Chapter Seventy-Three: It's Time to Make Up Your Mind

After dark, Wind Shadow Tie blushed and looked at the baggage puppet that was still burning in front of him, now that all the accompanying baggage had been lost, Sha Ren was left with only two days' dry food with him, and he couldn't even arrange the basic guard barrier for camping, which was very difficult to do.

The three generations of Kazekage stood to the side, watching his subordinates check the traces of battle, his hands clenched into fists, and his whole body trembled slightly.

After receiving the first report of the attack on the baggage team, he realized the danger and immediately led the Shadow Guard to support, but he was led by the nose by the enemy, and used bugs to attack everywhere to distract him and hook him to chase him, missing the rescue target twice in a row.

Until now, Konoha's ninjas had not launched a single attack on him, but they destroyed two baggage troops in succession almost in front of him, and Kazekage was completely humiliated.

Seeing the flames of the last of the baggage troops being burned, the rage destroyed Kazekage's sanity, and he summoned a sky of iron sand and flew directly to the battlefield, killing all the bugs he could see at the time.

The outbreak of the Wind Shadow is nothing more than a pointless vent, and the reason why the Sand Hidden Village chose the risky raid plan as its last struggle is because the war resources have been exhausted and they are no longer able to continue the war.

Only the day after the raid plan began, all the supplies he was carrying were burned by the Konoha ninja who had not met him, which was a third of all the materials in the entire plan.

Although more supplies were still stockpiled in the village, the remaining two-thirds were insufficient to cope with the unexpected redundancy, and questions were raised as to whether the raid plan would be able to continue.

After calculation, Staff Officer Sand Hidden proposed three possibilities for Kazekage to complete the plan.

First, from now on, the raiding legions will have to reduce their consumption, reduce the food ration for each person by one-third, and concentrate on supplying the elite with combat materials.

Second, without reducing supplies, quickly and smoothly pass through the country of Kawanoki in three days, and then capture Konoha's supply team in one day, and capture all the supplies completely.

Third, pray that the 3,000 ninjas of the Raid Legion can play a long time, fight continuously for seven days, and quickly defeat the Konoha Legion and the Orochimaru Legion.

Hearing the third possible suggestion, Kazekage almost killed this idiot on the spot, if he could do such an exaggerated thing, he would have led ten thousand sand ninja to set foot in Konoha Village, and now he should be thinking about how to conquer the entire ninja world.

But the staff officers agreed that the premise of everything was to kill the Konoha ninja who attacked the baggage team today, otherwise the baggage team would be wiped out again, and everyone would go directly back to Shayin Village to prepare to surrender.

"Tomorrow, we must kill them." The three generations of Kazekage gave the order fiercely, and all the elites went out, searching everywhere for clues of the enemy.

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After successfully completing four attacks and escaping the pursuit of Kazekage himself, the oil girl team retreated to the hidden camp according to the predetermined plan and began to rest.

The camp here is a cave that has been deliberately dug with two ninety-degree turns, and the oil girl iron pill is on fire in the deepest part, with a kettle and an iron pot on the fire, and the delicious mushroom broth has begun to tumble.

Hiroshi Uchiha and Inuzuka Ao stood at the entrance of the cave, their excitement still not subsided, chattering about the day's battle and the iron sand in the sky at the end.

Today, the three of them ran with the captain for a whole day, winning four victories in a row with completely different styles, and the last two battles were fought with the support of Kazekage. More than 300 Sand Hidden Ninjas, led by Kazekage and his Shadow Guard, chased for an afternoon, but all of them were misled by the captain through various means, and used bugs, insect clones, and shadow clones to take Sand Ninja around, completely missing the traces of the Oil Girl Squad.

The final battle was even more incredible, the oil girl Tetsumaru led the team to face the Wind Shadow, almost brushed shoulders with the Wind Shadow, took advantage of the gap of the Wind Shadow, and successfully eliminated the enemy's last baggage team.

That's the legend.

Of the three, Nara Yoshino was the most shocked, the Nara family has always been known for their resourcefulness and served as the chief of staff of the previous Hokage, and it was because he knew more that he understood how exaggerated today's record was.

On the one hand, he successfully imitated the instructor's tactics for the first time, and played a satisfactory record, and he was in a happy mood.

On the other hand, at a distance of 100 kilometers, he remotely commanded a siege against the Sand Ninjas, targeting the Sand Ninja Brigade in the southern part of his defense area, with a total of 284 people.

The oil girl Iron Pill gathered fifty sword mantises, four hundred explosive locusts, and four million large insects to launch a strong attack on this sand ninja brigade.

The first wave of explosion traps caused more than 40 casualties in the sand, and the sand ninja did not show any panic, they quickly formed a formation and fought in a hierarchical and orderly manner under the unified command.

