Chapter 476 Three Years of Bloody Battle

At the gate of Kikyo Castle, Mitarashi Shishao, who was assigned to sit here, finally put down his worries when he saw Tsunade coming.

"Tsunade, it's great that you can come."

"I really don't want to come."

Tsunade, who came with Shizune, was very unhappy. She really didn't want to come.

It was just that the idiot Jiraiya wrote a letter, and this place was indeed in danger, so she could only come to see.

"Let's talk inside."

Mitarashi Shishao was a little embarrassed, and hurriedly took the two of them to the conference room.

He knew something about what happened back then, and he also understood that this person was dissatisfied with those people, but this kind of thing was not something he had the right to interfere with.

"What do those old guys want to do? The war is obviously about to end, but they did this."

Tsunade didn't understand the actions of those old guys. It was obviously about to end, but they did this.

She didn't believe the excuse that the Byakugan bloodline was taken away by the Hidden Cloud Village. With the Anbu watching the Hidden Cloud Village delegation, let alone sneaking into the Hyuga clan, it would be difficult to leave the hotel.

It's obvious that there's something wrong here. Those old guys must be causing trouble again.

"I don't know the specific situation either. I'm only responsible for the war here.

According to intelligence, it's Chiyo who led the army this time. You know her methods. Currently, you're the only one in the village who can quickly dissolve her poison."

Yutarai Shixiao quickly turned the topic to the war. He didn't dare to get involved in the affairs of the village, nor did he want to discuss them, lest he get into trouble.

"We should really find someone to stage a coup and give those old guys a public trial."

Tsunade was still dissatisfied, but she also understood that it was useless to say these things now. Dealing with the war in front of her was the most important thing.

"I won't fight. At most, I can provide medical support."

Her own situation was more troublesome. Once the Sand Village saw it, it would be bad.

"Medical support is enough."

Yutarai Shixiao was very confident in her own strength. It was not difficult to stop Chiyo. The only thing she was worried about was the opponent's poison.

But he was slapped in the face soon, because in the afternoon, the three thousand Sand Ninja Army hurried over to start the battle, and there was an additional person who was not in the intelligence.

"The Fourth Kazekage!"

Looking at the figure standing on the sand gold mat, Mitarashi Shisho's face changed slightly.

This person was not in the intelligence, and it was obviously hidden here.

This is going to be troublesome.

If it was only Chiyo, he could still deal with it, but now there is an additional Fourth Kazekage.

Just at this time, a large cloud of mist exploded, revealing a huge monster.

It was an oversized slug, and there was a heroic figure standing on the slug's head.

"It's Lady Tsunade!"

The Konoha ninjas, who were still a little panicked, breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the huge slug and Tsunade on it. With this person, everything will be fine.

Seeing Tsunade appear, Luo Sha nodded to Chiyo below, and then raised his hand to form a seal to release more gold dust to form a wave that swept towards the fortifications in front.

"Disperse!"

Tsunade injected her own chakra into the slug, and the slug quickly split into small slugs and crawled towards all Konoha ninjas to provide remote treatment services.

After dispersing the slugs, Tsunade punched the ground with a punch, smashing the ground dozens of meters in front of her and blasting the gold dust.

She couldn't hit people now, but it was no problem to blast this kind of ninjutsu creation.

"Tsunade, your opponent is me, and the contest back then is not over yet."

Chiyo rushed over, holding a sealing scroll in her hand, which was her carefully prepared trump card.

"Damn old woman!"

Seeing Chiyo rushing over, Tsunade was very unhappy, but she didn't retreat.

It was no problem for her to fight the puppets now, after all, puppets were not flesh and blood.

But the next moment, her body froze. Chiyo approached and took out ten puppets from the sealed scroll. They were all bloody and some of them had incomplete heads.

Moreover, these people all looked like Tsunade's acquaintances, including her younger brother Nawaki, her boyfriend Kato Dan who died tragically, and the others were also familiar clansmen, each of them was extremely miserable.

Those miserable and bloody figures evoked those memories that she didn't want to recall, and her body was trembling slightly.

"Sure enough!"

Seeing Tsunade's reaction, Chiyo said "Sure enough", and her men kept controlling the ten miserable puppets to kill.

These puppets were carefully prepared by her. Although they looked miserable and were far inferior to the Ten Kinmatsu, they still had no problem fighting.

