Chapter 681: Iwain's Raid
The armistice agreement between Konoha and Sha Yin soon spread throughout the ninja world, and at first, everyone thought that it would be too much for Sha Yin to even agree to such harsh conditions, but after thinking about it, the current situation in Sha Yin Village would not be able to keep the remaining territory if he didn't surrender, so he was relieved.
Although Konoha didn't consume much strength this time, this result was barely acceptable to the countries, and it was much better than the entire Wind Country being swallowed up by Konoha.
Iwain Village, who was the most dissatisfied with this matter, because they had secretly made all the preparations, and the ninja army in charge of the sneak attack had quietly left the ninja village and marched to the battlefield, but at this time, they suddenly learned the news of the truce between the two countries!
According to their original plan, it should be the main force of Konoha that is dragged by the sand and the two-line battle, and the Konoha who is fighting on two fronts will definitely go all out to destroy the relatively weak country of the wind, and the Iwakuin Village side will dispatch a small number of ninja troops to carry out, focusing on defense and slowly delaying the fighters, after a long time, the country of thunder and the country of water will not all sit back and watch the country of wind completely destroy and then send troops to besiege Konoha, and when the two countries are taken off the water, the pressure on Iwakure's side will also be greatly reduced, and then whether to attack or defend can depend on the battle situation, and completely advance and retreat freely.
Although this plan is not very clever, it is a safe victory, there is a possibility of failure but it will definitely not be a big defeat, at first glance, it was conceived by the sleek old guy Onoki.
But the plan was about to start, but Shayin Village suddenly surrendered at this time, which made Iwakuin, who was about to steal chickens, completely sit down, without the shield of Shayin to attract Konoha's firepower, how could Iwain Village have the courage to provoke Konoha this tiger?
And the timing of Konoha's truce this time is too good, no matter if it's a little earlier or later, the situation will be completely different!
To say that this is a coincidence, Onoki is the first to not believe it, he feels as if Konoha has deliberately dug a pit and waited for Iwakure to jump in!
Thinking of this, Onoki broke out in a cold sweat, he felt that his plan might have been exposed a long time ago, and there was a pair of cunning eyes that had been secretly staring at him! It's all too familiar! Skywalker! It must be Skywalker! No one but him could devise such a trap that would make people powerless to resist!
But at this time, Onoki didn't have time to regret it, not to mention that the vanguard had already set off, if the morale of the army would inevitably be shaken, even if he withdrew the army, Konoha would not be able to let go of this opportunity. With Skywalker's previous style, he must have made comprehensive preparations, and it was impossible to give him a chance to regret it, and it was too simple to catch the evidence of Iwain's sneak attack. If the other party is allowed to take advantage of the situation to attack the land country, then the current wind country will be the future fate of the earth country! So the only option for Iwakuin now is to bite the bullet and continue with the siege plan!
Fortunately, this time Onoki learned the lesson of Sha Yin, and sent only 10,000 vanguard troops, and issued an order to fight steadily and harassment, and not to be greedy for merit. Even failure won't damage the root of the sand and hide, and that's the only thing to be thankful about at the moment. Even Onoki himself didn't realize that before the war began, he had already pessimistically put Sagakure in the position of the loser. Now the rope tree and the konoha are already on top of the predators.
Now that Sand Cakure wants to launch a sneak attack on Konoha there are three routes to choose from, namely the Country of Birds, the Land of Rain, and the Land of Grass.
By crossing any of these three countries, Iwakure can invade the Fire Nation itself.
The country of birds is close to the western border of Konoha and now has 200,000 troops concentrated there because of the war, and if the Iwakure ninja army attacks from this attack will not achieve the effect of a sneak attack at all, it will be swallowed up by meat buns and dogs. So this route was the first to be excluded by Onoki.
And the country of rain is now a staunch ally of Konoha, the ninja army in Yuyin Village is huge, and according to the latest information, the three new leaders are all shadow-level powerhouses, which are even more difficult than Hanzo. So this route is not a good choice either.
In the end, Onoki decided to launch a sneak attack on Konoha from the country of grass. Although the country of grass is called an ally of Konoha, its position is completely wallgrass like the name of the country. This weak country has no discipline at all, and only seeks self-preservation, so as long as they threaten with the army, they will definitely choose to protect themselves and let Iwakure's ninja army pass through their own country, and they will not fight for Konoha to the death. Of course, if Konoha has the upper hand in the war, they will also immediately change their stance and help Kiyama establish a logistics channel, which is the way for small countries to protect themselves, anyway, neither of the two big countries will let the country of grass be annexed by the other.
In addition, as can be seen from the map, the territory of the Grass Country sandwiched between the two countries of fire and earth is not narrow, and if you attack from this direction, it will be five or six times less than the Rain Country. Konoha concentrated most of the ninja army on the southwest border, and the defenses in the north were relatively empty, so a sneak attack from the direction of the country of grass would definitely have a surprising effect.
However, after hearing the news of Sunagare's surrender, Onoki didn't think so, he guessed that Skywalker might have prepared a trap, so he was ready for defeat, and he was worried about deploying more than 100,000 troops on the eastern border of the land country to defend.
However, the result was greatly beyond Onoki's expectations, and Iwakure's 10,000 ninja army successfully crossed the country of grass and entered the territory of the country of fire, neither encountering an ambush and annihilating the entire army, nor driving straight into the hinterland of the country of fire, but having a fierce battle with the thousand Konoha ninja troops who were in charge of defense on the border! Although the Konoha ninja army was at a disadvantage, they still resisted with all their might, preventing Iwakure's army from breaking through into the territory of the Fire Country.
Everything in Konoha reacts too normally! It's normal as if there was really no preparation for the sneak attack on Sand Hidden Village.
However, this most normal reaction greatly surprised Onoki's expectations, and he still thought that Skywalker must have some trap waiting for him, so he did not make any other changes except for establishing a supply line in the country of grass as originally planned, and ordered the 10,000 Iwakuin ninja army to steadily advance towards the territory of the land of fire.
In fact, Rope Tree did have his own plan, although he had already known about Iwakure's raid plan in advance, but except for the truce with Sand Hide in advance to avoid the strategic disadvantage, he did not tell the information to the top of the Konoha headquarters. Instead, he pretended not to know anything and left the Konoha headquarters to deal with this sneak attack on his own.
The purpose of Rope Tree is to repeat the famous battle of Kannabi Bridge in the original book, and to make Obito the heir of Madara. In this way, he can use the Xiao organization to carry out the layout in the future.
So even if Onoki wanted to break his head, he couldn't think of the true purpose of the rope tree. Of course, Rope Tree will not blindly give up this war in order to maintain the plot, he already has a comprehensive plan for the land country, and this sneak attack will not change the overall strategic situation.