By the time the troops were reorganized, it was already a few minutes later.
Hearing the casualty report.
Minato Namikaze remained silent, the smile on his face long gone.
Shinnosuke Sarutobi next to him looked solemn.
"Is that so? Lost more than seven hundred ninjas without even seeing the enemy."
Mengxue on the other side didn't speak.
Her eyes just flickered a few times.
Originally, she thought this should be a very easy job.
Just staying beside Minato Namikaze and being responsible for killing a few enemies at critical moments would be enough.
But looking at it now, this mission was very dangerous.
The originally relaxed atmosphere had long become extremely heavy.
The Konoha ninjas who were talking and laughing when they just set off.
All had tense faces at this time, observing the surroundings nervously.
The troop that set off again had long dispersed at this time.
Learning from the previous lesson.
Dozens of ninjas were specially separated from the troop to observe the movement in the sky at all times.
Under this highly tense mental state.
Just walking a few kilometers again, most ninjas felt physically exhausted.
In the forest dozens of miles away.
Kitsuchi stared into the distance, seeming to be able to see the Konoha ninjas who were like frightened birds through the dense towering giant trees.
With a smile in his eyes, he walked back into the tent.
Turned his head and patted the black-robed man standing in the tent hard.
"Brother Xiao Huohuo, thanks to your help, those hypocrites of Konoha lost at least five or six hundred people this time."
Rasa's shadow clone shook his head slightly, his tone modest:
"This is also because Lord Kitsuchi made a prompt decision and trusted me, so we can have such results."
Kitsuchi put his hand on Rasa's shoulder very enthusiastically, as if the two were very close comrades-in-arms.
"Brother Xiao Huohuo, your Speed Release is really amazing. You can actually accelerate the speed of thousands of arrows by more than ten times."
"If it weren't for the blessing of your Speed Release, we would probably have to confront them head-on."
Kitsuchi was originally troubled about how to set up an effective ambush without being discovered by Konoha.
Although in the experience of fighting with Konoha ninjas for decades...
Their Stone Village invented synthetic substances that could briefly shield the perspective function of Byakugan.
But this substance had many limitations.
First, the wrapped substance couldn't be too big.
Could only wrap things like explosive tags.
And it had to be hidden inside the human body to isolate the effective detection of Byakugan.
This was why the hundred frontline reinforcements of Konoha were knocked out by Stone ninjas and put on the trees.
According to Kitsuchi's original assumption.
This trick could only blow up Konoha's vanguard reconnaissance force at most.
Later, they still had to confront Konoha's main force head-on.
Who knew half an hour ago.
The black-robed Grass ninja who was thought to have returned to the Grass Ninja Village long ago actually followed up strangely.
And stated bluntly that he possessed a Kekkei Genkai called Speed Release that could accelerate the speed of objects.
And also suggested using the arrow combat method long forgotten by the ninja world to attack Konoha ninjas remotely.
After simple thinking, Kitsuchi asked this Grass ninja to demonstrate on the spot.
Finding that his Speed Release could indeed be blessed on arrows, increasing the speed of arrows by more than ten times.
Kitsuchi made a decision resolutely, asking his subordinates to urgently process and manufacture bows and arrows, this ancient weapon.
Fortunately, the Land of Fire was rich in resources.
Iron ore and such could still be found.
Rasa's face covered by the mask showed a strange smile.
His so-called name Xiao Huohuo was naturally a pseudonym he said casually.
As for Speed Release, of course he didn't have that thing.
He just used magnetic force to accelerate the arrowheads simply processed and manufactured from iron ore.
Now it seemed the effect was very good.
It was just a pity that this kind of thing could only be used by surprise.
Once used, when the enemy was prepared, it wouldn't work well.
But even so, making Konoha lose hundreds of ninjas.
Narrowing the strength gap between the troops sent by Konoha and the Stone ninja troops was also a good thing.
Kitsuchi scanned this mysterious Grass ninja up and down, his tone relaxed.
"But Brother Xiao Huohuo, didn't you say before that you wouldn't help either side?"
"Why come to help now? Aren't you afraid that Konoha will know and blame your Grass Ninja Village?"
Rasa looked directly at Kitsuchi and shook his head slightly:
"I'm not afraid of this. Because as long as the Stone ninjas who have seen me forget this scene, no one will know, and no one can use this to threaten."
Hearing this, Kitsuchi opened his eyes wide abruptly, and his body tensed up.
He just wanted to react but blinked his eyes abruptly, and his whole body relaxed inexplicably.
A sneer appeared on Rasa's face.
How could he not understand the meaning in Kitsuchi's words just now?
But facing this possible situation, Rasa had already thought about it in his heart.
Therefore, Rasa deliberately avoided appearing in front of Stone ninjas. Even using magnetic force to bless arrows...
