Chapter 39: The Extension of the Flames of War
One year and nine months after Konoha was first built, a skirmish finally broke out. The first initiators of the war were the four ninja clans of Sakurai, Yamashiro, Yashiro, and Ogen in the north of the Fire Country, and they started a two-on-two tragic battle with the support of their respective backers. With the beginning of the Northern War, the ninja tribes in the south of the Fire Country are not willing to be lonely. Compared with the clear two-way hegemony of the northern camp, the situation in the south can be said to be full of mountains.
Sarutobi and Hinata, Shimura and Kaguya, the four leading forces in the south are fighting together. Taking advantage of the time when the four clans had no time to take care of him, the Wind Demon clan swept away the surrounding weak forces strongly, and many ninja clans were wiped out by it. And the three tribes of Nara, Akimichi, and Yamanaka are huddled together, watching and helping each other, and pursuing a policy of self-preservation. The rest of the strong clans such as Oil Girl and Inuzuka are lurking in the dark, waiting for opportunities to appear.
In the land of fire in the midst of chaos, the stable Konoha is particularly special. Since Konoha has the deterrence of tailed beasts, after the war began, no force dared to invade Konoha. In this special situation, the emergence of a good living environment has caused a large number of war refugees to flow into Konoha territory, and some small clans and lone ninjas who do not want to be involved in the war have joined Konoha one after another. As a result, Konoha developed very rapidly, and the military and economy flew together.
In the first two years and January of the founding of Konoha, the chaos in the south of the Fire Country was initially decided, and countless small clans were not in the flames of war. Hinata, Sarufei, Shimura, and Kaguya fought several battles, losing their troops and losing their generals, and no one got a bargain. In order to avoid losing the war potential, the four clans signed a truce and secretly licked their wounds. The Wind Demon clan avoided the big clans, fed the war with war, recruited troops and horses, and accumulated a large amount of manpower and force, and its continuous display of strength faintly surpassed the ninja clans in the south, which was feared by all clans.
The growing strength of the entire Wind Demon Clan is full of strong self-confidence, and the argument of "defeating the various clans and unifying the Fire Country" begins to appear. Fortunately, the upper echelons of the Wind Demon clan are still somewhat sensible, but they are not much better, and these high-level figures mean to unify the southern part of the Fire Country and share the Fire Country Ninja Realm equally with Senju or Uchiha. According to their calculations, one of the Senju and Uchiha will be defeated, and of course, it is even better that both clans will die together.
Now that a strategy has been formulated to unify the south of the Fire Country, it is time to put it into action. The first thing is to know your opponent, avoid the strong and drive out the weak, the Wind Demon clan will be on the bright side and potential forces in a row, and suddenly find a target.
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Swish! Swish! …… In a forest, more than a dozen ninjas are running at high speed. They were disfigured and panting, weaving through the woods, alerting their surroundings. It's a group of ninjas on the run, and they're being hunted down.
Shout! Shout! …… A burst of wind was heard, and dozens of shuriken struck from all directions. The ninjas in the team immediately went into defense. First, a purple-haired man waved his hands, and a pair of half-moon-shaped crystal knives appeared on his arms, and with a series of dances, he knocked down all the shuriken that came head-on. After defending against the shuriken attack, the group of ninjas immediately fell to the ground and formed a defensive formation.
At this moment, the silence of the forest made everyone's hearts palpitate. They were forced to stop as if they were prey trapped in the crypt.
"It's coming!" With a prompt, several fireballs the size of millstones fell from the sky. In the face of the attack, two ninjas immediately walked out of the team, "Water Escape, Water Array Wall!" The two of them threw up their heads and spat out a stream of water, turning into a barrier to fend off the fireball. Fire and water intersected, and the forest was suddenly filled with water vapor.
Call! Call! …… Taking advantage of this opportunity, the pursuing ninjas hidden in the shadows came out under the cover of water vapor. The fleeing side knew that the moment of the battle to the death was at this moment, and they all rushed towards the enemy with a hideous face. For a moment, the silent forest was covered with the sound of gold and iron clashing.
In the center of the line, a purple-haired man was comforting a little girl, "Chana, don't give up, you must live!" Daddy will be back later. ”
"Hmm!" The little girl carried a bundle of scrolls on her back, and nodded vigorously with tears in her eyes.
