This Water Shadow is very strong, but overly cautious.

In this way, the situation in the ninja world has become clear.

Before the war broke out, Mizunoe Ryosuke had already won over Hanzo, a key figure in the Second Shinobi World War, and established a cooperative relationship with him in order to recruit Hanzo for his own use in the future.

But it was just a foreshadowing. If one wanted to truly subdue the arrogant demigod of the ninja world, Hanzo of the Salamander, it was necessary to make Hanzo of the Salamander realize the cruelty of reality and severely dampen his arrogance.

This task was left to Konoha and the "Three Ninjas" who were about to become famous in the ninja world.

By then, Mizunoezuki Ryosuke will have his own way to recruit Hanzo of the Salamander, who has experienced the despair of reality.

In order to achieve this step, Ryosuke had already laid the groundwork early on.

The first chess piece he prepared in this Ninja World War was the Rain Ninja, Hanzo of the Salamander.

Then came the Third Kazekage, who was firmly bound by Mizunoe Ryosuke with interests.

Taking advantage of the profits brought by the iron sand trade, he has completely tied the samurai of the Wind Country Sand Village, the Water Country Mist Village and the Iron Country on one boat.

Unlike Hanzo of the Salamander who came from a humble family, even if Sunagakure was not very good, it was still one of the five major ninja villages.

As the leader of the five major ninja villages, the Third Kazekage would not be willing to be inferior to others in public. In addition, the current Sand Village is not the Sand Village in later generations that has been completely defeated.

Therefore, it is naturally impossible to make the Third Kazekage surrender willingly, and Ryosuke's goal is also very clear, which is to make the Third Kazekage always keep pace with him.

And according to Ryosuke's information, there seems to be no harmony within Sunagakure at the moment.

The elder forces, led by Elders Chiyo and Ebizo, seemed dissatisfied with the rule of the Third Kazekage.

This is also a point that Mizunoe Ryosuke can make great use of.

Whether through political or economic perspectives, Ryosuke is confident that he can exert enough influence on the Third Kazekage to encourage him to take the actions he wants to see.

In this Ninja World War, Ryosuke prepared his second chess piece - Sand Village, the third Kazekage Sandetsu.

That’s not all. The beneficiaries of the iron and sand trade include not only the supplier Sand Village and the middleman Kirigakure, but also the most important buyer - the Iron Country.

Although the Iron Country plays an insignificant role in peacetime and seems to have no value as a neutral country, it is impossible for the Iron Country to abandon its own foundation for the benefit of Iron Sand and actively obey Ryosuke's command to participate in the war.

But in fact, the Iron Kingdom will play an important role at certain moments.

For example - the Ninja World Talks.

In the original work, at the Ninja World Conference held on the eve of the Fourth Ninja World War.

Danzo, who is the deputy Hokage, uses Kotoamatsukami to manipulate Mifune, thereby shifting the position of the Land of Iron and achieving his own benefits.

If it weren't for the Kirigakure's Jonin Ao's Byakugan seeing through his plan, Danzo's plan would probably have succeeded.

This also indirectly illustrates the role that the Iron Country, a permanently neutral country, can play at critical moments.

Although Ryosuke cannot completely control the Iron Country and Mifune, it is not difficult to get the Iron Country to speak for Kirigakure at a critical moment based on their previous "friendship".

So in this Ninja World War, Mizunoe Ryosuke's third chess piece is the general of the Land of Iron, Mifune.

The above is not enough. At first glance, Mizunoe Ryosuke seems to have attracted most of the combat power in the ninja world to his own camp.

But at this point in time, Konoha was too powerful, and the alliance between Konoha and Kumogakure was enough to contend with any force in the ninja world.

Even if Kirigakure, Sand Village, and Amegakure were combined, they might not be able to gain the upper hand against the alliance of Konoha and Kumogakure.

In order to eliminate this potential threat, Mizunoe Ryosuke finally decided to bring the Third Raikage on board his boat.

Facing the weak and powerless Hanzo of the Salamander, Mizunoe Ryosuke chose to use both kindness and force.

Faced with the Third Kazekage who lacked prestige and had not established a firm foothold within the Sand Village, Mizunoe Ryosuke chose to win him over with benefits.

However, when facing the Third Raikage, Mizunoe Ryosuke chose to be gentle.

Compared to the Third Kazekage and Hanzo of the Salamander, the Third Raikage is obviously a level stronger.

Compared with Hanzo of the Salamander, the Third Raikage has the entire Kumogakure as his backing.

Compared with the Third Kazekage, the Third Raikage not only has superior personal strength, but also has far greater control over the village than the Third Kazekage.

