Chapter 13: The Ninja Warrior Legion
The Fire Nation has a large-scale expansion plan, and it can't hide the eyes and ears of the other ninja villages.
Quality and quantity are two very contradictory words, and Konoha who pursues the number of ninjas, the quality of ninjas cultivated in the future will definitely drop significantly.
Things get weird, and when Uehara becomes the Tokage, he attaches unprecedented importance to the education of Iwakuin Village, and he wants to build Iwakuin Village into a cradle of genius like Konoha.
To this end, Uehara poured his heart and soul into the ninja school in Iwakuin Village, but it can be seen from the faculty that Iwakuin Village has invested heavily in it - there are Harumi and Shennong who teach the ninja school, and even Sanshoyu Hanzo has a limited number of class hours in a semester to teach the imps of Iwakuin Village the knowledge he has accumulated in his long ninja career.
There is also a puppet master from the sand ninja, a ninja master from the craftsman ninja, a samurai leader borrowed from the Daimyo of the Land Country, and the basic earth escape ninjutsu course, which is still taught by Uehara himself......
When Iwakuin Village changed its previous model of cultivating ninjas as cannon fodder and began to move towards a model that pays equal attention to elitism and quantity, Konoha began to mass-produce the model of cannon fodder.
"Thirty thousand?" When Uehara heard this number, he sneered, even if all the Konoha ninjas were involved in teaching work now, each ninja with a three-person ninja team would just be enough.
But obviously, it is impossible for all Konoha ninjas to become instructors, and when an ordinary ninja with limited ability is responsible for teaching dozens or even more imps, the quality of ninjas that can be cultivated can be imagined.
Now that Konoha's expansion plan has begun, in order to give an explanation to the allies, the Ninja Alliance must come up with countermeasures.
I don't like meetings, the composition of the Ninja Alliance is too complicated, and there is a lot of communication in advance for each meeting, which spans more than a month.
In the Land of Rain, another plenary meeting of the Ninja Alliance was held, mainly to discuss countermeasures against Konoha's army expansion plan.
Uehara cleverly didn't speak first, and he asked the other ninja villages to express their opinions first.
Those small ninja villages, such as the Tea Ninja Village and the like, they are against the expansion of the army, and their willingness is obvious, even if Konoha expands to 30,000 ninjas, they still can't compete with the Ninja Alliance.
The main reason is that they think they have been sheltered, and they have eaten enough of the dividends of relying on the Ninja Alliance, and these small ninja villages don't want to spend too much resources on ninja training.
Anyway, even if the ninjas in the village are expanded several times, they will not be able to occupy a heavier weight in the ninja alliance.
Larger ninja villages, similar to grass ninja snow ninja and rain ninja, they have a strong desire to expand the army, these ninja villages are more than the upper than the bottom, they hope to achieve a greater voice in the ninja alliance through the expansion of the army.
A water system across the Ninja Continent not only geographically connects large and small countries, but also forms a prosperous business circle, with mutual communication and prosperity, and the alliance has a tendency to become closer and closer.
As for the two most critical big ninja villages, the attitude of Iwakuin Village and Sand Ninja Village is very delicate, and the ninja alliance's expansion plan will definitely be there, but most of the funds will be borne by the two countries of Earth and Wind.
The Land of the Wind has won a rare opportunity for development, and the water brought from the Land of Rain has created vast oases, and the Land of the Wind seems to be free of poverty forever.
If the Red Sand Scorpion was still there, he would definitely agree to Uehara's decision without hesitation, but now that this Wind Shadow is Raksha, Raksha has taken office, and the relationship between Sand Ninja Village and Iwakure has become much more estranged.
This may be due to Hakura.
As the discussion stopped, all eyes turned to Uehara.
In particular, I have to talk about Sanshoyu Hanzo, it may be that the situation in the land of rain is very good, and there are three very good students to inherit their will, the so-called heart is wide and fat, and there is no need to worry about the future of the country of rain, Sanshoyu Hanzo has not been wearing a gas mask for a long time, and his body has become bloated at a terrifying rate.
Unable to stand Hanzo, who had become greasy, the image that damaged the majestic image of Hanzo, who had the name of a demigod, in Uehara's heart, turned his head to the side.
