rush to the front line, he once again invested a new force composed of 2,000 rock hidden ninjas to converge with the thousands of rock hidden ninjas on the front line.
Despite being short and with a funny red nose on his face, Iwakushi Kamishinobu who was present had great respect for Onoki as the earth shadow.
He turned the tide and revitalized the third generation of Iwakure's Tsuchikage in the crisis situation when Iwakure lost the second generation of Tsuchikage.
The reign of the Hokage is longer than that of Konoha's three generations of Hokage Ape Flying Hokage, and it can be said that it has accumulated a wide range of power, and it is trusted and admired by the rock ninja.
At this time, he was the commander-in-chief of the front line, and the anxiety that everyone had endured was finally settled.
"Tsuchikage-sama, there was an important piece of information coming from before, according to the information received by the Alliance Army, Arisa Shinobi witnessed Chiba Shiraishi appearing in the northwest realm of the Land of Wind."
At this time, a Iwakushi Shinobi reported the news.
The rest of the Iwakushi Shinobu who participated in the meeting didn't show any surprise, and they were more or less aware of the news, so they didn't think it was strange.
After all, the sand is hidden in the northwest border of the Land of Wind, and thousands of elite ninjas have been invested, and in order to prevent trouble, the country of ghosts will inevitably dispatch a heavyweight ninja to sit there to ensure that nothing goes wrong.
It's just that before that, the result they speculated was that Uchiha Ruri would have a greater probability of being in the northwest region of the Land of Wind.
However, whether it is Chiba Shiraishi or Uchiha Ruri sitting in the northwest of the Land of Wind, it doesn't really matter, the purpose of the Four Nations Alliance is to continuously disperse the main force of the Oni Country, and finally break each one and annihilate them one by one.
Now the first step towards that goal has been completed.
"In this way, the main force used to defend against the fog is led by Uchiha Ruri."
Onoki analyzed the information of the commander of the main force of the Oni Country, although it was only a few words, but because of this, such a short and concise information was precious.
As long as you know the distribution of the main forces of the Oni Country, the next thing to do becomes simpler, and the fog that shrouds the front of the Alliance Army has finally cleared a little.
"Exactly, but something seems to be wrong on the Sand Hide's side."
One of Iwakure Shinobu hesitated.
"Are you referring to the fact that one of the human pillars of Shayin was robbed on the front line?"
Onoki's gaze swept over.
"Yes. According to the information provided by Sha Yin, it is the same organization that stole the One Tail Human Pillar Force as the One Tail and the Four Tails and Five Tails of our village. Dressed in a red cloud coat on a black background, the members of the organization are composed of dangerous S-class rebels from various countries. There are five known members, namely Konoha Orochimaru, Uchiha Itachi, Sand Hide's Red Sand Scorpion, Kirigakure's Dried Persimmon Ghost Sex, and ...... Deidara. ”
The shinobi said again.
When talking about Deidara, he deliberately accentuated his tone and secretly glanced at Onoki's expression.
Sure enough, when he heard the name Deidara, although Ohnogi's expression did not change much, it was difficult to hide the gloomy look in his cloudy eyes.
The traitorous ninja who walked out of their Iwain Village is now making waves in the ninja world, and even colluding with the criminals who stole the two tailed beasts of Iwain, this kind of thing is very disgraceful no matter how you say it, and it is simply a slap in the face of Iwain Village.
"That bastard boy, I didn't expect to go down such a wrong path, I knew it was like this, I should have monitored him in the first place, so as not to cause trouble for me outside!"
In particular, the other party was also in cahoots with the defector ninjas who stole the four and five tails of the village, which was even more unforgivable in Ohnogi's view.
"Lord Tsuchikage, please calm your anger, it has happened, and it won't help to regret it. Now that there is such an accident on the side of Shayin, I'm afraid ......"
Iwakure didn't say anything, but everyone guessed.
The theft of the human pillar force is not a trivial matter, since the theft of the four tails and five tails in their village in the past, they have been trying their best to find it, constantly groping for the lair of the mysterious organization, and never wanting to recapture the four tails and five tails.
At this time, the people of this organization found Sand Hide again and plundered one of their human pillars, and Sand Hide will inevitably deal with it negatively in dealing with the war in the Oni Country.
This is not conducive to the strategic layout of the coalition forces.
However, this was an unexpected situation, before that, although they considered that there might be a third-party force involved, but this third-party force was by no means this mysterious organization with tailed beasts as the target of plunder, but Yunyin, who was not interested in the alliance army and planned to stay out of the matter.
Now that this kind of thing is happening, not only Sha Yin, but also the other three parties of the alliance army, they are also somewhat caught off guard.
