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

Chapter 376: The Power of Fear Gas
Jiraiya finally decided not to go out of the city to fight.

Even if the barrier is broken, they still have the advantage of terrain, and various other defensive facilities and traps to rely on, which is better than going out to fight with nothing.

If they can repel the enemy, they can then repair the seal and drag it out.

"You held back and didn't come out to fight us? You're pretty patient."

Qingshui put one hand behind his back, looking at the sealing barrier in the distance that was holding out under the continuous artillery fire, his eyes moving slightly.

Then keep bombing, since we have plenty of shells.

Once the barrier is broken, it will be the first large-scale confrontation between the two sides since the war began, and the total strength of both sides will exceed 10,000!
What Qingshui wants to do is to rely on his absolute strength advantage to turn this battle into a decisive battle between the two sides on the battlefield of River Country and rush all the way to the territory of Fire Country!

Orochimaru and Jiraiya are indeed outstanding men, and the number and quality of Konoha ninjas are indeed very high. If it were any other major ninja villages, such a lineup would definitely be as solid as a rock.

but……

Times have changed!

"Notify the puppet troops. Don't worry about the launcher overload. Just output at full power and activate the detonating rockets. I want to see Konoha's barrier broken within an hour. After it is broken, I want you to continue bombing! Plow this Baichuan City for me!"

Ye Cang, Luo Sha, in one hour, be ready to lead the assault troops to clear the way."

Qingshui ordered again.

The cannon fodder covers the ground in all directions, and then a team with strong attack power will launch a second wave of assault, and then the large force will crush it.

Simple yet effective.

Ten seconds later.

Twice as many shells as before were fired from the Sand Village position, interspersed among them were rockets of slightly different shapes.

Many of the equipment here are cannons and ammunition that Shimizu asked his incarnations from other worlds to look up, which are relatively classic and can be produced on a large scale at low cost with the current industrial capabilities of the Sand Village.

Some of the more advanced ones are naturally a combination of industry and chakra systems, and are made with reference to the production methods of ninja tools such as detonating tags.

These guys are way more powerful.

"These new ninja tools of Sand Village..."

Another hidden corner of the battlefield.

Orochimaru, who led a small group of sensory ninjas out for advance reconnaissance, narrowed his eyes as he watched the shells bombarding the barrier like an endless meteor shower.

As expected, the Sand Village is now able to produce these things on a large scale and in large quantities.

Then in any future battles with the Sand Village, the opponent can directly use a large number of artillery to bomb the enemy's position outside the range of conventional ninjutsu, especially in a frontal assault like the current one.

If the enemy wants to defend their position, we can directly locate their position and then cover them with bombing.

Over the past few decades, the sealing barrier that played a huge role in the two Ninja World Wars and made countless contributions to Konoha has now become just a defensive tortoise shell.

In just a few years, the Sand Village has suddenly become much more difficult to deal with than during the last Ninja World War.

How much new stuff do they have?

At this moment, Orochimaru was even more grateful that he had made the right choice before.

The Sand Village has changed a lot now, and its strength must be much stronger than before.

If they still followed the experience of the two previous Ninja World Wars and rushed into a head-on fight, they would definitely be caught off guard, lose their advantage in the early stages, lose large tracts of land, and fall into a passive situation of being beaten.

We should continue to focus on harassment and defense, and test out the remaining means of Sand Village. Once we become familiar with and develop relative means of cracking and responding, it will be Konoha's turn to take action!
By then, relying on Konoha's solid foundation and the abundant supplies and funds that the Fire Nation Daimyo can provide, just like the previous two Ninja World Wars, they can use a long enough health bar to last to the end, until victory is achieved!

This is indeed the most correct approach.

The prerequisite is that they can withstand the first wave of attacks from Sand Village, otherwise, the result will still not be much better.

The bombing lasted for an hour.

In fact, the rock-solid sealing barrier had been destroyed more than ten minutes ago.

However, it does not prevent the continued use of artillery fire.

This can not only deal a blow to the enemy, but also initially destroy the enemy's remaining defense facilities.

Of course, for these ninjas, the defense and evasion capabilities they possess when facing this kind of attack must be very strong, but it is hard to say how much damage they can cause.

However, Shimizu didn't think that these alone could severely damage Konoha's team.