Facing the puppets that came to kill, Tsunade's body trembled more and more, and her mental consciousness was filled with past memories, and she couldn't react at all.

Just when he was about to be killed, a rope suddenly flew over and entangled him, and then pulled him back. It was Shizune who had been watching from behind.

After pulling Tsunade back, Shizune carried her on her back and fled to the back without any hesitation.

Having followed Tsunade for several years, she naturally knew the situation of this teacher. Now she could no longer fight. If she continued to stay, she would definitely be targeted and killed.

And from the opponent's tactics, it was obvious that he had known the information about Tsunade, so he had to escape.

"Retreat!"

Mitarashi Shisho, who was dealing with Sakin, saw the abnormal situation on Tsunade's side and decisively ordered to abandon the fortifications and retreat.

Now that Tsunade was lost, she was left alone and could not deal with two Kage-level strongmen.

Especially for the Fourth Kazekage who possessed the Magnetic Release, the existing defensive fortifications were meaningless to him, so he could only retreat and preserve his strength to the maximum extent.

Mitarashi Shishao led the Konoha Ninja to fight and retreat, while the Sand Ninja took advantage of the victory to pursue and kill all the way, and finally captured the Kikyo Mountain Fort.

The Sand Ninja Army came to a temporary end after occupying the Kikyo Mountain Fort, and rested here.

They had marched all the way here, and their condition was not very good. They had fought another battle before, and their consumption was even greater, so it was not appropriate to pursue them further.

Luosha and Chiyo were very satisfied with the gains of this battle. Although they did not capture Tsunade and Mitarashi Shishao, there was no dangerous terrain in the area behind for the Konoha Ninja to borrow for defense.

Next, they only needed to advance steadily and layer by layer, and then force Konoha to sign a new peace agreement.

On the other side, Mitarashi Shishao, who had run hundreds of kilometers, just stopped and counted the escaped people, but found that there were less than 1,300 people left out of the original 2,000 people.

The remaining 700 people either ran away or died.

This number made him very sad, but he knew that now was not the time to be sad. He had to report to the village as soon as possible and wait for the village's decision and support.

After writing the letter and sending it back with a ninja hawk, Yutarashi Shixiao came to the location where Tsunade and his apprentice were.

"Tsunade-sensei may not be able to stay here any longer."

Shizune, who had just comforted her teacher, came over, feeling very sad.

Tsunade-sensei, who had made a great name in the ninja world and was known as the flower of ninja, actually suffered from hemophobia. It was funny to hear it, but she only felt sadness and anger.

"Did those things hit her so hard back then?"

Yutarashi Shixiao sighed. He knew something about what happened back then, but he didn't expect it to hit Tsunade so hard.

"Take her away when it's dawn."

Without trying to keep her, Tsunade was indeed not suitable to stay here. First, she would be targeted by Sand Village again, and second, the previous defeat made the survivors feel a little resentful, and all these resentments were transferred to Tsunade.

Most of those people don't know what happened back then, and there's no way to explain those things.

It's too unfair for Tsunade to stay, and it may even aggravate her own illness.

And the war situation has evolved to this extent, it's no longer something Tsunade can solve, and she needs more support.

The most important thing is that the Sand Village actually knows about Tsunade's situation, which should be top secret, so he has to suspect that someone in the village may have done something.

This kind of thing is a headache to think about, and we can only see how the village will do it.

The letter here was quickly transmitted to Konoha, and Sarutobi Hiruzen and the other two were dumbfounded after reading the information.

I thought it would be a good news, but who would have thought it would be like this.

"Tsunade's information has been leaked."

Putting down the information, Sarutobi Hiruzen looked at the two old friends, especially Utatane Koharu.

Not many people know what happened back then, and even fewer people have the motive to kill Tsunade, and Utatane Koharu is one of them.

Because Utatane Koharu himself controls the village's medical system, Tsunade will cause the greatest damage to it once she returns to the village.

Even Mitomon En couldn't help but look over and doubted.

"What are you looking at me for? Could it be that I would harm her at such a critical moment?"

Sensing the suspicious eyes of the two, Utane Koharu was very annoyed.

What do you mean?

Am I such a person who doesn't know the importance of things?

"The front line over there needs a strong medical ninja."

Sarutobi Hiruzen turned the topic to the war. There was no point in pursuing the previous things. The key now was to stabilize the front line over there. Even if they didn't take back Kikyoyama Castle, they couldn't let the Sand Village Ninja Army advance any further, otherwise it would be difficult to explain to the daimyo.

