Naruto Online: Hyuga Branch Family? Let's go all out!

Chapter 215 Surrender

Pillarstone activates intelligent tactics: All-out assault!

Morale +20%, launches an attack on all enemy magical artifacts.

The Iwagakure ninjas, already annoyed by the bombing, rushed forward faster than ever after receiving the order to attack.

The Land of Earth also has a ninjutsu similar to Kakuzu's Earth Spear Technique, called Hardening Technique, which involves covering the skin with Earth Release chakra to form a solid defense.

These two techniques could very well be the same technique, only that the cunning old man Kakuzu changed the name.

However, not many people in Iwagakure know this technique, so the Iwagakure ninjas use those who know it as shields to walk at the front, with the others following behind, forming small assault teams.

Kakashi received the news as soon as there was movement in Iwagakure.

There's no way around it, Konoha has the Byakugan.

"Remember what I taught you!" Kakashi waved his arm. "Let's go!"

"They ran away?" After rushing out for dozens of meters, Zhu Shi was surprised to find that his opponents were also running away.

"It's nothing special!" Pillar Stone regained some confidence and was about to give another boost when he suddenly saw something dark flying towards him.

With no fortresses on either side and him at the very front, and seeing nothing to shield him, he could only immediately form hand seals: "Earth Release: Earth Wall Technique!"

He lifted up a piece of earthen wall to shield himself, and then a violent explosion rang out, shattering the makeshift earthen wall in front of him.

Caught off guard, Zhu Shi was struck in the stomach by a huge chunk of soil, causing his blood to surge and his vision to blur.

He forced himself to lift his head despite the pain, only to find that he wasn't the only one being attacked; more explosive tags were being hurled into the charging Iwagakure formation.

As a frontline commander who had fought in World War II, Pillarstone understood Konoha's battle strategy in an instant.

Since explosive tags have a longer attack range than ninjutsu, Konoha ninjas can maintain their distance while fighting. You can chase them and run away, and even turn back to release explosive tags while running away.

However, their own ninjas couldn't unleash any offensive ninjutsu when chasing, because they couldn't hit anyone at all!

Zhu Shi quickly came up with a solution.

First, charge forward and engage the enemy in close combat.

Second, retreat and let the enemy come to us.

But there's a crucial issue here: speed!

Regardless of the path, you must ensure that the speed of the Iwagakure ninja is faster than the opponent's. The faster you are, the faster you can catch up with others, and the faster you are, the faster you can escape capture.

However, the speed of the Iwagakure ninja can only be described as the worst among the five great ninja villages!

Iwagakure is the village least skilled in speed!

Therefore, the Iwagakure ninjas could neither catch up with the Konoha ninjas nor escape their pursuit. They couldn't even set up an ambush because Konoha had the Byakugan!

In fact, Iwagakure also has a technique that can speed things up, the Light and Heavy Rock Technique.

However, this technique belongs to the S-rank forbidden technique of Iwagakure, and it is impossible for a mere Jonin to learn it!

In addition, Iwagakure also has a group that excels in speed, namely the Explosion Release Squad.

But the Explosion Release troops are behind us!

Therefore, the Iwagakure border troops are now in a predicament.

We can't catch up.

There's no escaping it.

To defend is to be attacked.

"Why did this war turn out like this?" Pillar Stone looked at his fallen comrades, his expression blank. He had been with Konoha before.

Oh, you haven't fought against Konoha before? That's alright then.

But we did clashed before, on the battlefields of World War II.

Pillarstone recalled his memories of fighting Konoha during the Second Shinobi World War, and it seemed that he was neither victorious nor defeated.

At the time, he thought the Konoha ninjas were nothing special, but now that he has seen Konoha's true strength, Pillarstone can objectively assess the gap between the two villages.

Only then did he remember that while the Konoha ninjas were fighting the Iwagakure ninjas, there was another force suppressing the Sunagakure ninjas, and another main force was fighting against the Land of Rain.