Especially in villages with tailed beasts, be careful that this organization will come and cause trouble for them.
"No, in fact, things are not bad, as long as the main force of Shayin does not withdraw from the front line, it will be a great achievement to steadily contain the main force of the Oni Country as well. The impasse has been born, and now stronger forces are needed to break it. ”
Onoki said.
The strength of the sand is already at the bottom of the great ninja village, but as long as it can abide by the contract and contain a main force of the Oni Country in the northwest region of the Wind Country, it will also have a positive guiding role for the alliance army.
Although it is impossible to pin the hope of victory on the sand hidden now, the benefits of the Quad Alliance lie here.
Even if one force is lost, the remaining three ninja villages still have a fierce offensive momentum, so as not to let the offensive of the alliance army fall into passivity.
After all, the main forces of the Oni no Kuni are already in place, and the alliance forces have not yet released their true strength, and Onoki has full confidence in the next battle.
"Get in touch with Kigakuin and Konoha and tell them that it's time to act! The next action is not to be missed! ”
A fierce look flashed in Onogi's eyes.
When the rest of the Iwakure Shinobu heard this, their expressions were awe-inspiring.
"Yes!"
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Compared to Iwain, whose offensive intent is very obvious, the conference room in the fog is gloomy and miserable.
In the investigation of the dark department, the leader of the group, Aoki Kamishinobu, took advantage of the carelessness of the two guards of the fourth conference group, seriously injured them, and then fled alone towards the western waters of the Oni Country, directly confirming the charge of the fourth conference group of colluding with foreign enemies.
Due to the defection of Aoki Kaminobu, the leader of the Fourth Conference Group, and collusion with foreign enemies, all the members of the Fourth Conference Group became suspicious, and from the original surveillance, they were directly arrested and imprisoned by the Shadows, and investigated from beginning to end.
The matter of the fourth conference group is over, but what is left for the fog is undoubtedly a bad start.
At the beginning of the war, before seeing the ninjas of the country of ghosts, they lost two waves of reconnaissance teams and nearly 100 ninjas.
The Third Vanguard was similarly tried and nowhere to be found.
This adds up to more than 600 ninjas who are missing, not knowing whether they are alive or dead.
The worst thing is that Aoki Shangnin, who participated in the Shangnin meeting, is still a spy planted in the Fog Hidden Village by the Oni Country, which makes the Fog Hidden Shinobi present feel uneasy.
Judging from the ninja resume of Aoki Kaminobi, he is undoubtedly a ninja with a very innocent background, but this is how Aoki Shinobi with an innocent background and excellent character is actually a spy of the Oni Country, which makes the ninjas who are usually friendly with Aoki Shinobi feel depressed.
"Iwakure and Konoha have reached an agreement, and they are ready to start the next move in two days. Sha Yin is temporarily unable to join due to some things, and now only our side of Wu Yin has not given an accurate response. Tell me what you think should happen next. ”
I threw this question to the ninjas here, hoping that they would be able to put forward some opinions that would be beneficial to the current situation.
After the loss of the position was finished, the Shangnin of each conference group looked at each other and began to present their own group's mentions one by one.
In general, the majority of the proposals to cooperate with the actions of the coalition forces were in the majority, and a very small number of people believed that the current situation was unclear and needed to continue to wait and see, and the rest stood in the middle and decided to take Mizukage's decision as the main decision.
After listening to the narratives of the various meeting groups, he nodded slightly, and had a fairly detailed plan for the views of each group, and just as he was about to open his mouth to say something, the door of the conference room was pushed open.
A shinobi who was patrolling the sea area hurriedly walked in.
"Mizukage-sama."
"What's the matter?"
For the patrol Shangnin suddenly broke into here, not only did he lose his position, but the rest of Shangnin were surprised, and he didn't know what urgency made him so rude.
"The third wave of reconnaissance teams entered the sea area west of the country of ghosts, and in less than half an hour, they lost contact again, please make a decision."
The patrol shinobu was anxious and uneasy, and told the terrible news.
And after he said the news, the conference room immediately fell into a deathly silence, and the atmosphere became strange.
The shinobi shifted to a position where three shinobi were seated, and they belonged to the Senate Shinobi of the Sixth Council Group.
For the third wave of the reconnaissance team, the list of personnel, the route of action, and the contact method were formulated by their team, and finally handed over to Mizukage for personal review.
In other words, except for the three upper ninjas of the sixth council group, and the Mizukage, who lost the position, the rest of the upper ninja did not know the inside story of the third wave reconnaissance group.
Even the members of the reconnaissance team who were directly involved in the mission had no way of knowing the specific information about the rest of the squad, let alone the course of action.
