Chapter 342 The Great Detour

In fact, there is no need to wait until the future. The performance of the current Suna Ninja air combat troops is already very surprising.

Daimaru, who returned to the northern fortress, asked his subordinates to rest first, and then met with the commander who was currently supporting the northern defense line.

After running for thousands of kilometers overnight and returning with one blow, except for two team members who were slightly injured due to lack of physical strength and deformed movements, they were almost unscathed.

Such achievements made insiders who were already confident in the air combat troops overjoyed.

A raid that killed nearly two hundred enemies was relatively rare even in the Ninja War.

Except for the head-on clashes between large ninja armies, there were not many dozens of casualties in one battle.

In the Battle of Kannabi Bridge, which determined the direction of the Third Ninja War, the combined number of Iwa Ninja and Konoha Ninja casualties exceeded two hundred, but whether it was the victorious Konoha Village or the defeated Iwagakure Village , the manpower sent by each party was less than 200.

Of course, those who participated in the battle of Kannabi Bridge were all elites, and most of the enemies killed by the air team this time were rookies, but it cannot be denied that the results of this battle were indeed quite brilliant.

Daimaru, who leads the team, is a newly promoted jounin, and the others are all genin, thirteen of whom are still newcomers. Even the senior officials of Sunagakure Village, who have invested heavily in building this army, do not expect that this sudden attack can kill ten times more than their own. The above Iwa ninja.

These are not desert locusts that just buzz around, nor are they a ragtag group of thieves, but well-trained rock ninjas.

Mask looked at the young and promising Daimaru in front of him with satisfaction, received the information, and after listening to the report, let him go down for a while.

"If there was such a force last year, how could it have been defeated so miserably..."

Compared to the Iwa Ninja who like to build strongholds with stones, Konoha Village, which is basically made of wooden buildings, is even more difficult to withstand attacks from air combat troops.

Shaking his head to suppress the delusions in his heart, he took up a pen to record the latest battle situation in the northern fortress, and then sent people back to Sunagakure Village as soon as possible to reassure those in the rear who were waiting for the results of the frontline battle.

"Those juniors did a good job, now it's my turn!" 』

With such a heavy loss, Yanyin Village will definitely come back with revenge, and a full-scale war will definitely not be fought for a while. It is estimated that it will take three to five months to fully mobilize, prepare for war, and mobilize supplies. Once the action is too big, it will not only be It's a matter between Iwagakure and Sunagakure.

Next, the northern defense line will be under considerable pressure. How long it will last depends on when the Iwa ninjas accept the fact of defeat.

Relying on the northern fortress and taking active defensive measures to deal with the next changes will be the challenge that the mask will face.

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Sure enough, in the next few days, the Iwa ninjas stepped up their attacks and sent a group of flying ninjas who looked very tough at first glance to provoke them, but they were all repelled by the Sand ninjas with crossbows.

Engaging in such frivolous activities as aerial combat is not the main task of the air combat unit.

Daimaru would not use his limited combat power for anger. Taking advantage of the intensifying head-on conflict, the team members who had recovered their strength during the two days of rest, under the leadership of Daimaru, bypassed the long cordon of the Iwa ninja and passed through the rain. On the border between the country and the country of grass, he made a large detour back to the rear of the Iwa ninja, once again turning the enemy's fragile supply line upside down.

The main goal of this sneak attack was not to kill people, but to burn down the strategic reserve warehouse of Iwagakure Village and attack its war potential.

Continuous fires rose up in the rear. By the time the Iwa Ninja realized something was wrong, Daimaru had already led his men directly to the country of Taki, avoiding the enemy's pursuit encirclement. After taking a gap, he went south to the country of fire, almost all around the northwest. After entering the Kingdom of Wind, take the route from Platycodon Mountain Castle to enter the Kingdom of Wind and return to the northern fortress.

The direct air raid lasted only thirty minutes, but the roundabout attack and return took three days.

Although it is a little troublesome, the effect is quite good.

Having burned a lot of supplies and unable to support themselves, the Iwa Ninja had to shrink their defense lines and dismantle a large number of forward bases that had been in operation for several years, shorten the distance between strongholds, and set up sentries in key places to guard against another raid by air combat troops.

The Iwa Ninja, who gave up a lot of territory, finally stabilized the situation.

The Sand Ninja did not take the opportunity to attack, which disappointed the Iwa Ninja who wanted to lure the enemy deeper and catch them off guard.

Just as the situation gradually calmed down, Ohnoki had almost accepted the increase in Suna Ninja's strength, and was about to give in in a low-key manner and acquiesce to the enemy's expansion. Under the leadership of Daimaru, the air combat troops crossed the more than three thousand-meter-high peaks surrounding the border of Earth Country, and crossed The continuous mountains that are difficult for birds to cross entered the territory of the Earth Kingdom, and a medicinal material cultivation base less than fifty kilometers away from Iwagakure Village was burned to a white ground.

When the furious Onoki arrived with his men, he couldn't even see the enemy's back.

In less than a month, the war suddenly broke out and ended with the complete defeat of the Iwa ninja.

However, the Iwa Ninja, who admitted their temporary defeat, did not give up completely, and still occupied a small part of the land taken from the Wind Country. The Suna Ninja did not take the opportunity to occupy the abandoned stronghold, but allowed it to become an inaccessible buffer. district.

"It's not the right time yet, don't push too hard, lest the Iwa ninja jump over the wall..."

In the conference room of Fengying House, Huang Sha put down the latest battle situation, shaking his head with some joy and some regret.

If only there had been such power more than a year ago, the Fourth Kazekage Rasa was still around, and a large number of elites had not been lost in Konoha Village, it would be great.

There is no need to join forces with Orochimaru who has ulterior motives and rely on the "Konoha Collapse Plan" to take risks.

Defeating the Iwagakure Village with dignity and dignity was the way to regain his prestige.

Pity!

To say that an air combat force of a dozen people can defeat Iwagakure Village is definitely exaggerating its effect. If the northern defense line, which had been in operation for more than ten years, had not blocked the Iwa Ninja's counterattack, and the calm face armor did not attack arrogantly and confront the powerful enemy head-on, but instead used the fortress to consume the enemy's combat power, it would be difficult to say the outcome.

The overall strength of the village is the foundation that supports everything. All the air combat troops led by Daimaru did was to regain the disadvantage.

Until the enemy finds a tactic to effectively defend against ultra-high-speed air combat troops, the Suna Ninja's ultra-long-range strike tactics will be a nightmare that the enemy will find difficult to escape.

With the mobility of ninjas, such tactics are not unheard of in the past, but they are difficult to replicate.

In the Battle of Kannabi Bridge, the Konoha ninjas stormed behind the enemy and defeated the Iwa ninja with one final blow. The tactics were indeed classic, but how many golden flashes were there in the ninja world?

The Mist Ninja once marched straight into Konoha Village and almost attacked Konoha Village. Even if they were repelled by Matt Dai's Eight Gate Armor, they could not deny the power of the seven invading Ninja Swordsmen.

Most of the members of the air combat force are new genin and can be trained in batches. This is a qualitative gap.