That means Konoha only used one-third, or even one-quarter, of their strength to defeat them!

Is Konoha Village really that strong?

The Iwagakure ninjas continued their tireless charge. Because it was nighttime, many people couldn't pay attention to the situation of those around them. As long as they weren't dead, they just kept rushing in.

Zhu Shi instinctively wanted to order a retreat, but then he thought, what good would a retreat do? Would they just return to the fortress and continue to be attacked?

He glanced back, hoping that the Burst Force could take down the enemy behind them, so that there would be no enemy on their retreat route.

Even if the Konoha ninjas continue to pursue them, they can still preserve a large amount of their strength to return to Iwagakure.

At this point, Pillarstone no longer cared about carrying out the Tsuchikage's orders; he just wanted to go home!

Meanwhile, the Explosion Squad finally spotted the attackers from behind.

The fortress was previously detonated with twenty strings of multiplicative explosive tags. Tiger Taku believes that even if this ninja is a genius, it would take three to five people to complete such a technique.

It wasn't until he reached the back and saw the attackers that he realized there were no three or five people at all!

There was only one person!

She was a little girl dressed in a white Hanfu dress, only 1.3 to 4 meters tall, and looked like a delicate, exquisite child!

To be honest, if he hadn't seen the girl folding origami, he really wouldn't have believed that such a little girl would be the one attacking them!

"Who are you? Are you also a Konoha ninja?" Toraku shouted sternly. "Why did you attack us?"

Kurenai Yuhi looked up and said coldly, "My mission is to cooperate with Kakashi's army to take down your force. So, you only have two choices now: either lay down your weapons and surrender, and we'd rather treat prisoners well; or resist stubbornly and be annihilated here!"

"You?" Tiger Taku raised his arm and shouted, "Surround her!"

One person? Their Burst Release Squad consists of eighty people!

With such a disparity in troop strength, even the Hokage wouldn't stand a chance!

What's more, he's just a kid in his teens, and he's only showing off by using explosive tags. Once we surround him, let's see how he can blow things up.

As the group marched on, Hu Tuo said smugly, "Now, I'm giving you a choice: either surrender, and we at Iwagakure treat prisoners well; or we capture you, and then it's not up to you whether you live or die!"

Then he watched as Kurenai Yuhi beckoned, and a giant white bird with a wingspan of seven or eight meters descended from the sky.

Kurenai leaped onto the giant bird's back, and the bird soared into the sky, instantly reaching the heavens.

Hu Tuo was dumbfounded. How could there be such a move?

In the ninja world, there are very few ninjutsu that can fly, and ninja beasts and ninjas that can fly are also very rare. Therefore, most ninjas' ninjutsu is aimed at the ground, not at the air.

This situation is even more serious in Iwagakure Village, because Onoki can fly.

This means that the Iwagakure ninja don't need to develop anti-air ninjutsu at all, since the Tsuchikage can handle it anyway!

Furthermore, from a political perspective, ordinary ninjas wouldn't dare develop such ninjutsu. After all, the only person in the ninja world who can fly is the Tsuchikage. What are you trying to do by developing an anti-air ninjutsu? Who do you want to attack?

Are you dissatisfied with me as the Tsuchikage and want to change to someone else?

For various reasons, none of the Explosion Release squad members can fight air units. The only one who can fight air units, Deidara, is still a little kid playing in the mud.

Now, TigerTuo can only watch helplessly!

He could only stare blankly, while Kurenai Yuhi was not idle. She took out rolls of explosive tags from her storage scrolls, lit the fuses, and threw them down.

The detonator, equipped with a fuse, can have a longer detonation time and is specifically designed for air-drop bombing.

For some reason, the ninjas have been fighting with explosive tags for so long, yet no one has come up with this move.

But thinking about it, it makes sense. Clan ninjas who have the money to buy explosive tags rarely go to the battlefield. Besides, they also have clan ninjutsu to study. Those who have time to study explosive tags must not have high talent in clan ninjutsu.

