Chapter 654 is overwhelming
After Rope Tree and his entourage arrived at the Western Ninja Village, they immediately ordered 200,000 ninja troops to deploy in the Xilin District, and at the same time arranged for the border towns to prepare for the evacuation work.
Obviously, Rope Tree intends to lure the enemy deeper and annihilate the Sand Hidden Ninja Army in the Xilin District, and he believes that the Secret Branch will definitely send him accurate information in time.
Sure enough, late that night, Rope Tree received a secret letter from the dark department of Shayin Village. Since the Sand Hidden Village was preparing to send troops to attack the Fire Country, it was necessary to prepare logistics and mobilization work in advance, so the order was lifted to lift the total blockade, and the secret station regained contact with the outside world.
The information obtained by the rope tree is very comprehensive, and the Sand Hidden Village will send 100,000 ninja troops to launch a surprise attack on the Xilin District early tomorrow morning, and even the marching route and attack objectives of the army are clear!
With this detailed information, Rope Tree immediately made adjustments to the defense layout of the ninja army, and issued a lot of targeted orders to ensure the success of the plan to lure the enemy into depth, such as some troops are only allowed to defeat but not win, and they must withdraw immediately when they encounter the enemy, and the civilians in some towns must leave all their property and materials to evacuate quickly, while other troops must be on standby in the designated position, and it is strictly forbidden to attack before receiving the order, and their whereabouts must be hidden so that they cannot be discovered by the enemy.
The Konoha ninja army was a little difficult to understand the strange orders of the rope tree, but due to the prestige of Skywalker, all the troops faithfully carried out the orders and did not dare to disobey them in the slightest.
The early morning of the next day soon arrived, and the 100,000-strong army of Shayin launched a surprise attack on the Xilin border on time, as described in the intelligence, and the attack route was exactly the same as in the intelligence.
Konoha Shinobi, who had already received the order, continued to retreat to the rear after only a little resistance in the face of Sand Yin's attack, as if he had no preparation for the attack, but Konoha paid very few casualties, but many Sand Shinobi died under the trap in the forest in order to speed up the march.
Facing the "routed" Konoha ninja army all the way, the Sand Ninja's attack was like a bamboo, and soon reached the first town.
The raid went so smoothly that the top brass of Sha Yin was overjoyed, and the whole army was in high spirits.
This time, the commander-in-chief of the 100,000 ninja army was Luo Sha, who was a candidate for the wind shadow, and the two advisors led the remaining 50,000 ninja troops to defend the rear. This is the result of negotiation and compromise between the two sides, the commander-in-chief in charge of the attack is far more dangerous than in the rear, it stands to reason that Raksha is the only orthodox successor of the wind shadow, and should stay in the safe rear, but what he lacks most now is merit and prestige, so he must take the risk himself.
Fortunately, this raid went relatively smoothly, except for the ninja who died under the trap, there was no damage, and the civilians in the town were evacuated in a very hurry, and even the town was too late to destroy, leaving them with a large amount of supplies and a safe logistics transfer station!
Konoha's series of disguises succeeded in confusing the sand shinobi without arousing any suspicion, and the huge results aroused Raksha's desire to attack.
According to the plan made by the Sand Hidden Village in advance, the primary goal of this raid is to destroy the western ninja village in the canyon, and if all goes well, take advantage of the situation to occupy the western hub city of the western capital, and then find a way to hold the occupied area and gradually eliminate the Konoha ninjas in the western territory. If the plan doesn't go well, evacuate quickly.
So this time the route of the new army is very simple, it is like a bayonet in a straight line, from the center through the canyon to the heart of the west.
The reason why the village decided to make this plan is because the terrain of the Nishiba area is full of narrow wild forests, and the western ninja village is the headquarters of the Konoha people at the entrance to the Nishikawa, if the sand and hide take the offensive method of steady and gradual occupation, then Konoha can rely on the rear ninja village as a base and use guerrilla tactics to drag them to death. Therefore, the Sand Hidden Village must capture the Western Ninja Village in the shortest possible time, and occupy the towns along the way to ensure the safety of the supply line, so that it is possible to occupy Xilin, and at the same time, the gateway to Xichuan is also opened.
If the offensive does not go well, you can take advantage of the narrow terrain of Xilin to quickly evacuate.
This raid plan is very perfect, but there is a premise, that is, Konoha must not be prepared for this sneak attack, and all the troops are scattered all over Xilin and Xichuan, so that as long as the sand is fast enough, the strategic goal can be achieved before the Konoha ninja is concentrated, otherwise it is easy to be cut off and trapped in the Xilin area.
In the eyes of Sand Hidden Village, Konoha must be unprepared for this raid, so this battle is already in an invincible position, even if it fails, it will only lose some money at most, with Konoha's current situation, it will definitely not counterattack the Wind Country, and now there is a large number of air forces behind Shayin, just to guard against Konoha's Tianxing Fortress.
And Raksha saw an opportunity from Konoha's "hasty" retreat, in order to ensure the speed of the raid, after occupying the first town, he only stopped for a while, and left hundreds of ninja troops to garrison, and then led the army to continue to march to the next target, and even the logistics troops in the rear did not wait.
The ensuing march went as smoothly as Luo Sha had expected, encountering little resistance along the way, except for the traps along the way.
In order to ensure the speed of the march, Luo Sha did not choose to waste time to dismantle the trap, but directly ordered the army to wade over and use human lives to fill the trap, so that although there were losses, the speed of the march was guaranteed, and the casualties were still within the acceptable range. As for whether this cruel order would cause dissatisfaction among his subordinates, he completely ignored it, as long as he could win this war, he would naturally get everything.
The above process was repeated by the ninja army of Sand Hide and Konoha in this way, and the army of Sand Hide approached the ninja village in the center of the canyon at a rapid speed.
In the evening of the same day, at the cost of 3,000 casualties, Sha Yin finally arrived at the gate of the western ninja village through a line of troops, because every town along the way left a part of the ninja army to garrison, so Sha Yin's ninja army only had more than 90,000 left. However, according to Sha Yin's investigation, there are only 30,000 Konoha ninjas in the western ninja village now, so they are sure of victory.
After arriving at Taniguchi, Raksha considered that the ninja army had been fighting for a day, so he ordered the whole army to make a short repair and prepare to launch a general attack on the western ninja village that night.
At the same time, the high-level officials of various countries also received information that Sha Yin had launched a sneak attack, and all countries were surprised and did not understand what kind of madness Sha Yin had.
At this time, Konoha issued a proclamation to strongly condemn the sneak attack of Sand Hide, and then Sand Hide Village also announced the news of the disappearance of three generations of Kagakure, and accused Konoha of being the murderer.
When the countries received the news, there was an uproar.