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And the foundation of Kumogakure is obviously much better than that of Sunagakure.

For this strong man whose strength and status were obviously beyond his calculation, Mizunoe Ryosuke chose to simply use conciliation and kindness.

Based on Mizunoe Ryosuke's understanding of the Third Raikage, he was not an old idiot like Danzo who would repay kindness with enmity.

As long as the Third Raikage accepts the favor of Mizunoe Ryosuke and chooses to stand on his side at the critical moment, everything will be enough.

At this point, most of the combat power in the ninja world has been won over by Ryosuke.

The remaining isolated Fire Nation and Earth Nation are no longer a threat.

And this is also the most critical step in Mizunoe Ryosuke's plan.

Establishing a dominant position is easier said than done.

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There is currently only one undisputed overlord in the ninja world, and that is Konoha, the Land of Fire.

The reason why Ryosuke set up such a big net was very simple, that is - to isolate Konoha!

Since Kirigakure wants to take over, Konoha naturally cannot sit idly by.

So in fact, in this Ninja World War, Mizunoe Ryosuke wanted to achieve his goal. Although he seemed to be safe and sound on the surface, his biggest enemy in secret was Konoha.

It is impossible for the Kirigakure family to bring down Konoha alone.

Even someone as strong as Mizunoe Ryosuke is now would not easily choose to fight against Konoha.

Not only would it be a waste of his fighting power, he also didn't want to be treated like Orochimaru.

Because Ryosuke knew that Sarutobi Hiruzen, this old coin, had a powerful weapon in his hand that would harm others and benefit himself - the Shiki Fuujin!

Before Orochimaru found a solution to the Shiki Fuujin, this move had no solution.

Mizunoe Ryosuke doesn't want to test the level of the "God of Death" summoned by the Shiki Fuujin due to poor planning.

What's more, because of Tsunade, Mizunoe Ryosuke doesn't want to make the relationship with Konoha too awkward.

Thinking of Tsunade, Mizunoe Ryosuke's heart couldn't help but soften.

For Ryosuke, his childhood sweetheart, Mizunoe Ren, represents responsibility and lasting love, and more importantly, a warmth that lasts forever.

But in his heart, Tsunade was a heart-pounding passion and a burning throbbing.

There is no difference between the two, but both are very important in Mizunoe Ryosuke's heart.

It seems to be an extremely difficult task to deal with Konoha without making the relationship with Konoha too strained.

As for how to do it, he already had a plan in mind.

Chapter 236: A mysterious and profound village

Nearly three months have passed since the ninja world fell into war.

Over the past three months, there have been victories and defeats on battlefields across the ninja world, but for a while no one could do anything to anyone else.

There are currently three major battlefields in the ninja world.

The first is the war between the Rain Ninja and Konoha. At present, Konoha's troops have completely invaded the Rain Country, but the battle situation is not as devastating as Konoha's top leaders imagined. Instead, Konoha is caught in a difficult tug-of-war within the Rain Country.

As mentioned before, Hanzo himself knew the huge gap between the Rain Ninja and Konoha, so he did not choose a head-on confrontation, but chose to play to his strengths and avoid his weaknesses very rationally, giving full play to the Rain Ninja's expertise in assassination and the advantage of the Rain Ninja occupying the home court of the Rain Country.

Hanzo of the Salamander knew how much damage it would bring to the Rain Country if the battlefield was held within its borders, but he had already staked everything on winning the war.

Assassination, ambush, harassment, encirclement, counter-encirclement of "743"...

At present, the war between the Rain Ninja and Konoha in the Land of Rain has fallen into such a stalemate.

In the territory of the Land of Rain, countless sporadic encounters and assassinations break out every day. As for the large-scale decisive battle that Konoha hopes to see, it has never happened.

The Rain Ninjas had already split up into small groups and were harassing Konoha in the form of squadrons and teams.

According to statistics, the largest battle between the two sides was an encounter involving no more than a hundred people.

All in all, the war between the Rain Shinobi and Konoha is in a stalemate, and it will probably be difficult to determine the winner for a while.

What followed was the war between Konoha and Sunagakure.

It took a total of half a month from the time the Sunagakure top management decided to declare war on Konoha to the time the Sunagakure mobilised ninjas to wage war against Konoha.

Although Sunagakure has tried to keep a low profile as much as possible in order to maintain secrecy, it still could not escape Konoha's eyes.

Faced with the sneak attack that the Sand Village thought was extremely covert, what was waiting for them was Hatake Sakumo who had already ambushed them halfway.