Such people are usually not valued by their families and don't have the money to buy detonating tags.

Civilian ninjas use explosive tags more often, but they don't have the money to buy them!

So much so that over such a long period of time, only Tobirama Senju has mastered the art of using explosive tags!

Neglecting or even suppressing inventions and innovations, thus hindering the progress of science and technology, is one of the original sins of aristocratic families!

Rolls of explosive tags fell, followed by even more violent and exaggerated explosions!

Hu Tuo watched helplessly as a roll of explosive tags blasted a crater three or four meters wide and more than a meter deep into the ground. Then he realized that this kind of explosive tag should not be used!

You can't block it. Even if you use ninjutsu to block it, you can only prevent the direct damage, not the shockwave!

At this moment, Hu Tuo was exceptionally special. Their Explosion Squad had been established for so many years, and they were always the ones who bombed others, never the ones who bombed them.

But today, I finally experienced what it felt like to be bombed!

Explosive tags rained down in a continuous stream, like snowflakes. At first, Kurenai threw them randomly, but seeing how well the people below dodged, she started using the technique of throwing shuriken. Instantly, the accuracy and lethality of the explosive tags began to increase dramatically.

Regular dodging isn't enough for Iwagakure; you need to use the Body Flicker Technique to dodge.

However, the principle behind the Body Flicker Technique is to gather a large amount of chakra in the legs in an instant, thereby increasing explosive power.

This technique not only consumes a large amount of chakra, but also causes significant damage to the chakra meridians in the legs. Ordinary ninjas will experience leg pain and difficulty moving after using it three to five times, while those with less chakra may even deplete their chakra after using it twice.

And what about Kurenai Yuhi?

She doesn't need to expend any chakra; it's the white pearl that flies!

Bai Zhuzhu, on the other hand, is a ninja beast who has been cultivating for four years, and she has been cultivating under Ning Yuan's guidance. She has a cultivation technique that Ning Yuan specially developed for her, and she has also been enlightened by Ning Yuan.

Don't even mention flying in the sky for a while; as long as Kurenai is fed enough food, she can stay in the sky forever!

As for speed, forget about it. She's a bird! No matter how fast a person runs, can she be faster than a bird?

Looking at Kurenai Yuhi, who was high in the sky and was still throwing down explosive tags, and then at her companions who were scattered all over the place after being blown up, Toraku was completely bewildered.

Is there any point in continuing this fight?

You can't reach them when you try to hit them.

There's no escaping!

Hu Tuo even saw some people so frightened that they used earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a type of escaping technique) to burrow into the soil.

This move is fine for dealing with ninjutsu, but this is an explosion!

The shockwave from the explosion travels through the soil and is completely absorbed by the body!

In other words, hiding underground to resist an explosion will result in greater damage!

And most of them are internal injuries!

"I find this very strange!" Looking at the disastrous state of the Explosion Release ninjas below, Kurenai Yuhi asked curiously, "You guys also play with explosions, haven't you studied how to avoid the damage from explosions?"

Hiding underground won't work, but you can just dig a hole underground!

Hu Tuo was speechless. We were all studying how to hit the enemy in the face with explosives and how to make the explosion more powerful. Who would study how to avoid the explosion?

The enemy village doesn't have any Explosion Release ninjas!

Moreover, the Explosion Release ninjas are arrogant and never take the power of explosive tags seriously, even though the Blue Explosive Tags have been on the market for more than two years!

This is the arrogance that bloodline limits bring to them!

Furthermore, the training content for Bloodstained Ninjas is quite extensive.

There's an end to chakra form transformations, but chakra attribute transformations are endless!

And what about shuriken, kunai, and ninjutsu training? Which of these doesn't require time to learn?

But what's the point of saying all this now?

"Whoosh!" A figure flashed from behind.

Hu Tuo was startled and instinctively wanted to make a move, but then he thought, what opponent could be so open and aboveboard?

He turned around and, by the moonlight, saw that it was a pillar covered in dust, with bloodstains on its lips and below its nose.