Faced with a four-hour siege by millions of insects, Sha Yin used ninjutsu, poison, detonation charms and other means to resist and kill nearly a million large insects. Because under the orderly command, all the sand ninjas could get a chance to rest, and the continuous attacks did not exhaust their chakra, and in the end, more than one hundred and fifty sand ninjas successfully broke through and joined up with the large forces of the wind shadow.

During the battle, the sword mantis carried out many surprise attacks, and in the face of highly organized ninjutsu strikes, the defense of the sword mantis was not sufficient, and the fifty sword mantis participating in the assault all died, but the results were few.

The death of Sha Yin was mainly caused by 400 explosive locusts, and the first wave of the locust's debut attack was the most successful, with 16 of the 20 locusts bursting into Sha Yin's position and exploding, killing more than 50 people.

With the help of the cover of the explosion, the ten sword mantis rushed into the sand hidden position and killed seven or eight ninjas, which was the only example of a successful assault by the sword mantis.

Since then, Sand Yin has initially grasped the information of the sword mantis and the flying locusts, and the response has become more and more effective, although the number of flying locusts invested by the oil girl iron pill is increasing, but the results of the battle are getting less and less.

Until the locusts were exhausted and all the mantis were killed, the insect swarms that had lost the support of their core combat power could no longer pose a threat to Sha Yin, and even the siege seemed powerless, and finally allowed Sha Yin to successfully break through.

The biggest problem here is that the oil girl iron pill is an ultra-long-range command, the intelligence is not clear, and the response is seriously delayed, which leads to the complete loss of rhythm in the battle of the swarm, and can only go up with a brainless A, which seriously reduces the combat effectiveness.

But the actual combat also proves that the combat power of the sword mantis is indeed equivalent to the middle ninja, but it is only a physical ninja, once the number of battles on both sides reaches the scale of hundreds, the sword mantis cannot be compared with the ninja.

Ninjas are characterized by high attack and high sensitivity, low blood and low defense, but the power of ninjutsu is too great, as long as the number of ninjas is large enough, the continuous ninjutsu can form an invulnerable firepower network.

A ninja brigade of more than 200 people can be effectively organized, so that the ninjas take turns to fight and have time to recover the chakra, and the number of bugs alone cannot win.

In such a situation, the numerical superiority of the swarm is not absolute.

What's more critical is that a ninja brigade of this size, when the chakra is insufficient, still has the ability to organize the ninja to retreat in an orderly manner, and this time it was broken through by the sand ninja and ran away.

If it weren't for the explosive locusts as long-range firepower, Sand Yin might have ended up with less than thirty casualties in this siege.

And judging from the whole battle, the ninjas of the sand are getting smoother and smoother, and the swarm is becoming more and more powerless, and it is foreseeable that with the leakage of information, the combat effectiveness that the swarm can exert will continue to decline.

If you want to defeat a large ninja team, you must have the oil girl Tetsumaru in command nearby, maximize the numerical advantage, and pay at least a million bugs as a price.

Oil Girl Tetsumaru sighed, without a mid-level command unit, the swarm could only fight effectively with itself as the core, and had to extinguish the delusion of destroying the army by one person.

Although it was not perfect, the oil girl Tetsumaru was the winner of today's five battles, and all his troubles were happy troubles, so he was able to leave everything behind and rest peacefully after a good meal.

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On the other side, it is impossible for the wind shadow to rest.

After dark, news of all the raiding forces began to converge on him, and he had to make the fastest decision because of the attack by the Konoha ninja.

Most of the raiding forces managed to sneak to the country of Kawanoku, annihilating two squads of Konoha ninjas, and not letting the Konoha ninjas deliver the message.

But there was a problem with a large team and the troops led by the Wind Shadow himself, especially since the Wind Shadow Guard was unable to find the Konoha ninja who launched the attack, and the news must not be hidden.

Tomorrow, or tonight, Konoha Village or the Orochimaru Legion will draw reinforcements, and the suddenness of the raid plan has been lost, but there is still a little time between the execution of the risk, should it continue to advance or retreat immediately?

Twenty-four members of the Kazuki and Kazekage Guards, as well as thousands of Sand Hidden Ninjas, were all waiting for Kazekage's decision. But the fate of the Sand Hidden Village, the lives of thousands of Sand Hidden Ninja is just a thought of the Wind Shadow, how can the three generations of the Wind Shadow make a decision quickly.

In the end, Kazekage drove everyone away and told them to go back to rest and wait, leaving them alone in the tent to ponder and weigh them repeatedly.

"When I was young, I always felt that the second generation was not decisive and insufficient, but now I understand that the second generation is not only wise and wise, but also the wise and decisive that I despise is not comparable to me."

