Naruto, Uzumaki Menma, just wants to conquer the world

With the Uzumaki clan as his backing, Menma can still gain a foothold in Konoha even if he is criticized by thousands of people.

With the death of the great ninja hero Hiruzen, the ninja world entered a turbulent era.

Those were stormy times...

The destruction of the Fire Temple and the death of the Sandaime Hokage completely triggered the conflict between the Fire Kingdom and Konoha.

Without an external war to divert this conflict, the civil war in the Fire Nation finally broke out...

The Fire Nation's ninjas were split into two groups: those who were loyal to the Fire Nation and those who were loyal to Konoha...

There is a huge gap in the military strength between the enemy and us. The Konoha ninjas are elite, but the Fire Nation is huge.

Naruko's appeal is weak, the Fire Nation is legitimate, and many ninja families in Konoha have defected to it, making the situation extremely unfavorable for Konoha.

The Fire Nation's military force reached its peak in its frenzied attack on Konoha.

Due to his outstanding military talents, Uzumaki Menma was given great military power.

After the Konoha Ninja Army fought a thirty-three-day defense battle in the north, it was ordered to retreat.

Troops on all fronts were also retreating.

Retreating to the small area near the Nanga River and Kikyo Mountain near Konoha, retreating to the distant southern border...

Lord Uzumaki Menma had just arrived and was resting temporarily in a small old building by the Nanga River.

When I walked into the office, I saw that the walls were covered with maps.

Menma Uzumaki was wearing a ninja vest and looking at the map intently.

Everything seems so peaceful.

Konoha's Jonin Bai Yun came back in the morning to report the situation.

"You must have had a hard time on the journey! Come sit down and have a rest." Menma stood up and greeted him with a smile.

After asking him to sit down, Menma turned around and took down a cloth bag from the wall, poured out a plate of fried soybeans, and said with a smile: "There is nothing delicious. Come, eat some beans."

The boy's calmness and the peaceful atmosphere in the room seemed to infect him, and somehow he felt his mood calm down.

He began to report the situation of the troops: the troops had retreated from the front line in accordance with Lord Menma's orders and were advancing towards the designated location. The retreat was very orderly, and the enemy got an empty city without even retrieving any of our wounded.

Menma listened carefully to Baiyun's morning report, nodding with satisfaction from time to time. After he finished speaking, Menma asked a few questions, and Zaoman answered them one by one.

"This defensive battle was fought very well, inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy. On the one hand, we were able to find out the enemy's bottom line, and on the other hand, we delayed their escape and attack, thus completing our deployment."

When Menma analyzed the current situation in the morning, his voice was not loud but clear and powerful.

"As soon as the front line is withdrawn, the Fire Nation will occupy the big cities. It doesn't matter. Those cities can be given to him."

I didn't understand it in the morning.

Menma saw his expression, and a smile crossed Qinglu's cheek.

"Yes, give it all to him."

"He takes up these places, which means he carries a burden."

"If he occupies a city, he must defend it. If we defend so many cities, our forces will be dispersed. We can defeat them one by one."

"You said that these places are holding him back. If this isn't a burden, what is it?"

"Since he is willing to carry it, we will give it to him. The more he carries, the better, and the heavier the better."

"After we drag him to the point where he can't move, we will concentrate our superior forces and destroy him one by one." Menma quickly put his palms together and made a decisive gesture.

"Oh, so that's how it is." The problem was completely clarified. Bai Yun suddenly felt particularly bright in his heart and gave a knowing smile.

Menma thought for a while, a stern look flashing from under his eyebrows.

He said slowly: "Our task is very difficult: the enemy is now much stronger than we are. We have to prepare for several years of hard fighting before we can defeat the enemy."

“We must educate our troops to overcome peacetime paralysis, be prepared to overcome difficulties, and prepare for a long struggle.”

"Don't northern cities have plenty of electricity? We shouldn't rely on it, we shouldn't rely on electricity, we should rely on chakra."

"We should not rely on the traditional industries of northern cities, we should develop new industries."

"We must be prepared to sleep outdoors and, most importantly, be fully prepared mentally and have a strong belief in victory."