In addition to Tsunade, the medical ninja on this side of the village was Utane Koharu.

Although Utane Koharu was much worse than Tsunade in medical ninjutsu, she was not bad in medical skills. It shouldn't be difficult to prepare an antidote for Chiyo's poison in the past.

"I'll go, but I need the support of Ino-Shika-Chou."

With an uncertain look, Utane Koharu finally agreed to go, but proposed to bring the ninjas of the three tribes of Ino-Shika-Chou.

She would naturally bring her family ninjas to support them, but this was far from enough. After all, there were two Kage-level warriors there, one of whom was the Fourth Kazekage of the Sand Village.

However, most of the Kage-level warriors in the village had gone to the front line, even Danzo had gone, leaving only Hiruzen.

But Hiruzen must not be moved lightly, so now he could only take Ino-Shika-Chou with him, at least the combined combat power of Ino-Shika-Chou was not bad.

"I'll go talk to Tofu tomorrow."

Sarutobi Hiruzen nodded, then looked at Mito Kado En.

"Is there any information from the Grass Country front?"

"The Third Tsuchikage personally led 3,000 ninja troops into the Grass Country. Although Jiraiya's letter asked for Orochimaru, he had no better way to deal with the Third Tsuchikage Orochimaru, so he could only delay him."

Mito Kado En told the intelligence he had received two hours ago. The battle situation there was not very good, but it was not too bad either, at least much better than that of the River Country.

"It's good if we can hold them off."

Sarutobi Hiruzen felt a little relieved, knowing that the bond between Orochimaru and Jiraiya was still there. He was really afraid that Orochimaru would ignore him.

"What about Kirigakure?"

He immediately asked about Kirigakure, which was also a target that needed to be vigilant.

A large part of the reason why they decided to go to war in the first place was that they were sure that Kirigakure Village could not send manpower to fight, especially since the fourth Mizukage would definitely not be able to fight in person.

Not only did that person come to power through a coup, he also went through a series of major trials and then carried out drastic reforms, which would inevitably cause dissatisfaction among many ninjas.

The village cannot be stabilized internally, let alone lead troops to go on an expedition, otherwise there will be another coup if something goes wrong.

Afterwards, Kirigakure Village implemented a policy of seclusion, which proved their suspicions. Unfortunately, Kirigakure Village was too tightly closed, preventing them from obtaining intelligence there.

"Still no movement."

Mito Menyan shook his head slightly, this is good news.

It is already very difficult for them to face three ninja villages at the same time. If the Kirigakure Village intervenes again, they will definitely collapse.

Before, I was confident that I could suppress the Kumogakure ninja army in a duel, so I transferred the manpower from the eastern theater to the northern theater. There were not many people there anymore. Once the Kirigakure village sent troops, it would be impossible to defend them.

This is a big gamble. If they win, they can suppress the Hidden Cloud Village and take back the Byakugan bloodline and the Nine-Tails.

As for losing, that is not their consideration.

They believed that it wouldn't be long before the Hidden Cloud Village could no longer bear the pressure and surrendered, or Danzo and several others would work together to capture the Fourth Raikage or Jinchuriki in exchange.

It’s just that they thought wrong. After half a year of fighting in the Country of Yu, Kumogakure really couldn’t stand it anymore. They proposed a truce, but refused to hand over the eldest lady of the Hyuga family. As for the Kyuubi, they didn’t even mention it. .

Seeing that Yunyin Village is still so stubborn, naturally we can only continue to fight.

This fight lasted for more than three years, and once again pushed the Ninja War to a new climax, which was more tragic than the previous two Ninja War.

Mainly the war between Kumogakure and Konoha in the Country of Yu. Both sides fought with real fire and refused to give in.

"Isn't it over after the fight is like this?"

Looking at the list of dead again, Jiraiya, who was covered in bandages, was very angry. In the past three years, there have been several times when the war could be stopped. Cloud Hidden Village also expressed its intention to stop the war, but the old guy Danzo Shimura refused. .

So far, the original five thousand ninja army has only less than two thousand people left. This is the result of several replenishments during the period.

Danzo Shimura ignored Jiraiya's question. He was thinking about how to capture the Eight-Tails Jinchuuriki or the Fourth Raikage.

The strength of those two people was much stronger than initially expected. The most important thing was that they were too fast. They tried several times without success.

