The Hyuga clan that started in Konoha

This is indeed the case. In order to cover his teammates' retreat, Hinata Kumokawa was poisoned by the Sand Village puppeteer.

If Hatake Sakumo had not come back to rescue them in time, Tsunade would not have been able to detoxify Hinata Kumokawa.

He might be killed by the Sunagakure ninjas at the first moment, and even his Byakugan might fall into the hands of the Sunagakure.

After all, other ninja villages have been coveting the Byakugan of the Konoha Hyuga clan for a long time, and if they have the chance, they will never let it go.

If this really happened, Souji might not even be able to see Hinata Kumokawa for the last time.

It’s not just a possibility, it’s a certainty!

Therefore, Cang Si's gratitude is absolutely sincere.

He had always wanted to find an opportunity to thank Hatake Sakumo properly, but unfortunately the other party had been on the front line and had never returned to Konoha, so it had been delayed until now.

"I'm ashamed to say that if I had made proper arrangements before I left, Hinata Kumokawa-senpai would not have suffered this disaster." When mentioning this, Hatake Sakumo looked guilty.

"No, Lord Sakumo, if the Sunagakure wanted to launch a sneak attack, they would have found an opportunity after you left. This has nothing to do with you." Cang Si did not expect that he originally wanted to thank someone, but suddenly they would apologize.

The two didn't talk much about this topic, after all, so much time had passed.

"Mr. Cang Si, I wonder if you have anything else to ask me besides this matter. If you need anything, I will definitely help you."

Hatake Sakumo, who always believed that he was wrong in the matter of Hyuga Kumokawa, now wanted to compensate the other party's only grandson.

"Lord Sakumo, the second reason I came here is that I want to ask you about Uchiha En's situation." Without responding to Hatake Sakumo's words, Souji talked about his second purpose.

Just as Hatake Sakumo was about to answer, a figure walked in.

"Lord Sakumo, I... Cang Si! Why are you here?"

The person who came in was Uchiha Yan.

Originally, Uchiha En came to report to Hatake Sakumo the information their team had obtained, but he didn't expect that when he entered here, he saw Hinata Soji first.

"What a coincidence. Cang Si-kun is looking for Yan-kun, and he just happened to be here." Hatake Sakumo said with a smile as he watched all this.

"Ah, sorry, Master Shumao, I, I was a little too excited when I first saw Cang Si.

It moved." He remembered that he had wanted to report the situation to Hatake Sakumo.

I didn't expect that I lost track of priorities the moment I saw my friend. Damn it!

"Don't worry about it, Mr. Yan. Mr. Cang Si was just asking me about you. I didn't expect you to come here. What a coincidence." Hatake Sakumo waved his hand nonchalantly.

For Hatake Sakumo, who has always valued his partners and feelings, every ninja is his teammate, so he is usually very gentle to his subordinates.

Besides, it's not a big deal.

"Oh, Lord Sakumo, I have obtained information that Sunagakure will launch an action tonight." After turning his gaze away from Souji, Uchiha En said seriously.

"As for tonight, Mr. Souji, you came at a great time. We just happened to be short of manpower to ambush the Sand Village." After hearing the information from Uchiha En, Hatake Sakumo said to the two people in front of him as if he had expected it.

Since Cang Si had just arrived here, he was still confused when he heard the conversation between the two.

Uchiha Yan immediately told Cang Si everything.

After listening to it, Cang Si also understood, and couldn't help but sigh that Hatake Sakumo was so bold that he actually wanted to swallow up all the ninja troops of Sand Village in one breath.

Hatake Sakumo's plan was simple. He pretended that Konoha's military strength was low, then lured the ninjas from the Sand Village to attack, and then deployed a counter-attack strategy.

The most difficult step of the plan is how to make the opposing Sand Village think that Konoha is really short of manpower, rather than luring the enemy out of its hole.

For this reason, a few days ago, Hatake Sakumo had brought the ninjas who were only slightly injured and still capable of fighting, as well as the seriously injured ninjas, back to Konoha under the protection of Tsunade.

