Chapter 411: Alliance
The older generation of the Ino-Shika-Cho had all used their advanced age and declining health as reasons to hand over the clan's ninja to the younger generation before this great war began. Now, the prominent Ino-Shika-Cho ninja were mostly on the eastern front.
Ino's proposal wasn't new, but it had its own unique flair. She wanted the Konoha ninja to use the Hiding in Mist Technique for a surprise attack!
Within the range of the Hiding in Mist Technique, it's impossible to distinguish friend from foe. You can't see the enemy, and the enemy can't see you, let alone your teammates. An elite jonin like Zabuza could only judge the enemy's position by sound and experience. The ultimate reason for this is that the jutsu's rank is too low; it's just a D-rank jutsu that even a genin can learn.
As a top-tier Water Release master of her time, Ino made some minor improvements to this jutsu. Now, she could use markers and her perception to distinguish between friend and foe.
In the dead of night, 719 Water Release users jointly used the Hiding in Mist Technique, providing cover for the army's movements.
Thirteen sensory ninja, with Ino at the center, linked their perception abilities together.
With Shikamaru adjusting troop deployment and handling on-the-spot micromanagement, the army advanced under the cover of the thick fog for a surprise attack!
You have science, I have ninjutsu!
This night raid was extremely successful. Nearly all of the Cloud Village's cannons were destroyed. Many Cloud ninja, seeing the iconic Hiding in Mist Technique, thought that the Mist and Konoha ninja were launching a pincer attack on them. Their morale plummeted. The two Jinchuriki didn't dare to transform in the chaotic battle, worried about killing their own ninja, which made them fight with their hands tied. In this battle, the Cloud Village lost hundreds of ninja. Killer B was even slashed once by Asuma. The army retreated more than thirty li before they finally escaped the range of the Hiding in Mist Technique.
Moegi joined the ranks of the Water Release ninja and cast a Hiding in Mist Technique along with them. Konohamaru, on the other hand, killed a Cloud chunin with a Rasengan. The enemy's vision was completely obscured by the thick fog, and he didn't even notice a half-grown child standing next to him. He tried to block the Rasengan with his muscles, and the result was predictable.
With the Cloud temporarily retreating, Konoha captured one seemingly intact chakra cannon.
Ino then had Tsunade take the cannon back to the village for a rest. Being on the front lines for a long time was too stressful, and she needed to relax appropriately, go back to the village for a drink, a bit of gambling, and so on. Ino would hold the line here for two days; with her abilities, nothing major would happen.
The Land of Water.
The great ninja war hadn't fully spread here yet, but the war between the Land of Lightning and the Land of Water had been going on for nearly half a year.
The Land of Water's geographical location was typically isolated overseas. If a multi-nation war broke out on the mainland, they would surely benefit. But if the flames of war started from their side, then they were out of luck.
Surrounded by the sea on all four sides, where could you run when the enemy attacked?
The nobles of the Land of Water would curse the Land of Fire and the Land of Lightning in front of the Daimyo and in public, declaring that they would live and die with the Land of Water. In reality, they were all secretly sending their wives and children to be settled in the inland areas of the Land of Fire.
It was true that the Land of Fire was easily attacked by various countries, but it was also true that the Land of Fire was the strongest.
In the current world, the management of the populace by the various Daimyo and their entire bureaucratic systems was very loose. If you hid in a remote mountain village, no one would ever know.
The high officials, wealthy merchants, and monks of the Land of Water all secretly sent their children abroad, changing their names to immigrate. The poor couldn't leave and could only endure the damage of war. This was what Mencius called "the poor and lowly cannot be moved."
The pressure on the Land of Water also fell on the Mist Village.
Ao was dead. Genpaku was in seclusion, uninvolved in worldly affairs.
Mei Terumi became the Fifth Mizukage, but she was not happy at all.
Originally, the village's advisors believed that Konoha would find it difficult to withstand a two-front attack from the Rock and Cloud villages. At that time, if the Mist Village stood with Konoha, slacked off a bit, and appropriately helped Konoha to make the warring parties shed more blood, it would be in the best interest of the Mist Village.
The current generation of the Mist Village had no masters.
Only Mei Terumi was holding down the fort. For one of the five great ninja villages to have only this much strength? It was truly unsightly. They were betting the village's honor on the future, gambling on tomorrow.
But what about now? Konoha had withstood the pressure and could even launch local counter-attacks.
The principle of "one burst of spirit, then decline, then exhaustion" was understood by many.
Konoha was using a personnel rotation system for battle, which showed that they were far from their limit. The village's advisors hadn't gone to the front lines, and the Fifth Hokage, hailed as a hero of the ninja world, hadn't gone to the front lines either. This clearly indicated they still had strength to spare.
Joining Konoha's side at this time to quickly end the war was not in the Mist Village's interest.
The situation in the Mist Village did not allow Mei Terumi to sit on the fence. It was either one or the other. How would she choose?
She could only stand with the victor.
The Mist Village chose to ally with Konoha.
Mei Terumi left Chojuro and Genpaku to watch over the village. She herself led Genpaku's former confidant and fellow Mist elder, Gonbee, to Konoha. After meeting with Jiraiya, the two sides signed a treaty, forming an alliance.
To show their sincerity, Mei Terumi led an army of three thousand ninja to join Konoha's battle against the Cloud ninja on the eastern front.
She believed she had made the right choice, little knowing that she was already seen as a juicy piece of meat by others.
The Cloud Village's reputation for daring to think and daring to fight was not just for show.
With Konoha's master-disciple duo of Tsunade and Ino guarding the line, they were unable to break through. The morale of the Cloud ninja was gradually declining, so the Fourth Raikage naturally had to find a breakthrough from another direction.
In the original timeline's Allied Shinobi Forces, the Fourth Raikage, a disabled man, became the commander-in-chief. His military command ability was extremely strong.
Coincidentally, a certain someone's Hiding in Mist Technique reminded him, and the Fourth Raikage set his sights on the Mist Village.
Back when Tsunade and Ino went to the Island Turtle to cultivate the Spirit Transformation Technique, Ino had unintentionally revealed some of the island's secrets. She had said her piece and didn't think much of it, but the Fourth Raikage had kept it in mind. For the past two years, the Cloud Village had been searching through ancient texts, wanting to turn the Island Turtle into their own war machine.
Normally, breaking through the Mist Village's defenses and attacking the village directly was an impossible task. No matter how weak the Mist Village was, it was still one of the five great ninja villages. Before his death, Ao had also made several adjustments and optimizations to the Mist Village's sensory squad. It was absolutely impossible to sneak in silently.
Once their tracks were exposed, trying to subdue a large ninja village with just a thousand or so elites was a fool's dream.
But with the giant weapon that was the Island Turtle, everything was different.
It had to be said again, the Shadow Clone Jutsu was the strongest ninjutsu in the ninja world. When used at certain times, this jutsu was truly too powerful.
After receiving the news that the Mist's main force had already headed for the Land of Fire, the Fourth Raikage and Killer B left their shadow clones on the front lines to make an appearance, and then the A-B combo secretly boarded the Island Turtle with over a thousand elite ninja.
Cee sat within the Waterfall of Truth, consuming drugs that enhanced his perception. Through the Waterfall of Truth, he used the jade talisman left by the First Raikage of the Cloud Village to command the giant turtle to dive underwater, leading the Cloud ninja to launch a surprise attack on the now very empty Mist Village.
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