Toshiro suddenly felt that the world in front of him was strange.
The Konoha ninja he met today were not the same as before.
It completely exceeded his impression.
It made him wonder if there was something wrong with his memory.
The shock lasted for a while, and I was awakened by screams again.
He realized that they had been defeated at this moment and had no chance of winning.
The ninjas of Konoha gave him the feeling of being professional.
Uniform orders and well-trained battles.
Toshiro had only seen it in the elite army of the Kingdom of Thunder.
Who on earth treats ninjas like an army?
He naturally understands the difficulty involved.
Toshiro raised his hands and shouted loudly: "I am the commander of the Vanguard Army of Yunyin Village, we surrender!"
In the mist, his words spread.
The ninjas shrouded in exoskeleton-powered suits looked at Haruki, waiting for his instructions.
"Let him come over."
Hearing this, Toshiro took a deep breath. Even if he couldn't win, he still had to obtain certain information.
At this moment, he realized that Cloud Hidden Village's information about Konoha Village was too backward.
In the battle just now, their vanguard army was completely disoriented and was directly hit to collapse by the powerful firepower.
Toshiro silently followed the two ninjas in front of him.
His eyes fell on the remaining ninjas of Yunyin Village around him, a little unbearable, but more determined.
The riverside at night is illuminated by flames.
Earth's breathing stopped for a moment.
Densely packed Konoha ninjas stood on both sides of the river bank with a motionless aura.
No one whispered to each other, and no one made unnecessary movements.
The queue is as orderly as a whole.
Toshiro took a step forward and looked at Haruki.
He has never seen Qingshu, but he knows his portrait.
But he never thought that he would be the leader of this team.
He is obviously just a son-in-law.
He had previously thought it would be Hatake Sakumo or Orochimaru.
Even Uchiha Fugaku and Hinata Hizashi seem to be more reasonable than him.
He's just a medical ninja.
"May I have your name?"
Qingshu looked at him calmly.
Toshiro has never seen him, and naturally he has not seen Toshiro either.
"Tushiro."
Toshiro bowed slightly to show his attitude.
When Qingshu heard this name, some long-standing memories suddenly came to mind.
The Jonin of Hidden Cloud Village is deeply trusted by the Third Raikage and knows how to melt away.
Other than that, I have no impression.
"Qingshu. You want to see me, why?" Qingshu was a little surprised by his surrender.
"I want to know why you showed up here?" Toshiro asked doubtfully, "Logically speaking, it couldn't be so fast."
"We came from the sea."
"On the sea?" Toshiro was slightly startled, "How could it be...the Kingdom of Iron?!"
Although there is an ocean between the Kingdom of Fire and the Kingdom of Thunder, it is impossible to sail there farther than on land.
There was no need for Qingshu to lie to him.
The only possibility is to pass through the Iron Kingdom and then cross the sea.
Thinking of this possibility, he became extremely anxious.
The Fourth Raikage and the others had no idea that the time difference was fatal.
What's worse is that Konoha didn't respect martial ethics and entered the Kingdom of Thunder directly.
"It seems you have guessed the answer. Do you still have any questions?"
Qingshu couldn't help but smile when he saw his expression.
With the victory in hand, he wouldn't mind chatting with the characters in the original work.
"There are many, but I guess you won't tell me."
Toshiro sighed, with a wry smile on his face, "What you did was completely beyond our expectations, so..."
He paused and raised his head, his eyes filled with murderous intent.
The aura that burned everything swept through his body.
Toshiro's hands turned into lava and smashed into the Haruki tree in front of him.
Not only that, the moment he took action, the remaining Kumoyin Village ninjas behind him immediately rushed out.
Thunder and mud colors.
At an extremely fast speed, like a volcano erupting, with a violent sound, the chakra rolled up like the wind, covered the top of Qingshu's head, and then fell.
No one thought that Yunyin Village would fight to the death.
Hatake Sakumo and others were suddenly stunned.
"Is this Melting Escape?"
Qingshu raised his hand and held his fist.
The lava flowed through his skin without any damage.
"It seems a bit worse."
He raised his head and smiled.
Toshiro's face was extremely pale, and he asked loudly: "This is impossible! Are you a human or a ghost?!"
Haruki raised his eyebrows, and countless vines rushed out from the soil, wrapped in various colors of chakra, swallowed them instantly, and then turned into wooden swords, piercing through all the remaining ninjas of Kumogakure Village.
"Wood Release?!"
Toshiro's eyes widened and he fell to the ground.
impossible!
His eyes were full of disbelief.
Haruki glanced at Toshiro and easily cut off his head with a wooden sword.
