"The first target, of course, is the Sand Hidden Village in the Land of Winds."

Nothing surprisingly, everyone came up with this idea.

The Land of the Wind is one such country, the Great Desert is its biggest problem, but also the biggest barrier, no matter who invades the Land of Wind, they will have to suffer from lack of water, lost, and sandstorms in the process of trekking through the desert.

Even more lethal is the attack of the ninjas of Sand Hidden Village, who are familiar with the terrain and accustomed to the climate and environment of the desert, and are able to attack the enemy's weak points at the most opportune time.

However, as soon as an invader with enough strength to shelter the entire supply line appears, the environment of the Great Desert will in turn turn turn in favor of the enemy.

Because there are very few points in the desert that need to be defended, that is, those oases that are very limited, as long as they occupy them one by one, the sand ninja themselves will be cut off, and they will be reluctantly expelled.

In the second ninja world war in the main time and space, after Orochimaru got the support of the oil girl Iron Pill, his strength reached this standard, and then he successfully crossed the desert, and the ninja army advanced to the front of Sand Hidden Village.

At that time, the Sand Hidden Village was indeed on the verge of extinction, if it weren't for the three generations of Hokage, if it wasn't for the intervention of the empty ninja, the history of the ninja world would have changed greatly at that time.

The Fire Nation of this timeline is more powerful, and naturally the Wind Nation will be chosen as a breakthrough, just because the Wind Nation is the easiest to capture and the lowest cost to occupy.

What's more, Shayin Village is still the weakest of the four major powers at this time, and it is also tactically wise to fight the weakest first.

"Slowly advance from the south and west, squeeze the Sand Hidden Ninja out of the Land of Wind step by step, and drive them to the Land of Earth."

"Then they crossed the country of bears, birds, and rain, and destroyed the country of earth by crushing and driving them in the same way, and in this way they hit the country of Taki and the country of iron clockwise."

"If nothing else, the remnants of the Land of Thunder, the Land of Water, the Land of Iron, and the remnants of the Land of the Fleeing Wind will form a five-nation alliance to fight us in the Land of Iron."

The eighth master laughed: "Maybe they will call themselves the ninja alliance army, after all, those small countries that are unwilling to perish will also join one after another. However, this greatest force in the ninja world other than us will be wiped out by us in the Iron Country."

"Then we will be able to sweep away the country of iron, the country of grass, the country of fields, the country of soup, the country of the moon, and the country of thunder in a devastating state, and all the forces of resistance will be wiped out or driven to the sea."

"Then the army turned around and swept away the small and fragmented nations one by one." The eighth master pointed to the map of the ninja world and said, "Merge this broken ninja world into a whole."

"Pillars, Mito, I'm afraid that in the end, I have to ask you to persuade the Vortex Country to completely end the division of the Ninja Continent."

After the grand strategic plan was roughly explained, the top leaders of Konoha were stunned, this is probably a war plan with a time span of two or three years, the battlefield presents a large arc, stretching for tens of thousands of kilometers, and the total number of ninjas participating in the war on both sides may exceed 150,000.

They were all thrilled by this war on an unprecedented scale.

It was still a thousand hands that discovered Hua Dian, and he asked, "Eighth Master, did you deliberately leave them behind in your plan to leak through the Water Country?" ….

"That's true, the land of water is a trash can reserved by me to gather those who disobey and the unwilling ninjas, so that they don't have nowhere to go, and they will carry out suicide attacks one by one, making the ninja world a mess and increasing the cost of our rule."

"Trash cans?" Madara Uchiha was stunned for a moment, then laughed, "So that's how you see the Land of Water, no wonder you deliberately asked me to drive them east ten years ago, that's what you thought at the time."

"The trapped beasts do not fight, they cannot force the enemy into a corner, we must leave them a way out, a little hope, which can reduce our losses, reduce the enemy's determination to fight to the death, and ultimately increase our chances of victory."

The Thousand Hands Pillar nodded in agreement: "The Eighth Master is right, I support this strategy."

But Madara Uchiha and Izuna Uchiha were a little unsatisfied, and Izuna asked, "But the land of water is going to be destroyed after all, us."

When will we destroy the Land of Water, wait a year, or wait two years?"

This kind of strategic question can only be expected to be answered by the eighth master, but this time the eighth master hesitated under the gaze of everyone, and even hesitated for a long time before he slowly spoke: "My opinion is not to remain hostile to the country of water, but ...... There is no plan for extermination."

Senju Tsuruma, Madara Uchiha, Senju Kazuma, Uchiha Izuna, and Uzumaki Mito were all stunned, they looked at each other, and finally the representative of Tsuruma, who is the current Hokage, asked, "Why?"

