The sky was gloomy, billowing clouds covered the earth, and a heavy rain seemed about to pour.
Although it is already the season of late summer and early autumn, there is still a touch of humidity and sultry heat in the air in Kawakuni.
Between the mountains and ravines, a group of about thirty Konoha ninjas trampled on the rugged and difficult road, chasing the Sand ninjas who were running away a few hundred meters away.
These Konoha ninjas all wore green vests on their upper bodies, and their hair was black. What emerged in their eyes were blood-red pupils.
And, the jet black magatama that keeps spinning.
One after another, shurikens and kunai flew forward like raindrops, wishing to tear all the running sand ninjas into pieces.
But the distance between the two sides is really too far, and hidden weapon attacks are obviously unable to successfully deal with the enemy at a distance of several hundred meters.
After flying halfway, they all fell to the ground.
The pursuit lasted for more than ten minutes until they came to a wide river. The Uchiha troops stopped. No unlucky person among the Suna ninja troops was shot to death by a hidden weapon.
Watching the Suna ninja step on the water and gradually move away, the leading Uchiha ninja spat on the ground and cursed unluckily: "These guys run so fast."
This Uchiha ninja is about thirty years old, his name is Uchiha Ao, his identity is a jounin, and he is a captain of the first and third detachment of Aburame Shiguro.
There are more than thirty Uchiha ninjas around him, all of whom are his subordinates, and even the weakest ones have chuunin strength.
"Captain Cang, why don't we continue chasing?"
To the left of Uchiha Cang, a young Uchiha ninja asked his captain with a puzzled face, obviously confused about the current situation.
"Have you seen the river in front of you?" Pointing to the river at his feet, Uchiha Cang replied irritably: "We are not allowed to cross this limit according to the orders from above."
"Why?"
"How did I know..." Waving his hand, Uchiha Cang turned around and motioned for everyone to follow him to retreat. At the end, perhaps because he suddenly thought of something, he added:
"However... Sunagakure's recent actions are a bit strange, so you'd better be careful."
Sunagakure's movements were indeed a bit strange, which was the consensus of all the Uchiha ninjas present.
After all, as far as they knew, except for the first brigade to which they and others belonged, the strength of the Suna ninjas faced by the other second and third brigade had been reduced.
If you look at the map, the northwest is where the Sunagakure Camp is, and the southeast is where the Konoha Camp is. The First Battalion is located in the middle of the two camps, in the eastern region of Kawano Country, close to the center.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the First Battalion defends the main camp of Konoha and is the direct barrier between Konoha and Sunagakure.
From half a month ago until now, the pressure faced by other front armies has been significantly reduced, but the pressure on the First Brigade to which I and others belong has suddenly increased greatly.
What this means, most of the Uchiha ninjas present have a vague understanding:
Sunagakure was afraid that he was diverting his military strength from other areas and did not intend to continue entangled with Konoha in Kawa no Kuni. Instead, he concentrated his main attack direction in the east, aiming at Konoha's base camp.
So...could it be said that this is a decisive battle?
Thoughts were running through everyone's minds, but when they saw Uchiha Ao gradually walking away, they suppressed their thoughts and followed him one after another. Looking at their expressions, they didn't show much strangeness. At most, they were a little excited before the war.
after all……
In any case, no matter how the war situation develops or changes, with the existence of Sharingan, the extremely powerful blood successor, the average combat power of the Uchiha clan cannot be weakened. All of them...
Everyone will definitely survive until the end.
The encounter between the Uchiha detachment and the Suna Ninja troops ended with the Suna Ninja leaving a dozen corpses and the remaining people fleeing in panic. Not a single Uchiha ninja was killed.
But this scene is just a small microcosm in the vast battle situation of about hundreds of square kilometers in the eastern part of the Kawa Country, and it is not very common.
More situations...
More than ten kilometers away from the battlefield between Uchiha ninja and Suna ninja, another encounter also started at the same time, it was still Suna ninja versus Konoha ninja.
"There are few of them, come on!"
Looking at the five or six Konoha ninjas dozens of meters away, a Suna ninja jonin with a white turban on his head and a khaki vest roared angrily, without looking at his teammates behind him, and began to form seals directly.
Suddenly, several light green sharp blades several meters long emerged, drawing arcs in the air and cutting towards the enemies not far away.
The sharp and ear-piercing wind roared past, catching the Konoha ninjas off guard. The two leading chuunin didn't even make a sound, their bodies were cut into several pieces, and bright red blood spilled into the air.
When the three Konoha ninjas saw this, they quickly glanced at the location where the attack came from. When they saw that there were more than ten enemies, they turned around and ran away without thinking, without any chance of collecting the corpses of their companions.
intention.
Then, another pursuit battle started.
Let alone the life and death of the remaining three Konoha ninjas, in the eastern part of Kawa no Kuni, battles are happening almost every moment, and the intensity is several orders of magnitude higher than before.
Encounters, pursuits, ambushes, small battles...all kinds of tactics were intertwined. The number of casualties in Sunagakure and Konoha soared rapidly, and no one paid attention to the reason for the battle.
How to kill the enemy is the only thing that all ninjas focus on.
More than half a month has passed since the incident where half of Konoha's transport troops were stolen by Sunagakure.
Lei Luo sensed Sunagakure's intention for a decisive battle and the direction of the main attack, so he mobilized Orochimaru's second brigade to withdraw from the southern front and rush to the western front to prepare for Sunagakure's intensifying offensive.
The combined strength of the two brigades is about a thousand people, and these thousand people are the backbone of the Konoha ninja army. There is no big problem in resisting the Suna ninja army, which is now much worse than before.
After all, in the past two years, the Konoha ninjas on all fronts have suppressed the Suna ninja very well. Whether it is the gap in high-end combat power or the gap in morale, Sunagakure has long been no match for Konoha.
Including the countless battles that are being fought in the eastern part of Kawa no Kuni at this moment, although Konoha's side is slightly inferior in numbers to Sunagakure, it can still occupy a certain advantage.
Not only can the First Battalion and the Second Battalion firmly hold on to their original positions, elite units like the Uchiha Squadron and the Flying Thunder God Commandos can sometimes be like a sharp knife, piercing into the hinterland of Sunagakure.
However, because he couldn't figure out what trump cards Sunagakure had prepared in the past two years, and because Hinata Huan's investigation did not yield much results, Lei Luo made a fatal order: his troops were not allowed to go too deep into Sunagakure.
Occupied territory.
And this was also the reason why Uchiha Ao stopped at the river bank and did not choose to continue the pursuit.
The battle situation is becoming more and more intense. If you look down from a high altitude, you can find that most of the ninjas of Konoha and Sunagakure are wandering in the eastern part of Kawa no Kuni, pulling back and forth in a crisscross manner, and the fighting hardly stops for a moment.
The sense of depression before the war enveloped the hearts of everyone on the battlefield. Whether it was the Suna ninja or the Konoha ninja, everyone knew that the decisive battle was not far away.