Inside the humble conference hall of Misty Town.

Orochimaru sat in the main seat, looking around at the dwindling number of his subordinates.

It's been almost two years since the war with the sand ninja.

After the success of the Tuan Zang from the Land of Rain without much effort, the War Department was faintly divided into two factions.

As time passed, the veteran group won more and more right to speak, as if there was a prototype of the commander in charge of Konoha against the sand ninja.

I'm not afraid of other ninja village jokes when I say it, and the subordinates that Orochimaru relies on the most now are two teenagers.

Orochimaru's gaze moved to the corner of the Uchiha Oya who closed his eyes and rested.

The twelve-year-old Yu Ye can be regarded as a teenager at all.

has grown more than ten centimeters taller, and the childishness on his face has faded a lot.

The pommel horse next to him, Qi Yue, was quietly drawing under the table, but judging from the tightly knit brows and clenched teeth, it was probably the level of a child's graffiti.

Soon after the two were assigned to his unit, they completed the wartime promotion procedures.

Because the C-level mission of the Serpentine Canyon has another hidden secret, the mission level was raised to S-level afterwards.

The two were also promoted at the age of ten and a half because of their military exploits.

Uchiha Maya, ascended to the upper ninja.

Saddle horse Qi Yue, ascended to the special upper ninja.

After another half a year of exploits, Kurama Qiyue was also promoted to Shangnin at the age of eleven.

And their pendant partner, who was originally promoted to the middle ninja, finally rose to the special ninja at the age of fifteen.

In addition, Orochimaru also has more than a dozen upper ninjas in his hands.

But only half of them followed him.

The other half were "subdued" by Yuye in the training center, and were rescued by medical ninjutsu on the spot.

"The recent movements of the Sand Shinobi have been different, and I need to know what they are up to."

At the Orochimaru meeting, he got straight to the point.

Konoha's Second Ninja War didn't go well.

Just talk about dealing with the sand ninja side:

At the beginning, in order to guard against the Sansho fish Hanzo in Yuyin Village, it took some time to borrow the road.

After the first head-on battle with the Sand Shinobi, Chiyo's constantly changing toxins were a headache, and although he won because of Tsunade's superior medical skills, the Sand Shinobi also managed to resist Konoha's initial and most powerful impact.

The battle for the whole year last year, because of a shot by the three generations of Kazekage, the two sides held out again until the end of the year.

At the end of the year, Konoha exerted his strength, and it seemed that he suppressed the sand ninja, but the problem also appeared-

Because there are many puppets, most of them use puppets as cannon fodder, and the loss of personnel is not large.

On the other hand, on the Konoha side, due to the loss of war personnel, all the people who can fight in the logistics department have been transferred to the frontal battlefield.

And the logistics department has begun to replenish the children who have not yet graduated from the ninja school......

But Orochimaru also knows something worse from the sidelines-

There is a problem with the supply of materials in the Fire Country.

The Daimyo of the Fire Nation still wanted to expand the map, but the nobles of the capital saw that the so-called First Ninja Village Konoha had not won the victory for almost two years, and they had begun to reject the support of food and iron tools.

By the middle of this year, the front line had received only half of what it had received in previous years.

If the war is not resolved this year, perhaps next year they will face an embarrassing situation and need to "collect food on the spot......

Now Danzo is taking most of the troops, and the sand shinobi are tug-of-war on the plains, and they have a slight upper hand.

Tsunade had to take care of most of the ninja and lead the team to provide medical support near the plains.

But the Ministry of Intelligence sent a message:

Sand Shinobi sends at least ten elite squads to bypass the plains and go nowhere!

The task of finding the hidden sand shinobi, and figuring out their purpose, falls on Orochimaru's head.

Youshang Shinobi touched his chin and thought: "Now the front line of the sand ninja is struggling to deal with it, and they dare to divide so many elite squads out...... It is estimated that the figure is not small. ”

Someone thought: "Could it be that you are going to Yuyin Village?" Didn't Sand Shinobi rob the local nobles last month because he couldn't control his subordinates? There was a lot of anger on Hanzo's side, maybe this time it was to negotiate. ”

Orochimaru shook his head slightly: "Find them first." ”

He glanced at Uchiha Miya: "Oya, you are in a group of three, the others, Kawama, Hanzawa, Takakura, Yuri, you each bring two perception teams, and there will be someone from the intelligence department to cooperate with you......"

