Escape From Konoha

In the conference room of the eastern border fortress of the Kingdom of Ghosts.

Now, the person presiding over the frontline Iwagakure Jonin meeting is not the Jonin commander Huangtu, but replaced by Onoki, the third generation Tsuchikage himself.

Because Huangtu was attacked by artillery shells before the previous operation, his body was injured. Although it did not hinder the operation, his strength was still somewhat damaged. At this time, he was being treated in the infirmary of the fortress. Therefore, at this time, Ohnoki, as a Tsuchikage, had to take action and personally go to the front line earlier than expected to stabilize the situation on the Iwagakure front line.

Not only that, when he rushed to the front line this time, he once again invested a new force of two thousand Iwagakure ninjas to join the thousands of Iwagakure ninjas on the front line.

Although he was short in stature and had a funny big red nose on his face, all the Iwagakure Jonin present had great respect for Onoki, the Tsuchikage.

He was the third-generation Tsuchikage who turned the tide and revitalized Iwagakure in the crisis situation when Iwagakure lost the second-generation Tsuchikage.

He has been in power longer than Sarutobi Hokage, the Third Hokage of Konoha. It can be said that he has accumulated great power and is trusted and respected by the Iwa Ninjas.

At this time, he served as the commander-in-chief of the front line, and the uneasy mood of the jounin finally settled down.

"Lord Tsuchikage, an important piece of information came here before. According to the information obtained by the Alliance Army, a sand ninja witnessed Chiba Shiraishi appearing in the northwest boundary of the Land of Wind."

At this time, a Iwagakure jounin reported the news.

The other Iwagakure Jonin who participated in the meeting did not show any surprise. They all knew the news more or less and did not find it strange.

After all, Sunagakure has invested thousands of elite ninjas in the northwest boundary of the Kingdom of Wind. In order to prevent problems in the bud, the Kingdom of Demons will inevitably dispatch a heavyweight ninja to sit there to ensure that nothing goes wrong.

But before that, they speculated that Uchiha Ruri would have a higher probability of taking over the northwest region of the Kingdom of Wind.

However, it actually doesn't matter whether Chiba Shiraishi or Uchiha Ruri is in the northwest of the Kingdom of Wind. The purpose of the four-nation coalition is to continuously disperse the main force of the Kingdom of Demons, and finally defeat them one by one and annihilate them one by one.

Now the first step of this goal has been completed.

"So, the main force used to resist Kirigakure is led by Uchiha Ruri."

Onoki analyzed the command message of the main force of the Demon Country. Although it was only a few words, it was precisely because of this that such brief and concise information was so precious.

As long as you know the distribution of the main forces in the Kingdom of Ghosts, the next thing to do will become simple. The fog shrouding the front of the Alliance Army has finally been lifted.

"That's right, but there seems to be something wrong with Sunagakure."

An Iwagakure jounin looked hesitant.

"Are you referring to the one-tail jinchūriki of Sunagakure who was robbed on the front line?"

Onoki's eyes glanced over.

"Yes. According to the information provided by Sunagakure, the one who stole the first jinchuriki and the fourth and fifth tails of our village are the same organization. Wearing black red cloud coats, the members of the organization are composed of dangerous S-class rebel ninjas from various countries. Composition. There are five known members, namely Konoha's Orochimaru, Uchiha Itachi, Sunagakure's Red Sand Scorpion, Kirigakure's Kisame Kisame, and...Deidara."

The jounin said again.

When talking about Deidara, he deliberately emphasized his tone and secretly glanced at Onoki's expression.

Sure enough, when Onoki heard the name Deidara, although Onoki's expression did not change much, there was a gloomy look in his cloudy eyes.

The rebellious nin who walked out of their Iwagakure village is now making waves in the ninja world, and even colluded with the criminals who stole Iwagakure's two tailed beasts. This kind of thing is very disgraceful no matter how you say it. It's like beating Iwagakure in the middle. The face of the village.