"The enemy's advantage is temporary. We will be able to turn weakness into strength. It won't be long before we will be able to defeat the enemy."

"The most important task at present," Menma said, raising his voice slightly, seriously, "is to be down-to-earth and not to drift. We must consolidate the Nanhe River area."

"First, get rid of all the bandits, send ninjas to the countryside to carry out land reform, and quickly mobilize the people."

“The faster we mobilize the masses, the better; the deeper and more thorough the better.”

"This way, we will have greater power to fight the enemy."

He repeatedly emphasized: "To destroy the enemy, we must fully mobilize the people."

“Without the people, there is nothing.”

“The key to our success or failure lies in mobilizing the people.”

Menma made a further clear assessment of the development of the situation.

He said that the development of the war in the north would generally go through three stages:

1. The enemy attacks, we defend by mobile means and voluntarily withdraw from some areas...

2. The enemy occupied a large area and the offensive slowed down. We seized the opportunity to destroy the enemy's effective forces during the movement and launched a local counterattack...

3. We launched a full-scale counterattack, annihilated a large number of the enemy's effective forces, isolated the remaining enemy forces at a few points and along a line, and finally destroyed them...

Lord Menma's words gave Baiyun Zaojian unlimited confidence and strength.

In the morning, the white clouds seemed to suddenly stand higher and look farther, and the hundreds of thousands of invading enemy troops in front of them felt like a group of crawling ants.

On the way back to the army, Bai Yun walked on the road along the river in the morning, facing the evening breeze blowing from the river, feeling indescribably refreshed.

291 Civil War in Fire Country: The high-spirited Menma-sama and the inferior and jealous Naruko-san

The stage for war commanders' activities must be built on the basis of objective conditions. However, with this stage, they can direct many vivid, majestic and magnificent dramas.

Uzumaki Menma is just such a commander...

During the Fire Civil War, he demonstrated his superb ability to control the changes and developments of the war and his skillful art of directing the war.

The decisive battle in the Nanhe River area is the most vivid illustration.

After several powerful offensives launched by the Konoha army, the Fire Nation Army in the Nanga River was forced to retreat to several large cities and a dozen small towns.

The enemy has been under attack for a long time, has run out of ammunition and food, and has no fighting spirit...

The Battle of Nanhe River is also considered one of the miracles in the history of war...

It's no coincidence that Uzumaki Menma is able to win wars so often...

His greatest characteristic is knowing yourself and your enemy...

Many people know this, but it is not easy to truly achieve these four words perfectly.

This is the main dividing line between wisdom and mediocrity among ninjas.

Uzumaki Menma knows himself and his enemy, so he can do what he should do and stop when he should stop.

Uzumaki Menma knows his enemies best...

He was so familiar with the enemy situation that he even knew the activities of the enemy's units in detail.

After the victory at Mount Kikyo, Uzumaki Menma called a meeting and said to Mutsu, "According to reports from the ninjas in the front, a small group of enemy jonins escaped and are stationed here."

"Hatake and Yamato are very close, so let's just destroy it. I don't think it will take too long. What do you think?"

Then he walked up to the map, pointed out to Mutsu the specific locations where these teams were active, and immediately ordered them to encircle and annihilate the enemy.

The next day, Hatake Kakasu's victory report was delivered to the headquarters from thousands of miles away.

This is just a common example.

Uzumaki Menma has always been like this...

Where are the enemies, how many are there, how strong are they, what are their intentions, as well as all the mountains and rivers, terrain, local customs, etc.

He knew all of this.

Before each military operation, he would often pass such detailed and accurate intelligence directly to all levels, providing great convenience to the troops.

Uzumaki Menma pays great attention to investigation and research, and has an in-depth understanding of the enemy's situation, and determines his own actions based on this understanding.

He often said: "We must resolutely oppose fighting a battle of subjectivism, fighting a battle of bureaucracy, and fighting a battle of recklessness."

"If we fight a war based on our subjective will alone, we will inevitably suffer heavy losses and lose the war."

However, he further explained...

"Fighting requires a certain amount of risk. Generally speaking, if you are 70% sure and make an effort, you can fight and win. If you want to be 100% sure before fighting, then there will be few good battles. That is fighting like a lord, and you will inevitably lose the opportunity to fight."