Was letting them bring the arrows in and bless them in the tent.
So only a dozen Stone Jonin had seen him.
As long as he hypnotized all these dozen Jonin and made them forget, there would be no problem.
Kitsuchi shook his head abruptly, turning a blind eye to Rasa standing in front of him.
He walked quickly to sit in the main seat in the tent, his voice majestic:
"Go, call Sadai, Hasai, and others over."
The ninja at the tent door responded and walked away.
Soon, several Jonin walked into the tent. They glanced at Rasa standing aside.
Sadai just wanted to speak but froze on the spot with several colleagues next to him.
A few seconds later, they also blinked their eyes.
A few minutes later, Rasa, who controlled more than twenty Stone Jonin with genjutsu, exhaled gently.
A constantly rotating vortex suddenly appeared in the middle of the tent.
Two Stone Jonin looked at each other and walked into the vortex invariably.
Rasa waited for the two of them to walk into his different dimension and immediately closed the different dimension channel.
He retreated slowly and disappeared into the tent.
Konoha's reorganized vanguard force.
Was advancing in the forest at this time.
Several members of the Hyuga Branch House whose foreheads and temples bulged with blue veins due to using Byakugan.
Under the protection of surrounding teammates, they observed the surroundings vigilantly.
Suddenly, a ninja of the Hyuga clan stopped abruptly, staring straight ahead.
Behind a big tree hundreds of meters ahead, a hundred ninjas with strong Chakra were hiding behind the tree.
Judging from their posture, they were obviously preparing for an ambush.
"There are about one hundred and seventy Stone ninjas ahead!"
"There are about one hundred and eighty Stone ninjas on the left!"
"There are about two hundred Stone ninjas on the right!"
As several ninjas of the Byakugan clan said the number of ninjas hiding around in unison.
Those hiding Stone ninjas seemed to know that they had been exposed.
They leaned out invariably, throwing various hidden weapons at the vanguard force constantly!
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
Dense shuriken and kunai attacked rapidly from all directions.
As several Hyuga clan ninjas reselected as the vanguard force.
They naturally had rich experience and could tell at a glance that those hidden weapons were tied with an explosive tag.
But the speed of these hidden weapons was only normal speed.
Before flying over, they could retreat with ease.
Several Hyuga clan ninjas and surrounding teammates just retreated.
But suddenly found that those hidden weapons were accelerating constantly at an unreasonable speed, flying to their eyes in just a blink of an eye!
Boom!
In the fierce explosion, a Jonin of the Hyuga clan jumped out of the explosion.
As soon as he left the explosion range, the Jonin of the Hyuga clan just looked sadly at the colleagues killed in the explosion.
He just wanted to turn around but felt pain all over his body!
The Jonin looked down at his chest pierced by iron pieces, his expression puzzled at first, then realized.
"So those kunai were just camouflage to attract attention..."
After saying this, the Jonin fell weakly from the tree and fell to the ground.
The vanguard force was wiped out again, and the Konoha ninjas behind naturally noticed.
They stopped one after another, looking ahead vigilantly.
"Earth Style: Swamp of the Underworld!"
Thousands of unanimous soft shouts rang out in the forest.
Instantly, within a radius of hundreds of meters.
The yellow land under the originally hardened forest turned into a swamp more than fifty meters deep in a breath!
The swamp swallowed the towering trees above instantly.
Thousands of towering trees fell obliquely and weakly.
Konoha ninjas standing on the trees immediately fell into the swamp with unstable centers of gravity.
A few Konoha ninjas who reacted quickly and adjusted their centers of gravity were forming seals in a panic.
But suddenly found bursts of breaking wind attacking them!
They turned their heads abruptly, only to see arrows magnifying constantly in their vision!
Pfft pfft!
The rapidly attacking arrows pierced through the Konoha ninjas who hadn't had time to form seals directly.
Kitsuchi standing in the distance narrowed his eyes, watching the battle situation more than ten miles away with full concentration.
He shook his head somewhat regretfully. If explosive tags were used, the results would definitely double several times.
It was a pity that explosive tags were too precious, costing several thousand ryo each.
Stone ninjas didn't carry many explosive tags on this trip, only a few thousand.
Almost consumed completely before.
Hundreds of Konoha ninjas fell weakly from the trees into the swamp like dumplings.
The Stone ninjas in the distance succeeded in one strike.
They immediately threw the bows and arrows in their hands to the ground, put their hands behind their backs, and attacked forward.
Minato Namikaze stood on a tree trunk half submerged by the swamp.
Looking at the dense Stone ninjas surging over, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Not afraid of head-on confrontation, just afraid of Stone ninjas playing dirty tricks behind the back all the time.
Konoha ninjas who knew Earth Style stood on the swamp one by one, pressing their hands on the surface of the swamp, saying in unison:
"Earth Style: Petrochemical Jutsu!"
