This Water Shadow is very strong, but overly cautious.

Soon, under the boss's arrangement, the four people were divided into three rooms.

Mizunoe Ryosuke naturally lived in a room alone, Kaguya Yuuta lived next door to Mizunoe Ryosuke, and Bee and Troyri lived in the same room.

Ordinary hotel, ordinary boss, ordinary everything

Bi secretly made such a comment in his heart.

That night, the view outside the window was already pitch black, and it was the darkest time of the day.

Although it was very late at night, Mizunoe Ryosuke still had no intention of resting. He stood quietly beside the bed, looking out the dark window, wondering what he was thinking.

“Knock knock!!”

Suddenly, there was a slight knock on Mizunoe Ryosuke's door.

He turned around and raised his finger slightly. The dark shadow immediately solidified into substance. He pulled the door handle and opened the door.

In the dark night, the ubiquitous shadows are the most convenient tools.

A quiet figure slowly walked into Ryosuke's room.

"Kirigakure Chuunin Honda Yuichi."

"Greetings, Mizukage-sama!"

At that moment, the quiet shadow knelt down on one knee and spoke to Mizunoe Ryosuke in an excited voice.

"No need to be polite, get up."

Mizunoe Ryosuke spoke slowly and calmly, while fixing his gaze on the kneeling figure in front of him.

The skinny body, bald head and the mercenary air emanating from his whole body - it turned out to be the owner of this hotel.

"Honda Chunin, how is the investigation going on with the thing I asked you to do earlier?"

A glimmer flashed in Mizunoe Ryosuke's eyes, and he asked Honda Yuichi, who was called the inn owner but was actually a Kirigakure Chunin.

"Yes!!!"

Upon hearing this, Honda Yuichi immediately responded excitedly, and then told Mizunoe Ryosuke all the information he needed.

Perhaps because he didn't expect to see the Fourth Mizukage in such a place, Honda Yuichi's tone was still a little excited.

""

After a long time, Mizunoe Ryosuke nodded with satisfaction.

"Thank you for your hard work, Honda Chunin."

Mizunoe Ryosuke said softly, with a hint of approval in his eyes.

"Your Majesty, you are serious!"

"This is what it should be!"

"Being able to do our bit for you, my Lord, and for the village is a great honor for people like us who have committed so many sins."

Hearing Mizunoe Ryosuke's words, Honda Yuichi immediately fell to the ground, and even because he was too excited, his body was shaking.

"There's no need to talk about the past. You will always be part of the village."

"The village will never forget the contributions you have made to it."

A glimmer of approval flashed in Mizunoe Ryosuke's eyes, and his tone was full of encouragement.

"Honda Chunin, your son graduated from the Ninja Academy last year."

"He is very good and will definitely become a good ninja in the future."

"Don't worry, the village will make arrangements for your family."

But then, Mizunoe Ryosuke spoke again, and the meaning in his words was somewhat unusual.

"Yes!!"

"Thank you, Mizukage-sama!"

Honda Yuichi responded immediately, with a hint of complexity and peace in his eyes.

For someone like him, this is already the best result. What else can he ask for?

After all, in the eyes of the village, he is already a dead ghost.

In response, Mizunoe Ryosuke simply patted Honda Yuichi on the shoulder.

A kind person cannot command an army. Of course, he could not completely trust these spies who were far away from the emperor, so he naturally had to prepare some countermeasures.

This conversation, which was a combination of kindness and force, was his way of comforting Honda Yuichi.

When Mizunoe Ryosuke succeeded to the throne as the Fourth Mizukage, he was faced with a difficult problem.

That is, what should be done with the Anbu ninjas who followed Kujiya Kura in the rebellion? Especially those diehards who were once loyal to Kujiya Kura.

In response to this, Mizunoe Ryosuke chose to kill only the leader of the evildoers and released the others on the spot.

Even so, the former Kirigakure Anbu was almost an ironclad organization under the management of Yagura Karuta, and a considerable number of ninjas within the Anbu kept a very close distance from Yagura Karuta.

According to Mizunoe Ryosuke's way of handling the matter, hundreds of people would still be implicated.

For this group of ninjas, Mizunoe Ryosuke made two arrangements.

Those who refuse to change their ways will be executed on the spot.

For those who felt guilty and sincerely repented, Ryosuke gave them a chance.

It happened that the White Shark Force was being formed at that time, and Mizunoe Ryosuke secretly recruited these ninjas.

To the outside world, Kirigakure will announce the death of these ninjas; but in fact, these ninjas will act as spies of the White Shark Force, lurk in various countries, and provide intelligence to the White Shark Force.

Yuichi Honda is one of them.

With the development over the past few years, the White Shark Force's intelligence network has already covered the entire ninja world.

Even in a small and unpopular country like the Frost Kingdom, there are pre-arranged White Shark members lurking there.

In fact, the restaurant that Mizunoe Ryosuke had visited before was also one of the bases of the White Shark Force.

Ryosuke went there specifically to provide the intelligence that needed to be investigated, so that the spies of the White Shark Force would have time to bring the intelligence he needed to investigate.

It was this arrangement that allowed Mizunoe Ryosuke to obtain extremely important information at this moment.

Chapter 284: You can kill by mistake, but you can’t let go

After Honda Yuichi left, Mizunoe Ryosuke recalled the information Honda Yuichi had just told him in his heart. He looked at the moonlight outside the window, and a gleam of light flashed in his eyes.

He never expected that the timing of his arrival was so perfect. He thought he would lie in wait here for a while, but he didn't expect that the timing of his arrival was just right.