After a night of nothing, Kazekage made the decision to continue eastward.

The next day, Orochimaru's order came back, and he asked the oil girl Tetsumaru to hold out for more than five days, and informed the information that Konoha Village was mobilizing.

"Five days, then we have to fight another tough battle."

After thinking about it repeatedly, the oil girl Tetsumaru made up her mind to fight another tough battle, and the reason why she decided this way was because of the results of yesterday's battle and the movements of the Sand Ninja Legion this morning.

He won yesterday's skirmish in the south, but was escaped by half of the sand ninjas, and the results proved that his pre-battle guesses were very wrong, even with the addition of the Mantis as the backbone and the explosive locusts as long-range firepower, the swarm was unable to deal with the large ninja force after leaving his immediate command.

And this morning the sand hide continued to move eastward, and scattered a dozen squadrons of dozens of people, and there were also two or three hundred ninja brigades, scouting and exploring everywhere, these brigades made the control range of the sand hidden legion more than fifty kilometers, and it would soon be on their faces.

The defensive strategy he chose was to conduct movement warfare and guerrilla warfare on a vast battlefield, but the instructor wrote very clearly in his book that there were three prerequisites for the implementation of guerrilla warfare: intelligence superiority, living space, and tactical deterrence.

The intelligence advantage is in the hands of Tetsumaru, and the living space is even more abundant, but yesterday he did not fight the strongest Kazekage head-on, nor was he able to annihilate a sand ninja brigade, which means that his deterrent power cannot curb the actions of the sand ninja.

Without sufficient deterrence, Sha Yin will carry out the plan without any scruples, and will dare to disperse into small units that are flexible and mobile, and spread out like a big net to encircle and suppress, and his own living space will inevitably be seriously compressed, and guerrilla tactics will not be able to be carried out.

Back then, Mr. Peng smashed the pot and sold iron to annihilate the Yamazaki Brigade, just to deter Xiaori from invading the base area with the brigade as a unit, and to fight for the living space of the base area behind the enemy.

In the same way, the oil girl Tetsumaru must prove to Sha Yin that he has the combat power to annihilate the 300-man ninja army in one fell swoop, forcing them to only operate on a scale of more than 400 people.

In this way, the Sand Hidden troops on the battlefield will be divided into three or four units at most, and the control range will be compressed to 20 kilometers, and their living space will not be affected at all.

Today's battle plan is to annihilate a ninja brigade of sand ninjas, or more, to make up for the missing link of deterrence.

Gathering the members of the squad, the oil girl Tetsumaru recounted her thoughts and decisions.

The three children were excited when they heard this, they had practiced the giant insect assault tactics with the captain for half a month, and they had super confidence in this set of tactics, and they couldn't wait to rush up immediately to do a big job.

The oil girl Tetsumaru smiled, then let's do a big job.

The meaning of a big fight is not to rush up and work hard, after all, the hard power in Tiemaru's hands is really unbeatable, otherwise if you still engage in Mao's guerrilla tactics, you will definitely go up directly to encircle and annihilate it.

Relying on the perception ability of the oil girl Iron Pill, the 121 team sneaked around the relocation reconnaissance team and patiently observed the movements of the Sand Hidden army.

Sha Yin chose to continue the attack, and 1,200 ninjas formed a formation, with four hundred-man brigades as the backbone, sixteen squadrons of thirty people as the net, and a large army of more than 300 people at the end, because the control range was huge, and the entire legion advanced quickly.

This is an arrangement for attacking forward, and if the oil girl Tetsumaru does not manage to block it, the speed of the sand shinobi will be able to quickly pass through the country of Kawanoku in two days and directly enter the hinterland of the country of fire.

If the oil girl Tetsumaru tries to stop it, the squadron team that is scattered out quickly closes like a fishing net, and then surrounds and destroys the enemy.

Nara Yoshino received the information relayed by the oil girl Tetsumaru, thought for a while, and said, "Commander Sand Hide is convinced that the Konoha ninjas here are not strong enough to fight, so he chose this formation that takes into account both mobility and attack. ”

"The teacher's decision is right, and today they must be given a hard blow to slow them down."

"Our numbers are too small, and we can't stop so many sand ninjas from breaking through."

The oil girl Tetsumaru raised her thumb to indicate that this kid had a good brain, and then shook her index finger to stop Nara from continuing.

Inuzuka nodded frequently and pretended to understand, but in fact, he must not have understood, and he knew that he was going to fight a tough battle next.

"Let's hit it hard, I can't wait!"

As long as you can play coolly, you can say anything, I don't care, I don't understand anyway.

Hiroshi Uchiha understood half of it, but he didn't know why the oil girl Tetsumaru stopped Nara Yoshino from continuing, but he was also enthusiastic now, and he didn't care about it.