After a creak, Fugaku pushed the door and stepped into Fengying's office. He looked at Lei Luo, who was frowning and flipping through documents, and moved his lips, but hesitated for a few seconds, not knowing how to start the conversation.
In a state of silence for a long time, Fugaku's eyes wandered, and he happened to look at the rope tree standing next to the desk. The two sides stared at each other, and the scene was quite funny for a while.
"Um?"
Sensing the strange atmosphere around him, Lei Luo stopped what he was doing and looked up, with a slightly sluggish look on his face. He looked at Fugaku and Naoki as if they were looking at two strange toads.
"Fugaku... please sit down first. I just have something to tell you."
Hearing this, Fugaku let out a subtle breath, and quickly sat on the sofa to the left of his desk. His back was straight, as if he was respectfully waiting for instructions, which attracted an incomprehensible look.
"There have been a lot of changes in Iwagakure Village recently. Onoki has learned to be smart this time. Please take a look at the specific information first."
With that said, Lei Luo threw out a document, and Fugaku subconsciously reached out to take it. After flipping through it for a moment, he looked up behind the desk and saw the Hokage leaning on the back of the chair, closing his eyes and slowly rubbing his temples.
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That kind of expression almost had the word "sullen" written on his face.
After thinking about his words, Fugaku put down the document. There was a strange look in his eyes, and he stumbled and said:
"Hokage-sama, Iwagakure chose this strategy because he was obviously frightened by your reputation. I think you don't need to worry at all and act according to the original plan..."
"That should be enough, right?"
It ended with a question, which revealed Fugaku's lack of confidence. Lei Luo did not open his eyes after hearing this, and still rubbed his temples. He waved his other hand irritably and said bluntly:
"Fugaku, has anyone ever mentioned to you that you are actually very poor at flattering? At least, I didn't feel any pleasant emotions from your words."
The calm tone indicated that Lei Luo was not angry. Fugaku couldn't help but smile awkwardly, not knowing how to respond for a while.
Seeing that Lei Luo had no follow-up after saying this, Fugaku's heart moved, and he subconsciously put the documents aside, decisively left the sofa, stood directly opposite the desk again, and said seriously:
"Hokage-sama, Iwagakure chose the strategy of breaking things up into parts. All the ninja civilians in the village were even evacuated. They are obviously ready to fight a protracted war with us."
"If we want to determine the situation of the entire war through a few key battles as before, I'm afraid... it will be a little difficult."
Opening his eyes and pulling his body back to the desk, Lei Luo sighed and said with some emotion:
"Ohnoki is aware of our mutual strength and understands that if we continue to fight head-on, there will never be any good results. I have to say that this old man's choice is quite wise in a sense."
As he spoke, a hint of anger appeared on his face, and his fingertips tapped the table quickly unconsciously. Lei Luo gritted his teeth, slowed down and continued:
"But this is definitely not good news for us in the Fire Nation."
"Who can't learn from Onoki? The remnants of Sunagakure from the Land of Winds? Iwagakure still retains an extremely large amount of active power, but as a result, he is preparing to fight guerrillas before the war has even started? What the hell!"
"As a shadow, does he still have any backbone?"
Due to the mountainous terrain of the Land of Earth, it is difficult for the army to maintain a high-speed march. Even in a mopping-up operation, it is difficult to achieve effective results in a short period of time in the face of the Iwa ninjas hiding underground.
In addition, Iwagakure's status in the Kingdom of Earth is similar to that of Sunagakure in the Kingdom of Wind, and he has the full support of the Daimyo of the Kingdom of Earth. He is dedicated to fighting a protracted and war of attrition with the Kingdom of Fire, Lei Luo said.
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This is really disgusting.
Fugaku looked at Lei Luo's gnashing of teeth, and felt that Iwagakure's strategy was very lethal. It was almost foreseeable that the next offensive would be difficult to replicate the success of the Blitzkrieg and the Battle of Fengchuan.
With the existence of Lei Luo, who is invincible in the ninja world, the Fire Nation chooses to launch various large-scale battles and decisive battles. It undoubtedly has an overwhelming advantage, but if the enemy just refuses to fight you head-on...
Various harassment and delaying tactics are carried out from the side. For example, with the idea of the enemy advancing, we retreat, the enemy stationing, we harass, the enemy tired, we attack, the enemy retreats, we pursue, and continuously launch attacks...
Then, the National Defense Force ninjas fighting away from home are destined to find it difficult to adapt to this erratic offensive mode. The advantage of the number of ninjas will be infinitely reduced, and the disadvantage of average combat power will be infinitely magnified.
Just like the anti-bandit operations carried out by the two countries in the past six months, the remnants of Sunagakure and Rain Hidden have sprung up terrorist attacks like mushrooms after rain. They often hit and run, which really made Lei Luo and other Fire Nation high-level officials miserable.
If it weren't for the two people, Luo Sha Kanzang, who were brought under the control of the Fire Nation, and many sand ninjas and rain ninjas were persuaded to surrender one after another, the situation between the two countries might have been in trouble for a long time.
Maybe, at least it should be calculated in years.
But now, Yanyin Village, which has sufficient strength, has actually made preparations for guerrilla warfare from the beginning, and has made it clear that it will not confront the Fire Kingdom. This obviously means that the Earth Kingdom offensive is destined to proceed.
A long time.
"Fugaku, do you have any countermeasures?"
Hearing Lei Luo's question, Fugaku came back to his senses, and after thinking hard, he replied with a helpless smile: "Lord Hokage, the staff can't think of a good solution, so please don't embarrass me.
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"If you ask me, this matter really can only be done slowly. After all, our goal is to occupy and rule, not to kill all the civilians of other countries."
"Yes... in the final analysis, you still have to rely on time and take your time."
He raised his hand casually and shook his fingers casually. Lei Luo looked at his palm for a moment and thought of something. After a while, he looked away and turned to Fugaku, smiling slightly and saying:
"Okay, let's not talk about these troublesome things. Why did you come here?"
Hokage-sama made a rare wisecrack and seemed to have been freed from the previous depressed mood. However, when Fugaku thought about what he planned to report, his throat felt uncontrollably dry, and even swallowing a few mouthfuls of saliva did not relieve it.
Noticing the abnormality in Fugaku's expression, Lei Luo thought it was some confidential matter, so he winked at Naoki, who curled his lips and walked out of the office without saying anything.
"Hokage-sama...what I am going to say next...please be sure not to get excited."
He said a prefix dryly and noticed that Lei Luo's brows were slightly wrinkled together. Fugaku considered his words for a long time and said slowly in as calm a tone as possible:
"The thing is like this. Over in the capital, I have arranged for six elite Gennin to protect the safety of Mitsue Daimyo. One of them, named Shisui, was once one of our Uchiha clan members."