In fact, Bi's guess was not wrong.

Mizunoe Ryosuke came to the Frost Country without saying a word, but he actually had another plan.

Since Mizunoe Ryosuke had long been prepared to intervene in the war between Iwagakure and Kumogakure, he naturally would not act rashly. He already had a plan in his mind.

According to the information obtained by Mizunoe Ryosuke, the total strength of Iwagakure's army is approximately 30,000 ninjas.

The core combat force is about 500 jonin.

At this moment, the military strength of Kumogakure should be around 20,000 ninjas, and the number of Jonin should be around 200.

This is because the tailed beast accident that occurred in Kumogakure not long ago caused a sharp drop in the number of jonin.

From this perspective, it is normal that Yunyin was beaten so badly by Yanyin that he could not even raise his head.

Compared with Kumogakure and Iwagakure, Kirigakure has probably recovered some of its vitality in recent years thanks to Ryosuke's vigorous development.

However, the previous overdraft still made Kirigakure's combat power a little weak.

The total number of ninjas recovered to 20,000, and the number of senior ninjas recovered to more than 300, which is roughly the same as the current number of Kumogakure.

At this moment, although Kirigakure joined the Kumogakure camp, a "two against one" situation was formed.

However, if we carefully understand the specific military strength comparison between the two sides, we will actually find that the overall strength of the two sides is relatively balanced, and there is not much prominence.

Mizunoe Ryosuke had previously said that Kirigakure's Anbu leader Mangetsu Hozuki and White Shark leader Kisame Hoshigaki would each lead a team to support Kumogakure.

Of course this is true.

But what Ryosuke didn't say was that the two teams each had only two thousand people.

Compared with the tens of thousands of troops of Iwagakure and Kumogakure, the third party, Kirigakure, has only four thousand people in total.

Although the number of people is not large, each team has one hundred senior ninjas as the backbone, and these four thousand troops are all the elite combat forces of Kirigakure. In addition, with two Kage-level strongmen as leaders, these two troops naturally have extremely strong combat effectiveness.

Even so, with the addition of the combat forces sent by Kirigakure, the overall combat power of the two sides is barely equal.

It is natural that such a situation occurs.

Firstly, the Ninja World was not at peace at the moment, and the Water Country still needed a large military presence. Furthermore, the Water Country itself needed to function internally, so it naturally needed a large amount of manpower to maintain it.

The factories in Kirigakure are producing large quantities of war supplies every moment, and these supplies will eventually be transported to the Land of Wind, the Land of Thunder, and the Land of Rain.

And these supplies undoubtedly need to be escorted by ninjas.

Secondly, this war has completely different meanings for Kirigakure and Kumogakure. Although Mizunoe Ryosuke decided to help Kumogakure, he agreed to Iwagakure.

But even if it is a help, we have to distinguish what kind of "help" it is.

There is absolutely no need for Kirigakure to sacrifice its own interests and launch an attack with its entire army for the survival of Kumogakure.

Mizunoe Ryosuke naturally had to ensure that Kirigakure's losses were minimized and stopped in time.

These four thousand people have done their utmost.

Besides, Mizunoe Ryosuke has always believed that the quality of soldiers is more important than their quantity.

He was confident that even if he only mobilized these forces, he could win the war effortlessly.

Thinking of this, a gleam of light flashed in Mizunoe Ryosuke's eyes.

The key to whether the victory can be decided in one battle lies in whether Mizunoe Ryosuke can break through the lifeblood of Iwagakure!

And this lifeline is exactly the supply line of Iwagakure!

This is also the reason why Ryosuke Mizunoe chose to come to the Frost Country.

The Kingdom of Frost, a small and extremely transparent country.

But at this moment, it has become the only way for Iwagakure to transport supplies!

It is also the key area that determines the direction of this war.

The ice and snow in the Frost Kingdom make it extremely costly to build roads within the country, and the development of transportation is extremely restricted.

Therefore, the roads within the Frost Kingdom are relatively simple.

Any large group wishing to traverse the Frostlands has only a limited number of routes to choose from.

The small town where Mizunoe Ryosuke and others are currently stationed, although it looks unattractive, is an important transportation hub connecting the north and south of the Frost Country.

Therefore, Mizunoe Ryosuke judged that the supplies from Iwagakure must pass through this small town.

At this moment, all of Kumogakure's main combat forces were trapped within the territory of the Land of Lightning, and lost the ability to harass Iwagakure's logistics supply lines.

Just because Kumogakure can't do it doesn't mean Mizunoe Ryosuke can't do it.

As long as he can block the logistical transportation of Iwagakure, the tens of thousands of ninja troops of Iwagakure will naturally be demoralized and collapse.

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At the critical moment when the Iwagakure's supply is cut off, the Kirigakure's reinforcements will be the final weight that overwhelms the Iwagakure.

Before this, what Mizunoe Ryosuke asked Honda Yuichi was naturally the important information about Iwagakure's supplies.

Ninja is a dark profession based on deception and assassination.

For such a big thing as transporting supplies, Iwagakure would naturally not be stupid enough to do it openly, otherwise it would be like saying "Come and rob me".

For the team responsible for transporting supplies, the Iwagakure side naturally has to disguise themselves. Not only that, the Iwagakure side will also choose to do it as covertly as possible.

In other words, Iwagakure will try to carry out transportation at night.

Because for ninjas, night is the best curtain to conceal their bodies.

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It goes without saying that in order to facilitate the escort of supplies, the Iwagakure transport force would of course choose to disguise themselves as a caravan.

After all, if you want to properly escort a large amount of supplies, the only way to do it is by caravan.