The surface of the swamp petrified immediately into hard rocky land.
After doing all this.
The remaining three thousand surviving Konoha ninjas looked at the surging Stone ninjas ahead with red eyes.
If confronting face to face, Konoha ninjas with numerical superiority were not afraid of Stone ninjas.
Kitsuchi looked at the dense Konoha ninjas in front, frowning slightly.
Unexpectedly, after multiple successful sneak attacks, Konoha still had so many ninjas.
Suddenly, a voice sounded in his mind.
Hearing the voice in his mind, Kitsuchi smiled.
He took out a special soldier pill from his bosom, stuffed it into his mouth in one bite, and chewed constantly.
"Earth Style: Earth Flow Wall!"
With Kitsuchi's loud shout, Chakra injected into the ground.
In an instant.
More than ten miles in front of Kitsuchi.
More than a dozen earth-yellow walls rose slowly on the ground, dividing the entire battle line into more than a dozen small battlefields!
The dozen walls were all about fifteen meters high and about a thousand meters long, and each wall was eight or nine meters thick.
After doing all this, Kitsuchi waved his hand.
The thousand Stone ninjas behind him immediately ran forward wildly.
Minato Namikaze frowned at the wall rising beside him.
Listening to the shouting of ninjas killing and various explosion sounds coming from the earth wall next to him.
He suddenly dodged, easily avoiding the flying wind blade.
"Minato Namikaze, huh? Heard you are a strong competitor for the next Hokage?"
Suddenly, a cold voice came from the side.
Minato Namikaze looked up and found a tall and thin Stone Jonin.
The tall and thin Stone Jonin looked at Minato Namikaze provocatively.
Suddenly, the Stone Jonin tilted his head gently without turning back, dodging the long knife attack from behind.
Then he grabbed the long knife directly with his left hand, broke it, and threw the broken blade behind him.
"Ah!"
The attacker's scream immediately came from behind him.
A Konoha Special Jonin clutched his chest weakly and fell to the ground.
Looking at the man who had been staring straight at him and easily solved a Konoha Jonin without turning his head.
A smile gradually covered Minato Namikaze's face.
"If I remember correctly, you are Jonin Sadai who made a great name in the Second Ninja World War and killed many Mist Jonin?"
"Just you alone to be my opponent?"
An arrogant male voice came from the side.
"No, and me."
Minato Namikaze turned to look to the side. When seeing the fat man, his smile grew wider, murmuring to himself:
"Jonin Hasai, a veteran Jonin of the Stone Village."
At the same time, on another cut-off battlefield.
Shinnosuke Sarutobi went deep into the rear alone.
He casually threw the Stone ninja corpse he was carrying to the ground.
Shinnosuke Sarutobi looked at the big fat man in front with interest.
"Son of the Third Tsuchikage, Kitsuchi?"
Kitsuchi, guarded by a dozen Stone ninjas around and sitting on the ground resting, heard this.
He looked up at the horse-faced young man in front of him.
"Eldest son of the Third Hokage, Shinnosuke Sarutobi?"
Being recognized at a glance, Shinnosuke Sarutobi nodded with satisfaction.
"You are the commander of this ninja army?"
"My luck is really good. If I kill you, that old man Third Tsuchikage should be furious."
Kitsuchi swallowed another soldier pill, wiped the sweat from his face, and said calmly:
"My luck is also quite good. Getting rid of you, this mission is not too failed."
"You all scatter, go help others."
The Stone ninjas looking at Shinnosuke Sarutobi vigilantly scattered around immediately.
For a moment, within a radius of thirty square meters, there were only Shinnosuke Sarutobi and Kitsuchi, the two sons of the Third Kages.
Shinnosuke Sarutobi looked at Kitsuchi who was still sweating on his face, excited in his heart.
Unexpectedly, this guy Kitsuchi dared to be so arrogant.
Obviously looking seriously out of shape.
Yet still dared to fight him one-on-one alone.
As long as he killed him, he would become famous all over the world, and might even touch that position!
Shinnosuke Sarutobi was already tired of his current situation.
Right-hand man of the Third Hokage, elite of Konoha Anbu, sounded majestic.
But in fact.
It was just staying in the corner of the office every day, observing vigilantly day after day boringly and numbly.
He also wanted to inherit his father's Hokage position!
The two sons of the Third Kages formed seals quickly invariably.
"Fire Style: Great Fireball Jutsu!"
"Earth Style: Earth Flow Wall!"
Rasa stood in the distance silently observing the battle between the two.
Shinnosuke Sarutobi, eldest son of the Third Hokage, father of Konohamaru Sarutobi, Konoha Anbu Elite Jonin.
