Chapter 48: Hanzo's Crazy Trial

Master Yuan generally agreed with Qingsi's plan, but he wanted to make it more detailed based on Qingsi's plan, to think of all possible situations and prepare response plans.

"Okay, go organize your thoughts and write me a written report. I'll go talk to Lord Mizukage after I revise it." Master Yuan said to Qingsi.

"Yes!" Qingsi answered respectfully, with a hint of excitement in his tone that his plan was approved by his grandfather.

However, at this time, Kiyoshi would not have thought that there would be two people who would disrupt the actions of the Whirlpool Country. One was Danzo Shimura, the Kage of Konoha, who gave him the best assist, and the other was Uchiha Madara, who was fanning the flames in secret.

Master Yuan was also a man of action. After Qingsi handed him the plan scroll, he spent another day making more detailed modifications to the plan. Then he went to meet the Third Mizukage Bing and finally succeeded in convincing Bing.

Time passed quickly, and soon it was June of the 34th year of Kirigakure. Seiji was 6 years old.

Kiyoshi, who entered the elite jonin threshold at the age of 13, has already taken a big step on the road from elite jonin to Kage level.

However, even though Qingsi could clearly feel the power in his eyes growing, and his perception of the Mahakala space left by Isshiki became clearer and clearer, he still had not awakened his own "eyes".

Maybe what he needs is some kind of opportunity.

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In July of the 34th year of the Kirigakure era, the Hidden Rain Village, led by Hanzo Salamander, launched attacks in all directions. On July 7, he led his ninjas to occupy two towns on the border of the Land of Grass. Then, seeing that the surrounding Land of Earth and Land of Fire only condemned his behavior but did not take any action, he launched another attack on July 7 and continued to occupy all the towns on the border of the Land of Grass. The poor fence-sitter Land of Grass was abandoned by the two major countries of Earth and Fire.

The Third Tsuchikage Ohnoki was simply not ready and did not want to face the powerful Hanzo. The Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen, after the analysis of Mizutomon En and Koharu Utatane, believed that Hanzo would stop after conquering the surrounding small countries and did not think that he had any intention of going to war with the Land of Fire and Konoha. Poor Nabekage Danzo Shimura was once again ignored.

On July 34rd of the 7th year of the Kirigakure era, Hanzo set out again, this time targeting the Land of Birds. He occupied the entire Land of Birds at an extremely fast speed before other countries could react.

The Bird Country, which had no ninja village, fell before a group of wandering ninjas and samurai could put up any effective resistance. The Daimyo of the Bird Country and a group of nobles fled to the Wind Country in a panic to seek refuge with the Daimyo of the Wind Country.

The Land of Earth, the Hidden Rock Village, the Land of Wind, and the Hidden Sand Village, who reacted quickly, condemned Hanzo and demanded that he return the occupied Land of Birds. They also sent envoys to the Hidden Rain Village to try to find out Hanzo's true thoughts.

He doubled the sphere of influence of the Rain Country and the Hidden Rain Village so easily. Immersed in the pleasure of territorial expansion, Hanzo became more and more inflated. Within the Rain Country and the Hidden Rain Village, from the daimyo and nobles to the ninjas and common people of the Hidden Rain Village, they all cheered for the hero, the demigod Salamander Hanzo, who led them to expand their territory.

Seeing that the major countries still hadn't taken any actual action and were only engaged in verbal condemnation, Hanzo decided to make one final test.

On August 34, the 8th year of the Kirigakure era, Hanzo Salamander held a large-scale exercise near the border between the Rain Country and the Fire Country. After the exercise, he announced that three ninjas were missing, including two Chunins and one Jonin. Using this as an excuse, he requested to enter the Fire Country to conduct a search.

Of course, this matter was sternly rejected by the Konoha ninjas stationed at the border, but Hanzo relied on his strong strength and, surrounded by a group of Konoha ninjas, forcibly broke into the Land of Fire, showed off his power for a while, and then left safely.

The news was passed back to Konoha. Although Nabekage Shimura Danzo clearly stated that Hanzo was likely to take action against Konoha, he strongly advocated taking the initiative to go to war with Hanzo and Amegakure.

But after Crouching Dragon and Phoenix Hatchling's analysis again, Sarutobi Hiruzen still felt that Hanzo was just demonstrating and would not really take action. The helpless Nabekage could only leave a sentence once again, "Huruzen, you will regret it!" and then slammed the door and left.

Soon, another ten days passed. Seeing that Konoha had no reaction at all, Hanzo got the result he wanted and finally made up his mind.

(I don't know how many ninjas each country has. The settings in the original work are quite contradictory. The number of Konoha ninjas is only over 1, including those who died in battle. But during the Fourth Ninja World War, not counting the five great ninja nations and the samurai of the Iron Country, the ninja coalition had 3 people! During the Third Ninja World War, the Third Raikage died of exhaustion under the siege of ninjas from the Hidden Rock Village. Ohnoki is such a shrewd old man, he wouldn't bring too many ordinary ninjas with him, so I think most of these ninjas should be Chunins.)

(So ​​I made my own setting. In the early stage of the Second Shinobi World War, Hanzo led the Rain Village to suppress the Sand Village and Konoha, and they were able to win. Moreover, the average quality of the Rain Village ninjas was definitely not as good as that of the big ninja villages. So in addition to Hanzo's own strong strength and the fact that the poison of the salamander was suitable for group battles, the only explanation was that the Rain Village had a large number of people at that time.)

(The setting is that during World War II, the Hidden Rain Village had 1000 jonin including special jonin, 5000 chunin, and genin. The strength of the Hidden Rain Village was relatively weak. Although there were many jonin, they were just ordinary jonin. There were very few elite jonin. The main force was one person. Moreover, whether it was Sand Village, Iwagakure or Konoha, it was impossible to send all the ninjas to the battlefield at once. They had to leave people to guard the house and also guard against other villages.)

(During World War II, Konoha had 1000 jonin, 6000 chunin, and genin. Sand Village and Kirigakure both implemented an elite policy, with more elites, but the total number of ninjas was less than Konoha. Kumogakure was not much different from Konoha. Iwagakure was more powerful in terms of troop explosion, and they all fought in legions, so they had more genin and chunin.)

(During the Second Ninja World War, the number of ninjas in each village should not have reached its peak, but after nearly twenty years of recuperation after the First Ninja World War, there must have been quite a few.)

(Friends who have read the book can leave a message to discuss this. This setting in the original book is really a big pit.)