However, these victories are all tactical, and the strategic initiative in the war is always in the hands of the side that can win in the field.

The Battle of Konoha Village, in the state of the Salvation Society's troops, continued to advance slowly but firmly, advancing in the direction expected by the Salvation Society, and could not be shaken.

After more than two months of fierce fighting, the Salvation Society finally surrounded Konoha Village, using dense firepower to create a scorched black battlefield thirty kilometers wide.

When the strategic intent is achieved, the once tactical advantage will be completely reversed, and now it has become the armies of the countries that are surrounded in Konoha Village need to attack.

At the same time, the width of the battlefield is sufficient, and the pursuit of the Salvation Society's army will stop at the middle line of the battlefield, or it may be pursued all the way to the edge of the battlefield, and the flexibility will also be greatly increased.

As a result, the allied forces of the countries lost all their superiority, and it did not take long for them to be defeated in several battles of annihilation due to impatience, and the morale of the army was shattered.

The Salvation Society, which fully grasped the initiative, kept its promise, and instead of attacking Konoha Village, they used more material resources and troops to send reinforcements.

They built a number of underground fortifications in the northern part of the Fire Nation to serve as a defense base and a reserve store for further attacks.

The Salvation Society even had the spare power to replenish the trees on the previous battlefield, and they actually used the Wood Escape Ninja.

This is simply a mockery, the Wood Ninja is now synonymous with the strongest on the battlefield, and its status is equivalent to a strategic weapon, far higher than the Great Black Celestial Worm that was once used to destroy the fortress of Iwakuin Village.

Mu Dun's name was first started by the first Hokage, and later it was manipulated by Shimura Danzou and others, as well as the large-scale appearance of Bai Jue.

It's too much and weaker, it's extremely difficult to obtain, and it's still very dangerous to master it.

But with the resurrection of the Thousand Hands Pillar becoming an Advent, this guy who is stupid and has no talent for research has actually developed a series of bugs with the characteristics of the Divine Tree.

These peculiar insects of the sacred tree lineage known as the Wood Escape Worm are all activated Wood Escape creations, and all of them have powerful bodies that can come and go freely in today's artillery fire.

Even the weakest wooden dragon is not a monster that can be destroyed by hundreds of shells.

The most powerful thousand-handed Buddha worm is a monster that can instantly change the form of the battlefield and replan the map.

Fortunately, it is very difficult to control such a bug, and if you don't have the identity of the Adventist, you can only merge yourself into the Wood Escape Chakra through the Wood Escape Chakra and replace their will.

The will that can successfully replace the bug depends on how strong the ninja's will is, and the amount of chakra affects the duration of the control.

As a result, the Wooden Ninja has become a strategic unit, and as ninjas, they naturally have a lot of bonds, can communicate well, and have a fairly high degree of obedience.

They can also be effectively trained to gain higher combat ability, and the combination of the Wood Ninja and the Wood Worm completely replaces the Tailed Beast.

In the early days of the war, the wooden dragon controlled by the wooden ninja was in the limelight, and for a long time, the war was a confrontation between the wooden dragons, and the other ninjas could only fight.

This mode of warfare has caused extremely horrific damage, destroying a range of hundreds of kilometers in almost every battle, and spreading to a much larger area, causing quite serious secondary disasters.

In just over three months, nearly a fifth of the once-prosperous forest country has been reverted back to a desert state.

With the destruction of the Water Diversion Project in the Land of Rain, the Land of the Forest has irretrievably transformed into desertification.

Fortunately, the nature of the Ninja of Mu Dun does not like war, and those of them who can grasp freedom eventually gather in the Salvation Society, and do not fall under the control of various countries.

As the war progressed, the inevitable losses of the Wood Dragon Worms increased, some died from fighting each other, and some were hit by too many artillery fires, and the damage accumulated to the point where they could not bear it, and they died heavily.

Countries are becoming more conservative in their use of the Ninja.

What's more, the Salvation Society bred its first Wooden Dragon Worm a year later, and was successfully harnessed by the Wooden Ninja.

As the most self-disciplined regime, the Salvation Society suddenly began to exert its power after mastering the absolute superiority of the number of wooden dragons.

The Salvation Society publicly displayed a full hundred wooden dragons and four wooden figures.

When all the nations were shocked to the point of despair, Naruto announced that the Salvation would not use the Wood Worm first, but whoever used it, they would use the Wood Worm to destroy all the countries at the same time.