"Fugaku, use fire escape to burn all the corpses."
"yes!"
Fugaku immediately used fire escape to clear the area.
Toshiro's body gradually turned into charcoal.
Qingshu bent down and picked up something similar to crystal.
It's not a treasure, it's a message.
Toshiro surrendered because he wanted to know information.
If Haruki's prediction is correct and they dispose of the body hastily, the crystal will fly away soon, or the ninjas from Kumoyin Village will come to retrieve it.
He crushed the crystal and said with a smile: "Why is it so? If you want Raikage to know the information, I can satisfy you."
The deaths of two thousand Kumogakure ninjas could never be hidden.
Instead of asking them to do more probing, tell them directly.
"Sakumo, announce the fact that our 10,000 Konoha ninja ambushed the Kumogakure Village vanguard."
The light in Hatake Sakumo's eyes flickered slightly.
He quickly understood what Qingshu meant.
Use the advantage of numbers to bury the real killing move.
The later the new equipment such as Skyfire is exposed, the better.
Emphasizing the number of ten thousand made the ninja world and even Kumogakure Village believe that Konoha only won because of numbers.
"Okay, I'll let the ANBU leak the news."
Hatake Sakumo nodded and asked, "What should we do next?"
"Ontake Mountain Range."
Qingshu didn't hesitate and expressed his original plan.
Ten thousand ninja troops is not too much, but it is still not enough to go deep behind enemy lines.
Facing the Kingdom of Thunder and Cloud Hidden Village, which can support them at any time, there is no need for them to launch a large-scale war.
Their new equipment is not capable of crushing them.
Besides, plains are good for tailed beasts.
Haruki plans to use the ubiquitous mountains in the Land of Thunder to build a defense line.
Combined with Skyfire and Gatling, it becomes a fort with fierce firepower.
"In addition, inform Minato, let those nobles know our achievements, and tell them that we have opened the door to the Kingdom of Thunder for them."
Qingshu snorted coldly and said, "If you don't go in now, when will you wait?"
"I'm afraid they can't help us much."
Hatake Sakumo never quite understood Haruki’s intentions.
If they enter the Kingdom of Thunder, the Daimyo will definitely send troops to stop them. What's the point?
Qingshu glanced at him and said: "Whether they are useful or not is not determined by their strength, but by us."
Hatake Sakumo thought for a moment and didn't ask again.
The nobles wanted to seize the daimyo's position, but only Haruki, Minato, and Hayashi Kengo knew about it.
Haruki didn't tell him because of Hatake Sakumo's so-called samurai spirit to avoid being opposed.
When the rice is cooked, he won't say anything.
In addition, the less people know about this kind of thing, the safer it is.
After all, for people in the ninja world, it is really treasonous.
When Haruki led his troops to the Ontake Mountains, news spread quickly that the two thousand vanguard troops of Kumogakure Village had been wiped out.
All countries and ninja villages have received the information.
They all had the same expression, stunned and shocked.
Didn’t war just be declared yesterday?
Why did two thousand ninjas die today?
Two thousand ninjas are not a handful.
The number of casualties in the last ninja war did not exceed 10,000.
After all, there are only five major villages that can produce more than 10,000 ninja troops.
In other Xiaonin villages, there are only one or two thousand people who can stand up to the sky.
In other words, a small country perished in one day.
And why is Konoha so fast?
Raikage Building.
The newly appointed Fourth Raikage Ai opened the scroll tremblingly, and asked in a gloomy tone: "Does this mean that Lord Toshiro is dead?"
As the trusted Jonin of the Third Raikage, Ai can be said to have grown up under the care of Toshiro.
Now as soon as the front foot walks, the back foot hears the news of death.
It's simply a dream.
"yes."
Troy replied with a puzzled and sad look on his face, "Not just Toshiro, but not one of the two thousand ninjas came back alive."
"how so……"
The Fourth Raikage slumped in his office chair.
He never imagined that the first step of revenge would be to add another two thousand lives.
These are not genin.
They are the elites that their Yunyin Village managed to cultivate.
How could the entire army be wiped out?
For a moment, all the jonin fell into silence.
The war was more brutal than before, severely damaging their confidence.
You must know that the reason why they dared to assassinate Tsunade and prepare for war was because they felt that Kumogakure Village was too strong and was superior to the other four ninja villages.
"Anbu went to investigate."
Troy swallowed hard and continued, "There are traces of fire burning on the spot. It is initially inferred that it is the Uchiha clan."
"There's no body left?"
Ai raised his head, suppressing anger in his words.