More often than not, these artillery fires are used for cover.

At this moment, the Sand Village troops have already started fighting with the Konoha ninjas.

They are still the common joint ninjutsu used when large-scale ninja armies fight.

Rows of Wind Style Ninjas, led by Shimizu, performed Wind Style: Net together.

Endless wind blades overlapped each other, densely cutting all obstacles in front into pieces.

On the Konoha side, Jiraiya led a large number of Konoha ninjas to perform earth escape techniques, constructing a thousand-mile earth flow wall to stop it. By the way, he also started the first wave of ninjutsu confrontation with the subsequent earth escape squad of Sunagakure.

In this regard, Konoha and Sand Village already have a lot of combat experience and mature means of confrontation.

Jiraiya breathed a sigh of relief when he felt that the war was finally entering a rhythm that he was familiar with.

At this time, he had two toads on his shoulders, and his face became somewhat like a frog, with some bumps growing on it.

This battle must be fought with all our strength.

So before the battle began, Jiraiya summoned the two toads, Fukasaku and Shima, and entered the Sage Mode that he had just learned not long ago.

"Water Release: Great Waterfall Technique!"

"Water Release·Water Crush Wave!"

"Water Release: Takitsubo Jutsu!"

Under the leadership of Jiraiya, one by one the Konoha ninjas jumped out and spit water jutsu towards the Sand Village.

The power of water escape itself, combined with the difference in momentum brought by being in a commanding position, is enough to crush any army.

However, the next moment, the battlefield once again became something that Jiraiya was not familiar with. Under the control of the puppeteers, the standard puppets opened a firing port in their arms and fired one freezing bomb after another.

In an instant, the cold air spread wildly, and a crisp freezing sound was heard. The joint water escape technique carefully prepared by the Konoha ninja was frozen at this moment, and even some of the ninjas in the front of the team were frozen.

"Is this... the Ice Release of the Kirigakure Snow Clan? No, it's still a special ninja tool without chakra!"

Jiraiya, who was at the front, reacted in time, quickly grabbed the two Konoha ninjas on his side, and quickly jumped back to avoid them.

At this time, the Sand Village ninjas rushed over through the road made of condensed ice, and the Konoha ninjas finally met their opponents in this war.

"Scorch Escape: Over-steaming Kill!"

Dozens of huge fireballs flew around under Ye Cang's control, bombarding the most densely populated areas of Konoha ninjas.

On the other side, Luo Sha crossed his arms across his chest, stepped on the golden sand clouds, had a stern face, and golden waves rolled around him, ruthlessly wiping out every enemy.

"Magnetic Style: Rasa, Scorch Style: Yekura, what on earth has happened to the Sand Village in the past few years? Bloodline ninjas are popping up one after another."

Jiraiya cursed, looked at the scorching fireball coming towards him, and clapped his hands.

Smoke rose and a huge orange-red toad appeared.

"Water Style: Teppanyaki."

Several huge water balls were spit out from Gamabunta's mouth, collided with Ye Cang's scorching fireball, and then exploded with a bang, turning into steam, and quickly cooled down at the low temperature created by the ice bomb before.

"Jiraiya! You were trying to murder me! If I hadn't reacted in time, I would have been killed the moment I came out!"

Looking at the burning fireball rising again around Ye Cang in the mist, Gamabunta, with a pipe in his mouth, couldn't help but curse.

But Jiraiya was too busy to answer at this point.

"Fire Release: Toad Oil Flame Bullet!"

The two toads spit fire, and Jiraiya spit oil transformed from the nature of water jutsu, forming a large sea of ​​blazing fire that covered Rasa's gold sand.

The purity of gold in placer gold is generally between 50% and 80%, and can reach 95% after preliminary purification.

But gold is not suitable for use as a weapon at all, because its hardness and melting point are not outstanding among metals. That's why Luosha chooses to mix other substances into the metal to form gold sand to increase the power of his own bloodline.

However, under the high temperature brought by Jiraiya's ninjutsu, a lot of gold sand was melted into golden water.

Luo Sha's expression remained unmoved. He just manipulated more gold sand. Part of it turned into a shield to protect himself, and the other part condensed into countless golden cones, attacking Jiraiya.

"Has Jiraiya already mastered the Sage Mode at this time..."

