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Chapter 212 Kurenai's First Battle: The Technique of Mutual Explosion Tags

The Iwagakure ninja set off at 11:30 AM and encountered the routed army at 5:00 PM, at which point they began constructing defenses.

They encountered Konoha ninjas at 6:00 and were defeated by 6:30.

Because of the existence of ninjutsu, news could be received without waiting for the defeated soldiers to return to the village. So, at 7 p.m., Onoki received the news from the front line.

"What?! Our support troops and the Musa Alliance encountered each other in the field and suffered a crushing defeat?"

Gentō lowered his head, not daring to look at Ōnoki, and whispered, "It's like this. According to intelligence, after our army encountered routed soldiers and learned that the Allied forces were pursuing us from the rear, we decided to build fortifications on the spot. Unexpectedly, Minato Namikaze somehow managed to circle around to the rear of the fortifications. In a moment of desperation, Lord Kōtō went to the rear to provide support, which resulted in the front line being left undefended and allowing the Allied forces to break through!"

"Cough cough." Onoki almost spat out a mouthful of blood when he looked at the formation diagram of both sides drawn on the intelligence report.

This loss is enormous!

It should be noted that the intelligence report stated that Huang Tu led an army of 5,000, plus the routed soldiers he had gathered, for a total force of 6600!

How many escaped? Less than two thousand?

Nearly 4,600 men were lost in this battle?

How many ninjas are there in the entire Hidden Stone Village?

"Immediately issue a recall order, commanding all ninjas on missions to return to the village, and retired ninjas to rejoin their units!" After thinking for a moment, Onoki added, "Also, issue headbands to all reserve ninjas and conscript them!"

A prospective ninja is someone like Rock Lee, whose chakra aptitude is pitifully poor, making it impossible for them to unleash ninjutsu, but who still possesses chakra.

These types of people are usually eliminated during their time at the ninja academy. Even if they manage to graduate, they can't actually graduate and have to drop out to pursue other professions.

But they had at least received ninja training and had chakra in their bodies. Even if all they could do on the battlefield was throw kunai, they could at least deplete some of the opponent's chakra!

"Furthermore!" Onoki continued, "We will requisition all large ships along the coast."

Xuan Tong suddenly raised his head: "Lord Tsuchikage!"

"Just in case!" Onoki frowned.

If you can't win, you'll have to be prepared to sail out to sea and join the Hidden Cloud Village.

That's right, they are rivals of the Hidden Cloud Village, but when it really comes down to it, you'll still have to join forces to fight them.

Moreover, Onoki was certain that Kumogakure would agree.

After all, if you won't agree, then I'll just go to Konoha!

"Oh, and bring Lao Zi and Han back to the village too!"

"yes!"

The order was finally given, and Xuan Tong immediately left.

He had barely left when Onoki thought of another order, but since Gentō was no longer there, he could only order the Anbu to deliver it.

"Tell Huang Tu to gather the defeated ninja forces, but they must not enter the village; instead, they should camp outside!"

"Yes!" The ANBU nodded and then disappeared immediately.

Onoki leaned back in his chair and let out a long sigh.

He knew that Minato Namikaze's Flying Thunder God Technique required kunai as a medium, but during the battle, Minato suddenly appeared behind the battle lines.

What does this mean?

Was there a traitor among the defeated soldiers who secretly carried a kunai belonging to Minato?

Checking each person individually would be too much work, and if the news that there was a mole in the village were exposed, it could affect the morale of the entire village.

Besides, he wouldn't have time to do these things; Huang Tu would probably have barely arrived outside the village before the Allied forces followed.

"How exactly was this battle fought?" Onoki pondered for a long time in his office, but still couldn't figure it out.

Even when Madara Uchiha was leading the team back then, they didn't lose this badly!

Onoki just didn't understand one thing: many soldiers had the courage to face even the strongest enemies head-on. Let alone Madara Uchiha, even if Hashirama Uchiha came, they would still fight.

But the prerequisite is that the escape route cannot be cut off.

As soon as someone is discovered to have flanked, the team's original unity in fighting the enemy will instantly split. Some people want to deal with the opponent in front first, while others think that the opponent behind should be dealt with first.

When a team's mindset is divided, its fighting spirit naturally disappears.

Many MOBA gamers may know and have witnessed the power of this move, but they may not know that it did not originate from ancient military strategy. Instead, it was gradually explored during the War of Resistance Against Japan and the Liberation War, and was further developed during the Korean War.

The Chinese People's Volunteer Army relied on large-scale infiltration and flanking maneuvers to achieve superior troop strength, weaponry, and supplies, leaving the American imperialists completely bewildered.

Is there any way to counter this move?

Of course there are ways. If your weapons and equipment are more advanced, for example, if the opponent is running while you are driving, or if the opponent is driving while you are flying, they won't be able to catch up with you and will have no chance to maneuver.

However, Iwagakure clearly cannot use this move now.