"That bastard boy, I didn't expect to go astray like this. If I had known this, I should have put him under surveillance to prevent him from causing trouble for me outside!"

Especially when the other party colluded with the defecting ninja who stole the village's fourth and fifth tails, this was even more unforgivable in Ohnoki's view.

"Lord Tsuchikage, please calm down. It has already happened, and it is useless to regret it. Now that there is such an accident on Sunagakure's side, I'm afraid..."

Iwagakure Jōnin did not say anything further, but everyone had some guesses.

Theft of the Jinchūriki is not a trivial matter. Ever since the Four-Tails and Five-Tails were stolen in their village, they have been trying their best to find them, constantly exploring the lair of the mysterious organization, and thinking about taking back the Four-Tails and Five-Tails all the time.

At this time, people from this organization approached Sunagakure again and robbed their first jinchuriki. Sunagakure would inevitably deal with it passively in dealing with the war in the Kingdom of Demons.

This is not conducive to the strategic layout of the Alliance Army.

However, this was an unexpected situation. Before that, although they considered that a third party might intervene, this third party was by no means a mysterious organization that targeted tailed beasts. Instead, it was not interested in the Alliance Army and planned to Yunyin stayed out of the matter.

Now that this happened, not only Sunagakure, but also the other three parties of the alliance were somewhat caught off guard.

Especially villages with tailed beasts must be careful that this organization will come to cause trouble for them.

"No, actually things are not that bad. As long as the main force of Sunagakure does not withdraw from the front line, it will be a great achievement to steadily contain the main force of the Demon Country. The deadlock has been born, and now we need stronger force. Break this deadlock.”

Onoki said so.

Sunagakure's strength is already at the bottom of the Great Country Ninja Village, but as long as he can abide by the contract and contain a main force of the Demon Country in the northwest region of the Wind Country, it will also have a positive guiding role for the Alliance Army.

Although the hope of victory cannot be pinned on Sunagakure now, the benefits of the Four Nations Alliance lie here.

Even if one force is lost, the remaining three ninja villages still have a fierce offensive momentum and will not let the alliance's offensive become passive.

After all, the main forces of all parties in the Kingdom of Ghosts are already in place, but the Alliance Army has not yet released its true power. Onoki has full confidence in the next battle.

"Get in touch with Kirigakure and Konoha and tell them that they can take action! There is no room for error in the next action!"

A sharp look flashed in Ohnoki's eyes.

When the other Iwagakure jounin heard this, their expressions were awe-inspiring.

"yes!"

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Compared to Iwagakure, whose offensive intentions were very obvious, Kirigakure's conference room was gloomy and gloomy.

The Fourth Conference Group, which had previously drawn up the list of the second wave of reconnaissance groups and the group's action route, during the Anbu's investigation operation, its leader Aoki Jounin took advantage of the carelessness of two Anbu who were guarding the Fourth Conference Group and seriously injured them. He escaped alone towards the western sea of ​​the Kingdom of Ghosts, which directly confirmed the charge of the Fourth Conference Group in colluding with foreign enemies.

Because the leader of the Fourth Conference Group, Jonin Aoki, defected and colluded with foreign enemies, all the members of the Fourth Conference Group became suspicious. From the original surveillance, they were directly arrested and imprisoned by the Anbu, and they were investigated from beginning to end.

The affairs of the fourth conference group were over, but what was left for Kirigakure was undoubtedly a bad start.

At the beginning of the war, two waves of reconnaissance teams and nearly a hundred ninjas were lost before the ninjas of the Ghost Country were seen.

The third vanguard unit also went through the same trial and disappeared.

This adds up to more than 600 ninjas who are missing and do not know whether they are alive or dead.

The worst thing is that the Aoki Jonin who participated in the Jonin meeting is also a spy planted in Kirigakure Village by the Kingdom of Demons. This makes the Kirigakure Jonin present feel like they are sitting on a pincushion and feel uneasy.