"For there is a saying: Although the kingdom is great, the warlike will perish, and although the world is safe, the war will be dangerous." The eighth master explained, "I'm worried that after there are no enemies at all, the Fire Country, no, it should be that the ninja world will decline in excessive stability."

This time, no one could understand the eighth master's thoughts, and he couldn't even explain it, because this truth was not a matter of logic, but the result of the two desires of human beings, greed and laziness.

This kind of problem cannot be explained without enough ironclad evidence from reality.

Because greed and laziness are full of counterexamples of restraint and diligence in human beings, they are not absolute from an individual point of view, but they become an irreversible "general trend" when they are magnified into human society, but in terms of intuitive feelings, human beings cannot accept it.

The wise man of Blue Star also summed up this sentence after witnessing one country after another falling into such traps.

After all, the history of the ninja civilization lacks thickness, they have never experienced such a historical process, how do you let Pillar and others understand it?

After the eighth master explained, the silence lasted for a long time.

Eventually, Senju Tsuruma and Madara Uchiha glanced at each other, and they smiled heartily, and Tsuruma spoke, "Although I can't understand the truth of what the Eighth Master said, I believe in the Eighth Master and believe that the path he said is the right one."

Madara Uchiha nodded slightly, "Me too."

Senju stood up and said loudly, "As the original Hokage, I have decided to implement the war plan according to the strategy of the eighth master, Mito, you are responsible for convening the Kamito Conference, and we will carry out the replacement of the Hokage's position."

Uzumaki Mito nodded in agreement, and then the Thousand Hands Pillar looked at Madara Uchiha again, and said softly, "Madara, you will be the Hokage next, and the future of the Fire Country and Konoha will be handed over to you." ….

Madara Uchiha also looked at the Thousand Hands Pillar fixedly, nodded heavily, and said, "Leave it to me next, I promise that the responsibility of the next Hokage in ten years will be to manage the entire Ninja Continent."

……

The Fire Nation is doing a good job of secrecy, but it is absolutely impossible to hold a temporary Shangnin Conference because the action is too big.

A full five hundred and forty-six shinobi have been separated from various positions in the Fire Nation, and they have gathered in Konoha Village to decide on the most important strategic objectives of the Fire Nation.

As the number of shinobi increased, the Hokage Building could no longer accommodate them, so a new building dedicated to the Shinobi Conference was built a few hundred meters away.

The Kami-Shinobi Building has only one core conference hall that can accommodate a full 5,000 people attending meetings, and when the Kami-Shinobi Building was completed six years ago, this number shocked the ninja world, demonstrating Konoha's self-confidence in the future, and also causing a lot of ridicule and ridicule.

But only three years later, there were more than a thousand shinobi in the Fire Country, and just when the ninja world was terrified, Konoha Village raised the threshold for shinobi, greatly reduced the total number of shinobi, and created the middle class of special middle ninja.

In particular, the middle ninja are all ninjas who have comprehensively surpassed the level of the middle ninja, but in some ways they can't meet the upper ninja standard of Konoha.

But it definitely won't be a problem with combat ability, such as a young ninja who is less than twenty years old, such as a martial idiot ninja with super combat power but a brain problem, such as a former shinobi who is over fifty-five years old.

The special shinobi of the Fire Nation are considered by foreigners to be the Shangnin, and even in the Fire Country, they have the same income and treatment as the Shangnin, except that they do not have the political status of the Shangnin.

Don't underestimate the role of the name, after a few years have passed, the ninja world is used to no longer regard Konoha's special middle ninja as the upper ninja

looked at it, and unconsciously lowered its vigilance against the Fire Country.

In particular, the existence of the Shinobi has effectively guaranteed the system of the Shinobi Conference, and they can take on the responsibilities of the Shinobi for a short time, giving the Shinobi time to leave their posts to participate in the Shinobi Conference.

The Konoha Shangnin Conference in the 10th year of Konoha (the new timeline calendar, eight years earlier than the main timeline) shocked the upper ninja, and then the entire ninja world.

After the first piece of public information came, the third generation of Tsuchikage Onoki, the fifth generation of Thunder Shadow Ai, the second generation of Kazekage Shamon, and the fourth generation of Mizukage Ice were all dumbfounded, and they were all so surprised that they blurted out: "Are the people of Konoha crazy? Senju Tsuruma stepped down from the Hokage position, Madara Uchiha!! He, he ...... Became the second Hokage?!"

