Chapter 63 Mountain Rain

The situation turned out to be worse just as Ye Shan had expected. After several rounds of attempts, the Sand Ninjas completely figured out the deployment of Konoha's forces in the mountains. Then, the targeted breakthrough turned into a concentrated annihilation.

A swaying red flare was shot into the air by a dying Konoha ninja, so that it could be clearly seen within a radius of a hundred kilometers.

Ye Shan looked up at the flare, letting the raindrops fall on his face and eyes. This was one of the only two signals agreed upon before the mission began, representing that the enemy had completely broken through the defense line, and of course it also represented the death of the four Konoha ninjas.

"What should we do next?" Uchiha Fugaku asked.

Although Uchiha Fugaku is the captain of this team and has absolute command authority, he will seek Ye Shan's opinion on almost all of his decisions. After all, Ye Shan has far more mission experience than him.

Ye Shan reached out his hand and wiped the rain off his face. He squinted his eyes and thought for a while, then asked in the same way: "Do you dare to take a gamble?"

"What are you betting on?" Uchiha Fugaku asked puzzledly.

"Let's bet on whether Lord Hatake Sakumo can eliminate the enemies behind us in the past three days." Ye Shan said lightly.

Uchiha Fugaku took out the waterproof map and read it in the dim light of the flashlight. Several marked locations quickly formed a three-dimensional map in Uchiha Fugaku's mind. After a while, he put away the map and said, "I don't think it's possible."

It's not that Uchiha Fugaku underestimated Konoha White Fang, but that ninjas have legs, and if they can't win, they can always run away. If they want to wipe out the enemy completely, they must have at least twice as many people as the enemy, otherwise don't even think about it.

Ye Shan then asked: "Where will the remaining enemies go?"

Uchiha Fugaku frowned deeply, and after some consideration, he said: "Will they join forces with this enemy or lie low and try to regain the right to migrate?"

Ye Shan nodded. After understanding the enemy's intention, everything would be easy. Their next task was to get closer to Hatake Sakumo and try to concentrate all their forces to wipe out the reinforcements of the Sand Ninja and truly achieve victory in the mission.

With Hatake Sakumo's means, three days is enough for him to defeat the enemy in the rear and make it difficult for them to pose a threat. Although the process of the mission is a bit tortuous, the result is the same, that is, group combat is indispensable. So Ye Shan couldn't understand Hatake Sakumo's approach. Group combat is inevitable, why should he take the initiative to disperse his own forces to engage in a blocking battle, just to sacrifice fewer ninjas?

The rain was getting heavier, and Ye Shan simply took off his white windbreaker, folded it and put it into the seal scroll, revealing the Konoha standard vest he was wearing. The rain quickly soaked the vest, and the coldness invaded Ye Shan's body, causing him to circulate chakra to resist.

"Next, let's return to Lord White Fang as soon as possible. There is no point in staying here." Uchiha Fugaku also took off his conspicuous white windbreaker and said to Ye Shan and others.

Ye Shan stretched his arms and legs and nodded calmly. They had no other choice but to return as soon as possible to avoid being surrounded by the enemy.

A flash of lightning suddenly appeared, illuminating the earth for a very short time. Amid the deafening thunder, the four people began to retreat.

The location of Hatake Sakumo was easy to determine, and they only needed to follow the route of civilian migration. In the second half of the night, Ye Shan and others successfully found the large group, but the situation of Konoha was not good.

Of the more than one hundred people who set out three days ago, only forty have now gathered around Hatake Sakumo, and each of them has a disordered breath, obviously having encountered a large-scale battle.

Hatake Sakumo stood in the rain with a stern face, quietly watching the slowly moving migrating team, wondering what he was thinking.

Ye Shan did not ask any more questions, he found a protruding rock and sat down, took out the dry food that was still in good condition and started to eat. How to make decisions was up to Hatake Sakumo, he just needed to try his best to keep himself ready for the battle. Hatake Sakumo was able to reach his current position not only by force, but also by excellent command ability.

A qualified commander will make the best decision based on the unpredictable battlefield situation, but there is only one choice left for Hatake Sakumo, and that is to concentrate his forces and fight a decisive battle with the Sand Ninja reinforcements.