And the other party seems to have seen their intentions and is on guard, making it harder to catch them.

"Bang!"

"Shimura Danzo, tell me what happened, otherwise you can stay here and fight alone."

Shimura Danzo's ignorance made Jiraiya even more annoyed, and he also had doubts in his heart.

He questioned Shimura Danzo many times, and also wrote back to ask the teacher, but the teacher's response was to continue fighting and cooperate with Shimura Danzo to find opportunities to capture the Fourth Raikage and the Eight-Tails Jinchuuriki.

This made him realize something was wrong, something must have happened.

And it's not just the reason why Yunyin Village stole the Byakugan bloodline, there must be something deeper.

Hearing the serious threat, Danzo Shimura looked at Jiraiya indifferently, and seeing that he was not giving in, he thought for a moment and said: "Back then, Kumogakure not only stole the Byakugan bloodline, but also captured the Nine-Tails Jinchuuriki. , that is, the children of the fourth generation.”

It's really hard to hide things when they get to this point, otherwise once Jiraiya leaves, let alone arresting the Fourth Raikage and the Eight-Tailed Jinchuuriki, it will be difficult to stop them.

"Minato's child? Naruto?"

Jiraiya was stunned for a moment, then became anxious.

"How could Minato's child be taken away? Can't you even take care of a child?"

That was Minato's child and the container of Kyuubi.

What do you do for food?

"Ask your teacher about this. At that time, I was still staring at Kirigakure in the Eastern War Zone."

Shimura Danzo said indifferently that he would not take the blame. If he was incompetent, it was also the incompetence of the old man.

"teacher!"

Jiraiya frowned and calmed down a little.

"But continuing to fight like this is not an option."

"Now we can only continue to fight. Only by capturing the Fourth Raikage or the Eight-Tails Jinchuuriki can we exchange for the Nine-Tails."

Shimura Danzo also knew that fighting would be difficult. Over the past three years, his base had also lost a lot of manpower, and things were far more difficult than he originally thought.

Of course, a large part of the reason lies in the lack of internal unity on their side.

The ingredients here are very complicated. The elites of Uchiha and Hinata are all here, and the conflicts between the two races have long existed.

At the same time, the two also disliked the roots of themselves and their subordinates, and it was difficult to achieve perfect tactical coordination.

They even plotted against each other, which was the main reason why they failed to capture the Fourth Raikage and the Eight-Tailed Jinchuuriki many times.

He was also very annoyed about this, but he couldn't solve it.

"Are you sure he was kidnapped by Yunyin Village?"

After thinking for a while, Jiraiya felt something was wrong.

After these three and a half years of bloody battles, not only Konoha suffered heavy losses, but Kumogakure's side suffered even greater losses.

It stands to reason that Yunyin Village would not be able to fight to such a bloody extent over this. If the fight continues, both villages will be brought down.

If it really wants to be dragged down, even if Cloud Hidden Village gets the Byakugan bloodline and the Nine-Tails, it will not be worth the loss.

The Hidden Cloud Village already has two tailed beasts, and one of them has become a perfect Jinchūriki, and the other is also improving rapidly. It doesn't make sense that they would fight to such an extent for a Nine-Tails.

And the Fourth Raikage had proposed a truce several times before.

"The Hidden Cloud Village is the most suspicious, followed by the Mangekyō that caused the Nine-Tails Rebellion."

After a moment of silence, Shimura Danzo said another possibility.

He had also discovered something wrong in the past two years, and it seemed that the Hidden Cloud Village really didn't need to fight to such an extent.

"You decided to come and start a war without being sure?"

Jiraiya was almost vomiting blood in anger. He thought there was substantial evidence, but in the end you were not sure.

Is there anyone who does things like you?

You know, the village has paid a lot in the past three years. First, the Hidden Cloud Village went to war again, and Tsunade was found to have hemophobia and was almost killed by Sand, and finally had to retreat.

After two years of tug-of-war, they signed a truce agreement again, negating all the treaties signed in the last truce agreement.

The Hidden Rock Village also attacked from the Land of Grass again, and it was led by the Third Tsuchikage himself. The village paid a huge price to stop them.

Or he shamelessly wrote to Orochimaru again to ask him to come forward and use that forbidden technique to stop them.

The battlefield in the Land of Hot Water was even worse. It was a bloody battle, and both sides suffered too much.

In the end, an uncertain response was given. How can I explain to those compatriots who died in the battle?

How can I explain to their families?