Surprised, inexplicably with indescribable panic, the ninja world Shura became the Hokage, how could there be an ominous premonition?

The worst premonition came true.

The next day, Madara the Hokage Uchiha read out to the five hundred and forty-six shinobi the overall policy of the Fire Nation for the next five years: war, war of unification.

This is a battle document that declares war on the entire ninja world (except for the country of the vortex), which counts the happiness of the people of the land of fire, and contrasts it with the inaction of the countries of the ninja world, and accuses the unbridled greed and wanton atrocities of the elites of each country.

Finally, Madara Uchiha said, "For the sake of the long-term stability and peace of the ninja world, and for the happy life of the people, I declare as the Hokage that the Fire Country will destroy all evil magnates, for which Konoha has been preparing for ten years, 80,000 Konoha ninjas are ready to go, and we will eventually unify the ninja world!" ….

After Madara Uchiha's speech ended, he didn't have any intention of hiding it, and even hyped it up, and the people of the Fire Country were surprised but thought that the Hokage was right.

I can't imagine that people in other countries are living so badly, since we have the ability, let's take care of them all, and this way we can really avoid war, after all, everyone is a country, so naturally there is no need to fight.

The education of the ninjas in Konoha makes it easier for them to understand the truth, and the ninjas are full of confidence in the war, ready to show their skills in the war and make a name for themselves.

Forget about the two Hokage-sama, but the level of Minister Yamashiro of the Ministry of Transportation, we are not unattainable.

The Fire Nation quietly accepted the new Hokage and accepted the war with a little excitement, but the rest of the ninja world exploded.

"Crazy, Madara Uchiha is crazy, Konoha is crazy, Fire Country is crazy!" I don't know how many nobles and daimyo frantically vented their fears, cursing at Konoha, Fire Country, and Uchiha Madara.

They picked up anything casually, treated it as Madara Uchiha, smashed it fiercely, and trampled on it a hundred times, a thousand times, eager to kill the damned ninja Shura with their own hands.

But when their strength was exhausted, they also regained their senses, and one by one they collapsed to the ground, huddled in a corner, and muttered to themselves with trembling bodies, "It's over, it's all over."

Regarding the accusation of the Hokage Uchiha Madara, the daimyo and kage of various countries feel that it is slander, naked slander, we have obviously done a good job, and your Fire Country has done well, it is because your conditions are good, the products are abundant, and you can have a good harvest by sowing seeds, of course, you can live well.

As for the accusations of their greed and atrocities, it is even more nonsense, for thousands of years (of course not), the aristocracy and ninja have been the privileged class, how can they be wrong to teach the untouchables a little bit of a lesson (killing people in the street)?

It's all tradition, do you understand tradition?

The overwhelming curses came to the Fire Country, and various revenge methods were launched, but at this time, everyone was surprised to find that the merchants of the Fire Country had already ended the trade and returned to the country ahead of schedule, and the ninjas on the border had closed the border in advance and entered full alert.

There is always room for maneuver when the Hokage speaks, and it may even be a threat, wanting to extort something, but there is no room for luck in the unified action of a country, and the Fire Nation really wants to fight a war.

In that case, it can only be fought.

Everyone knows that none of the four great powers is an opponent of the Fire Nation, and they must unite and command all their forces in a unified manner in order to be able to fight with the Fire Nation

State confrontation.

But the Kazekage, the Mizukage, the Earth Kage, the Thunder Shadow, and even the chief samurai of the various Shinobi Villages and Iron Nations, they looked at the others and found that they couldn't trust them.

No, needless to say to others, ask yourself if I become the leader of the United Ninja Army, can I bear not to arrange for the ninjas of other countries or the samurai of the Iron Country to die?

It seems that I can't help it.

If you can't even believe yourself, how can you trust others?

It must be united, but it can't be united, is it possible that the Fire Nation has seen through this and will declare war on the ninja world in a big way?

The Fire Nation Shinobi Conference is over, and the Shinobi scatter with excitement.

Senjuju, the new Minister of Defense, recalled the expressions of the shinobi at the meeting, they were excited, excited, excited, and absolutely not hesitant or afraid.

Only then did the pillar confirm that the Fire Country was actually ready for war, and it was the eighth master in charge of education, who had been continuously propagandizing in the past ten years, outlining the future to everyone, and it could be said that it was a matter of course until today.

The Thousand Hands Pillars no longer doubted the outcome of the war, and even began to imagine what would await them in the future after reunification in a few years.

Faced with the question between the Thousand Hands Pillar, the eighth master replied without thinking, "The future? The future is, of course, a sea of stars."

Sheep in a hundred battles