Chapter 154 If There Is No Fourth Generation, There Is Still Me! (Two in One, Please Subscribe!) (1/2)

There were many people in the living room, but at this moment, it was in a strange silence.

However, someone soon spoke up to break the depressing atmosphere. Danzo spoke first:

"Hiruzen, what are you going to do?"

The third generation frowned slightly when he heard this, and seemed to be in a dilemma.

"The envoys demanded the bodies of Hiashi and Chiho..." Looking at the expression of the third generation, Nara Shikaku added in a deep voice, giving an answer that everyone could not accept.

"Hmph! How dare you make such an impolite request!"

The elder Hyuga on the side was furious.

Although the other elders did not speak, they were also angry.

As the leader of the Kumogakure envoys, he entered the courtyard of the clan leader on the day of the Hyuga clan's celebration and attempted to kidnap the eldest daughter of the main family. He deserved to be killed!

At this time, everyone turned their attention to the third generation again.

"Ah~" The Third Hokage sighed, "This matter is very difficult. The leader of the envoy group and another ninja died in succession in the Hyuga clan. Even if they really had bad intentions, it is hard to explain now.

If it is not handled properly, it will cause a war between Kumogakure and Konoha, which is a situation that no one wants to see.

I hope this matter can still be handled through negotiation."

The Third Hokage's attitude and position are very vague, and this sentence is as good as nothing.

But how many of the smart people present don't understand?

It seems that he is pushing the problem back to the Hyuga clan.

The attitude of Kumogakure is very clear and tough. Don't hand over people? Start a war!

Hand over people? What about Hyuga? As the Third Hokage, how can he convince the people in the future if he hands over the head of the largest ninja clan in the village?

Qianhe, who was watching coldly, didn't expect that a series of changes would involve him in this matter.

But he was not panicked at all. He was no longer the same person as before. Even if the Third Generation wanted to hand him over, he was not afraid, because he was not someone who could be manipulated at will.

Besides, could the Third Generation hand him over?

No! Maybe for the sake of peace, the Third Generation could sacrifice him, but Chiho himself would not agree, and Jiraiya would certainly not agree.

Maybe the Hyuga clan would go back to its past trajectory, but Chiho would not die foolishly.

Even if time went back and he was allowed to choose again, he would still send Ayane away. He would not be soft-hearted when he met the Kumogakure Jonin.

"In that case, then hand me over to them." Hyuga Hiashi was silent for a long time, and took a step forward.

Chiho: "???"

"No!"

"No!"

"How can we let the clan leader die!"

"Even if our Hyuga clan is exterminated, we cannot agree to such an excessive request!"

"That's right!"

Hyuga Hiashi's words aroused resistance from the elders of the clan, and they all looked at the Third Generation angrily.

What a joke! Handing over the clan leader? Doesn't Hyuga have any face?

"But only in this way can Kumogakure be satisfied, otherwise, war is inevitable." Hyuga Hiashi looked embarrassed.

The great elder Hyuga Muneaki on the side coughed twice and prepared to speak.

However, Ayane was one step ahead of him and immediately said excitedly: "How can that be? How can Uncle Hiashi be handed over! Moreover, if Uncle Hiashi is handed over... then Qianhe will also..."

"Cough cough cough!" Before Ayane finished her words, Hyuga Muneaki coughed violently, interrupting what she was about to say, and then glared at her.

Seeing the grandfather's beard and glaring, Ayane shrank her head and knew that there was something wrong with what she said just now.

Qianhe looked at Ayane defending herself, and her heart was immediately warmed. Then she pulled her to her side and signaled her not to speak for the time being.

Seeing this, Ayane still looked angry, but she stayed by his side obediently.

At this time, Hyuga Muneaki walked to the middle of the crowd with a cane and said, "We won't hand over the people. If you want to fight, we will accompany you. Even if only the Hyuga clan goes up, even if it's just me, I will never compromise!"

Ayane had already made it clear just now that she was also attacked by the Kumogakure ninja. If it weren't for Qianhe, the consequences would be disastrous.

Until this moment, Hyuga Muneaki was still afraid.

After experiencing so many things and living for so many years, his mentality has changed.

At the end, Hyuga Muneaki glared at the Third Hokage fiercely.

To this, the Third Hokage didn't react at all, because he was one generation older than him.

And Hyuga Muneaki glared at him, obviously seeing his true thoughts in his heart.

"That's right! We will definitely not hand over the people!"

"The Great Elder is right!"

"If you want to fight! I will be the first to go to the battlefield!"

"Count me in!"

No matter how big the contradictions are within the clan, when facing foreign enemies, this group of old men who are hundreds of years old in total excitedly hoe the ground with their canes, unprecedentedly united.

Squeak~

Just as the situation was gradually getting out of control, the door of the living room was pulled open.

A Hyuga elder came in again with Hyuga Hiashi's twin brother Hyuga Hiashi.

Just now, Qianhe noticed that when Hyuga Hiashi proposed to sacrifice himself, Hyuga Hiashi was called out by the elders.

