Loess led a force of rock ninja to bypass the frontal battlefield and march rapidly through the forest.

There are three or four thousand Konoha ninjas gathered in this vast forest, this is Konoha's last resistance, as long as the enemies here are eliminated, Konoha will no longer be able to fight back.

But this time the battle was different, the frontal attack put them in the fiercest and stubborn resistance of Konoha, and after losing thousands of his advance troop companions, Iwa Shinobi was unable to take advantage of anything.

Loess's current task is to lead a thousand-strong army to attack Konoha in the rear while his father is attacking head-on and letting Konoha deal with it with all his might.

But this forest is too big, this is the largest forest in the realm of the Fire Country, and it happens to be in the way of Iwa Shinobi's marching route.

The Konoha ninjas are very good at fighting in the forest, and they Iwa Shinobi are repeatedly restrained here.

Arriving at a fork in the road, Loess stopped for a moment, disoriented in the dense forest, and asked the ninja who had previously scouted the route.

"How much longer?"

"Soon, half an hour before you march at full speed."

Loess looked in the direction he was pointing, where the trees were deep and there was no end in sight.

"This tree is so tall!" A sudden exclamation sounded beside him.

Several people gathered in front of a giant tree that was 100 meters high and hugged by several people.

This is a towering giant tree that can only be seen in the territory of the Fire Country, and I don't know how many years it has grown.

However, it will soon belong to them Iwa Shinobi, as long as Konoha is destroyed, the army of their Earth Country will be able to attack the Fire Country, and it will be overwhelming at that time.

"Keep going." Loess shouted, and took the lead in speeding away in one of the forks in the road.

The thousand-strong troops behind him also followed, and when they shuttled through this dense forest, they seemed to be countless black shadows.

Bang!

An unknown sound suddenly sounded, and Iwa Shinobi, who passed by the giant tree, found that there was no towering tree beside him, and it was clearly a hundred-meter-tall giant!

Holding a huge iron rod, standing here overlooking them, like a demon god!

"What's that?"

Before the Iwa Shinobi below could react, the iron rod swept with the momentum of the mountain!

Everywhere you go, you are devastated! Countless trees shattered, and Iwa Shinobu was hit by an iron rod and instantly turned into flesh and mud under this terrifying force.

"Ahh

"Monster!

Seeing this, Loess immediately shouted: "Organize defense!" It's Konoha Ninja! Organize your defenses! ”

But as soon as he finished speaking, the earth suddenly trembled, with a loud noise, and even the trees beside him shook.

The loess looked towards the place where the sound came from, and faintly saw only a black shadow, and when it crushed the trees blocking the road in front of it, they realized that the huge "wheel" was turning rapidly, carrying a strong storm, rushing towards the place where they were.

The "wheel" rushed into the rock ninja formation, crushing the rock ninja countless times, and some people tried to use ninjutsu attacks but couldn't stop them at all.

The iron rods swept and the giant ship rushed, and for a moment the sound of screams suddenly broke out, and the rock ninjas were in a mess under this sudden scene.

Loess looked at this scene, and his mind was also a little confused.

How much is ambushing us......

He looked around.

"Don't panic! Counterattack! Fight back! ”

"Kill them! Kill them! ”

……

Frontal battlefield.

After an attack, the Iwa ninja retreated temporarily, and the surrounding forest was destroyed, with blackened broken wood everywhere, many cracks in the ground, and even more shocking was the corpses everywhere, blood flowing into the stream beside it, staining it all red.

Konoha ninjas are cleaning up the battlefield, retrieving some of the ninja gear that is still working, and checking to see if there are any living people among the corpses.

The corpses of his companions were moved to the rear, and Iwa Shinobi's were piled up and burned directly after waiting.

At this moment, several high-ranking members of the Konoha army were gathering in an open space, where there were no tents even set up, and everyone was gathered in the open air.

"How many casualties?" Ape Fei asked the man next to him.

"It's still counting...... It is estimated that no less than 500. ”

Ape Fei nodded calmly, there was no anger or grief on his face at this moment, as if nothing could touch him anymore.

"Those who have lost their combat effectiveness should be sent back to the village directly, so as not to put pressure on the medical personnel here."

"Understood."

"Iwa Shinobu may attack again soon." Ape Fei said again.

"Reorganize the team, and make up for the people who have all sacrificed their teammates and those who are lonely."

He looked at the blond-haired young man on the side again: "Shuimen, wait a minute, you can lead a team to attack the enemy troops from one side, if you can disrupt the enemy formation, it is the best." ”

Shuimen thought for a moment but said, "I don't need to bring any team, I can do it myself." ”

Ape Fei didn't ask for it, nodded and agreed: "Okay." ”

"If you are going to face the battle, you will continue to be led by me and Fuyue."

"Lu Jiu, you are with Haiyi's perception squad, informing and directing the movement of the battlefield at any time."

The top brass is deliberating on how to proceed next.

The ninjas of Konoha also have their own things to do.

Not far from the Hokage, a group of people, led by Kaichi Yamanaka, sat together, each wearing a strange device on their heads, which was also connected to a huge battery next to it.

This is Konoha's perception class, monitoring everything in the forest, and once a rock shinobi steps in, he can immediately detect it.

After helping to carry the body, Kakashi walked to rest under a large tree, took out the dry food from his bag and ate it silently.

Rin leaned over and sat down beside him, untying her jug and handing it to Kakashi.

"There are too many wounded, and they can't be busy." She sighed.

"There's no need to treat them now, it's better to save your strength for the next battle." Kakashi said lightly.

Lin shook her head and said, "Some people are very seriously injured, and if they are not treated, they will be life-threatening." ”

Kakashi, however, calmly looked at the busy people around him: "It's going to die anyway." ”

"Then I can't die because I didn't save them."

“……”

Half of the charred leaves slowly fell from the tree, and Kakashi took them in his hand.

Lin next to her also ate, holding a rice ball in her hand, and humming a tune from time to time while resting.

Kakashi heard a burst of laughter, and in the distance two men walked side by side into the depths of the forest, laughing and making noise along the way.

Both of these people are very strong, and they belong to the kind that is very eye-catching in the crowd, and they belong to the Autumn Daoist family.

"What are they doing?" Lynn asked.

“…… Go and ambush the enemy. Kakashi pondered.

"Are you so happy to go to an ambush?" Lin laughed.

Kakashi couldn't figure out what kind of jokes those people had told each other to be so happy.

"Maybe, it's because I can't come back."

"Oh." Lynn nodded thoughtfully.

After the two of them finished their dry food and continued to rest against the tree, Rin suddenly said that Kakashi always liked to sit under the tree at the edge of the playground by himself from the crowd when he was at school.

Kakashi said that his classmates at that time were all too naïve, so he didn't bother to play ninja games with them.

Rin said that everyone was not naïve, they were just doing what they liked, and they wanted to invite Kakashi but were always rejected by Kakashi.

Kakashi said that at that time, he only wanted to practice, and he didn't want to do anything else.

When he finished speaking, but there was no response from Lynn, he looked sideways, only to find Lynn sitting there exhausted and asleep.

He hesitated and whispered, "Lynn." ”

"Hmmm......"

“……”

Kakashi didn't say anything, and Rin, who had his eyes closed, let out a chuckle, "Why don't you speak?" ”

"Nothing...... Keep up with me when the battle comes. ”

"I don't want to hold you back and kill you."

Kakashi was silent for a moment and said it didn't matter, he was going to die anyway.

Rin said that she didn't want to see Kakashi die, and that it would be better for the two of them to be separated.