Far away on the battlefield, Qingshui looked at the fighting in the distance, quite surprised, and then felt relieved.

In the original time and space, in the Nine-Tails Rebellion that occurred a few years later and one year after the end of the Third Ninja World War, Minato Namikaze had already displayed the Sage Mode, and Jiraiya's time point would most likely be even earlier.

Because Jiraiya is now over 30 years old, and has reached the peak of a ninja's physical fitness and chakra volume. If he cannot learn it now, he will not be able to learn it in the future unless something unexpected happens.

He should have reached his upper limit, but he still lacks some foundation, experience, and proficiency in Sage Mode. Even if he has not reached the peak level of Kage, the gap will not be too big.

Luo Sha and Ye Cang are both quite powerful, but the former is only at the lower to middle level of Kage, while Ye Cang has just entered this level.

If he faces Jiraiya alone, it will be very difficult to win. He will probably just be able to maneuver and delay the fight, and will definitely be suppressed.

But if the two of them join forces, Shimizu estimates that it will be no problem to suppress an ordinary Kage-level strongman, and they might even be able to win, but it is hard to say whether they can kill him.

However, Jiraiya's strength was slightly beyond expectations. Rasa and Yekura did not gain the upper hand. Instead, Jiraiya relied on the Sage Mode and the three summoned beasts to fight on equal terms.

Although it's a pity, at least Jiraiya has been entangled.

Without Jiraiya, a top master, it would be difficult for the remaining people in Konoha to stop the Sand Village's next move.

"Puppet troops, send out the automated puppet army."

After receiving Qingshui's instructions, Scorpion quickly set out with his puppet troops.

The sound of uniform footsteps rang out, and a torrent of standard steel puppets rushed towards Konoha's position.

The first thing to be released was the poison gas of fear.

As long as there are enough materials, fear gas can be mass-produced. Scarecrow has done something like spreading fear gas throughout Gotham.

The green poisonous gas covered the sky and spread among the crowd.

Every Sand Village ninja has been injected with the antidote in advance and will not be affected by the poison gas.

But the same may not be true for the Konoha ninjas.

Even though these people have chakra in their bodies and can use the spiritual energy in the chakra to withstand or even suppress this kind of hallucination-like toxin, there are really not many ordinary ninjas who can withstand it.

Many of the weaker middle and lower ninjas went insane after being infected by the poison gas. They screamed and began to indiscriminately attack everyone around them, even killing their companions.

Konoha's army formation was in chaos.

"Damn it, what new poison has the Sand Village developed? Even the antidote pill developed by Lady Tsunade is far less effective against this poison than other poisons."

A Konoha jonin endured the terrifying illusions that flashed in his mind and vision from time to time, and cut a wall of earth in front of him to protect his body.

"This is a toxin that acts directly on the nerves. The effect is very similar to the Naraku-sighting technique. It can make people see the things they fear the most. There is no need to use the conventional detoxification methods. Just treat it as an illusion. Whenever an illusion appears, it disrupts one's own chakra and causes a certain impact on one's own nerves. Although it is still impossible to completely get rid of the influence, at least the illusion can be eliminated subjectively, so as not to lose combat effectiveness."

A Konoha jonin with red pupils swung his sword to smash the puppet that was attacking him from the front, and spoke calmly.

Not far away, a ninja from the Yamanaka clan heard and did as he was told, and then under the cover of the red-eyed ninja, he performed the mind-to-mind technique and transmitted it to the commander on the battlefield.

This red-eyed ninja is Yuhi Shinku.

He is a veteran elite jonin of the same generation as the three ninjas, even older, and about the same age as the deceased Konoha White Fang. He has a great reputation, and without a bloodline like the Sharingan, he has become a recognized master of illusion.

Perhaps some Uchiha could use the three-magatama Sharingan to cast illusions stronger than his, but that was only after the blessing of bloodline.

When it comes to the mastery of illusions and knowledge of their principles, those people are definitely no match for Yuhi Shinku.

Everyone has his own expertise. Just considering his knowledge of illusions, there is really no one in the ninja world who can beat him.

His method is certainly far from being able to break the fear gas, but at least it can prevent the Konoha ninjas from collapsing under the influence of the gas, but instead retain a certain amount of combat effectiveness for counterattack.

(End of this chapter)