As planned, the Sand Village was defeated by the Konoha ninjas led by Hatake Sakumo as soon as they met.

As the commander-in-chief of the Sunagakure battle this time, Chiyo naturally could not lead the troops in the vanguard. However, due to their abilities, Ebizo and Chiyo, the brother and sister, have always been inseparable.

So naturally, it was someone else who could act as the vanguard and lead the charge, and as luck would have it, the Sunagakure troops leading the charge were none other than the elite puppeteer troops.

Under the ambush of Hatake Sakumo, this elite force suffered heavy losses, and the leaders of the force - two quasi-shadow-level puppeteers - were killed on the spot by Hatake Sakumo.

As we all know, the puppet army of Sunagakure has always been under the control of Elder Chiyo.

The reason for this is that Chiyo has a strong background and extraordinary attainments in puppetry.

The most important reason is that Chiyo has a good son and a good daughter-in-law.

Chiyo's son and daughter-in-law are also extremely talented puppeteers. With their superb puppetry, they became the commanders of the Sand Village puppeteer corps.

Therefore, the Puppet Master Corps has always been Chiyo's most powerful supporter within Sunagakure.

Now, Chiyo's son and daughter-in-law have died under Hatake Sakumo's blade.

The puppeteer commander who died in the battle was the father and mother of Scorpion of the future Red Sand.

In the war that Chiyo stubbornly launched, she became the first person to suffer the backlash.

After hearing the news, Chiyo was heartbroken. The grief and hatred in her heart made the war that was originally launched for the country and the village take on a strong personal emotion.

After suffering a heavy setback, the Sand Village army led by Chiyo not only did not stop at all, but continued to fight fiercely with Konoha resolutely.

The battlefield between the two sides spanned the Kingdom of Wind, the Kingdom of Fire and the neighboring small country of River.

Although the battlefield between Sunagakure and Konoha was the latest to start, it was the most brutal battlefield after being mixed with personal emotions.

Both sides have won and lost, and it may be difficult to determine the winner for a while.

Finally, it is located in the Kingdom of the Moon.

The battlefield between Kumogakure and Iwagakure.

Three months passed, and the initial disadvantage of Kumogakure continued to expand as the war progressed. Although there were houses supported by Kirigakure, Kumogakure did not face any logistical pressure.

But one wrong step leads to all wrong steps. Under Ohnoki's foolproof offensive, the initial mistake made by Kumogakure was constantly magnified.

By this time, Kumogakure had been completely driven out of the Moon Country, and the entire Moon Country had been occupied by Iwagakure.

The Third Raikage would naturally not give up and launched several campaigns to retake the Moon Kingdom, but under the tenacious defense of the Rock Ninja, he still had no chance.

You may question the Iwagakure's ability to attack, but you can never question the Iwagakure's ability to defend.

After occupying the Kingdom of the Moon, Iwagakure also understood the principle of "quit while you're ahead" and did not continue to advance into the Kingdom of Thunder, but instead stayed in the Kingdom of the Moon and refused to come out.

In just three months, the fortifications built by the Rock Ninja had spread throughout the entire Moon Country, and every offensive by the Cloud Ninja was dissolved into nothingness.

Even though the Kumogakure ninjas had an advantage in attributes, this advantage had already been wiped out by the Iwagakure ninjas who were good at group combat.

Even if the Tsuchikage Ōnoki does not take action, hundreds of Rock Shinobi jonin can work together to use earth escape techniques to suppress the Third Raikage for a short period of time.

(The original work says that the Third Raikage could defeat 10,000 Rock Ninjas alone, and most of them are definitely Genin. The specific combat power of these 10,000 Rock Ninjas depends on their Jonin level.)

(After all, Uchiha Madara's Great Fire Extinguishing could be wiped out by twenty Jonin's Water Style. There's no reason why the Third Raikage would be stronger than Uchiha Madara.)

If this continues, Kumogakure might be forced to give up the Kingdom of the Moon.

This is an unacceptable loss for Yunyin. At this point, Yunyin can only think of other ways to break the deadlock.

All in all, it is due to the lack of combat power of Yunyin. If they can't do it themselves, they can only seek help from external forces.

After thinking about it, Yunyin could only find a way to ask someone for help.

So now, looking at the entire ninja world, who can help Kumogakure?

Starting from the Ninja Continent and crossing the vast Wangyang, you will arrive at the archipelago on the edge of the Water Country.

Scattered islands surround the central land of the Water Kingdom, just like stars surrounding the moon.

In the center of the land of the Water Kingdom, there is a huge inland lake called the Lake of Mist.

The lake is so named because it never freezes and is shrouded in fog all year round.