But...if there hadn't been this rain, why would Hanzo have bothered to provoke those two big countries?

Plants need water, but too much water can cause crops to die directly from waterlogging.

The abnormal climate also makes it difficult to use many technological creations in the Rain Country. With the arrival of peace, the population of the Rain Country has gradually increased, but the productivity of the Rain Country has not kept up. In the environment of the Rain Country, there is a labor force, but there is no suitable place to settle them and let them engage in production.

The Rain Kingdom needs more arable land and a better environment.

The Rain Country needs a piece of land that is not covered in rain!

Although the Kingdom of Wind is also a deficit country in international trade, their country is huge in size and can still hold on. However, the Kingdom of Rain, as a small country, really can't hold on.

So they became the initial fuse of the Second Ninja World War.

The war continues to this day, although the ultimate strategic goal of acquiring land has not been achieved.

However, the Rain Kingdom has alleviated the country's resource shortage and survival problems from another rather strange angle.

This is an angle that Hanzo, the leader of the Hidden Rain Village, doesn't want to see!

Death swept across the land of the Rain Country, and corpses could be seen everywhere on the roadside.

As a strategic buffer zone between the Land of Fire and the Land of Wind, and the battlefield between Konoha and Sand Village, the Land of Rain has seen a sharp decline in population in the past four years!

Some were killed by Konoha and Sunagakure, this is a small part.

Some of them lost their livelihoods due to years of war and died of starvation. This is a part of them.

Some people cannot stand this horrific war and choose to flee to other countries to become refugees. This is the majority!

Without people around, resources will naturally be less scarce and survival issues will be alleviated.

But...is a country without people still a country?!

"This can't go on like this."

The Land of Rain is where six countries meet.

The three major countries, the Kingdom of Fire, the Kingdom of Wind, and the Kingdom of Earth, border it. In addition, there are three small countries, the Kingdom of Birds, the Kingdom of Grass, and the Kingdom of Rivers.

Now the population of the Rain Country is constantly flowing out to other countries, the Wind and Fire Countries are at war, the Earth Country has no shortage of people, and the main direction of population loss from the Rain Country is to those three small countries.

If the war continues for a few more years, the Rain Country will probably become a ghost town!

When Hanzo Salamander started the war, what he wanted at first was just a quick victory. Relying on his personal strength, he could just take over a piece of land and end it all. However, he didn't expect that he would become the fuse that ignited the powder keg, causing the war to escalate to such an extent.

Throughout these years, Hanzo the Salamander has been dedicated to ending the war.

From the very beginning, he tried to stop killing by killing, to fight against Konoha Sand Village and make them retreat.

Until now, as long as it can be finished.

He has been through a lot.

This quagmire-like war made Hanzo of the Salamander abandon his fantasies and realize the gap between the Hidden Rain Village and those big countries!

Those big countries have the resources to consume, but the ninjas of the Hidden Rain Village are getting fewer and fewer as they die. Even if he gets kills like crazy throughout the game, he cannot withstand the decline of the Hidden Rain Village.

After all, he was just a demigod of the ninja world in the 'era when there were no tigers in the mountains'.

Not the real God of Ninja.

If they can’t build the Susanoo Buddha, the two of them will destroy the four countries.

He even had trouble holding off an attack from a hidden village.

After hearing the news of Sand Village's defeat, Hanzo of the Salamander knew that Konoha would have to take action to deal with Amegakure.

But instead of being worried, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth under the gas mask.

Four years of war had made him realize clearly that Yuyin did not have the strength to turn the tables.

Konoha's current combat power on the battlefield is enough to still fight back, but... Konoha still has a very powerful trump card that it has not yet played!

Hokage and the Tailed Beasts, these two heavyweight fighters of Konoha, are not on the battlefield in the Land of Rain!

The only ones here are Konoha's Mesozoic top warrior, Hatake Sakumo, the leader of the younger generation, and the three disciples of the Hokage.

If it weren't for Konoha's important fighting force needing to guard against the Hidden Cloud Village's sneak attack, he would be...

"It's better to end it like this." Taking his weapon from the shelf, gripping the sickle tightly, Hanzo Salamander put on his armor.

He didn't want to drag it on any longer.

let's start.

The last battle, war!

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"He actually came here on his own initiative..." Orochimaru frowned after receiving the information.

Although this decisive battle with Sunagakure was a great victory, it does not mean that Konoha suffered no casualties!

On the high-end battlefield, Hatake Sakumo, with the help of Luo Cheng's pregnancy power, was like a fish in water.

However, the fight between the Chunin and Genin still resulted in casualties on both sides.

Although the casualties reached an exaggerated 1:3 due to basic quality and morale reasons, after finally counting the casualties, Konoha still temporarily lost its offensive capability.

Konoha will need to rest for at least half a month before it can get rid of this state of excessive defense and insufficient offense. At that time, it will be safer to attack Yugakure.

But the enemy will not follow your plan.

Salamander Hanzo's plan at this moment is very simple.

While you are sick, I will kill you!

Of course, Hanzo Salamander, whose core goal is to end the war, will not really do anything to Konoha.

What he wanted was to show his power and style in this battle so as to use it as a bargaining chip for the subsequent peace negotiations.

It is the same peace negotiation, and both parties are the defeated party, but the results will be different and the final outcomes will be different.

If the defeat is severe, then you may have to pay a huge amount of war reparations.

But if it is a case of losing with honor, I have the ability to continue fighting with you, but I don’t want to fight anymore, then it is very likely that I will raise it high and then put it down gently!