Therefore, there is a problem with the third wave of reconnaissance groups at this time, and aside from the Mizukage, who is absolutely impossible to betray his village, then there is only one possibility left - there are internal ghosts within the sixth meeting group!
It could be one inner ghost, two inner ghosts, and the worst case scenario is that all members of the Sixth Conference Group have loyalty problems.
As a result, the upper ninjas of the rest of the conference group looked at the three upper ninjas of the sixth conference group with strange expressions in their eyes.
The upper ninja sitting next to them also subconsciously moved a little distance to the side, as if the upper ninja of the sixth conference group had a terrible plague on his body, and people couldn't help but want to stay away.
As the parties, the three Shangnin of the Sixth Conference Group, including the leader Shangnin, all turned pale and their brains were blank.
When the bad news came, they were also caught off guard.
How can it be?
How could the third wave of reconnaissance groups be wiped out again?
The list of personnel, the route of action, and so on, they only showed it to Mizukage, and they didn't lose it, so how could the reconnaissance team lose contact again?
What went wrong?
The leader of the sixth conference group, Shangshinobi, has always trusted his two team members, but now that something is wrong, he has to think in his heart, is there really no problem with his two colleagues?
If this is the case, then the two members of his team usually have terrible camouflage skills.
But the more this is the case, the more the team leader Shangren understands that it is absolutely impossible to fight at this time.
He was about to defend something, but when he turned his head, he saw the expressionless and calm baby face of the lost position, and his heart sank.
The corners of the team leader's mouth were slightly bitter, he knew that no matter how he defended himself and proved his innocence for himself and his team members, it would be difficult to convince him to lose his position.
Moreover, there were problems with the reconnaissance groups of the third wave, and the problems within the sixth conference group were the greatest.
It is impossible that the information was passed on to the enemy by Mizukage himself.
"I'm sorry, Mizukage-sama, this is a dereliction of duty on my part and that of my team, and we're willing to be investigated."
The team leader sighed and stood up from his position, his eyes flashing with guilt.
He was able to get to this point because of his hard work and hard work, and he single-handedly promoted him to have his current status.
However, I have betrayed the trust of the lost position, and accepting the investigation is the best result.
Not only that, but he also had to secretly investigate his two team members to see if there was anything wrong with the two of them, and give an explanation for the loss of positions.
The other two shinobi of the sixth conference group also stood up, the meaning was clear, they were the same as the team leader, and they were investigated by the dark department.
This is a major mistake that must be borne by them.
Hearing this, the face of the lost position softened, and let the dark department endure it with the three subordinates of the sixth conference group and accept the investigation.
After the Shangnin of the Sixth Conference Group went down, the Shangnin who stayed behind obviously noticed that the atmosphere in the conference room had become more solemn than before.
Especially as the water shadow, he sat there without saying a word, and the area around him fell into a depression that was difficult to be strict.
The few Shangnin, who were closest to the loss of position, didn't dare to breathe, just listened to the ticking sound of the second hand of the clock, waiting for the time to pass minute by minute, feeling this indescribable torment.
"The reconnaissance team has a problem again, how to cooperate with Iwakuin and Konoha next?"
I don't know how long it has been, but the words that are extremely calm sounded in the conference room.
The people breathed a sigh of relief, they had expected this question and were not surprised.
"Lord Mizukage, with all due respect, it is not suitable for us to take the initiative to attack at the moment, and there are frequent accidents in the reconnaissance team, and this problem is difficult to solve in a short period of time."
"I agree, since I can't figure out the deployment of the Oni Country's forces in the western seas, if I attack rashly, I'm afraid the outcome will be ......."
"How do Iwakure and Konoha reply? Do you want to tell the truth? ”
"No, if we tell the truth, we will lose our face, and we will be looked down upon by the rest of the village. They must not be let know that there is something wrong with us. ”
"But what about the offense? Iwakure and Konoha have already made arrangements, so if we don't tell the truth......"
The shinobi began to discuss fiercely.
Although some of the Kiri Shinobi advocated confessing the situation to Iwakuin and Konoha to the situation, they said that there were an unknown number of spies inside the Mistin and that they were temporarily unable to attack the Oni Country and needed to suspend their actions.
But more Wuyin Shangnin believes that this is an internal problem of Wuyin, and there is no need to explain the embarrassing things in his village to the rest of the village, so that others can look down on him.
"I think that in the future, Wuyin can put on a posture of large-scale attack, and at the same time tell Iwakuin and Konoha that our side has successfully defeated the vanguard of the Oni Country, and the situation is very good, and we can attack the Oni Country at any time!"
A young Kirin Shinobi suddenly raised this formula, overpowering the voices of the rest of the people, and it sounded loudly in the conference room, attracting the attention of many Shinobi.