Moreover, Onoki couldn't think that far ahead; he hadn't even figured out why the Allied Forces won and why Iwagakure lost.

For now, we can only define it as: the water gate was too powerful.

His combat power far exceeds what a normal ninja can handle; only a ninja of equal rank can stand against him to ensure the battle is won.

"Then I'll do it?" A fierce glint flashed in Hiruzen Sarutobi's eyes. I, Onoki of the Two Scales, am no ordinary person either!

Judging from the description in the intelligence report, he probably doesn't have much of a way to deal with Minato.

But Minato couldn't do anything about him flying in the sky.

At worst, we can learn from each other; you kill my Iwa ninja, I'll kill your allied forces!

Onoki sent out intelligence ninjas along the way to track the movements of the Guining Army. Although the Guining Army also sent out ninjas to clear out the intelligence ninjas around them, this was, after all, the Iwagakure headquarters. The Iwagakure ninjas were more adept at using the terrain and were always able to escape by taking advantage of favorable terrain.

As a result, a steady stream of information was still delivered to Onoki.

"They even had follow-up troops and sent all the prisoners away?" By 8 p.m., Onoki finally figured out the number and composition of the enemy force.

Although this force is a joint force composed of Konoha and Sunagakure, it operates under the banner of the Guining Army. It has a total strength of 7000 men, with an additional 3,000 reserve troops providing supplies in the rear. The 3600 prisoners captured by the Guining Army in the recent battle have been taken in by the logistics unit and it seems that they are not intended to be sent to Iwagakure, but rather to the rear.

That is, the direction of Sunagakure Village.

The Guining Army has now built barracks on the spot and begun to rest, so it seems they have no intention of advancing tonight!

Onoki breathed a sigh of relief; it was good that they didn't advance, giving him an extra night to reorganize his troops.

Onoki then looked at another piece of information.

This is intelligence sent by Kotaku. They encountered Kakashi's army attacking the Land of Grass on the border of the Land of Earth. However, Kakashi has only set up a fortress on the border of the Land of Grass and does not seem to have any intention of attacking at present.

Tiger said that Kakashi's army numbered only a little over two hundred, so he asked Onoki whether they should attack.

"How could we possibly attack!" Onoki immediately replied, "Hold the fortress firmly, do not attack!"

Now that Iwagakure is under attack, your force is isolated. Even if you eliminate Kakashi, what good will it do? You won't be able to continue advancing. Instead, it will only lengthen the supply lines and increase Iwagakure's losses.

This is the best-case scenario. If we consider a worse scenario, where the attack doesn't go smoothly and Kakashi holds them back, then it would be even worse.

The Explosion Release Unit is the ace unit of Iwagakure. If this unit is tied up on the front line, the strength of Iwagakure will be greatly reduced.

Even worse, if the Explosion Release squad is wiped out, Iwagakure might not recover for ten or even twenty years!

Onoki thought about many things, and he thought about everything, but there was one thing he hadn't thought of.

Since the Explosion Release unit is so important, why not simply withdraw to Iwagakure and fight a defensive battle?

But this can't be blamed on Onoki, because he was still fighting according to the traditional Shinobi World War strategy.

Under this line of thinking, what are the cities of hostile countries?

These are all our own supply points!

If he retreats, all the cities in the Land of Earth will fall. Even if he wins the battle to defend Iwagakure, all that will remain is a devastated land and dilapidated cities.

Therefore, in order to ensure that these cities do not fall, Ōnoki also had to send a force to the front line.

As for the Shuimen Army, there's nothing they can do; the enemy has already breached their defenses.

If Onoki could hold out for two more days, he would have discovered that the Guining Army would not damage the city at all, and would not harm the villagers in the slightest.

But he doesn't yet understand the style of the Guining Army, so this is the only order he can give.

Hu Tuo was extremely unwilling after receiving the order.

There are only 300 people on the other side, and the leader is just a little kid. I can wipe them all out with one charge!

But he had no choice but to obey the Tsuchikage's orders.

The ninjas on night watch were assigned, and the other ninjas were to rest as soon as possible.

They had marched all the way here at breakneck speed, and everyone's chakra was almost depleted. They needed to rest as soon as possible.

However, he was not worried about the other side launching a sudden attack. Although their Explosion Release unit did not have much chakra, there were other ninja units on the front line besides their Explosion Release unit, as well as the original border ninja units!

However, what Tiger was unaware of was that although the leader of the opposing ninja army was Kakashi, there was another person hidden in the army as well.

Red Sunset!

"Kurenai, what brings you here?" Kakashi had just picked up Kurenai from Shiro.

In his early years, Ning Yuan caught a wild pheasant and raised it into a ninja beast in order to fly, and named it Bai Zhuzhu.

Later, with more opportunities to go out and catch birds, Ningyuan bred another flock of cranes.

However, Bai Zhuzhu had been with the two of them for a long time and had developed feelings for them, so Xi Ri Hong still preferred her.

