Chapter 424: The Attack

You don’t know until you count.

Once you count, you’ll be shocked.

Suddenly, Obito realized that there were already five tailed beasts in Menma’s place. Originally, in Obito’s eyes, Menma was the most difficult to capture and the most important number one target. Now there are so many tailed beast targets gathered around Menma.

Obito was inevitably surprised.

This should be the first time since Hashirama Senju captured the nine tailed beasts that so many tailed beasts appeared in the same ninja village. Five, this is more than half of the total number of tailed beasts. If the current manpower of the Hidden Light Village is doubled, without counting Menma, it can really challenge the entire ninja world. Having means to deal with tailed beasts and being able to truly suppress or even eliminate tailed beasts are two different things.

Since Menma defected from the Hidden Leaf Village, every step he took was challenging Obito’s cognition.

This is completely unlike the mind and means of a teenager.

Once upon a time, Obito, like everyone else, thought that behind Menma was Orochimaru who was controlling everything. Menma's so-called autonomous actions must have been instructed by Orochimaru. Just like those people in the ninja village, Obito also listed Orochimaru as the biggest threat target, because he had the strength and background, and as a former member of the organization, he also had a good understanding of the Akatsuki organization. In terms of scientific research capabilities, he was unmatched. Obito has always been very wary of Orochimaru.

But now it seems.

Orochimaru is Orochimaru, and Menma is Menma.

The relationship between the two is at most a union and a transaction.

Obito must admit that he had made a mistake before.

"But it doesn't matter. The five tailed beasts gathered together, so it's just right to solve them all at once."

Obito's pupils revealed a strong murderous intent.

Soon, through the "master" pretended by White Zetsu, his latest order was passed to the front line.

'Attack to the end at all costs, and then there will be changes. ’

This is an ambiguous order.

Obito himself is of course very clear that the attack of the Mist Ninja this time is a meaningless sacrifice, but that is only for the Hidden Mist Village. Even if it is just to weaken the Hidden Light Village or the power of the major ninja villages, Obito will gain. Therefore, Obito must make the Mist Ninjas attack willingly, which requires the prestige of the master.

It is also necessary to have a plan that allows ordinary Mist Ninjas to see the hope of victory.

Otherwise, no matter how great a person's prestige is, it is impossible to make everyone execute an offensive plan that knows that they will die and has no meaning at all.

Death is not a particularly terrifying thing for ninjas.

But death without meaning and value is an existence that they will resist 100%.

At least before squeezing out the last bit of the value of the Hidden Mist Village, Obito still needs to spend more energy to "coax" these Mist Ninjas. His own Moon Eye Plan requires the hard work of nearly 10,000 Mist Ninjas.

Still have to give these Mist Ninjas hope.

After taking control of the Hidden Mist Village again this time.

For every order, Obito gave it after careful consideration, not only considering the rationality, but also adapting it to the style of the Hidden Mist Ninjas.

Perhaps in front of someone who is really familiar with the Master, or someone with amazing judgment, the flaws of the Master pretending to be the Master ordered by Obito, White Zetsu, are still a little obvious.

But now no one in the Hidden Mist Village can see it.

Those who can see it have been cleared out.

The remaining people are just some simple thugs, just like the Hidden Mist Village ninja Hyacinthus on the front line, whose strength is OK and whose brain is OK, but if you really say how smart, how careful her observation is, and how strong her strength is, that's not necessarily true.

In the Hidden Mist Village now, among the remaining people (referring to those who have not been replaced by White Zetsu), Hyacinthus is already an outstanding one.

The Hidden Mist Ninjas who are constantly marching to the front line.

It is also the first time for the "Master" to leave the Ninja Village after decades.

The combination of the two.

The morale boost it brought to the frontline Mist Ninjas was unparalleled.

When the news that the Master had also landed on the southern coast of the Land of Rivers spread, the Mist Ninjas' morale had reached an extremely high level.