Judging from the ninja resume of Aoki Jonin, there is no doubt that he is a native ninja of Kirigakure with a very clean foundation. However, with such a clean origin and excellent character, Aoki Jonin is actually a spy of the Kingdom of Demons. This makes his usual relationship with Aoki Jonin The friendly jounin were in a gloomy mood.

"Iwagakure and Konoha have reached an agreement and are preparing to take the next step in two days. Sunagakure is temporarily unable to join due to some things, and now only our Kirigakure side has not yet given an accurate response. Talk about it Well, what do you think we should do next?”

Yagura threw this question to the Jonin present, hoping that they could put forward some opinions that would be beneficial to the current situation.

After Yagura finished speaking, the Jonin of each meeting group looked at each other and began to present their group's proposals one by one.

In general, the majority proposed cooperating with the alliance's actions, and a very small number believed that the current situation was unclear and needed to continue to wait and see. The rest stood in the middle and decided to give priority to Mizukage's decision.

After listening to the narrations of each meeting group, Yagura nodded slightly and had a very detailed plan for each group's views. Just when he was about to speak and prepare to say something, the door of the conference room was pushed open.

A Jonin patrolling the sea hurried in.

"Mizukage-sama."

"What's up?"

Not only Yagura, but also the other jounin were surprised that the patrolling jounin suddenly broke into this place. They didn't know what urgent matter caused him to be so rude.

"The third wave of reconnaissance teams lost contact again within half an hour after entering the sea west of the Demon Country. Please make a decision, Mizukage-sama."

The patrolling jounin told this extremely bad news with an uneasy mood.

After he told the news, the conference room immediately fell into deathly silence, and the atmosphere became strange.

The jonins all turned to a position where three jonins were sitting. They belonged to the advisory jonins of the Sixth Conference Group.

For the third wave of reconnaissance teams, the personnel list, action route, and contact information were formulated by their team, and were ultimately handed over to Mizukage for personal review.

In other words, except for the three jounin of the Sixth Conference Group and Yagura, the Mizukage, the other jounin did not know the inside story of the third wave of reconnaissance team.

Even the members of the reconnaissance team who were directly involved in the mission had no way of knowing the specific information of the other teams, let alone their route of action.

Therefore, there is a problem with the third wave of reconnaissance team at this time. Putting aside the Mizukage who is absolutely impossible to betray his village, there is only one possibility left - there is an insider within the Sixth Conference Group!

It could be one mole or two moles. The worst case scenario is that all members of the Sixth Conference Group have loyalty issues.

As a result, the jonins of the other conference groups looked at the three jonins of the sixth conference group with strange expressions in their eyes.

The jounin sitting next to them also subconsciously moved a little distance to the side, as if the jounin of the Sixth Conference Group had a terrible plague on his body, making people want to stay away.

As for the three Jonin of the Sixth Conference Group who were involved, including the leader, their faces were pale and their minds were blank.

This bad news also caught them off guard.

How can it be?

How could the third wave of reconnaissance teams be wiped out again?

The compiled personnel list, action route, etc. were only shown to Mizukage alone and were not lost. How could the reconnaissance team lose contact again?

What exactly went wrong?

Jonin, the leader of the Sixth Conference Team, has always trusted his two team members, but now that there is a problem, he has to think in his heart, is there really no problem with his two colleagues?

If this is the case, then the two members of his team are usually terrible at camouflage.

But the more this happens, the more the team leader Jonin understands that there is absolutely no possibility of internal strife at this time.

He was going to argue something, but when he turned around and saw Yagura's expressionless, extremely calm baby face, his heart sank.

The team leader Jonin's mouth was slightly bitter. He knew that no matter how he defended himself and his team members at this time, it would be difficult to convince Yagura.