"I've come to deliver the latest orders from headquarters!"

"Huh?" Kakashi was taken aback. "Why did you have to deliver it personally?"

He knew how convenient Ning's organization was in communication, and he also had a communication reel on hand.

"Besides delivering messages, I'll also help you fight!" Kurenai Yuhi handed a letter to Kakashi.

Kakashi opened it and looked at it, then asked in surprise, "You want us to advance quickly? That wasn't the strategy before. Weren't we supposed to stop at the border?"

"There's nothing we can do, Iwagakure is just too weak!" Kurenai Yuhi shrugged, looking helpless.

The original winter operation plan was to first conquer all the territories except for the Land of Earth, the Land of Lightning, the Land of Water, the Land of Snow, and the Land of Earth.

The reason Ning Yuan didn't attack the Land of Earth and the Land of Lightning was because he believed that these two countries still had some strength and that more troops needed to be mobilized.

However, when Minato was fighting the Iwagakure defenses in the Bird Country, he discovered that the Iwagakure village's fighting strength was quite poor.

He then reported this and requested permission to continue the attack, and thus received new orders to push the battle line to the foot of Iwagakure.

After Minato Namikaze achieved another great victory in the battle at Amber Terrace, Ning Yuan finally realized that Iwagakure was just a paper tiger.

What's the point of this stalemate? Kakashi, advance!

"Understood!" Kakashi nodded, then immediately gathered the troops.

Although their three hundred men had just breached Kusagakure during the day, they hadn't actually used up much chakra.

This hidden village doesn't have many capable ninjas. The Jonin from Grass Village wouldn't even be considered Chunin if they were moved to Konoha.

Only two members of the Uzumaki clan were relatively skilled in combat, but these two were not well-liked in Kusagakure and no one cooperated with them. As a result, Kakashi led five or six Jonin to gang up on them and capture them alive.

Although Kakashi's army is somewhat exhausted, continuing to fight is not a problem.

Not to mention, there's also Kurenai Yuhi's support.

Although Kakashi didn't know Kurenai Yuhi's strength, he did know that Ning Yuan was unfathomable.

Kurenai Yuhi has been following Ning Yuan for many years. Even if her strength is only one percent of Ning Yuan's, she should be able to easily take over this fortress in front of her!

Within twenty minutes, all the ninjas were awakened and dressed in their battle suits.

Three hundred men quietly approached the fortress of Iwagakure.

"We conducted reconnaissance during the day. There are 1200 Iwagakure soldiers in the fortress. Later, Iwagakure also transferred an 80-man unit; they are the renowned Explosion Release ninja unit from Iwagakure," Kakashi said. "If we launch a direct assault, our losses will inevitably be heavy!"

He looked at Kurenai, his meaning clear: it all depends on you!

Without further ado, Kurenai took out twenty explosive tags from her pocket, folded them into paper cranes with her hands, and they folded themselves together.

Then the origami crane flapped its wings on its own and flew towards the fortress.

All the Konoha ninjas watched this scene silently. This ability to control explosive tags was indeed very ingenious, but with only twenty explosive tags, even with the best luck, at most twenty Jonin could be killed.

Ten seconds later, all twenty origami cranes had flown onto the fortress.

"What is this?" One of the sentries, Iwagakure, saw the faint outline of a paper crane in the moonlight.

"It's some kind of bug!" Iwagakure said from the side.

"It's winter now, how could there be bugs? Besides, we even sprinkled insect repellent powder near the fortress!" The Hidden Stone said, reaching for his waist. The next second, a signal flare was fired.

Those of them who work as guards can never be too cautious.

If it's just an insect, at worst you'll get a scolding, but if it's an enemy attack, people could really die!

However, it's too late.

The moment Kurenai Yuhi appeared before this fortress, it was destined to fall!

"Explode!" Kurenai Yuhi uttered a single word from her red lips, and the twenty origami cranes exploded with a bang.

But this is just the beginning!

After twenty explosions, a continuous stream of detonating tags were summoned, and the continuous explosions were like firecrackers during the Spring Festival, showing no sign of stopping!

Conserves chakra, elegant in style, a forbidden technique exclusively for whales: Mutual Multiplication Explosive Tags Technique!

In just six or seven seconds, the roof of the fortress collapsed. The explosive tags continued to explode as they fell, shattering the outer walls, pillars, gate, and even the ninjas.

The explosion of the explosive tags was extremely loud, which naturally woke up the Iwagakure ninja. Many of them quickly released Earth Release techniques to try to stop the explosion of the tags.

But this is a forbidden technique that Tobirama Senju prepared for Susanoo. If even Susanoo can be blown apart, what use is Earth Release?

Upon waking, Hu Tuo looked at the crumbling fortress and hurriedly ordered, "Abandon the fortress! Everyone, retreat!!"

In just five minutes, the village of Iwagakure, which had been built and constructed, and which had never been breached in decades, was reduced to ruins!

(End of this chapter)