At the same time, the deterrence of the destruction strategy completely ended the dominance of the wooden ninjas on the battlefield, and somewhat alleviated the damage suffered by the ninja world.

It's just that the Salvation Society was also completely exposed, and was hostile to all countries, and since then it has begun the process of resisting the siege of the whole ninja world alone.

The Salvation Society was met with widespread hostility because it openly declared from the outset that it was they who asked Zhou Wenming to lift the supply of resources.

During the period of chaos that approached five years, the status of the Salvation Society was the same as that of an underground organization or a cult.

The members at that time were embarrassed because of this, and many of them fell out with their families, and even many people regretted it after seeing the chaos in the ninja world.

Before it completely withdrew, the number of people in the Salvation Society was even reduced to just over 100 because some people had withdrawn.

More than 100 people, even if everyone is an elite and all-rounder, the Salvation Society is not able to compete for a rich place.

In addition, their reputation is stinky, and no one wants to cooperate with them, but people who actively attack them are everywhere.

Naruto Bokaze referred to the history of Zhou Wenming's beginnings and chose the Land of Tea as the foothold of the Salvation Society.

In the rule of the Zhou civilization, the land of tea was once a land of dragons that was far more prosperous than the country of fire, and second only to the country of iron in the ninja world.

But with the great retreat of Zhou civilization, the population of the Tea Country was relocated by Zhou Civilization as his own people, and together with the population of the Iron Country, it was transferred to the Purple Thunder Star for redevelopment.

After losing its population, the Tea Nation soon declined.

It's not that the surrounding population is reluctant to migrate, but that the level of construction in the tea country is too high, to the extent that the population with insufficient level can't use it at all.

At the time of the great retreat, even if the advent of Zhou Civilization was willing to hand over to the newcomers, they could not operate it well, and soon the country of tea collapsed and became an abandoned land.

Disappointed, Tired Bird and the housekeeper gave up on this pointless operation and sealed a complete industrial system and handed it over to Naruto Bokaze.

In the Land of Tea, the Salvation Society has been given a respite, and the high-end infrastructure is meeting the appetite of the Salvation Society, and they have restored one-third of the southern tip of the Tea Country to its original appearance with just over a hundred people.

Then the Salvation Society has a huge amount of supplies, a huge amount of food, everything is ready, only the population is missing.

And the population was forced over by the war-torn nations.

For the various regimes in the war, they are in a period of absolute incremental development, and the ninja world is full of wealth, force and resources, as long as they are bold enough to grab it, they can quickly expand their strength.

Compared with other resources, people are too troublesome to eat, drink, and take care of emotions.

But from another point of view, people are the cheapest resource, as long as they don't consider their mood, they can be built vigorously.

So the careerists chose to survey the population under their control, extract the force, skilled personnel, and high-quality labor, and then drive out the remaining old and weak.

The first wave of refugees was artificially created, and it was also the largest stage of death of the ninja population.

Except for some who entered the deserted tea country and were accepted by the Salvation Society to survive, most of them died on the wandering road after a month or two.

To be honest, this wave of population growth is only a burden for the Salvation Society, which has not obtained high-quality labor and has not even been able to organize an armed force.

But this acceptance changed the reputation of The Salvation Society, and people began to come to the tea country with their families.

These people are the middle level of the industrial system, the actual backbone of the elite, the absolute backbone.

But in the eyes of people who don't know enough about the industrial system, it's hard to see them, and these guys, who are one level higher than ordinary workers, are easy to ignore.

Being neglected will lead to the encroachment of interests, which is corruption.

And this is human nature, it cannot be non-existent, and it can only be suppressed and controlled by other methods.

Until then, it was the law and the system that balanced the impulse of corruption, which now disappeared with the departure of Zhou Wenming.

In just a few months, corruption grew out of control.

And the top of the nascent state did not notice it at all, because corruption would actually make them comfortable in the beginning.

Except for the great men or saints who can really see through the time, or the people who can bathe in the glory of the great era, no one can automatically and consciously get out of the comfort zone.

The key is that in this comfort zone, it is definitely not pure physical enjoyment, but more of the pleasure of rapid career advancement, such spiritual enjoyment as a united city like divine help.

Getting rid of spiritual pleasures on your own is really not something that ordinary people can do.

If you can't get rid of it, you will naturally sink into it, and the whirlpool of this desire is like a quagmire, and the sunken person can only sink slowly and powerlessly.

The fundamental problem of Zhou Wenming's retreat from the ninja world is that it has been forcibly pulled from the feudal era to the ultra-modern, skipping too many humanistic stages.

