Chapter 677: Sand Hidden Peace Talks and Rope Tree's Ambitions
The tide of the war in the Land of Wind took a shocking turn in the space of a month, and the originally troubled Konoha ninja army conquered the city all the way, swallowing a large number of territories and populations.
Although the countries had a premonition that Sand Yin was going to be unlucky after the truth about the assassination of the three generations of Kazekage was exposed, they did not expect that the situation would be so fast. If this continues, it won't take more than a few months, and most of the Wind Country may be occupied by Konoha! Rope tree has taught a good lesson to the high-level leaders of various countries, it turns out that people's hearts and public opinion are so important in war! There is a world of difference between the country of the wind that was united in the past and the Sand Hidden Village that has now lost the hearts of the people! And Konoha's guidance of public opinion this time also amazed countries, and after this incident, countries have paid unprecedented attention to public opinion and people's hearts. At least there will be no more such an oolong as the high-level of Shayin Village.
Countries still have a chance to learn from their lessons and correct them, but the village of Shayin, which can be used as a negative teaching material, has no chance to correct itself, and both the people and the daimyo government are very disappointed with the series of mistakes of the company. The Daimyo's government looks at the problem from a different angle than the common people, and they don't have any opinion on the conspiracy of the high-level generals of the three generations of Kazekage and the sneak attack on Konoha and other conspiracies, and they fully supported it at the beginning, everyone is a politician, and this kind of conspiracy has long been accustomed to it. But what they couldn't accept was that Shayin's conspiracy had all failed! First of all, the 100,000 ninja army that sneaked up was wiped out, and then the scandal of the Red Sand Scorpion assassinating the three generations of Wind Shadow broke out, and the country of the wind was disgraced and thrown all over the world, and on the battlefield, it was beaten by Konoha so that it was impossible to find the north and lost a large area of territory in a row, but people still took advantage of it, and condemned you for being despicable and shameless while fighting, and there was no chance to even fight back. Therefore, the Daimyo government can't stand the incompetence of the pig teammates in the Sand Hidden Village anymore, why should the entire Wind Country bear the trouble you caused, so they used the logistics funds as a bargaining chip to give the Sand Hide an ultimatum, demanding that the war end within a month.
And Luo Sha, who had just sat on the position of Fengying, faced such a dilemma of internal and external troubles, and after thinking about it, he couldn't find an effective way to retreat from the enemy. Now that the guerrilla tactics have been broken, in a head-to-head duel, the 50,000 sand ninjas are definitely not the opponents of the 100,000 Konoha ninja army, and these sand ninjas are the last essence of the sand hidden village, if they fail again, the sand hidden village may really perish.
So Raksha thought about it and came to the conclusion that the only way to end this war was to sue for peace with Konoha. It would be better if the 60,000 sand kernels that had been captured before could be redeemed through negotiations. Of course, he also understands that if he wants to negotiate peace with the current situation of Sand Hide, Konoha will definitely put forward a series of harsh conditions, at least a large area of territory that is currently occupied will definitely not come back. But now this is the only way to end the war, and if it drags on for a month, without the logistical support of the daimyo government, Sungakure will surely collapse completely. If it was the Sand Hidden Village at the time of the reign of the three generations of Kazekage, the Daimyo government would definitely not have the courage to make such a threat. But now the Sand Hidden Village has completely lost the hearts of the people, and the Daimyo government has the confidence to sanction the Sand Hidden Village, even if the entire Sand Hidden Village is destroyed, it is a big deal to change the support of the Ninja Village, as long as they provide sufficient financial support, Konoha will definitely not be the Daimyo government of the Land of Difficult Winds, and the people will not have much opposition.
Of course, the disadvantaged village of Sungakure was more in the interests of the Kazedaimyo and the nobility than the powerful shogunate, so they would not easily abandon the Sagakure unless they had to. The reason why they put forward the demand to end the war within a month is not really expecting Sha Yin to really win, but also to imply that they take the initiative to sue for peace and do not want to take the blame themselves.
Luo Sha has just become a wind shadow, and naturally he doesn't want to be charged with losing power and humiliating the country, so the two advisers who have already made a bad statement have become the best candidates to take the blame.
Soon, at a recent military meeting, the two advisers "took the initiative" to propose a peace with Konoha to end the war.
As the Wind Shadow, Luo Sha strongly opposed this proposal to lose power and humiliate the country at first, but after the two advisers argued with reason, and won the support of most of the high-level leaders, Luo Sha reluctantly agreed to the proposal for peace, and handed over the negotiation work to the two advisers to handle it all.
In short, this military meeting was very successful, everyone showed superb acting skills, Luo Sha achieved his goal as he wished, and the two advisers also willingly carried the black cauldron, anyway, their reputation is no longer important to them, and the most important thing is to surrender to Luo Sha and stabilize their position through this matter.
It's a pity that although the high-level leaders of Shayin are very good at playing with internal political means, they don't see the external situation very clearly, and their request for peace is a bit wishful thinking, without considering whether Konoha will agree.
After two months of fighting, Konoha had captured a large part of the territory of the Wind Country, but even if the entire Western Forest District was added, it was only one-fifth of the total area of the Wind Country.
Rope Tree has been preparing for this war for a long time, and it is not easy to create such a good opportunity, how can it be easily stopped?
The land of the wind is almost the largest in terms of area in the ninja side, and the potential is even greater after the climate recovers, and one-fifth of the land is simply not enough to satisfy the appetite of the rope tree. Moreover, all the conditions given by the Land of Wind are not comparable to the territory and population, so the rope tree does not want to stop at this time.
Of course, in order to avoid arousing the resistance of the people of the Land of Wind again, he did not completely reject the peace rope tree of Shayin. With the current power of the Great General's Mansion in the Fire Nation and the prestige and status of Konoha of Skywalker, Rope Tree easily became Konoha's representative and handled this negotiation with full authority.
Rope once again received the two advisors from the Sand Hidden in the Skywalker Fortress and began negotiations.
However, Konoha did not stop the offensive because of the peace talks, but took advantage of the low morale of the Sand Hidden Shinobi Army to speed up the attack.
Although Sha Yin was unhappy about Rope Tree's arrogant behavior of fighting and talking, they were still forced to compromise due to the form, and they just wanted to end this war as soon as possible.
However, Rope Tree, who completely grasped the psychology of the other party, delayed the negotiation time, and deliberately put forward many harsh conditions, such as ceding half of the territory of the Wind Country, and even the mining rights of several gold mines, as well as the ownership of a crane and other conditions that directly pointed to the fundamental interests of the Wind Country.
Of course, the two advisers would not agree to such excessive conditions, but Rope Tree insisted on not letting go of the conditions, which caused the negotiations to drag on indefinitely.
At the same time, Konoha's offensive is still continuing, and towns are falling every day, and if it continues like this, Konoha may slowly swallow up the Land of Wind, until an unexpected thing happens, and the situation changes.