In the Sand Village, the clones are everywhere, and the Arkham game begins

Chapter 344: Training Battle

"The Sand Village...are they crazy? They dare to attack the daimyo's people directly? Aren't they afraid of getting into trouble?"

A young ninja wearing a grey robe and a Konoha rebel forehead protector stood on the watchtower with a grim expression, looking at the neatly arranged Sand Village army, which was advancing towards the guardians' camp step by step with great momentum.

"Now is not the time to talk about these things. We must now arrange personnel for defense as soon as possible. As long as we can withstand the first attack of Sunagakure and prove our strength to the daimyo, we will get greater support later!"

Beside him, a warrior with a long sword on his back and a scar on his face showed an excited look.

"It's not that easy. It depends on how much the Sand Village values us and how much strength they put in. If an extraordinary force appears, we won't be able to defend against it!"

A rebellious ninja from Iwagakure said in a deep voice.

"That depends on Lord Tsuruga. Didn't he say that he defeated the Sand Village's Magnet Style Rasa? Maybe he can stop the Kazekage. If that happens, maybe we can replace the Sand Village and become the overlord of the ninja world!"

On the other side, a monk with a fierce face spoke in an evil voice.

"It's not about defeating, it's about killing, Master Nozawa. Anyone who is hit by my father's explosive bug will surely die, even those Five Kage. I heard that the magnetic escape technique Rasa is the disciple of the Third Kazekage? I think it's because of Rasa's death that the angry Third Kazekage sent people to attack. I just don't know if he will come here in person. It would be perfect if we can kill the Kazekage here."

A young ninja wearing red clothes and a hat on his head climbed up to the observation deck with a smile and said to the few people.

"Sir, where is Mr. Kyuichi? Without him, I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to stop the elite troops of the Sand Village."

Konoha's rebel ninja Yui Shuichi said to the man in red.

Born in Konoha and having served as a special jonin, he is very clear about the strength of one of the five major ninja villages.

Even if they are just regular ninjas, their quality is not comparable to those of the wandering ninjas and small ninja villages. The two Ninja World Wars have made them very good at large-scale military battles.

As a powerful ninja village that can compete with Konoha for the hegemony of the ninja world, Sunagakure cannot be an opponent on their own. They must rely on strong people at the level of Kage to change the situation on the battlefield.

"My father is mobilizing the ninjas in the camp to resist the Sand Village army. I came here to ask for your assistance."

Tsurugayaki answered with a smile.

Although he did not have a clear idea of the strength of the five major ninja villages, he felt that he would definitely win this battle.

Nearly a thousand guardians composed of wandering ninjas, rebel ninjas, and samurai gathered in a disorderly manner, forming a simple formation with melee in front and ranged in the back, ready to meet the attack of the Sand Village ninjas.

Qingshui and Ye Cang stood in front of the crowd, with Feng Shang Qianlan beside them.

As a veteran elite jonin of the Sand Village, he just turned 33 this year and has fully experienced the Second Ninja World War. He has quite rich command experience in this medium-scale war with thousands of people. He was the assistant sent by the Third Kazekage to Shimizu as deputy commander.

Qingshui is in charge of the battlefield command, and this is a chance for Qingshui to practice. Feng Shang Qianlan is here to help Qingshui find out any shortcomings and fill them up.

After all, Shimizu had never commanded a ninja battle involving thousands of people before. Although the Hogwarts United in the DC world had experienced gang fights involving hundreds of people, that was completely different from ninja battles. It could only give Shimizu some reference in management, but it had little significance on the tactical level.

The Sand Village regarded this battle as an opportunity to train their troops.

Among the thousands of Sand Village ninjas, as much as 30% are new generation ninjas who graduated in the past three or four years. They have never been to the battlefield, but they are all relatively outstanding, so they were selected to participate in this war which the Sand Village does not think is very risky - compared with the wars between the other five major ninja villages, the risk is indeed very small.

The other 70% of the ninjas are all Chunin or above, having experienced the Second Ninja World War. There are also nearly a hundred special Jonin and more than ten Jonin. They are experienced, and the combat power of the middle and high-level ninjas is more than three times that of the opposite side.

As long as we believe that Shimizu can restrain and defeat Tsurutani Kyuichi, this will be a battle without suspense.

"Wind Style Squad, prepare to clear local defenses."

Estimating that the distance was about right, Qingshui gave the order.

