A few days later, after a long journey, the four finally arrived at the front line of the Land of Winds.

Standing in front of a dense forest, there is an endless desert in front of you, stretching for hundreds of miles and uninhabited.

This is the border before the war, of course, now the sand ninja has contracted the defense on all fronts, and the Konoha soldiers are pointing directly at the hinterland, which makes them very nervous, but with the declaration of war on Konoha by the Land of Rain, which leads to a two-front battle, Konoha falls into a serious shortage of troops.

Now across this blank desert, 100 miles forward is the forefront of Konoha station, it is not the base camp of Konoha's northern legion, but a strengthened outpost station, which is about 300 Konoha ninjas, and the real base camp is now stationed in the rear for repair, waiting for the spring to merge with reinforcements, completely take the northern front in one go, and then join forces with the southern front to attack the rain ninja.

Kaguya and the others took advantage of the darkness to get to the front station, and after showing the sentry the guards the pass order for Konoha Village, they were taken to the head of the outpost along with White Fang.

But before he could get in, he was suddenly stopped again.

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In the deep darkness of the night, the candlelight flickered in the tent where Commander Nakamorino was.

Nakamorino, who was sitting at the table, was holding an urgent secret letter from Konoha Village in his hand at this time, and his face was full of serious expressions. The letter in his hand is written by the top management of Konoha himself, and the content inside is top secret and must not be known to outsiders.

It's just that what people didn't expect was that the letter had set off nearly a day ahead of schedule, but it was only delivered less than 5 minutes before the White Fang team, which shows how fast the White Fang team was traveling, and I was afraid that the dark parts that were not sending the letter were about to vomit blood.

After reading and memorizing the contents in a hurry, Nakamorino directly put the letter in the furnace next to it and burned it with a flame.

"Come on, bring them in."

After doing all this, Nakamorino ordered the guards to bring White Fang and the others into the tent.

And as White Fang and the others walked into the tent, Nakamorino immediately got up to greet him, and he said with a smile on his face: "Lord Qimu, you are here, and you can see the famous Konoha White Fang again, and those bunny ninja rabbits must be very happy." ”

"Long time no see, Nakamori."

White Fang and Nakamorino were teammates in the same trench in the early days of the war, so they are not strangers.

After a brief greeting, Nakamori's vision looked at the three people behind White Fang, intentionally or unintentionally.

The black-haired boy who was the leader of the group was dressed quite unusually, and as soon as he entered, he looked around, and when his eyes swept over the brazier, his eyes were full of inquiry.

Then he looked at Nakamori, a tall and thin man with a hooked nose and phoenix eyes, his eyes were full of shrewdness and calculation, and when he first came in, he looked at the three of them with a momentary displeasure, combined with the fact that they had just walked to the door and were suddenly ordered to bring them to see what should have happened before they arrived.

Kaguya looked back at Yueyong, who nodded slightly at her.

Before coming, there was already Uchiha intelligence that the front-line commander here was named Nakamorino, 26 years old, who was good at wind escape and illusion, and other information was unknown. But there is a high probability that it should be someone from the upper level, and Kaguya judged that there should have been a letter sent by the dark part or root before they came, and the corner of the letter that had not yet burned out by the fire was evidence, in short, it was not someone from their side.

At this time, Nakamorino looked at the three of them, and he asked with a hint of confusion and curiosity, "These three people are members of your team?" It doesn't look very old, and it's too much to be sent to the front at such a young age—"

White Fang shook his head and said, "The situation in the village is not good now, the combat effectiveness of the rain ninja in the south is amazing, and a large number of troops have been mobilized. The large army will not be able to move out until spring, and it will take time to raise supplies and rations. If it weren't for the urgency of your urging, I would have waited until spring to set off with the main army. ”

"So, how bad is the situation, so that you send out four emergency calls for help in a row."

Nakamorino originally wanted to hear a little more information, but he didn't expect that White Fang just glanced at him and suddenly changed the subject.

Although it was a little strange why White Fang deliberately cut off his intentions, Nakamorino immediately said obediently: "The situation is worse and worse, according to the intelligence, there is a small group of enemy reconnaissance troops less than 40 miles away from us, and 60 miles further is one of their field brigades, and more people are still gathering." ”

"Seeing that Konoha has not attacked for a long time, Sand Shinobi already suspects that we are waiting for reinforcements in the same place. This time they sent people to take the initiative to attack, and if they confirmed that we were insufficient to support a two-front battle, they would soon launch a strategic counterattack. ”

White Fang realizes the gravity of the situation, which means that Shinobi has recovered from the earlier blow and is ready to fight back against Konoha at any time.

"How many of them are there?"

"About 2,000 people, but maybe more."

This is already a strengthened field brigade, White Fang thought in surprise.

"Got it, so what are we going to do?"

"Sneak behind enemy lines, steal intelligence and go as deep as you can, and preferably sabotage their logistics department to buy more time."

Nakamori ordered his lieutenant to bring over a map, then pointed to a red dot on the map and said, "We sacrificed the terrain information that six people explored before. It is called Shashen Valley, and it is a naturally formed terrain. We suspect that the enemy has hidden a large amount of supplies here, and if we can find this place, we can judge their exact number and direction of attack from the materials, and it would be better if we could destroy this batch of supplies. ”

"But ......"