They firmly believed that their Master had arranged everything 100%, and they only needed to act according to the instructions, and they would definitely be able to defeat the enemy in front of them, wash away the shame of the previous defeat, and snatch back the Three-Tailed and Six-Tailed that should have belonged to their Hidden Mist Village.

"Water Style - Water Bubble Jade Technique."

"Earth Style - Earth Array Wall Technique."

"Lightning Style!"

"Wind Style!"

"Fire Style!"

"Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding!"

For a while, the border between the Land of Rivers and the Land of Grass was full of the Mist Ninjas' strong attacks.

It has come to this point.

The overly broad border and the fact that the Light Ninjas were completely outnumbered also gave the Mist Ninjas an apparent advantage. A large number of Mist Ninjas could even cross the border and go directly into the heart of the Grass Country.

The previously impregnable chain of defense points were also wiped out by the Mist Ninjas in less than ten days.

Nearly half of them were directly wiped out.

Suiyue and Yugao can indeed cause a dimensionality reduction attack on the enemy. As long as they are not trapped in the seals and barrier traps carefully prepared by the Mist Ninjas, they do not need to transform into tailed beasts and can easily kill the attacking Mist Ninjas.

In just a dozen days of fighting before and after, the number of Mist Ninjas who died at the hands of the two has exceeded three digits.

But even so.

Under the huge number of Mist Ninjas.

The advantage on the scene still belongs to the Mist Ninjas.

Even though the casualties of the Mist Ninjas are rising infinitely with an extremely exaggerated trend, under the deliberate suppression of Obito, the Mist Ninjas only see their own side's advancement and victory.

Morale is not affected at all.

Instead, it rises further in a short period of time.

It is really a strong attack at all costs in the full sense.

At Yugao and Suigetsu, there were even Mist Ninjas from the Sealing Class and the Barrier Class specially arranged by Obito to deal with them. There was no requirement to win or seal, and there was only a perfunctory tactical requirement to delay them for one more day.

Obito didn't take the lives of these Mist Ninjas seriously at all.

Even in such a short period of time, the number of casualties of the Mist Ninjas was close to one thousand, and the number of deaths accounted for a full half of the total.

Obito's heart was also calm.

They were just some pawns.

It was their honor to serve their own plan. While completing the plan, they died peacefully. This was what Obito felt belonged to the final meaning and value of the survival of these Mist Ninjas.

Let's not talk about whether there were such actual results.

Anyway, after removing the outposts on the periphery, killing nearly a hundred light ninjas in total, and going deep into the hinterland of the Land of Grass, cutting off the front-line supplies of the light ninjas once or twice, under Obito's signal, the Hidden Mist Village directly announced to the outside world that its own ninja village had achieved a major tactical victory and had completely broken through the first line of defense of the Hidden Mist Village.

In order to further intensify the turmoil in the ninja world.

In order to quickly pull the ninja villages of various countries into this melee, Obito also sent corresponding envoys to the four major ninja villages again with great fanfare.

False victory.

It is difficult to really cover up the fact of huge casualties.

Once the time is delayed too long and the Hidden Mist Village cannot really make a substantial breakthrough, even the stupidest Mist Ninja can react, and at that time, the Hidden Mist Village will become very difficult to control.

Although there will not be too many losses.

But that was obviously far from what Obito had expected at the beginning. Obito didn't care whether the Kirigakure was finished or not, but the premise was that he must see the war between the major ninja villages break out again. This was the core goal of Obito's plan this time.

The news was spread as widely as possible.

It also really attracted the attention of the ninja villages of various countries. The Hidden Cloud Village and the Hidden Rock Village, which had originally deployed corresponding forces at the border because of the war between the two villages, Onoki and Ai also sent additional support troops to the front line at the moment they received the news.

Including Maki, who just wanted to be a salted fish at the beginning, was also forced to mobilize part of his troops to support the border position near the Land of Grass and the Land of River.

It's not that Maki changed his mind.

It's that the battle between the Kirigakure and the Light Ninja is next to their Wind Country, and Maki has to be on guard.

They really don't want to participate in the war, and they will try their best to avoid participating in the war.

But war is something that you can't decide unilaterally. If you are not careful, you can easily be involved.