Even the lost position couldn't help but look at the young Shangnin.
"You mean to say that the sheep are making an offensive posture in order to blind the country of demons, so that their main forces can be pinned down here, unable to move?"
The young shinobi's opinion is not difficult to understand.
The rest of the upper ninjas, they only need to think a little to understand the principle.
To put it simply, it is a bluff that pins down the troops of the Oni Country here without a single soldier, so that they cannot turn to the rest of the battlefield for support.
In this way, the face of Wuyin can be saved, and the next action can be carried out smoothly, so as not to suspend the offensive because of Wuyin's problem.
After all, the situation on the battlefield is changing, and time and timing are very important.
The assault troops on Konoha's side are besieged by the forces of the Oni Country in the territory of the Bear Country, and they urgently need to open a gap to get them out of the sea of suffering.
In other words, as long as Kigakure 'drags' the Oni Country's naval fleet, it is enough to ensure that Iwakure and Konoha's attack plan will not be unexpected.
However, this diversion tactic is fake after all.
Once the Oni no Kuni discovers that Kigakure does not intend to attack the islands in the western sea, this means that the Oni Country can transfer the main forces deployed in the western sea to the Iwakuin or Konoha battlefields to support there, and may even deal an extremely heavy blow to Iwakure and Konoha .
The Shinobi of the Fog Hidden were lost in thought.
There are pros and cons to this tactic, and it is a double-edged sword.
There is nothing to say about the smooth plan, if it fails, causing the main force of the Oni no Kuni to be transferred to Iwakuin to fight on the Konoha battlefield, it will not only hit the morale of the alliance army, but even worse, it may make the alliance army's 'covenant' shattered in an instant.
The upper ninjas kept frowning, considering the gains and losses.
At this moment, he spoke: "Starting tomorrow, the number of patrol troops will be doubled, and the rest of the squadron will be put into a state of readiness, and another port will be opened, and military drills will be conducted on the ship, telling the country of ghosts that we are about to attack the sea on their western side." ”
If you lose your position, you will be shocked by the ninjas of the fog.
Obviously, the loss of the position agreed to this strategy.
With a military drill disguised as an offensive posture, a main force of the Oni Country was contained here, so as to facilitate the implementation of Iwakushi and Konoha's plan.
If this method succeeds, everything is easy to say, if it fails......
Not only will it rupture the alliance army, but it will also attract accusations from the rest of the village.
Lost Kura sighed and said, "As Mizukage, I can't risk the lives of thousands of Mist Hidden Ninjas. If the plan fails, I will bear all the blame, and then I will take the blame and resign, and give an explanation to the shadows of the villages. ”
"Mizukage-sama!"
"Needless to say. Starting today, for the next three days, you will have to be monitored by the Shadows to prevent the news of the disguised attack on the Oni Country from leaking. The meeting is now adjourned. ”
The loss of the position decided the matter with an absolutely tough attitude, and everyone could only keep their mouths shut.
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Konoha, Konoha Hospital Warehouse.
"Is this the list of all medical supplies?"
In front of the door of the warehouse where medical supplies are stored, Masumi Asami, who is the vice president of the hospital, arrives with two medical ninjas, a man and a woman.
After taking the list of medical supplies, she casually asked the staff escorting the supplies.
"Yes, Vice Dean Asami, this is the last batch."
The staff replied respectfully.
"No problem. You go down, I need to take someone to check it out for myself and see if anything went wrong. After all, this is to be sent to the frontline battlefield in the near future, and there can be no accidents. ”
Asami Masumi tucked the list into the pocket of her white coat and glanced at the staff with the rest of her eyes.
"Yes, then I'll quit."
The staff left here.
Asami Masumi led a man and a woman behind him into the warehouse.
After entering, the female medical ninja took the initiative to turn on the light, and then closed the door of the warehouse.
In the huge warehouse where medical supplies were stored, only the three of them were left.
The three of them glanced at the medical supplies in the warehouse, and suddenly, the ground next to them began to bulge with a cloud of mud.
After the mud emerged from the ground, it slowly coalesced into a human figure, and in the slightly dim light, a pair of bright yellow children's holes opened.
It is Shiraishi's doppelganger, the Earth General.
It didn't speak, just opened its mouth, and with a pop, something fell out of its mouth and landed on the ground.
It is a box with the same appearance as the one in the warehouse where medical supplies are stored.
I spit out the first, then the second, then the third, and keep spitting out of my body.
"Let's start replacing supplies, we don't have much time left, only one hour."
Asami Masumi picked up the glasses hanging on her chest and put them on herself, reflecting a white light that could hide her gaze on the lenses.
"Yes!"
A man and a woman answered the call and dispersed to both sides of the warehouse and began to move.