Two rows of Sand Ninjas composed of elite Wind-style ninjas stepped out, quickly forming seals with their hands. Three Jonin-level Wind-style ninjas took off the three-star fans on their backs and performed ninjutsu together.

"Wind Escape·Luo Sheng!"

"Wind Escape·Big Snare!"

The Sand Village is best at and most commonly used joint ninjutsu.

Shimizu, Ye Cang and Feng Shang Qian Lan, who were standing in the front, also performed this ninjutsu together.

They are also wind-style ninjas. Ye Cang has now stepped into the threshold of Kage level. Although the power of wind-style in his hands is not as strong as that of burn-style, his wind-style level is also top-notch in the ninja world.

As for Shimizu, he is the host of this joint ninjutsu.

When it comes to wind jutsu, Shimizu's attainments have reached a point close to the pinnacle. The huge amount of chakra combined with the ability to manipulate airflow doubles the power of this wave of combined ninjutsu.

The overwhelming wind network was stacked layer upon layer, and had become so solid that it could be seen with the naked eye. It was pushing forward rapidly, cutting everything into pieces in an orderly manner.

Many of the guards were already frightened silly.

When the Ninja World War broke out, they were so busy hiding in the five major ninja villages that they had no time to even see a scene that looked like a natural disaster.

They were not brave enough, after all, there were some rebellious ninjas from the five major ninja villages among them, and they had some experience. Soon, some of them took the initiative to stand up, performing long-range ninjutsu to try to fight, and releasing defensive ninjutsu such as Earth Flow Wall and Water Array Wall in front to try to block it.

However, whether it was the quality of the personnel or the organization of the ninjutsu, these people did a very poor job.

After one multiple net was cast, a large number of guardian ninjas were injured or even killed.

"Earth escape squad, clear the way. Puppet masters and long-range combat troops, get ready."

Qingshui looked at the battlefield ahead and continued to give orders.

The Wind Style Ninja quickly took a step back, and the Earth Style Ninja, who had been prepared in advance according to the formation, quickly stepped forward, formed seals with his hands and slapped the ground.

"Tu Escape·Tu Lu Returns!"

"Earth Escape·Earthquake Core!"

The ground broke into pieces, and earth walls rose up, blocking the few ninjutsu that flew from the front and passed through the wind net.

At the same time, the road ahead began to rise at a relatively steady slope, clearing a small number of underground pits that might not have been destroyed by the previous wind escape, while creating favorable geographical conditions for the Sand Village ninja's subsequent attack.

Under the control of the puppeteer, the new puppets quickly leaped over the slope and rushed into the camp of the guardians.

The formation of the Sand Village changed again.

A ninjutsu ninja cooperates with the puppeteer and uses long-range ninjutsu to cover the puppet. At the same time, there are melee ninjas to escort the former two.

This is the most classic combat team configuration in the current Sand Village, consisting of a puppeteer, a melee ninja, and a turret-type ninjutsu ninja, with at most one generalist available for support at any time. The team of Shimizu, Ye Cang, and Maki was like this, but it was difficult to train a puppeteer in the past. It was difficult to train an excellent puppeteer without sufficient talent or family background.

With the emergence of the new puppetry, the entry requirements of puppetry have been greatly lowered, the lower limit of ordinary puppeteers has been raised, and the training cost of puppeteers has been reduced.

This has led to a significant increase in the number of puppeteers in the Sand Village compared to three years ago, which has led to a surge in the number of teams with this configuration.

Puppets of various shapes, accompanied by flying kunai and ninjutsu, rushed into the enemy camp.

In just the first two waves of frontal attacks, the daimyo's guardians suffered heavy losses without even encountering the Sand Village ninjas.

"Turn the 4th Squadron around and make a hole in the west in ten minutes to give them a way to escape. With a way to survive, these people will not fight to the death. Ye Cang, you take the reserve team to hide outside the west, set up an ambush, and chase them all the way. After killing them until they are exhausted, everything will be solved naturally."

Qingshui glanced at the battlefield and spoke.

The besieged army must have a gap. This is a strategy to attack the enemy's heart and tire out the army.

This group of guards had suffered heavy casualties.

The daimyo recruits people of all kinds, as long as they have some ability. Many of them are not as strong as the Genin of the Sand Village or even the ninja trainees.

At least the ninja academies of the five major ninja villages will teach D-level ninjutsu such as the Three Body Technique, and will also teach the orthodox use of ninja tools such as kunai and shuriken. Daily training also includes physical training, tactical drills, etc.