"Protect the good lady!" The purple-haired man stood up and said to the two ninjas beside the little girl.
"Hey!" The two ninjas said in unison, without superfluous words, but the firm tone was extremely resolute.
The purple-haired man walked alone towards the warband. The two hostile ninjas slashed directly at the man, and the purple-haired man staggered past the two ninjas at an accelerated speed, dropping pieces of blood.
"Eternal Night Aoichi, you can't escape!" A ninja appeared in front of the purple-haired man, "Surrender, as long as you always honor my Wind Demon Clan, you can live." ”
"Whimsical, sooner or later you will pay the price!" Eternal Night Aoichi replied indifferently.
"Humph! You'll never see that day! Seeing the failure of the surrender, the ninja of the Wind Demon clan directly put on a posture of killing them all, "Die!" The swords faced each other, and the two fought together.
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A quarter of an hour later, the fighting subsided. At this time, the forest was in shambles, and the corpses of ninjas were everywhere. At first glance, the forest is full of crimson crystalline powder. A little girl stood there silently, with several corpses lying around her.
The crimson crystals began to drift away, and under the light of a little sunlight, the crystals shimmered with colorful light, and the scene here was so beautiful.
"Uh......h Father! The little girl clenched her teeth and forced herself not to cry, but her eyes were already blurred with tears.
Bang! A body fell in front of the little girl, it was her father, Yoichi Eternal Night, who had been deliberately thrown over. The little girl knelt beside his father, her two little hands gripping his father's big hand tightly, and the warmth was slowly fading.
"Poor man......" a ninja of the Wind Demon clan threw the kunai in his hand with a blank expression.
Kunai quickly crossed the space distance and flew towards the little girl's forehead. At this moment, the little girl has no fear, and she has only deep hatred in the face of these cruel people who destroyed her home and slaughtered her people. Kunai came to the front with a black light, and the little girl had already felt the cold air of the forest.
Bite! Kunai crossed in front of the little girl's eyes, and the expected death did not come.
"Nani?!" The ninjas of the Wind Demon clan were startled, and everyone looked around, only to see a group of people in fiery red armor appearing around, and they were surrounded.
"Konoha Ninja!" The ninjas of the Wind Demon Clan were in a state of disarray, and the other side was much more numerous than them. The leader of the Wind Demon Clan stepped forward and asked sharply, "We are the ninjas of the Wind Demon Clan, and we are on a mission here. Konoha guys, why are you stopping us! Do you want to start a war with my Wind Demon Clan? But to his astonishment, the ninjas of Konoha didn't answer him at all.
"With purple hair and a flower-like emblem, it's the Eternal Night. The goal of our mission. A Konoha ninja said to Chiba Ishihara, the leader of the team in front of him.
"I was actually killed by the Wind Demon Clan!" Ishihara Chiba's face was extremely ugly, but he didn't expect to be a step slower in the end.
"Captain, what's next?" The ninja next to him asked.
"The future adults said that the Eternal Night Clan must be protected, isn't there a little girl, bring it back, and all the corpses of the Eternal Night Clan will also be brought back!" Chiba Yamashiro said.
"Yes!" The Konoha ninja received the order and immediately took action.
"Konoha Ninja, what do you want to do?!" Seeing that the Konoha ninjas began to take away the corpses of the members of the Eternal Night Clan without saying a word, the ninjas of the Wind Demon Clan immediately questioned.
"All the people and things of the Eternal Night Clan, we have accepted them in Konoha, please don't get in the way!" Chiba Ishihara replied forcefully.
"What?! Do you want to start a war?! The leader of the Wind Demon Clan asked.
"I advise you not to act rashly, we are twice as many as you!" Konoha and the group of ninjas stared at the Wind Demon clan just after the big battle, and the number of ninjas with less than thirty people was not to worry.
"Damn!" The ninjas of the Wind Demon clan have no choice, the battle just now has lost a lot of people, and everyone is not in the best condition, if they really want to fight, they will not be able to stay forever.
As a result, the ninjas of the Wind Demon Clan could only watch as Konoha took everything from the Eternal Night Clan, especially the little girl, the scroll on her body was all the wealth of the Eternal Night Clan.