Chapter 50: The Second of Five Fights

At this time, Konoha and Sunagakure were still unaware of the bad news because no one from the garrison troops on the border of the Land of Rain survived, and there was still a peaceful atmosphere in Konoha Village and Sunagakure Village.

Seeing that the raid had achieved such great results, Hanzo wanted to continue his efforts, expand the results, occupy more land, and plunder more resources.

Because most of the Wind Kingdom is desert, there are not many places to survive, which is far inferior to the fertile land of the Fire Kingdom. Therefore, after Hanzo led the team to plunder, he focused his subsequent attack direction on the Fire Kingdom.

On the Sand Village side, although the border garrison troops were completely wiped out and were driven into the Kingdom of Wind by the Rain Village, because the Third Kazekage Tessa had previously ordered to increase the border defense level, the Sand Village realized that something might have happened on the 19th because of the loss of contact with the border troops.

Soon, the Sand Village figured out the situation.

Although he was extremely angry about the Hidden Rain Village's undeclared war and sneak attack, Tiesha immediately began to deploy troops and blocked the attack of the Rain Ninja troops in time, preventing the Rain Ninjas from advancing the front line into the heart of the Wind Kingdom.

As Hanzo went to the Fire Country front to take charge of the situation, the Hidden Rain Village gradually slowed down its offensive. Relying on the several border towns of the Wind Country that they had already occupied, they built a defense line and were in a stalemate with the Hidden Sand Village.

Let's look at Konoha. Two days have passed, and Konoha has not found anything wrong.

Soon it was the evening of September 9st. Three days had passed since the Rain Village raid on the Land of Fire. Hanzo's troops were heading straight for the heart of the Land of Fire. After he arrived at the battlefield of the Land of Fire, all the Konoha ninjas he met along the way escaped, and the news was blocked.

Just when the Rain Ninjas had quickly pushed the front line to the point where they were only one day away from Tansho Street, the Konoha Anbu, who had not yet made contact with the border troops beyond the normal contact time, realized that something was wrong.

In the end, a small team of Root ninjas under the command of Danzo Nabekage Shimura passed by the Rain Ninja unit from a distance while on a mission. It just so happened that there was a Perception ninja in this team who got away before being discovered by the Rain Ninjas. Only then did they finally learn the exact information that the Rain Ninjas had already entered the Land of Fire.

"boom!"

The door of the Hokage's office was violently kicked open, and Danzo Shimura rushed in with an angry face.

"Sarutobi Hiruzen! Look at what you have done! The Amegakure bastards are almost reaching Konoha! How dare you sit here peacefully!" The furious Danzo Shimura yelled at Sarutobi Hiruzen and threw the intelligence scroll in his hand at him fiercely.

"I've said it before! Hanzo of the Salamander has no good intentions! We should just destroy Amegakure! Would this have happened if you had listened to me earlier!" Danzo continued to point at Sarutobi Hiruzen's nose and yelled crazily. Although he had done a lot of things in the name of Konoha in private, and had always had ideas about the position of Hokage and wanted to seize it, this did not mean that he could sit idly by and watch Konoha being rubbed at its doorstep. After all, he regarded Konoha as his Konoha.

Sarutobi Hiruzen was a little confused for a moment. He didn't know what had happened, but when he heard Danzo coming up and scolding him, he felt a little unhappy at first, but then he had a bad premonition in his heart.

Without bothering to refute Danzo, or worrying about the fact that Danzo dared to point at his nose and scold him, Sarutobi Hiruzen hurriedly opened the scroll and quickly browsed through it.

After reading the information, Sarutobi Hiruzen's eyes went dark, blood rushed up his throat, and he muttered, "Yan and Xiaochun have misled me!"

Danzo was still speaking crazily, "I've reminded you time and again that you should be wary of Hanzo and Amegakure's evil ambitions, but you just didn't want to believe me! If you had assigned some of the ninjas sent to the border to strengthen defense against Sand Village, Iwagakure, Kumogakure, and Mist Village to guard against Amegakure, this wouldn't have happened! Am I not doing this for Konoha? Huh???"

Danzo Shimura's spit kept spurting out, almost drowning Sarutobi Hiruzen, and at this time Mito Kado En and Utane Koharu, who had received the news, came to the Hokage's office.

Crouching Dragon and Phoenix Young had no sense of being tricked at all, after all, in their opinion, the two of them were just advisors to the Hokage responsible for analysis and making suggestions, and the real decision was made by the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen himself.

"Danzo, stop talking! The most urgent thing is to quickly organize the ninja troops to drive Hanzo and the Rain Ninjas out of the Land of Fire and push the front line back to the border of the Land of Rain!" Mito Kado En spoke up to persuade them to stop.

However, it would have been fine if Mito Kado En hadn't spoken, because as soon as he opened his mouth, Danzo became even angrier. If it weren't for the fact that he and Utatane Koharu, the two scumbags, had not confused Sarutobi Hiruzen with their words, how could Hiruzen, as a good friend, not consider the advice of him as the Hokage's assistant.

Danzo was so angry that he raised his fist and wanted to hit Mito Menen with a punch.

At this time, Sarutobi Hiruzen finally came to his senses and stopped him. He looked at the three people, calmed down his mind, and said: "Stop arguing, Danzo, you take the Root to stop the Yugakure troops first, I will send the Anbu to go with you! Yan, Xiaochun, quickly notify the major families and convene a meeting of the Jonin class. We must form an elite force of all Jonin as quickly as possible, and then reinforce Danzo. I will also go to the battlefield myself to compete with Hanzo again. We must drive them out of the Land of Fire!"

Danzo didn't say anything else. He snorted coldly, turned around and left the Hokage's office. He was going to set off first with the Root and the Anbu.

Although Danzo had some thoughts in his mind at this time, they were not as outrageous and perverted as in the later stages.

At this time, he was still making contributions to Konoha, so he was willing to empty his family fortune in order to protect Konoha.

On September 34, the 9th year of the Kirigakure era, the news that the Hidden Rain Village in the Rain Country had brazenly launched a war against the Hidden Sand Village in the Wind Country and the Hidden Leaf Village in the Fire Country, after repeated confirmation by spies from all sides, finally spread throughout the ninja world, and a new round of ninja war began.