At this time, Nakamori glanced at Kaguya and the others, and then suddenly said to White Fang: "But here you have to go 200 miles behind the enemy, the road is dangerous and easy to find, once the location is exposed, the surrounding sand ninja will hunt you endlessly, which can be said to be a certain death." ”

White Fang didn't show any wavering intention after hearing this, just waiting for Nakamori's next words.

"So I think you should send someone more professional and experienced to follow you. I can give these three children a lighter task, at least not let them die on the battlefield in vain. They are so young that they are the hope for the future of the village, and they should not easily throw their lives into this hell. ”

Nakamori's eyes were fixed on White Fang as he said this, and his tone was very sincere.

"I agree, Mr. White Fang really shouldn't have brought us."

While White Fang was still hesitating, he sensed that something was wrong, but in fact, White Fang didn't want to side with either the upper echelons or the Uchiha, he simply wanted to contribute to the village, but he didn't want to get involved in this kind of political struggle. However, he ignores his identity and status, and even if he doesn't want to, it is impossible not to be taken advantage of.

In the past few days, Kaguya has figured out the attitude of White Fang, in short, he just wants to make a simple knife, but he doesn't want to be used by anyone and people with an innate position - although White Fang is very powerful, it's a pity that it's not suitable for the intrigue set.

And the most regrettable thing is that Kaguya tried to win over White Fang several times, but was ignored by the other party.

He didn't want to take sides at the top, and he wasn't interested in the Uchiha.

"You ......"

White Fang looked at Kaguya in surprise, and the two of them looked at each other, and he suddenly understood. This is Kaguya helping him get out, the contradiction between the high-level and the Uchiha will not stop, if you don't help both sides, sooner or later you will be killed by both sides, Tsukiya has thought about it more than once, not to mention whether he will attract the hatred of Danzo if he ignores the orders of the high-level.

Since you don't want to be caught in it, then hurry up, the farther you go, the safer you are, it's best to defect directly to the province, and then you are forced to commit suicide by rumors.

"Yueyong's ability is not good at stealth actions, and Baihua is the same. If we follow Mr. White Fang, it will only be a burden, and we are too young to keep up with the speed of the teacher, in case we let the mission fail - that is not good, right? ”

"That's right, this mission is very important, and it must not fail!"

Nakamorino also hurriedly spoke, and it could be seen that he didn't want White Fang to get involved, because the two of them had an old relationship.

"Qimu, this time you can listen to me and bring two skilled hands with you, if you fail, it will be no problem to lead them out with your skills. But these three children will definitely die there, so why do you have to force them to die? ”

White Fang looked at the two of them with impatient faces, Kaguya and Nakamori obviously didn't like White Fang's position was not clear, and the inexplicably powerful person continued to get in the way here, killing or not killing, pulling and not pulling, and it was really annoying to be in the middle.

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In the end, White Fang could only agree to temporarily replace his subordinates, after all, this mission was really important. The second is that Kaguya is right, Baihua and Yueyong's fighting methods are not suitable for infiltrating the battle, once they do it, the movement is too big.

"This is a new assignment for you, and you will be in charge of patrolling the neighborhood before White Fang completes his mission. Of course, signaling in case of danger is always the most important, and intercepting the enemy is secondary. ”

Although Nakamorino said something nice, he always had an inexplicable feeling.

Kaguya looked at the map pointed to by the other party, he frowned slightly - the locations arranged were all within the range of Konoha mastery area, but the distance back and forth was 100 miles away from the ordinary patrol range, but the answer given by Nakamorino was that it was all no man's land, extremely high temperatures, ubiquitous quicksand, and violent sandstorms made it almost impossible to cross here, so although the patrol route seemed long, it was actually very safe.

Patrolling in a no-man's land sounds like an easy job, but the dangers lurk in it are not small.

After that, Nakamorino asked everyone to go to rest first, and the official mission began tomorrow. Of course, if this mission is successful, the credit will go to the entire third team, but with the high-level temperament, it will probably be directly on the top of White Fang's head.

The three people who were kicked out of the tent said goodbye to White Fang, they got along okay these days, except that Yue Yong has always hated this kind of person with an ambiguous position, and the most important thing is that it is difficult to move him.

After everyone left the tent, Nakamorino's gaze suddenly became gloomy.

In fact, the mission just now was not necessary, because as early as three days ago, Tsunade ordered all frontline positions to prepare to shrink the defense line to prevent the Sand Shinobi army from breaking through each one. But White Fang didn't know anything about it when they first came, and as a result, Nakamorino took advantage of the poor information and planned to borrow a knife to kill someone.

What Nakamorino hasn't said is that this area has long been monitored by the sand ninja, and once there is a wind and grass, the sand ninja will know immediately.

So the White Fangs left it alone, after all, their route was to bypass the forest, not the desert at all.

However, the mission assigned to those three imps was more than 100 miles of patrol line, and the terrain was complicated, uneven, and accompanied by natural disasters and sandstorms from time to time......

"Adjutant, when they leave, they will prepare to pull out the camp and let the sand ninja occupy this area."

"Those three imps who were instructed to find a way to kill them, just leave them to Sand Shinobi."

Nakamorino, who spoke in a gloomy tone, showed a smile that had succeeded in his conspiracy.

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