Chapter 105 Garrison

There are three thousand troops led by Jiraiya in the southeast of Konoha, plus the two thousand reinforcements currently led by Minato, for a total of five thousand troops.

Judging from the number of people, this seems to be equivalent to the strength of the Northeastern defense line when Konoha and Kumogakure went to war.

But in fact, these two situations are completely different.

On the northeastern defense line, Konoha guards the narrow road between the Kingdom of Frost and the Kingdom of Tang.

If Yunyin attacks from land, he can only go here. As long as he holds the defense line, not only one man can guard the barrier, but ten thousand people can't open it. At least five thousand people can guard the barrier and ten thousand people can't open it.

However, the southeastern defense line is a long coastline, and the depth is the entire hinterland of the Fire Country, so the troops have to be dispersed.

Therefore, five thousand troops is actually far from enough.

But there is no way, Konoha has already produced most of its combatable soldiers.

There are ten thousand troops on the western front fighting Sunagakure, two thousand troops are left in the northwest to defend Iwagakure, two thousand troops are left in the northeast to defend Kumogakure, and only five thousand troops are left in the southeast.

If the fight continues, we will have to mobilize the reserve ninjas left behind in the village.

The troops arrived at the Southeast Defense Line Headquarters. Minato temporarily settled the troops and brought Fugaku, Tetsu, Hyuga Tokuyo, and Hinata Tsukisho to the camp where Jiraiya was.

"Hey, it's Minato."

Jiraiya seemed to be reading some book at first, but when he saw Minato coming in, he immediately put it back in the drawer and hid it. It was probably not a serious book.

"Jiraiya-sensei, how's the situation?" Minato asked straight to the point.

"My situation is very good. I can eat three bowls of rice in one meal." Jiraiya said amusedly.

Minato laughed twice, and then said: "Jiraiya-sensei, seriously, how is the situation on the battlefield?"

Jiraiya then became serious, stood up and said, "It's not good on the battlefield."

"The battle line is too long. The three thousand men under my command are simply not enough. Even if we add the two thousand reinforcements that the old man squeezed out, they are still far from being able to consolidate the southeastern defense line of the Fire Country to a foolproof level."

"Kirigakure has two directions of attack. One is to use the country of Waves in the east as a springboard to harass the eastern coast of our country."

"The other is to attack the southern hinterland of our country from the ruins of the Kingdom of Whirlpool in the south of our country."

"It's really difficult to guard against both directions."

Jiraiya shook his head with a grimace, and suddenly asked: "By the way, why didn't Orochimaru come?"

Minato scratched his head and replied vaguely: "Lord Orochimaru didn't even come to the Jonin meeting. There must be something wrong."

Che knew that Orochimaru's research had entered a breakthrough period, so he was naturally reluctant to leave his research institute.

Jiraiya sighed and expressed regret: "It's a pity, I lost one of my combat capabilities."

Minato looked at Che at this time and said to Jiraiya: "In my opinion, Che can stand alone. He made great contributions on the northeastern defense line. I believe that Che can make the same contribution this time."

"I heard about it too." Jiraiya suddenly came over and took Che's hand and said, "Defeat the Eight-Tails alone and force the Kumogakure landing force back. You kid has a bright future!"

Che was a little embarrassed by Jiraiya's familiarity.

After a few more conversations, Jiraiya arranged tasks for the reinforcements.

Minato led a thousand troops to garrison the southern defense line of Fire Country, and Uchiha and Hinata each led 500 troops to garrison the eastern defense line of Fire Country.

Then each of these men led their troops to garrison at the locations they were responsible for.

Uchiha and Hinata are stationed at the outermost part of the overall defense line, consolidating the defense line and responsible for reconnaissance and alert.

The two armies are like each other's horns and can also take care of each other.

Che came to the garrison location, and beside him were the three members of Che's team, Sarutobi Asuma, Uchiha Bronze Fire, and Uchiha Iron Fire.

Needless to say, Copper Fire and Iron Fire are both members of Uchiha, and Asuma applied to follow Che as captain. It is said that he even had a quarrel with Naruto Sarutobi Hiruzen and insisted on staying in Che's team. .

"I wonder which one is more difficult to deal with, the Mist ninja or the Cloud ninja?"

Asuma sighed.

Che smiled when he heard this and said: "Yunyin Village has a strong military force, and Wuyin Village's military force is also quite strong."

"But the strength of the two is different. The strength of Yunyin Village is based on militarized management and brave combat style."

"The Hidden Mist Village is also known as the Village of Blood Mist. Their strength is based on their personal strength and brutal killing style."

"In the blood mist?" Asma seemed to have heard something.

Che said: "Yes, it's the bloody mist where graduates fight each other. The ninjas trained by such a system are probably freaks."

As he said that, Che thought of a beautiful figure.

Although Terumi Mei could not see the cruelty of her murder, Che felt that this woman was quite strange.

When they first met, she frantically pestered her to strike up a conversation. Later, she kidnapped Hong but didn't hurt her, and even kissed her inexplicably.

Che touched his cheek and thought to himself: "If we meet this time, I don't know what will happen. Anyway, I will definitely not let her kiss me again."

"No matter what it is, it is no match for our brother Che." Tonghuo said with a flattering smile on his face without missing any opportunity to flatter Che.

Che had long been used to Copper Fire's appearance, so he ignored it and the four of them continued patrolling.

"It seems like something happened in the village ahead."

Che keenly discovered something strange.

After hearing this, Tonghuo immediately put away the smile on his face, became serious and took out a kunai.

Asuma and Tiehuo each took out their weapons and prepared to fight.

The four of them quickly rushed to the village ahead.

I saw that this place was already devastated, with the corpses of villagers who died tragically everywhere.

The remaining villagers were so frightened when they saw Che and others dressed as ninjas that they thought they were murderers.

Some villagers were dazzled by hatred and rushed towards the four people with weapons raised, but were knocked unconscious by the copper fire.

Asuma's lips were trembling with anger.

"Kirigakure, these beasts!"

Che sighed and said, "It seems like it happened before we were stationed."

"I have only heard about Kirigakure's cruel methods before, but now I have seen them."

Tiehuo asked: "Why don't we set up defenses on the coastline and protect these civilians behind us?"

Che said: "Set up a buffer zone to minimize bloodshed and avoid casualties. This is the strategy of the Third Hokage."

"Can civilians be exposed in the middle of the battlefield just to set up a buffer zone?" Asma said angrily.

"After all, no one knew that Kirigakure was so unrestrained that attacking civilians would be condemned," Che said calmly.

A kind of dissatisfaction was generated in the hearts of Asma, Bronze Fire and Iron Fire at the same time.

Che observed this from the side and thought to himself: "I don't need to say anything, the seeds have been planted. Let's see how they will sprout in the future."