In the original work, not long after Konohamaru was born, he seemed to have died in battle for unknown reasons, leaving Konohamaru alone.
But looking at it now, he seemed to be a very vulgar ninja.
Rasa smiled.
Wondered if Shinnosuke Sarutobi died here in advance now.
Would he get a huge reward?
Thinking this, Rasa retreated slowly and disappeared into the different dimension.
He didn't intend to interfere in the battle between the two.
His target was another person.
Still on another battlefield in a swampy land.
Valiant and heroic Mengxue performed a sword flower elegantly and put the sword into the scabbard.
At her feet, the bodies of several lifeless Stone ninjas were sinking into the swamp.
Suddenly, Mengxue looked around with arrogant eyes.
Seeing a dozen Stone ninjas approaching here in an encirclement position.
Mengxue's snow-white face covered by the mask pulled up an arrogant and disdainful dangerous smile.
She drew the sword elegantly again, her body pressed down slightly, and arrived to the left.
A Stone ninja outflanking on the left only saw a black shadow coming face to face.
Before the Stone ninja could react, his heart had been pierced!
"Drip... drip drop..."
Just as blood flowed down from the blade piercing the Stone ninja's heart.
Mengxue twisted the hilt dominantly, extended her slender jade leg, and kicked the Stone ninja's abdomen fiercely!
The Stone ninja fell weakly into the crowd immediately, scattering the Stone ninjas who had gathered around like birds and beasts.
Just as the Stone ninja corpse fell on the swamp, splashing a burst of mud.
At this time, Mengxue had already put the sword into the scabbard, and her hands wearing black gloves had finished forming seals.
She pressed her hands silently on the swamp.
A burst of azure lightning dispersed from around her as the center immediately.
The Stone ninjas who just reacted only felt numbness and trembling all over!
Lightning Style?!
Just when the Stone ninjas' bodies were numb and their movements were slow.
An invisible wind blade flew toward their waists at a speed of one hundred meters per second.
Several Jonin among the dozen Stone ninjas watched helplessly as the wind blade flew over.
Because their bodies were continuously paralyzed by Lightning Style.
Causing slow movements, unable to make effective reactions at all.
"Pfft, plop!"
The dozen Stone ninjas cut in half at the waist by the wind blade, their upper and lower bodies all fell into the swamp.
All this sounded long, but actually happened within less than five seconds.
Mengxue raised her neck arrogantly like a white swan, looking at the dozen Stone ninjas easily solved by her.
The sarcasm in her eyes revealed in the mask became thicker.
"Oh my, this Konoha Anbu big sister, why didn't you shout the move name when releasing ninjutsu?"
"Isn't this bullying? Not following martial ethics at all."
Hearing this weird man's voice.
Mengxue frowned abruptly.
She looked to the left.
Only to find a man covered in black robes, wearing a mask, revealing only his eyes.
Walking unhurriedly toward here.
Mengxue snorted coldly and said arrogantly:
"I just don't understand you guys. Why must you shout the ninjutsu name to let the opponent prepare in advance?"
"And this bunch of people are not worthy of talking to me."
"But looking at your aura and dress, you should be a Stone Anbu?"
"No, I'm just a passerby who wants to capture you."
Mengxue raised her eyebrows and laughed back in extreme anger.
"Hehehe, rude!"
Saying this coldly, Mengxue formed a dozen seals in one breath.
Then she kicked lightly on the swamp with her long leg.
The black swamp immediately surged up huge waves of more than ten meters, surging toward Rasa!
Mengxue's figure also formed traces of afterimages, closely following behind the huge black waves.
"Hehe, actually daring to insult the pure me."
"I won't let you die so happily. I will cut you open piece by piece with my own hands!"
An incomparably narcissistic pleasant voice came from Mengxue's mouth.
Rasa looked at the constantly surging huge black waves in front of him and Mengxue closely following behind.
He shook his head.
It seemed that Konohamaru's parents both had bad personalities.
Thousands of miles away in Konoha.
Rasa's main body lay on Tsunade's lap.
Tsunade sat on the sofa, stroking Rasa's face gently.
Rasa closed his eyes silently, enjoying Tsunade's caress.
Breaking Tsunade only gained 2000 Skill Points.
Maybe because Tsunade was single in the original work?
Suddenly, Rasa opened his eyes, a smile on his face.
The goal had been achieved, and it was time to act in Konoha.
"What's wrong?"
Seeing this, Tsunade, who was massaging Rasa's temples gently, asked curiously.
"Nothing, just finally reached the goal."
Saying so, Rasa turned over and pressed Tsunade under him.
Tsunade's devastatingly beautiful face blushed immediately.
She said somewhat shyly:
"Go to the room, don't do it on the sofa..."
"No!"
Rasa said this childishly, his hands already reaching into Tsunade's top.
"Mmh hum..."