Moreover, problems arose in the third wave of reconnaissance groups, and the biggest problems were within the sixth conference group.

It is impossible that the information was passed on to the enemy by the Mizukage himself.

"I'm sorry, Mizukage-sama, this is a dereliction of duty by me and my team members, and we are willing to accept investigation."

The team leader Jonin sighed and stood up from his position, a look of guilt flashing in his eyes.

The reason why he has reached this point is because Yagura worked hard to cultivate him and promoted him to his current status.

However, he had betrayed Yagura's trust and accepting the investigation was the best outcome.

Not only that, he also wanted to secretly investigate his two team members. If there was any problem with them, he would give Yagura an explanation.

The other two Jonin of the Sixth Conference Group also stood up. Their message was very clear. Like the group leader, they were subject to ANBU investigation.

This major mistake must be borne by them.

After hearing these words, Yagura's expression softened, and he asked the ANBU to take the three genin of the Sixth Conference Group down and accept the investigation.

After the Jonin of the Sixth Conference Group left, the remaining Jonin clearly noticed that the atmosphere in the conference room had become more solemn than before.

Especially Yagura, as the Mizukage, sat there without saying a word, causing the area around him to fall into indescribable depression.

The jounin closest to Yagura didn't even dare to breathe. They just listened to the ticking of the second hand of the clock, waiting for the time to pass by, feeling the indescribable suffering.

"The reconnaissance team has another problem. How should we cooperate with Iwagakure and Konoha's actions next?"

I don’t know how much time passed before Yagura’s extremely calm words sounded in the conference room.

The jounin breathed a sigh of relief. They had expected this problem and were not surprised.

"Mizukage-sama, with all due respect, it is not suitable for us Kirigakure to take the initiative right now. The reconnaissance team has frequent accidents. This problem will be difficult to solve in a short time."

"I agree. If we can't figure out the deployment of the Demon Country's troops in the western sea, if we attack rashly, the outcome may be..."

"How should Iwagakure and Konoha respond? Do they have to explain it truthfully?"

"No, if we tell the truth, our Kirigakure will lose face and will be looked down upon by other villages. We must not let them know that there is an internal problem with us."

"But what about the attack? Iwagakure and Konoha have already made arrangements. If we don't tell the truth..."

The jounin began to discuss heatedly.

Although some Kirigakure jounin advocated confessing the situation to Iwagakure and Konoha, they said that an unknown number of spies had appeared within Kirigakure and were temporarily unable to attack the Kingdom of Demons, so they needed to postpone their actions.

But more Kirigakure jounin believe that this is an internal problem of Kirigakure, and there is no need to explain the embarrassing things about their own village to other villages one by one to make others look down on them.

"I think Kirigakure can launch a massive attack next, and tell Iwagakure and Konoha that we have successfully defeated the vanguard of the Kingdom of Demons. The situation is great, and we can launch an attack on the Kingdom of Demons at any time. !”

A young Kirigakure Jōnin suddenly proposed this plan, overpowering the voices of the rest, and resounded loudly in the conference room, attracting the attention of many Jōnin.

Even Yagura couldn't help but look at the young jounin.

"You mean to pretend to be attacking in order to deceive the Kingdom of Ghosts and pin down their main force here, unable to move?"

The young jounin's opinion was not difficult to understand.

The rest of the jounin only need to think a little bit to understand the principle.

To put it simply, it was a bluff to pin down the troops of the Kingdom of Demons here without spending a single soldier, preventing them from turning to other battlefields for support.

In this way, Kirigakure's face can be saved and the next step can be carried out smoothly, so that the offensive will not be postponed because of Kirigakure's problems.

After all, the situation on the battlefield is changing, and time and timing are very important.

The assault troops on Konoha's side are being besieged by the troops from the Kingdom of Demons in the Kingdom of Bears, and they urgently need to open a gap to get them out of the sea of ​​misery.

