Chapter 106: Planning
"Raiding the grain routes? However, there is no necessary way to get from the Fire Nation to the Great Camp, and although the road conditions are not very good, there are no easily damaged sections such as bridges and canyons, and the possibility of attacking the grain road is not high! ”
A bearded shinobi gave an opinion, and he was looking at Lu Jiu, who was attacking, with a pair of eyes as big as a bull's eyeball, and the pressure was extremely strong.
"Goto-sama is right, the possibility that the sand ninja will attack the grain route is not high, of course, it refers to large-scale raid battles, and small-scale attacks have always been frequent."
Regarding the rebuttal of Shangnin Goshima, Shikaku nodded and agreed.
"Do you mean that Sand Shinobi plans to attack Mt. Kuroo?"
The cold and hoarse voice is a sign that belongs to the unique characteristics of Orochimaru, and others can't learn it and don't want to learn it.
At some point, Jiraiya had quieted down, and Orochimaru was relieved, and his sharp eyes fell on Lu Jiu, obviously Jiraiya's nonsense did not affect his attention to the meeting.
Mt. Kuroo, in addition to the large camp where the army is now stationed here, is the second most important place in the Land of Rain, where the grain depot is located.
The army did not move, and the grain and grass went first.
Whether it's a war for ordinary people or a war for ninjas, it takes a lot of money and food.
In view of the fact that the front-line camp kept moving its position as the battle situation changed, and most of the grain and grass transported from the Fire Country were hoarded at the pivotal point of Mt. Kuroo, and then transferred to the front-line camp, it can be said that Mt. Kuroo was the lifeblood of Konoha in the Land of Rain.
However, since it is a lifeline, it is naturally a great effort to protect it.
"There are 2,000 people stationed in Mount Kuroo, and there are also Makita seniors there, even if Sand Shinobi transfers elite troops, it will definitely not be easy to capture Mount Kuroo."
Faced with Orochimaru's question, Lu Jiu had not yet answered, and a short and shaved shinobi on the seat questioned in a rather fierce tone.
As the people said, the defense of Mt. Kuroo can be called impregnable, and the troops composed of elite middle and lower shinobi are combined, and with several famous masters led by Makita Kiyotaka in charge, it is quite difficult to capture Mt. Kuroo.
Makita Kiyotaka is one of the geniuses of the same generation as Shuo Mao, although the limelight of the same period was stolen by Shuo Mao alone, but he is also a powerful faction of iron fighting, otherwise Shuo Mao would not be relieved to hand over the lifeblood of the Heiwei Mountain Grain Depot.
"Mount Kuroo is in our rear, and it's not easy for Sand Shinobi to send a large army over without us knowing." Goto touched his beard under his chin and showed a serious thinking expression.
"It's true that it's okay for a small force to pass through our defenses, but hundreds, if not thousands, how can such a huge chakra fluctuation go unnoticed?"
"Sand Shinobi shouldn't be so crazy······"
“······ It's too risky, even if the sand ninja can send the army to the foot of Mount Kuroo, but with the little manpower of the sand ninja, it is impossible to capture the mountain······"
The upper ninjas opened the conversation box and began to argue fiercely about the speculation that the sand ninja attacked the grain depot of Kuroo Mountain.
However, most opinions agree that it is unlikely that the sand ninja will attack Mt. Kuroo, but apart from the opinions raised by Kakuhisa, they really can't think of what the sand ninjas are going to do with their troops.
The controversy is stuck at this juncture, and a reasonable conclusion can never be reached.
"Knock knock."
The long wooden table trembled twice, and a thin ripple could be seen in the tea in the cup.
Shuo Mao gently tapped the table with his fingers, and the iron-gray fingers were as hard as iron, and they landed on the wooden table with a loud noise, making the noisy arguments in the tent disappear in an instant.
"Lu Jiu, you go on."
Shuo Mao forcibly cut off everyone's arguments, firstly because he understood that it would be difficult to come to a reliable conclusion for a while, and secondly, because he could see that Lu Jiu seemed to be unsatisfied.
"Ahem, I think the center of your discussion is biased."
The words were not shocking, and as soon as Lu Jiu opened his mouth, he was sharp, and directly scolded the ninjas who were arguing.
"Boy, what a big breath!"
"If you don't give Lao Tzu a satisfactory answer, even if you are a seed of the Nara family, Lao Tzu will beat your ass into eight petals."
The good-tempered Shangnin looked at him coldly, and the short-tempered one directly threatened.
"You have been talking for a long time, and you are repeatedly arguing that Sand Ninja is not capable of capturing Black Tail Mountain, but the topic of discussion in this meeting is not what Sand Ninja can do, but what they might do! Don't confuse the two concepts. ”
"Can the sand ninja capture the Black Tail Mountain, it's stupid to discuss this kind of thing, as long as you are willing to pay a sufficient price, can't the sand ninja really fight a copycat? Not to mention anything else, the pillar force of the sand ninja hasn't shown up yet! and if they throw the human column into the battlefield······"
Lu Jiu breathed a sigh of relief, leaving a moment for everyone to clear their minds.
"Sand Hidden Village is also one of the five major ninja villages, and the overall strength may have a gap with us Konoha, but it is not difficult to make up for this gap in a war, otherwise how could Sand Ninja start a war against us, at least in Sand Ninja, they have confidence in their own strength or plan."
"Therefore, I suggest that you adults do not think about whether the sand ninja is capable of doing it, but whether there is enough value for them to do it, and I think that the way is dead, people are alive, as long as you think about it, there are few things that cannot be done."
Shikaku's face has a strong confidence, and he is not afraid even in the face of the upper ninjas.
"Back to the point, if Heiwei Mountain falls and all the grain and grass are destroyed or plundered, what will we fall into?"
A rhetorical question was thrown to the people.
"The Fall of Mount Heiwei······ We will probably have to abandon the territory of the Land of Rain and retreat to the village, and this war will be equivalent to our loss. Goto was straightforward and fast-talking, and after a little pondering, he revealed the answer in his heart.
Then there was silence.
There are no fools here, and there are no spies who deliberately pretend to be crazy and stupid, Lu Jiu almost crushed his ideas and stuffed them into the mind of Zhongnin, if he still doesn't understand, then he is not qualified to sit here and discuss things.
"As long as the sand ninja captures Mt. Kuroo, we will lose everything in the Land of Rain······ Shikahisa, is that what you want to say? ”
Shuo Mao asked softly.
"That's right, I personally think that the abnormal actions of the Sand Ninja are all to find another way to win this war, and the Black Tail Mountain is undoubtedly the best choice, there is no second option, if I am the commander of the Sand Ninja, then the Black Tail Mountain is my goal, but the problem is the means, what you said before has enough truth, the Black Tail Mountain is not so easy to capture, I don't know how the Sand Ninja will do it for the time being."