The reason why Uzumaki Menma was able to make such a clear judgment on the war situation and have the confidence of victory was precisely because of his evil thoughts.

"The enemy's superiority in military strength is only a temporary phenomenon, a factor that only works temporarily..."

"Aid from other countries is only a temporary factor..."

"The support of the people is a factor that often plays a role..."

"And in this respect, we have the upper hand..."

"Konoha must gain the support of the people. This is the political basis for defeating the enemy."

The Konoha Army's strategic retreat was based on the military principle set by Lord Menma, which was "the main goal is to annihilate the enemy's manpower, not to preserve or seize cities and places."

As it turned out, the development of the war situation was exactly in line with Uzumaki Menma's estimation.

The Fire Nation army tried their best in the Nanga River area, but could not escape the fate that Menma Uzumaki had pointed out to the enemy: it officially ended his "attack, defense, and death" trilogy that he had played for a long time.

By combining mobilizing the masses with military suppression, over 200,000 enemy troops were wiped out within a year or so, leaving not a single one alive.

As a result, the Nanhe River area has unprecedentedly stable public security, and the people live and work in peace and contentment...

In this way, we can eliminate worries and be able to attack when advancing and defend when retreating...

While suppressing the bandits, the ninjas went to the countryside. They responded to Uzumaki Menma's call to learn, "take off their ninja boots, put down their vests, wear farmers' clothes, and eat sorghum rice."

The Konoha ninjas went deep into the people's hearts, taught them knowledge and how to use chakra. The farmers were given land, and grain production increased unprecedentedly. The farmers broke away from their orthodox ideas and fantasies about the Land of Fire and increasingly turned to Konoha.

They saw the true face of the nobility...

They wholeheartedly support Konoha...

Call Uzumaki Menma his savior, the great, supreme Menma-sama who is like the sun.

Following the land reform, under the slogan of "protecting the homes and fields", the people launched a wave of support for the front line. Young people volunteered to join the army. The enthusiasm for joining the army spread throughout the countryside, and fresh blood was continuously supplied to the troops.

The troops are often full, and new troops are constantly being formed...

By the autumn of the following year, Konoha, which was originally at a numerical disadvantage, had expanded its military personnel to more than one million under the leadership of Uzumaki Menma. As Menma said, "Our strength is growing."

The Fire Nation is like a burning candle, getting smaller and smaller, and becoming increasingly exhausted...

Some enemy troops cannot get replenishment of personnel and supplies...

Their "chief general" had no choice but to send 100,000 shi of rice, an average of one shi per person, as a token of "support". This became a joke in Konoha, which already had more food than it could eat.

As time went by, and every step of the situation proved that Menma-sama's foresight was completely correct, "things are changing."

Some ninjas always can't help but think of the encouragement given by Master Menma during the difficult times in the past, and always think with admiration: How far-sighted our Master Menma is!

Menma Uzumaki knows his troops best. He is familiar with the voices, appearances and smiles of the ninjas, the military and political dynamics of the troops, and is aware of the strengths and weaknesses of officers and soldiers at all levels, and knows how much burden they can bear.

There is a popular saying among Konoha ninjas: "We fight wherever Menma-sama points, and we win by following Menma-sama's orders."

Sometimes we accept a mission knowing that there are serious difficulties and dangers ahead, but the belief that we will win inspires us to move forward.

After the Battle of Nanhe River, the general of the Fire Nation personally went to the front line to command more than 100,000 troops to move south and launch an offensive in an attempt to make a comeback.

If this fails, they will attempt to change route and retreat northward to preserve their strength.

These 100,000 people are the elite troops of the Land of Fire, among whom there are several thousand ninjas (Chunnin & Jonin).

Obviously, it is of great significance to eliminate this enemy.

As Lord Menma had expected, that day, the elite corps came in overwhelming numbers, and with the support of heavy firepower such as ninjutsu, detonating tags, giant crossbow lathes, and giant shuriken lathes, they fiercely attacked the Konoha position.

Konoha's counterattack force consisted of only 40,000 people. After the mobile defense, they immediately switched to a tenacious defense without having time to rest.