In other words, Kirigakure only needs to 'hold back' the Demon Country's maritime fleet to ensure that there will be no surprises in Iwagakure and Konoha's attack plan.

However, this diversionary tactic is ultimately false.

Once the Kingdom of Oni discovers that Kirigakure does not plan to attack the islands in the western sea area, this means that the Kingdom of Oni can transfer the main force deployed in the western sea area to Iwagakure or Konoha battlefield to provide support there. It might even give Iwagakure and Konoha an extremely heavy blow.

The Kirigakure jounin were lost in thought.

This tactic has pros and cons and is a double-edged sword.

There is nothing to say if the plan goes well. If it fails, the main force from the west of the Demon Kingdom will be transferred to Iwagakure and Konoha to fight on the battlefield, which will severely damage the morale of the Alliance Army. Worse still, the alliance's 'covenant' may be shattered in an instant.

The Jonin kept frowning, considering the pros and cons.

At this moment, Yagura spoke: "Starting from tomorrow, the number of patrol troops will be doubled, and the remaining squadrons will enter a state of preparation for war. In addition, the port will be opened, and military exercises will be conducted on the ship to tell the Kingdom of Ghosts that we are about to attack their west. Side sea area.”

Yagura's words shocked the Kirigakure jounin.

It was obvious that Yagura agreed to this plan.

Disguising a military drill as an offensive posture, a main force of the Demon Country was restrained here to facilitate the implementation of Iwagakure and Konoha's plans.

If this plan succeeds, everything will be easy, but if it fails...

Not only will it cause internal rupture within the Alliance Army, but it will also attract accusations from other villages.

Yagura sighed and said: "As a Mizukage, I can't risk the lives of thousands of Kirigakure ninjas. If the plan fails, I will bear all the blame. At that time, I will take the blame and resign and give the Kages of each village a Explain."

"Mizukage-sama!"

"Needless to say. Starting today, you will all be monitored by the Anbu for the next three days to prevent the leakage of news about the disguised attack on the Kingdom of Ghosts. The meeting is adjourned now."

Yagura decided the matter with an absolutely tough attitude, and all the jounin could only keep silent.

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Konoha, Konoha Hospital Warehouse.

"Is this the full list of medical supplies?"

In front of the warehouse where medical supplies are stored, Asami Masumi, the deputy director of the hospital, came here with two medical ninjas, a man and a woman.

After she received the list of medical supplies, she casually asked the staff escorting the supplies.

"Yes, Vice President Asami, this is the last batch."

The staff responded respectfully.

"No problem. Just hang on. I need to take someone to check it in person to see if there are any mistakes. After all, this will be sent to the frontline battlefield soon, so there can't be any accidents."

Asami Masumi stuffed the list into the pocket of her white coat and glanced at the staff with the corner of her eyes.

"Yes, then I will resign."

Staff leave here.

Asami Masumi led a male and a female medical ninja behind him into the warehouse.

After entering, the female medical ninja took the initiative to turn on the lights and then closed the warehouse door.

There were only three of them left in the huge warehouse storing medical supplies.

Asami Masumi and the others glanced at the medical supplies in the warehouse. Suddenly, a ball of mud began to bulge from the land next to them.

After this ball of mud emerged from the ground, it slowly condensed into a human shape. Under the slightly dim light, it opened a pair of bright yellow pupils.

It is Shiraishi's Earth clone - Earth General.

It didn't speak, it just opened its mouth, and with a pop, something fell from its mouth and landed on the ground.

It is a box with the same appearance as the one used to store medical supplies in the warehouse.

He spit out the first one, then the second, and the third, and kept spitting out things from his body.

"Let's start replacing supplies. We don't have much time left, only one hour."

Asami Masumi picked up the glasses hanging on her chest and put them on herself leisurely. The lenses reflected a white light that could cover her eyes.

"yes!"

A male and a female medical ninja responded, dispersed to both sides of the warehouse, and began to take action.