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Chapter 133 Konoha Hundred People

On the surface, the Second Ninja War was instigated by Hanzo of the Salamander, but in fact, it was completely pushed by the Sand Village. Even the Iwagakure Village saw an opportunity and started planning later.

Hanzo of the Salamander was on the passive defensive side, fighting a war of counter-invasion, but the Sand Village was just the opposite. Not only did they take the initiative to provoke a Ninja War, but they also made preparations for the Ninja War from the very beginning.

On the battlefield in Rain Country, after the Sand Village tied down Konoha's main force, it decisively sent troops to River Country, entered the Shinano Plain, and directly controlled the Daimyo of River Country.

Such a strategic plan is intended to use the River Country as a springboard to penetrate into the heart of the Fire Country.

Unfortunately, Konoha Village had already seen through the strategic intentions of Sand Village and reacted extremely quickly, immediately sending troops to River Country. Not only did they stop the offensive of Sand Village, but they also launched a fierce attack and drove the Sand Ninja back.

The Sand Ninja retreated to the Shinano River defense line. Although it was in a hurry, they also brought the Daimyo of River Country and a group of noble officials to the rear of the Shinano River defense line.

This way.

Although Konoha Village nominally regained the daimyo's mansion on the Shinano Plain, the daimyo and noble officials of River Country were still under the control of Sand Village.

Afterwards, the Sand Village took advantage of the Daimyo of the River Country and continued to exploit the value of the River Country.

The northern part of the occupied area of ​​Kawanokuni is directly under the military control of the Sand Village. The civilians of Kawanokuni in this occupied area seem to be more oppressed, but they have bypassed many exploitative middlemen and can barely survive.

However, the southern part of the occupied area, which seemed relatively safe, was actually a scene of declining people's livelihood and chaos.

The Sand Village settled the Daimyo of River Country and a group of noble officials in the pseudo-capital of Daimyo Prefecture in the south, with the intention of occupying the country for a long time. It would oppress River Country a little, but not too much.

Compared to the barren desert of the Wind Country, the River Country is much richer. The Sand Village's top management wants to govern it slowly, but the major ninja clans and the ninjas below cannot resist the temptation of the colorful world of the River Country and keep dragging their feet.

In particular, the daimyo and nobles of Kawanokuni tried every possible means to please the Sand Ninjas stationed in the occupied areas. Bribery with money and beauty happened every day.

With the leaders following suit, even the stationed Genin benefited greatly.

Look, Umino Sasuke brought Uchiha Shun and Yamashiro Midoriya into the daimyo's mansion for investigation, and found that the city gate guards actually collected the so-called barefoot tax.

At this time, Umino, Sasuke and the other two disguised themselves as nearby villagers and went into the city to sell firewood. Not only were they charged a city gate tax, but they were also taxed for walking barefoot.

Of course, many civilians deliberately wore straw sandals when entering the city, but they were still charged a straw sandal tax. In a word, as long as they were civilians, they had to pay taxes, while those who wore cloth shoes or leather shoes and had background and status did not have to pay taxes.

"Sasuke-sama, the Konoha Hundred they're talking about aren't we?"

Uchiha Shun was more compassionate. He felt that he had aggravated the suffering of the civilians in River Country and couldn't help feeling guilty.

Umino Sasuke consoled him, "Shun, the Sand Ninja want to raise taxes for many reasons, but it has little to do with us."

These Sand Shinobi just want to gain benefits by using the name of Konoha Hundred People, and at the same time discredit Konoha Hundred People and divert the anger of the people of River Country.

Ever since the Umino unit wiped out the Sand Ninja Corps led by Ebizo twice, the reputation of the Umino unit has spread throughout the entire River Country war zone and even appeared on the desks of the village kages of major ninja villages.

The battle record of the Kaino unit was indeed great, but the number of people was small, only a little over a hundred, so they were called the Konoha Hundred Men.

The Konoha Hundred, led by Umino Sasuke, went deep behind enemy lines but was never wiped out. They posed a huge threat to the entire River Defense Line of the Sand Ninja.

Even because of this incident, the Sand Village continued to send reinforcements to the River Country, which led to increasing logistical pressure on the Sand Village.

As a result, the Sand Ninja stationed in the River Country used various excuses to increase taxes, ease the pressure on logistics, and take advantage of the situation to make some money.

One of them was to collect barefoot tax and straw sandal tax under the pretext of suppressing the Konoha Hundred. There were even more bizarre taxes that were also collected under the pretext of suppressing bandits.

The armaments of the Daimyo Prefecture were indeed extremely lax. With just a little reconnaissance, it was discovered that the defense of the Daimyo Prefecture, that is, the six guardian ninjas of the River Country, were rather difficult to deal with. In addition, there was a Sand Ninja logistics brigade that went to the coastal defense fortress for supplies, and their strength was quite good.

"Lord Sasuke, should we wait until this Sand Ninja logistics team leaves before taking action, or should we do it tonight—"

Yamashiro Lvye put his right hand across his neck, his eyes full of murderous intent.

"Let's do it tonight."

Uminosa assisted the Daimyo Mansion. His main purpose was not for the Daimyo of Kawanokuni, but to let the Sand Ninja in the sea defense fortress come to the rescue.

To put it simply, they want to use the tactic of besieging Wei to save Zhao to surround the Sand Ninja and attack its reinforcements.

Although there are not many Sand Ninjas in the sea defense fortress, only more than 200 people, this sea defense fortress is extremely difficult to attack.

This coastal fortress controls the southern seaport of River Country. If you want to pass through, you must annihilate these Sand Ninjas.

The Sand Ninjas in the sea defense fortress are all elite. After all, they are used to prevent the crazy people in the Hidden Mist Village from taking advantage of the situation to rob people. Naturally, their strength is not weak.

Since the tactical goal is to defend the sea fortress, we naturally cannot let go of this logistics supply team.

Anyway, the defense of the Daimyo Prefecture of Kawanokuni is not strong, so just take it down together.

Moreover, the six guardian ninjas of River Country may not all be enemies.

Even if they all defected to the Sand Village, the strength of these six guardian ninjas would be far inferior to that of the twelve guardian ninjas of the Land of Fire.

Not only are their numbers reduced by half, but they are all Jonin-level fighters, unlike the Twelve Warriors of the Land of Fire, who are all elite Jonin.

"Sasuke-sama, I have contacted Akira Kawakawa."

Yamashiro Aoba had part of the Uchiha clan's intelligence network, so he approached the guardian of the River Country, Shinobu Kawaaki. The general idea was to reduce unnecessary losses and cooperate internally and externally to capture the daimyo's mansion.

Akira Kawakawa was very surprised. How could a Konoha ninja come here and want to attack the Daimyo's mansion without knowing their own limitations? However, he still agreed and set the signal to take action tonight.

"Green Leaf, Kawakawa Akira has defected to the Sand Village, take action now."

Sasuke Umino was always using the sonic radar technique on Akira Kawakawa, so how could he not know that Akira Kawakawa was lying.

On the contrary, Kagamigawa Momoyo, the guardian ninja who always opposed the Fire Nation's interference in internal affairs, is loyal to the Daimyo of the River Nation and is only pretending to defect to the Sand Village.

Sasuke Umino did not waste any time and released a large number of shadow clones, and then let the shadow clones contact the Konoha Hundred People.

The strength of the Konoha Hundred is no longer what it used to be. Under the leadership of the shadow clones, they easily captured the city gates and attacked the Daimyo's mansion.

(End of this chapter)