If Konoha is timid enough and doesn't want to worry about being attacked from both sides when it needs to be on guard against Kumogakure and Iwagakure, maybe it can even give them some extra benefits!

Orochimaru had no idea what Hanzo of the Salamander was planning, he just thought that he wanted to take advantage of Konoha's weakness to give Konoha a severe blow.

"Contact Tsunade, quick!"

In this battle, neither Orochimaru nor Jiraiya suffered any injuries, except that they consumed a lot of chakra.

Hatake Sakumo suffered some injuries when Sunagakure used a method that caused both sides to lose their battle vision and enter a blind battle.

What is more serious than the injuries caused by Sunagakure is that his body has been severely overdrawn.

In order to destroy as many high-end manpower of the Sand Village as possible in this battle, Hatake Sakumo used various means before the battle to stimulate his body's potential and strengthen his body at the cost of almost burning his life.

After the war, he is now down and out.

It will take at least half a month to recover normal combat effectiveness.

Although he had expected it, Orochimaru didn't expect that Hanzo of the Salamander would be so decisive and decide to fight a decisive battle with Konoha without hesitation for a single day!

Now, Orochimaru is faced with a choice.

He chose to defend, hold out against this wave of attacks, and then proceed slowly.

Or accept the challenge of Salamander Hanzo and have a decisive battle with Yuyin!

"Let's fight." Standing next to Orochimaru who was thinking, Luo Cheng suggested.

"Salamander Hanzo is moving so fast this time, I'm afraid he's serious about it. If we delay for too long, we will certainly recover more manpower, but we will also lose our most critical advantage."

Luo Cheng looked at Orochimaru who was looking over at him.

"Sagakure will definitely not mind passing on the information on the battlefield to Amegakure and causing trouble for us. Now Amegakure only knows that Sandagakure was defeated, but they don't know the key factor of Sandagakure's defeat. My technique is still unknown to them."

"He came just in time. If he had come later, it would have been a headache."

"By then, I'm afraid we will only be able to fight Salamander Hanzo head-on, without any chance of taking shortcuts." Luo Cheng said.

After a quick calculation about how many casualties would occur in a head-on fight with the poisonous man Hanzo of the Salamander, Orochimaru made up his mind after a little hesitation.

beat!

The great victory in the decisive battle with Sunagakure that just ended made Orochimaru more confident and heroic.

Now the Genin and Chunin are in a state where they are unable to fight anymore.

Orochimaru rearranged the battle lines.

The injured ninjas and most of the low-level combat forces retreated to the rear, and the original jonin who were stationed there were transferred to the front line, abandoning the defenders of the medical camp.

All non-high-end combat forces are not allowed to stay in the territory of the Rain Country and must withdraw to the border between the Rain Country and the Fire Country!

Orochimaru is going to burn his boats!

The Rain Kingdom is not big, with a land area less than one-tenth of the Fire Kingdom. A few hours later, the assembled troops of both sides collided head-on.

It seemed like some kind of tacit understanding, as Hanzo of the Salamander did not bring too many people this time, they were all elite jonin from the Hidden Rain Village.

The elite jonin of this small hidden village is quite fake, and its actual combat power is between that of an ordinary jonin and a special jonin.

After the meeting, neither side talked much.

In these four years, everyone has said everything that needs to be said.

There is no need to waste any more words!

Orochimaru, Jiraiya, and Tsunade who came from behind wearing a Senkai, could all see the final determination in Hanzo's eyes.

The same goes for Salamander Hanzo.

They all knew in their hearts that this was the final battle.

This battle filled with endless sadness is finally coming to an end!

"Psychic art!" X4

The toads of Myoboku Mountain, the snakes of Ryuchi Cave, the slugs of the Wet Bone Forest, and the salamanders of Hanzo.

Four giant beasts as big as buildings appeared on the battlefield.

The acid from the slugs and the poisonous mist from the salamanders are intertwined with each other.

Toad oil combined with flames caused a merciless rain of fire to fall from the sky.

Different from pure Fire Style, this Fire Style combined with oil will not be greatly affected by the climate of the Rain Country. Even if it is washed away by rain, it will still burn for a while.

This period of time is enough to burn a Rain Ninja into charcoal!

Soldiers against soldiers, against generals.

Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and Tsunade are only in their twenties at the moment and are far from reaching their peak.

Jiraiya doesn't know how to use Sage Mode yet.

Orochimaru doesn't have any secret techniques as powerful as mountains and seas.

Tsunade's Hundred Healings Technique had just begun.

Now the three of them are just between elite jonin and Kage, at a level that is neither too high nor too low.

However, Hanzo of the Salamander is a genuine Kage-level warrior, and among the Kage-level warriors, he is not too weak.

At least, half of the members of the Akatsuki organization in later generations would most likely not be his match!

If the three of them did not have the help of summoned beasts, and if the Konoha jonin who helped them were not generally stronger than the Amegakure jonin, they would have been at a disadvantage from the very beginning.

But even so, as the battle became increasingly intense, Orochimaru and his two companions began to show signs of decline.

In terms of cooperation, the three of them have a perfect understanding with each other, but even if the three of them are combined, they still cannot get any good results at the hands of Hanzo of the Salamander.

With such pure power, speed and technical skills, Tsunade didn't dare to get close to him at will, and Orochimaru's many ninjutsu became just fancy things.

In this battle with someone stronger than himself, Orochimaru realized one thing.

In the past, I cared too much about the breadth of my ninjutsu, thinking that as long as I knew enough ninjutsu, I could deal with any opponent.

But it was not until he met this ninja with no "blind spots" that he realized that perhaps he should delve deeper into a powerful enough technique.

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