Even if they are just newly graduated Genin, their overall quality is far superior to those who can only refine chakra and figure out low-level and incomplete ninjutsu bought on the black market.

The latter make up the majority of wandering ninjas. Among the guardians, there are many of these guys who, if thrown onto the battlefield, can't even serve as cannon fodder, and will cause a large number of casualties and affect morale.

In close combat, the Sand Village army's formation seems sparse, but in fact, each area and each ninja is connected to each other, which maximizes the strength of each individual while reducing the probability of being hit by large-scale ninjutsu.

The guardians could barely resist, let alone counterattack or even defeat the Sand Village ninja formation.

While ensuring the stability of the formation, the Sand Village army's advancement efficiency is extremely high!

Shimizu did not use his full strength, but just put out five puppets, watched quietly, and occasionally manipulated the puppets to save some Sand Ninjas who were in danger by mistake.

If he is serious, then this training will be of no use and will just become his personal stage show from beginning to end.

Anyway, it is the Sand Village that has gained absolute advantage now.

As long as there is no super-normal power appearing, the only ones who can contend with the armies of the five major ninja villages are themselves.

Decades ago, apart from the Amegakure led by Hanzo, there had never been anyone who could defeat the armies of the five major ninja villages.

The army was defeated like a mountain!
If the Guardians want to stabilize the situation and retain their chances of winning, they must have a strong man who can rewrite the direction of the local battlefield like Hanzo!
"coming!"

Qingshui, who was watching the battlefield, suddenly raised his head and looked towards the center of the guards.

Countless flying insects that are invisible to the naked eye are attacking towards Sand Village in a mighty manner.

"Wind Style: Air Flow."

Qingshui lightly stretched out a finger forward, and in an instant, a strong wind surged, forming a wind wall that pushed forward, blocking the detonating flying insects.

"It's a very powerful wind escape technique, but it's useless."

An old man in a brown robe walked slowly towards them, surrounded by five young men in clothes of different colors.

"Whether it's useful or not is not up to you to decide."

While feeling the chakra on the wind wall being rapidly invaded by the explosive bugs, Qingshui quietly withdrew the chakra and increased the intensity of the airflow manipulation.

At the same time, the blue jerboa that had been standing beside him from the beginning turned on multiple switches on his body, throwing freezing bombs into the sky and shooting out freezing rays.

A solid ice wall replaced the wind wall, and several freezing bombs exploded beside Tsurugaya Hisaichi, freezing a large area of the ground.

"Is this... Ice Release? No, this ice has no chakra! There's no wind either!"

Tsurugaya Kyuichi was stunned.

After forty years of seclusion, do ninjas nowadays not need chakra to perform ninjutsu?

After practicing hard for most of my life, I finally achieved great success, but when the results came out, you told me that times have changed?
Times haven't changed, it's just that the old man has bad luck.

"Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet!"

The dragon-shaped flame hit the ice wall, blasting off large pieces of broken ice.

Accompanying them were adult explosive bugs that were fed with chakra, each of which was no smaller than the one that Shimizu had taken out of Rosa's body before.

Since you can't devour the chakra, just explode it directly!
The explosions were continuous and powerful. Even the solid ice made of quick-freeze coolant could not withstand the continuous attacks of a shadow-level warrior who was good at blasting, and cracks appeared on it.

"It's not that simple after all..."

Qingshui shook his head, but he wasn't too depressed.

The freezing bombs and freeze rays released by the blue jerboa can limit these explosive insect larvae that are invisible to the naked eye and are difficult for ordinary ninjas to defend against, so as to prevent them from causing large-scale casualties to the Sand Village ninjas. This is enough.

Next, it's his turn to get serious.

"boom!"

The ice wall shattered with a loud bang, but the next moment, a bright blue dragon came attacking with bared fangs and claws.

"Breathing of Li·Land Form·Dance of the Dragon at Night!"

Tsurutani Kyuichi's eyes lit up.

This time, there is chakra!
However, as soon as the explosive bugs came into contact with the chakra, they were burned to death by the high temperature attached to the escape.

Tsurutani Hisaichi's expression became gloomy again.

The chakra being attacked is of very high quality and is an extremely special bloodline chakra, which is difficult to invade and can only be done through breathing.

This way the larvae's effectiveness would be much worse, and given the quality of the opponent's chakra, it would definitely be suppressed for a long time.

(End of this chapter)