"No, nothing."
"asshole!"
Ai couldn't help but said angrily.
He really didn't understand why Konoha would do this, just like he didn't understand why he wanted to enter the Kingdom of Thunder?
We all agreed that we should have a competition between two small countries, wouldn't it be enough?
What's wrong with you?
Stealing a home?
But why do you, with ten thousand ninjas, steal homes?
"Where are they now?"
Ai clenched his fists and asked another question.
"..."
After Troy was silent for a few seconds, he shook his head and said, "I don't know."
Bang.
The desk in front of Ai was cracked from the middle.
"I don't know? How could ten thousand ninjas disappear out of thin air? Can they fly?"
"All ANBU have been dispatched. We have also contacted the Daimyo of the Kingdom of Thunder and asked him to send troops to search, but we still haven't found it."
Troy took a deep breath, he also felt outrageous.
Ai's fists clenched and loosened, annoyance filling his heart.
"Maybe at sea."
Troy suddenly thought of something and said, "We have asked several surrounding countries, but no one has seen Konoha's ninja army. They seem to have landed at Chiba Port by sea and then ambushed Toshiro by the river."
Ai suddenly showed an expression of disbelief.
This was a path he had never thought of.
After all, this is Konoha Village, not Kirigakure Village.
"If we take the sea route..."
Ai breathed out slowly, "This shows that Konoha had plans for war before us. We joined forces with Sunagakure Village to conduct the chunin exams, but fell into their trap."
He finally figured out why they were frustrated at every turn.
It's because Konoha has already anticipated and prepared for it.
He didn't think about the Iron Kingdom.
Troy and others nodded subconsciously.
Ai's analysis is very reasonable.
Just then, an ANBU ninja appeared.
"Lord Raikage, news came from the Daimyo that five armies from the Country of Fire have entered the Country of Thunder."
"Hmph, do these guys really want revenge?"
Ai's face was ugly, and it felt uncomfortable to take the blame for something inexplicable, especially for a super scapegoat like the one who killed a daimyo.
A smaller ninja village might not be able to defeat a conventional army.
But they are Cloud Hidden Village.
"Ignore it."
Ai thought for a while, shook his head and said, "They have their own daimyo to deal with. Our top priority is to find the ninjas of Konoha."
"Wait a minute, Raikage-sama."
Troy raised his head and said, "If the nobles of the Fire Country are in crisis, Konoha's ninjas must rescue them."
Ai's face condensed slightly.
This method is really good.
But the massacre of nobles made him hesitate.
The most important thing is that it will arouse the fear of the great names and nobles of the Land of Thunder.
Since you can kill the country of fire, you can also kill the country of thunder.
If such an impression were formed, they would be in endless trouble.
"Khilabi, you lead a team of water-escape ninjas to the seaside. Troy, you use the Qianba River as the center and search everywhere."
Ai raised three fingers and said in a deep voice, "If there is no news within three days, we will attack the army of the Kingdom of Fire. No, it should be to help the Kingdom of Thunder defeat the invaders."
He promptly changed his tune.
This matter cannot be done directly by Yunyin Village.
…
The land of rain.
Under the continuous rain, a group of people were trapped on a hillside.
Wearing a black trench coat with white edges and a red cloud pattern, Konan looked silently at the Kumoyin Village ninjas who kept outflanking him.
Who betrayed them?
The originally anxious battle with Yunyin Village took a turn for the worse in the past few days. No matter how they hid, their traces were discovered soon after.
It's simply incredible.
The Akatsuki organization originally planned to gradually expand its strength according to Haruki's suggestion.
After all, achieving peace requires the support of strong forces.
But such an organization is naturally not allowed by Hanzo.
After several confrontations, Hanzo realized the dangers of the Akatsuki organization and began to encircle and suppress them with all his strength.
Yahiko, Nagato and Konan immediately went to the dark place, intending to go to Kumogakure Village.
But the good times didn't last long.
"How many of us can fight now?"
Xiaonan turned around and looked at the organization members who were taking shelter in the cave.
Attracted by the concept of peace, the Akatsuki organization found many like-minded ninjas.
They are not the S-class mercenaries who formed two teams of rebellious ninjas in the original work.
"Twenty-four people."
A young man in his thirties replied, "In addition, there are nine people from the Oshima Chamber of Commerce."
They originally came to rescue the caravan of the Da Dao Chamber of Commerce, but unexpectedly they fell into an ambush.
Xiao Nan frowned, her delicate face revealing a hint of worry.
The news can't get out now.
Yahiko and Nagato didn't know if they could detect the abnormality and rescue them in time.