Ryoma asked again, and after receiving Bing's confirmation, he looked at the other person with a look of retardation, and his mouth was filled with doubts and confusion:
"I don't understand. We obviously won. Why don't we take advantage of the situation to pursue and defeat the enemy in one fell swoop? Instead, we give the opponent time to react?"
"Of course... it's to completely destroy all the opponent's fighting spirit."
Lengthening her tone, a smile appeared at the corner of Bing's mouth. She looked very excited. She clenched her fists and explained enthusiastically:
"I'm different from that guy Lei Luo. He always likes to secretly behead the enemy's top leaders, but I like to crush the enemy openly."
"Give them time to mobilize their troops, and the two sides can calmly set up their positions and finally defeat the enemy head-on with hard power. As long as they can do this, the enemy's morale will definitely plummet."
"I want Lei Luo and the others to lose without any regrets."
Hearing Hing's extremely arrogant declaration, the Kirigakure ninjas had mixed reactions. Some expressed approval, while others secretly sneered. Like Ryoma, they even sneered.
But no matter what, since the leader has decided on the subsequent war strategy, as subordinates, they can only silently obey the orders and execute them.
Bingpan planned to have a head-on confrontation with Lei Luo, trying to finish the battle in one battle, not fighting for the slightest gain or loss, in order to destroy the morale of the Fire Country in one fell swoop. She had this confidence.
As long as Lei Luo can be defeated on the frontal battlefield, then the Mist Ninjas will naturally be allowed to run wild in the Country of Fire. The slight difference between attacking first and attacking second is irrelevant, it is just a difference of killing less and more.
Compared with selecting the vanguard force to invade the Konoha mainland, causing the large forces to be disconnected and dispersed, it is obviously more cost-effective to accumulate all the strength to launch a fatal blow.
At least, that's how Bing sees it.
More than 10,000 Kirigakure ninjas are resting in the eastern part of the Land of Fire. The area where these people are stationed is about seventy kilometers away from Konoha Village. If they march at full speed, they can reach the outskirts of Konoha in half a day.
However, because Bing boasted that his side was strong and had great confidence in defeating Lei Luo, he did not rush to start a battle. Instead, he rested his troops and advanced slowly, waiting for the enemy to take the initiative to meet him.
Bing believed that with Lei Luo's character, he wouldn't let her wait too long.
One day later, Minato arrived in Konoha with a group of defeated soldiers, including some of the Flying Thunder God Commandos and the Nine-Tailed Jinchuuriki Uzumaki Kushina.
Lei Luo could tell that Minato looked very bad. His pale face, the bandage on his chest, and his dusty blond hair made him look miserable.
"teacher……"
After meeting Lei Luo in the Hokage's office, Minato looked ashamed, his eyes evaded, as if he did not dare to look at Lei Luo sitting behind his desk.
Next to her, Kushina was uneasy. Compared to Minato, her image was not much better. Her long, silky red hair now looked like a chicken coop, disheveled.
"Okay, stop chatting."
Interrupting Minato's hesitant words, Lei Luo knocked on the table. When the two of them looked over, he straightened his face and said seriously:
"Minato, you are not the first commander of the Kirigakure Front. The defeat at Seven Mile Beach was due to lack of preparation by the top management. You do not bear the main responsibility, so..."
"Rather than being uneasy here, I would rather you cheer up as soon as possible and be fully prepared for the next war."
Hearing that Lei Luo did not hold him accountable for his defeat and escape, Minato was not happy, but felt even more ashamed. He lowered his head and remained silent, obviously having no shame to speak.
boom!
Seeing Minato's appearance, Lei Luo snorted coldly and slapped the table hard, making Minato and Kushina tremble in fright, and then he scolded sharply:
"Minato, are you scared of the ice?"
"No, teacher, it's mainly because of Senior Huan... If I could be stronger, maybe..."
Minato's face was full of confusion, his hands were gesticulating repeatedly, and his words were no longer as fluent as before. Guilt and self-blame came to his heart at the same time, making him very emotional at the moment.
Thinking of Hinata Tamaki fighting so many terrifying enemies on his own, but being unable to help much due to the forbidden air technique, he could only watch helplessly as his opponent was beaten to death... This feeling was by no means a pleasant one.
"enough!"
It was rare to see his apprentice lose control of his emotions, but Lei Luo had no patience. With an angry look on his face, he shouted loudly, pointed his finger at the door, and directly issued an order to expel the guest:
"Go back and calm down. When you can control your emotions, come to me again. Otherwise, if the next war starts, you just stay in the village until it's over!"
Although Minato still had a lot to say to Lei Luo, seeing that the other party was already angry and Kushina kept holding him back quietly, he had no choice but to suppress his violently turbulent emotions and turned around and left without saying a word.
"call……"
It wasn't until the door was closed that Lei Luo seemed to have lost all strength. He suddenly leaned back on the chair, closed his eyes and pressed his temples, and sighed deeply. The look of exhaustion on his face could not be concealed at all.
Ice's Kirigakure army is moving forward step by step, encroaching on various towns in the Land of Fire, and constantly shortening the distance between it and Konoha Village. Lei Luo has been mobilizing all forces to form troops all day long, and he is almost too busy.
Open business.
Under this situation, how could Lei Luo have the time to comfort Minato? What's more, he also felt very angry about Hinata Tamaki's disappearance. He focused all his energy on defeating Kirigakure and really couldn't care too much.
"The Yondaime, is that young man your favorite fifth generation candidate?"
In the corner of the office, Qianju Tobirama's figure slowly walked out of the shadows. He first looked in the direction of the door, and then looked at Lei Luo. Seeing that the latter was slowly crawling back to his desk, he added:
"To be honest, I don't think much of him."
Lei Luo shook his head irritably and did not respond to Qian Shu Tobijian's words. He just focused on looking at the map on the table. From time to time, he picked up a pen to mark arrows, and said to himself:
"Northeastern area, coordinates (56,43), (46,40), (42,39), the advance is so slow, what is Bing doing? Do you think you are sure to win?"
Senshou Tobirama came forward and looked at the map as well. After a moment, he analyzed thoughtfully:
"The enemy leader is very cautious, Yondaime. This is a good opportunity for us to mobilize our manpower to prepare for a counterattack."
cautious?
Out of his understanding of Bing, Lei Luo vaguely understood the reason why Kirigakure took such action. He couldn't help but sneered, stood up, and threw the pen on the table.
'I thought I was crazy enough, but I didn't expect there was someone crazier than me in this world, Bing...'
Thinking about it, Lei Luo waved to Qian Shu Feijian and walked towards the door.
"Nidaime, I want to raid the Kirigakure army. While testing the quality of these enemies, I will kill a large number of their effective forces and slow down their attack. Are you... going to come?"