As for Orochimaru and Jiraiya, they are now fighting against the Hidden Mist in the Land of Waves and the Land of Hot Springs respectively.

Danzo also frequently appeared in the village.

As a result, the only Kage-level strongman in Konoha is Hatake Sakumo, who is still stationed in the River Country to guard against the Sand Village.

And these were all specially arranged by Hatake Sakumo for Sunagakure to see.

In the eyes of Sunagakure, now is the best time to raid Konoha.

As expected, Uchiha En obtained the information arranged by Hatake Sakumo that the Sand Village would launch a sneak attack on Konoha tonight.

Normally speaking, with the number of Konoha ninjas currently in the River Country, it is absolutely impossible to counter-encircle the Sand Village.

And that’s exactly what the top leaders of Sunagakure think!

However, at the same time, Hatake Sakumo secretly asked the Third Hokage for support, and Souji and others were one of the teams that came to support.

Cangsi originally thought that only his team would come to the front line to support Hatake Sakumo, but he didn't expect that Hatake Sakumo asked the Hokage to support the ninjas in batches.

After thinking about it, Cang Si understood why Hatake Sakumo made such arrangements.

The advantage of supporting in batches is that even if Sunagakure gets the information that Konoha has reinforcements in advance, they won't be too worried because the number of people is not large.

Moreover, providing support in batches can better avoid being detected by the Sand Village sensory ninjas.

If a large number of ninja troops came to support, the powerful chakra gathered together would be at risk of being sensed by the Sand Village at any time, and it would also be easy to expose themselves.

For this reason, Cang Si had to admire Hatake Sakumo's clever arrangement!

The evacuation of a large number of ninjas, followed by the support of small groups of ninjas, this strategy Cang Si was very sure that he had seen it in the famous novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms!

"Have you confirmed who is the opponent's leading ninja?" After Uchiha En finished explaining to Cang Si, Hatake Sakumo continued to ask.

"The other side has two ninjas leading the charge, a couple named Akasai Mu and Akasai Ryuzuki. It is said that they are the son and daughter-in-law of Sunagakure elder Chiyo." Uchiha Yan continued to talk about some of the information he had obtained.

When Uchiha En said the first half of the sentence, Cang Si didn't know who the two people he was talking about were, but when he said the second half, Cang Si immediately reacted.

"Chiyo's son and daughter-in-law? Wouldn't that be the parents of Scorpion of the future Akatsuki organization?" Cang Si couldn't help but think in surprise.

Wow, now Hatake Sakumo is here too, and he has arranged a trap for the other party. This is consistent with the plot in the original novel where Hatake Sakumo killed Scorpion's parents.

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"As for Sunagakure Chiyo's son and daughter-in-law, if we can get rid of them directly, it will be a huge blow to Sunagakure, and the war should be over sooner." Hatake Sakumo carefully analyzed all the information he had obtained.

Hatake Sakumo's personality is actually very similar to Namikaze Minato's. They are both the type who value their companions, are gentle to their own people, and at the same time are ruthless to their enemies.

It will be very comfortable to get along with such a person and you can completely trust him/her with your back.

"You friends should have a good chat first when you meet. When all the support teams arrive, we will discuss the specific plan in detail. There is still time." Then Hatake Sakumo was very considerate and gave the two of them some spare time.

"Yes, Sakumo-sama2."

Cang Si and Uchiha En responded at the same time, and then left the tent where Hatake Sakumo was staying.

"Hey, Cang Si, how did you get here? Will the patriarch and other elders of your clan let you out? You didn't sneak to the battlefield, did you?" After walking for a distance, Uchiha Yan asked Cang Si curiously.

"Don't worry, I am here legally. Please put away those weird thoughts in your head." Cang Si looked helplessly at Uchiha Yan, who still had a look of doubt on his face.

The Uchiha clan, as the old rival of the Hyuga clan, actually knows a lot about it.

Especially for high-ranking members of the Hyuga clan like Souji, they cannot leave the territory of the Land of Fire at will, let alone go to the battlefield.