The working people at the bottom do not know how to restrain the rulers, and the corrupt rulers do not know how to restrain their desires.

The corruption of the new kingdoms was not the feeling of the end of the dynasty, the kind of corruption that everyone in the system had to do.

This corruption is full of eerie vitality and frightening madness.

They have to indulge their greed like crazy, everyone has to open their bloody mouths, they have to tear the flesh and blood that they can prey on without any scruples, and they don't care about whether they can survive after the prey is eaten.

Because if you are slow to devour flesh, you will be slow at a time, and you will probably become the target of a predator who is faster and stronger in the next moment.

There is no doubt that in this frantic race for survival, the laborers at the bottom have the greatest losses.

Under the control of Zhou Wenming, these people were once enviable laborers, the real middle class, the most productive class of the core leaders, the most promising, the most idealistic, the most energetic class.

But now, they are the fattest lambs, and they have been torn madly.

In just a few months, the laborers went from being able to raise three to five children and eating meat every meal, to the point where their families could not eat.

Fortunately, the new country is very immature, has not developed a strong legal net, and the ninja world does not have the tradition of the hukou system, and social mobility still exists.

As long as they are not dead-eyed, as long as they are not completely unable to leave, they have all made their own choices with their feet, and they all flow to the tea country that accepted the first wave of refugees.

It is a pity that when Zhou Wenming retreated, there were 60 million industrial workers, and only less than 3 million were able to enter the land of tea, and this is already the vast majority of those who survived.

The industry collapsed so fast that when the top brass sensed the danger, went through the process of investigation and confirmation, and began to make efforts to protect them, there were less than a million workers left.

This point is divided by the four major powers and dozens of small and chaotic countries, and no one has much.

With the mass disappearance of the working class and the complete paralysis of the remaining industrial system, the workers who have been rescued can barely maintain the most urgent need, which is military production.

As we all know, the military industry is the kaolin flower of the industrial system, but it needs the all-round support of the basic industrial system, and if it only maintains the operation of the military industrial system, it will inevitably face a situation of gradual shrinkage.

But even this tense situation has not changed the status of the workers, let alone their increasingly difficult lives.

The top management is willing to release water to the workers to stimulate the enthusiasm of the workers, but the middle managers are unwilling, and they also want these benefits.

As a result, all kinds of worker protection, encouragement, and incentive policies formulated by various countries have become waste paper, and workers have not received any benefits.

But in the eyes of the top, they should reap more output if they invest in their interests.

Middle-level managers invariably chose to enslave workers, strengthen management with harsh laws, and force workers to work frantically with fear and death.

It took three months to go from a good life to a poor life, and only three months to go from a poor life to a concentrated factory camp.

As a result, there was a new increase in military production, leaders continued to command armies to unleash their war talents, and the new generation of magnates lived the rich and prosperous life they had always dreamed of.

Everything looks so thriving.

……

In contrast to the nations, the Salvation Society has absorbed more workers with its own efforts, but it has made a mess of itself.

More than three million workers have joined one after another, which has led to rapid growth in productivity, but also brought about a huge crisis.

Because the workers are all dragged with their families, along with the three million industrial workers, there are more than 15 million people.

Population migration of this magnitude is not a problem in a rabbit country, but it is a huge disaster to change countries at will, and it is even more tragic in the ninja world that has been in the war for several months.

The Salvation Society was able to complete such a large-scale migration thanks to previous experience, mobilizing large numbers of insect swarms, providing food, water and shelter along the way, and ensuring that the roads were clear.

Moreover, this round of the population contains a large number of young and strong, and it is inevitable that there will be people who have bad intentions because of despair, and the Salvation Society will have to spend manpower to maintain law and order.

It is also necessary to ensure hygiene and prevent large-scale plagues.

Not to mention whether the crumbling industrial system of the Tea Country can withstand such sudden pressure, the manpower of the Salvation Society cannot afford it in the first place.

As a last resort, Naruto had no choice but to let go of the Salvation Society's membership criteria, and they first accepted the eldest child in the first batch of refugees, and then accepted a large number of workers on the way.

The Salvation Society swelled from less than 200 to 20,000 in just 18 days.

This expansion ensured greater production and better order, but it also diluted the purely idealistic elements of the Salvation Society.

What followed was confusion in thinking and weakening in execution.

This is an inevitable problem when any organization grows, but fortunately, Naruto Bokaze held on and completed the transformation of the minds of these 20,000 people, and then united the sixteen million people of the Tea Country.

(End of chapter)