After arranging the specific mission location, he continued, "The others stayed in the base camp to ensure the defense of the position and the safety of materials. ”

……

"Orochimaru-sensei, I don't want to stay!"

After the meeting dispersed, the Thousand Hands Rope Tree, who was not qualified to speak at the meeting just now, was indignant at the moment.

Especially when I saw that the Uchiha Oya, who stole my sister's attention, not only went to the most critical mission location, but also acted cheaply in a group of three, which was better than the higher seniority of the shinobi!

On the other hand, he is still like a child who is strictly disciplined by his elders!

Obviously, he is a year or two older than Uchiha Miya.

Moreover, his strength in the middle of the ninja is not bad, okay.

If he continues like this, he will only be thrown farther and farther away by the Uchiha Oya.

Orochimaru was still thinking about Sand Shinobi's recent strange actions, and when he heard this, he didn't care: "Mist Town is now the base camp, there are countless supplies, and the defense task is equally important. ”

Seeing that the teacher was perfunctory, Rope Tree was even more dissatisfied, and ran two steps forward to stop Orochimaru: "But, I'm the man who wants to be the Hokage!" As a shadow, how can you always shrink in the back?! ”

As soon as Rope Tree finished speaking, he felt that something was wrong.

The other shadows who participated in the ninja village have all made a move on the battlefield.

It seems that there is only Konoha ......

Seeing the student lower his head, Orochimaru thought for a moment, and said helplessly: "Two hundred miles to the east, I found that the sand ninja attacked and disturbed our border team. ”

The rope set up his horse and raised his head, his eyes lit up: "They can actually bypass the front line and appear in the Land of Fire, they must be very powerful troops, right?" Is it rumored that the elite who attacked the military ration team? ”

Orochimaru nodded hesitantly, it was a white lie.

Those who attack and harass the military ration team are naturally elites.

But it was a team of masters like Hagi Shuo Shigeru who played with each other.

What Orochimaru said was that he couldn't get along on the front line, and went to the border of the Fire Country to loot the remnants of the inhabitants of the Fire Country.

With the strength of the rope tree, you should be able to deal with it if you are careful.

However, Orochimaru thought of the advice that Yuya had made to the rope tree, and decided to be safe: "Pack up, I'll go with you in the afternoon." I can't leave for too long, try to be back by noon tomorrow. ”

He touched the head of the rope tree and urged with a smile.

Rope tree is the younger brother of his friend Tsunade, and he is also his apprentice, although the talent is not as good as the true genius of the night, but he works hard and is full of vitality, and Orochimaru is indeed regarded as a disciple.

Rope tree heard that Orochimaru went with him, and although he regretted that he lacked a little stimulation, he was still very happy.

Such a powerful opponent, as long as he makes a battle achievement, he can catch up with that Uchiha a little more, right?

Can you make my sister pay more attention to herself again, right?

Rope tree gave a thumbs up and smiled confidently:

"Orochimaru-sensei rest assured! I'm sure I'll do a great job! ”

……

"Orochimaru-sensei rest assured! I'm sure I'll do a great job! ”

The bright smile of the rope tree is still in front of him.

Orochimaru was breathing heavily, and Mu Ran looked at the messy battlefield in front of him.

He personally took the rope tree to the border and tracked down the remnants of the sand cruelty.

Unexpectedly, this wave of sand ninja was mixed with a team of upper ninjas.

Orochimaru personally dealt with the upper ninja squad, while Rope Tree and his teammates managed to wipe out a middle ninja squad.

Becoming more and more confident, Rope Tree felt that victory was not difficult and wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue.

Orochimaru taught him not to rush in the same way as before.

However, after Rope Tree said those words again, he turned to chase -

Violent explosions, like thunder.

Orochimaru had just solved the problem and the ninja team caught up with him, following behind the disciple, just a few steps!

When he realized that something was wrong and wanted to warn him, the sound had been buried by the explosion.

He could only watch as the disciple who said he wanted to be the Hokage was as fragile as grass mustard and shattered in front of his eyes......