"In order to counter Konoha, the expansion plan of the Ninja Alliance must be carried out simultaneously."
"I propose to increase the number of ninjas in each ninja village by one-twentieth of the number of ninja that already exists."
"The land of the land is the mainstay, and a certain amount of money will be allocated to expand its power in the small ninja village."
After Uehara's words were spoken, the faces of the representatives of the small ninja village immediately appeared with joy.
Applause rang out.
The volume is there, now there are 30,000 ninjas in the Ninja Alliance, even if Konoha fights hard and mass-produces a large number of cannon fodder, even if he also cultivates 30,000 ninjas, he can only barely reach a numerical parity with the Ninja Alliance.
The Upper Plains proposed to expand the army by one-twentieth, which is just the right amount, one-twentieth of thirty thousand, that is, fifteen hundred, all the member countries of the Ninja Alliance, recruit an additional 1,500 students every year to train, and disperse them to various countries, which is a very small number.
"This is part of the expansion plan, and there is another plan to expand the army by 100,000."
The news thrown by Uehara was tantamount to a bombshell, which immediately caused a burst of discussion.
"To expand the number of ninjas, this ......" The face of the representative of the Sand Ninja Village immediately turned unpleasant.
"There are too many resources needed to cultivate ninjas, so we only cultivate shinobi." Uehara swept his gaze, "To be exact, it's not about training ninjas, it's about mass-training samurai who can be used in battle." ”
"There is no need to teach ninjutsu, and there is no need to select a teenager with chakra talent, just use the ability to train physical arts, sword skills, and flexibly use ninjas such as shuriken.
While drinking tea, Sanshoyu Hanzo put down the teacup and looked at Uehara in a little surprise. There are always some unexpected moves in the four generations of Tsuchikage.
"With the water system as a link, the members of the Ninja Alliance are connected. However, the ninjas' strength was also held back by guarding the water node. ”
"I propose that a samurai legion be formed from any country to assist the ninjas in their defense missions. The salaries of the samurai regiments were borne by the countries on a pro-rata basis. ”
"At the same time, the samurai legion will also serve as a common force of the Ninja Alliance, guarding the peace of the alliance members."
"And because there is no need for a long and complicated training process like a ninja, the training time of the samurai legion will be very short. Therefore, there is an almost infinite possibility of expanding the army. ”
When Uehara said this firmly, the sanshoyu on Uehara's left looked at Uehara with some surprise.
Of all the members present, Hanzo was the only one who understood Uehara's plan for the first time.
The combat effectiveness of the lower ninja is naturally not worth mentioning, many lower ninjas don't even know a few, when the training of superb shuriken skills, sharp can skillfully use all kinds of ninja strengthened version of the samurai, 100,000 ninja combat power can be formed in a very short time.
When the battle situation persists, 100,000 Shinobi is definitely a force that should not be underestimated.
Also, Hanzo had seen the power of the organization called the Scientific Ninja, and it was already tricky for a samurai to hold a hot sword that could slice through chakra.
An ordinary person who learns to skillfully use a ninja sword to fight, then learns shuriken skills, and then holds a hot sword, wears the sturdy armor produced by scientific ninja equipment, and may also be able to carry the flying wings of the air ninja, which has mobility far beyond that of a ninja.
This is not just the combat power to reach the lower ninja, this is the combat power that is much more difficult to deal with under the conventional force than the lower ninja. And more importantly, there is a lot of training time, and as Uehara said, there is almost unlimited possibility of expanding the army.
"The tactics are similar to those of the samurai, and they are good at group battle formations and frontal combat, but at the same time, they have mastered the shuriken techniques that ninjas are used to, and they are proficient in the use of ninja tools such as detonation charms. This is a training model that combines ninjas and samurai. Based on the samurai, it combines the skills that are the least difficult to master among the ninja abilities and can significantly increase the combat effectiveness of the samurai. ”
"Well, let's call it the "Ninja Warriors" legion. ”
At the end of the meeting, Uehara gave this peculiar unit a special name.
Thunderous applause.
"Ninja Warrior", the name is a bit handsome......