Now, Cang Si has come to the River Country openly, so Uchiha Yan would of course feel curious.

"Okay, if you encounter danger, I will protect you." Uchiha Yan continued with a narcissistic look on his face.

Cang Si instantly looked at Uchiha Yan as if he was a fool.

"If your strength during training was half as good as your talk, you would have opened three magatama by now." Cang Si said disdainfully.

"You, Cang Si, I want to duel with you!" Cang Si's words immediately made Uchiha Yan blush.

For this, Uchiha En even opened his two-magatama Sharingan.

"Are you sure you won't be punished by Lord Sakumo if you duel with me now?" Cang Si mocked again.

"Lord Sakumo will not punish me for something like this." Although Uchiha En said this, he still closed his Sharingan.

The war with Sunagakure is about to begin, but before the battle, our own people start fighting first. This is unacceptable no matter how you put it, even if this is just an insignificant training.

In this situation, the best choice for everyone is to keep fit and be ready for the big battle in the evening.

And unlike Uchiha En, Cang Si just arrived today.

At this time, if Uchiha En pulled Souji to "practice", even if Hatake Sakumo didn't say anything, his expression would probably not look very good.

Uchiha Yan does have some self-awareness.

It was just a daily quarrel between the two of them.

It can also be said to be a regular interaction between friends.

Friends are all like this; the more they dislike someone, the more they care about them in their hearts!

Chapter 64 Psychological Warfare

After the last batch of support teams arrived in the afternoon, Hatake Sakumo called a meeting of all the jonin.

Including Cang Si and Uchiha En, they all participated. After all, the term "special jonin" also has the word "jonin" in it.

Then, Hatake Sakumo quickly repeated his plan.

"The above is the assignment of tasks for each of your teams. Remember them all."

"remember!"

The meeting ended quickly with questions and answers.

After all, the Sand Village will attack at night, so there is no time to delay.

The mission of Souji's squadron is to pursue the scattered Sand Village ninjas.

Yes, Hatake Sakumo is so confident that he was already considering cutting off Sunagakure's retreat before the war even started.

Uchiha Yan was responsible for ambushing the enemy with a large force.

Of course, Hatake Sakumo is also here, so Cangsi doesn't have to worry about Uchiha En's safety.

"Let's go." After saying hello, Cang Si left with the entire squadron of 13 people.

Passing through the dense forest, there is a turbulent river ahead.

"Each of you three will lead a small team to ambush on both sides of this river."

"Yes!"

After hearing Cang Si's arrangement, the three Chunins agreed decisively.

Don’t underestimate these three Chunins, even several Genins are older than Souji.

However, on the way to support Laihe Kingdom, they had already experienced Cangsi's strength.

Even without using Ice Escape, Cang Si could have dealt with all 10 of them in less than 12 minutes.

This is the absolute gap in strength!

Therefore, the three Chunins who originally looked down on Souji because of his young age had already been convinced by Souji.

This is the ecological environment in the ninja world where the strong are respected.

The sun had just set at this time, and there was still some time before Sunagakure could launch an attack, let alone suffer a defeat.

The members of Cang Si's team waited quietly and patiently.

On the other side, the base of the Sand Village Ninja in River Country.

"Now, we will attack Konoha's base in the River Country, drive them out, and then attack the Fire Country." The Sunagakure commander Akashiki announced loudly.

Next to Chisha Yimu was his wife Chisha Liuyue.

"Whoa, attack!"

"Kill all the damn Konoha ninjas."

"We are going to attack the Fire Nation."

"Why does Konoha occupy the most fertile land in the entire ninja world!"

A dense and noisy sound was heard below.

You can see that they are all getting impatient waiting.

At the beginning of the Second Ninja War, Konoha directly destroyed the 3000-strong puppet army of Sand Village.

It’s hard to count how many of their friends and family members are among them.

It can be said that the two countries have an irreconcilable hatred.

"Then let's go." Seeing that everyone's emotions had been aroused by him, Chishayimu waved his hand and said.