Maki was even ready to lead the team to fight.

He also ordered Gaara not to continue the mission and to stay in the village temporarily. If the situation on the front line changes, Maki will take Gaara to fight directly. Now the Sand Village can only rely on Gaara.

Maki also firmly believes that as long as their Sand Village does not cross the line at will, they can still withstand the offensive and defensive battles under normal circumstances.

The major ninja villages that constantly deployed troops further catalyzed the tense atmosphere in the ninja world.

Suddenly, it became a crisis situation with a storm coming.

It can be said that Menma is almost in the center of the storm, but he still stands still.

"It's really a full-scale push. It seems that the Mist Village has indeed fallen completely into the control of that guy."

Taki no Kuni, Hikari Village.

Almost at the same time as the Mist Ninjas on the front line pushed forward.

Wuwei immediately led the team to the front line and immediately passed the corresponding information to Menma.

No matter what, that was nearly 10,000 Mist Ninja troops.

The Hidden Mist Village came out in full force.

The pressure brought by this was not something anyone could remain calm about.

"Tens of thousands of Mist Ninjas, just thrown into the battlefield, this is crazy, right? In the previous wars, no ninja village had ever concentrated nearly 10,000 ninjas, right!?"

Karin, who was standing on the side, said with an incredible expression.

Even if it was the ultimate decisive battle between ninja villages.

Generally, only 4,000 to 5,000 troops were concentrated, which was already an exaggerated number, because the number of ninjas from the five major countries at their peak was at most 20,000, and 4,000 to 5,000 was already a quarter of the strength.

Under normal circumstances, they occupied more than one-third of the manpower of the ninja village.

You can't really count those young ninjas as basic combat power. They are even more cannon fodder than cannon fodder.

Now the Mist Ninja has mobilized nearly 10,000 ninjas at one time. Although it is not the total number of ninjas in the Hidden Mist Village, it is already close to 80% or 90%, because it just lost 2,000 to 3,000 troops before. The Hidden Mist Village's behavior is simply putting all its belongings on the gambling table. It is not rational or normal no matter how you look at it.

"There are precedents. The Hidden Rock Village once mobilized 10,000 troops to encircle and suppress the Third Raikage of the Hidden Cloud Village. However, this is indeed a very rare example, which is enough to prove the other party's intentions."

Menma narrowed his eyes slightly, and a trace of coldness appeared in his pupils.

"Is it really the mysterious Uchiha who released the Nine-Tails from Aunt Kushina's body fourteen years ago? Menma?"

Karin asked with a little hesitation.

It's not that I don't trust Menma.

I just think that if there is a misjudgment in such an important matter, it will be easy for them to take the next action.

"Don't worry, Karin, this is the only thing I can be 100% sure of. That guy has a criminal record. Remember what I told you about the Fourth Mizukage? There is very solid evidence for this. Orochimaru is also aware of this matter. This Uchiha and the Akatsuki organization have a very close connection. Their target is the tailed beasts in our bodies."

Menma nodded seriously and said.

If Menma was only 70% to 80% sure before, now he is 100% sure that Obito is behind the Mist Ninja.

It's not that there is any solid evidence, it's just a simple consideration from the perspective of rationality.

The current situation is most in line with the interests of the Akatsuki organization.

The more chaotic the ninja world is, the more the power of the major ninja villages is weakened, and the more smoothly the Moon Eye Plan can go.

Why didn't it do this in the original work? It can only be said that the timing is wrong, or there is no better opportunity.

In this life.

It was obvious that Obito had seized this golden opportunity.

Menma subconsciously praised Obito in his heart.

"Then should we adjust the plan? We should deal with him first, so that he can control the Nine-Tails. Such power is too scary."

Karin pursed her lips and said solemnly.

"No, there is no need for that, Karin, it is not time to close the net yet. We still need to be patient. We need to be vigilant against this guy. The same is true for Konoha, Iwagakure, and Kumogakure. We still need some time. Everything should proceed according to the original plan."

Menma shook his head slightly and said.