Hatake Sakumo was extremely reluctant to confront the Sand Ninja for the sake of the people who originally belonged to the Wind Country. In his opinion, it was natural for the ninjas of Konoha to sacrifice for the benefit of the village, but it was not worth dying for the benefit of the daimyo. But thinking of Sarutobi Hiruzen's tough face and aggressive attitude, he couldn't say no, which made him tangled.

By dawn, there were about eighty ninjas gathered around Hatake Sakumo, and the remaining twenty or so would probably never come back.

Konishi Kakuei, with his left arm bandaged, looked around at his companions and said solemnly: "Gather!"

The Konoha ninjas stood in four rows. Everyone knew what was going to happen next, but they were not afraid at all. Instead, they stared at the wet Hatake Sakumo with some fanaticism, waiting for his orders.

"Leave a small team to continue the migration mission, and the others will follow me to kill the Sand Ninjas!"

This simple sentence contained a murderous aura that made the Konoha ninjas' hearts surge. Since they had chosen to follow Hatake Sakumo to carry out the mission, everyone was ready to die on the battlefield. Naturally, they had no fear, only lofty ambitions.

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Only twenty kilometers away from the migrating team, the Konoha ninjas encountered the Sand ninjas who had already deployed their battle formations. Both sides, whose ninjas were at least at the level of Chunin who had experienced a hundred battles, would engage in a fierce battle. The winner would complete the mission, while the loser would only flee in defeat.

The rain had already turned into a downpour, which was extremely rare in winter. Ye Shan watched the white air he exhaled quickly dissipate in front of his eyes, and he entered a fighting state.

There was no trash talk before the battle, nor any meaningless attempts at combined ninjutsu. Nearly two hundred ninjas from both sides collided fiercely amid roars and densely falling raindrops.

In just a moment, the ninjas who collided with each other suffered casualties. The screams, shouts, and the sound of weapons clashing covered up the sound of heavy raindrops. It seemed that the only sound left in the whole world was the sound of the ninjas' hearts beating wildly in their chests.

Ye Shan activated the secret technique of Thunder Release and shuttled across the battlefield like a ghost, ruthlessly breaking up the formation of a team of Sand Ninjas, while the other members of the team killed the disrupted Sand Ninjas cleanly and efficiently.

It must be said that it was a blessing to have a teammate with a Sharingan. The powerful illusion that could be released without the need for hand seals and the extremely accurate hidden weapon throwing technique killed the Sand Ninja in an instant.

The performance of Uchiha Fugaku and his companions was naturally noticed by the Sand Ninjas. A team that could efficiently kill their own ninjas would undoubtedly rewrite the direction of the small-scale battle to a certain extent. At this moment, several Sand Ninjas who were confident of their strong strength pressed forward.

"Wind Style: Hanging Net!"

A net composed of wind-attribute chakra covered Yeshan head-on. Judging from the momentum and range of the ninjutsu, it was a combined ninjutsu, and the casters were at least two senior ninjas.

Ye Shan's eyes turned cold. He was very familiar with the fighting style of the Sand Village ninjas. There must be a back-up plan behind the large-scale ninjutsu. Sure enough, a strange-looking puppet shot a large number of poison needles from above him, forming a semicircular double team with the wind net, and smashed over with a whistling sound.

Ye Shan, who did not dare to break out to the left or right and was too far away from his teammates, raised his right hand and slapped his chest hard. The sealed special fire-attribute chakra rushed out and turned into a violent flame under Ye Shan's precise control, forming a wall of fire standing in front of him, perfectly blocking the attack of the Sand Ninja.

Looking at the growing wall of fire, Ye Shan narrowed his eyes, stomped his right foot hard on the muddy ground, forcing out a hidden Sand Ninja, and then pierced his body in front of his astonished gaze.

'Boom! '

The smoke produced by the shadow clone exploded, and taking this opportunity, Ye Shan flashed and returned to the team formation.

Although the battle had just started, the violent profession of ninja had completely changed the surrounding terrain. Blood mixed with rain flowed on the jagged ground, and the air was filled with the smell of blood.

In this small battlefield, death is happening every moment, but the frequency is gradually slowing down.