"Captain Pillar, what brings you here? Have you made a breakthrough ahead?" Hu Tuo asked excitedly.

"No!" Pillarstone shook his head. "I came to ask you how the battle is going on your side. Have you dealt with the ninjas flanking from behind?"

Hu Tuo looked up at the sky and remained silent.

Zhushi also looked up with Hutuo and saw the bird flying in the sky, constantly laying its eggs on the ground.

With each egg that fell, a violent explosion followed, accompanied by screams of agony.

The two looked at each other and understood everything.

Both sides saw each other as their hope, and as a result, they both fought terribly.

"Captain, do you think we can win if we keep fighting like this?" Pillar asked.

Hu Tuo remained silent. He had placed his hopes on the limited number of explosive tags the little girl possessed, but upon seeing Bai Zhuzhu, he abandoned that idea.

Even if they run out of supplies, the giant bird can be released and brought back a whole bunch in no time.

For some reason, a thought similar to that of the Pillar Stone suddenly popped into his mind.

Throughout history, who has ever seen a war fought like this?

If you use some powerful ninjutsu to defeat me instantly, then I'll accept it.

But you use detonating tags

"Let's surrender!" After thinking for a moment, Hu Tuo said.

Zhu Shi was initially delighted, then his expression changed drastically: "Captain, watch your words!"

"What are you waiting for? If you don't surrender, we're all going to be wiped out!" Tiger said impatiently. "The Explosion Release squad is the backbone of Iwagakure; we can't afford to lose them here!"

They can still return to their village once Iwagakure and Konoha sign a peace treaty.

It wasn't that his imagination was too idealistic; rather, Hiruzen Sarutobi had actually done it this way during World War II.

The victors at the time were clearly Konoha, and the vanquished were Sunagakure and the Land of Rain. However, Hiruzen Sarutobi released all the prisoners on the grounds that it was not advisable to escalate the hatred, and did not even ask for war reparations.

Although Tiger Taku thought this decision was idiotic, when the person who made this decision was the leader of the opposing side, Tiger Taku didn't mind sincerely calling him Renxiong!

Indeed, according to the theory of "his hero is my enemy," the fact that Hiruzen Sarutobi was recognized by the ninja world, especially by other ninja villages, as a ninja hero shows that this old man was indeed my enemy.

He was unaware that Hiruzen Sarutobi was dead and that Konoha had already undergone a complete transformation, so he immediately raised his hands: "Stop bombing! We surrender!"

Kurenai ignored him completely, continuing her blasting, her voice clearly carrying down from the sky: "I order all of you to drop your weapons and ninja tool pouches, put your hands behind your heads, and find a place to crouch down!"

"You are insulting us!" Even though he was beaten to the point of surrendering, Toraku became arrogant after surrendering, just like Chiyo back then.

This is the confidence that Hiruzen Sarutobi gave him.

Kurenai ignored him and continued frying.

After a long silence, Tiger Taku finally shouted, "Everyone, throw your weapons and ninja tool pouches aside, put your hands behind your heads, and gather around here!"

Then he looked at Zhushi: "Captain Zhushi, why don't your men do the same?"

Captain Pillar sighed, but his face was full of joy. He had long wanted to give up fighting, but the decision to surrender was made by Hu Tuo. I had put up a fierce resistance back then!

No matter how much the Tsuchikage investigates later, it won't be my fault!

"I'll go right now!"

Hu Tuo watched the departing figure of Zhu Shi, then glanced at the girl in the sky.

This girl has a flying summoned beast, and she's so rich that she can afford so many explosive tags, and she even dares to insult us!

This person poses a great threat to Iwagakure. We must make sure the Tsuchikage adds a clause to the peace treaty that this girl is compensated to us.

If living isn't enough, then let them die.

In the past, he would never have dared to think so wildly.

But your Konoha can even kill Sakumo Hatake, so what's there to be reluctant about for the sake of peace in the ninja world, especially a mere little girl?

(End of this chapter)