Now, after Hyuga Hiashi came back, his face clearly looked like he was ready to die generously.

"Patriarch, let me go in your place!"

Sure enough, Hyuga Hiashi stepped forward and asked to die in his place.

"We are twin brothers, and Kumogakure will not recognize us. This not only meets Kumogakure's conditions, but also does not require you to die. Moreover, even if they get my body, the Byakugan will be destroyed by the 'bird in the cage' because of my death. They will get nothing except the body. This is the best way."

Speaking, Hizashi Hizashi looked at Chiho and said, "As for Chiho's matter, we can argue with reason.

It is an indisputable fact that their ninjas attacked our main family's young lady. As long as they get my body, I think their main goal has been achieved."

Chiho glanced at Hizashi Hizashi. I didn't expect that he hadn't forgotten himself before he died. He really had a spirit of sacrifice!

"No! Hizashi, I killed the person, how can I let you die in my place! Neji is still so young, he can't lose you as a father! Let me, the clan leader, protect the Hyuga clan and the village."

Hizashi Hizashi rejected his brother's proposal, but after he said this, the third generation could no longer remain silent.

"In fact, things haven't come to this point yet. I believe there are other ways to solve it!" The third generation still looked embarrassed.

At this time, Danzo, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly said:

"Hiratsune, haven't you told the Hyuga clan about the previous Kumogakure's unusual movements?"

Then, Danzo told Jiraiya about the top-secret intelligence that the third generation had sent to him, including the fact that the third generation told him that Kumogakure sent two Jinchūriki to the Frost Country.

The third generation suddenly looked back at Danzo with a shocked face. He didn't expect Danzo to give him this trick at this time.

In the previous high-level meeting, the third generation did not make this matter public, but just found an excuse for the various clans to strengthen their vigilance.

The reason is that the third generation and Nara Shikaku did not come up with a good solution.

Unlike other countries, although Konoha is the strongest, it is located in the center of the continent and is surrounded by four powerful countries.

Once Konoha responds to Kumogakure's actions and sends troops to the northern border, the Kumogakure envoys will inevitably make trouble.

Konoha cannot move if it is not 100% certain that Kumogakure will go to war with Konoha.

In short, Konoha can only fight back if Kumogakure starts first.

Konoha can only do this now.

Because on the day when the intelligence about Kumogakure was learned, spies in the Kingdom of Wind and the Kingdom of Earth sent news that the two countries had sent troops to the border.

Konoha today is no longer the Konoha of the Third World War.

It is absolutely impossible to fight one against three.

Once a large number of elite troops are sent to the northern border, the defense lines in the west and northwest will inevitably be tight.

In addition, although Kirigakure in the east has not made any moves for the time being, there is no guarantee that they will intervene once Konoha falls into the dilemma of fighting on three sides.

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After the three wars, no village is easy.

Konoha doesn't want to fight, and other villages won't take the initiative to start a war unless they are given a chance.

When Konoha is not sure about the number of frontal troops of Kumogakure, even if Konoha knows that the other side is coming to fight, it can't react first. This is the problem caused by the decline in strength.

When Kumogakure goes to war, he only needs to defend a position on his western border and then let the remaining troops go south.

In addition to the front battlefield, Konoha has to defend at least three places, and the two sides are not comparable.

What's more, Konoha is not much stronger than Kumogakure now, and it will definitely lose if it divides its troops into four routes!

Kumogakure obviously knew this.

If Konoha wanted to fight, it had to use the force of thunder to instantly injure Kumogakure's frontal forces, so as not to give other countries an opportunity to take advantage of it.

Thinking of this, the third generation regretted that the fourth generation Hokage had died, otherwise there would be no need to worry about this problem.

Even if this difficulty was overcome, if it was not handled properly, the third generation would have to step down again, and then Danzo would have a greater chance of taking the throne. Obviously, the third generation did not want him to do so.

And Danzo also told the third generation at a critical moment that he really wanted to seize this opportunity.

"Third generation! Is what Danzo said true?"

"Why didn't you tell us earlier?"

"It seems that Kumogakure was sure that Konoha would not dare to start a war easily, so it dared to provoke Konoha and humiliate our Hyuga clan!"

"We can't swallow this breath!"

Once the matter was exposed by Danzo and the fig leaf was removed, everyone could no longer pretend to be confused.

In fact, everyone knows that the leader of Kumogakure, Takayama Ishikawa, can't have lost his way and asked Miss Hinata to lead him to the backyard of the clan leader's house?

And just as he was killed, the Kumogakure envoys came on the spot as if they had agreed to catch him red-handed.

On the other side, Ayane was attacked and was also discovered on the spot.

They clearly planned it in advance and split into two groups to attack!

In fact, everyone understands the truth, but for the sake of the overall situation, no one will break this membrane first, but Danzo explained the movements of Kumogakure.

Considering the behavior tonight, Kumogakure is an open conspiracy, and it is bound to blame Konoha and Hyuga.

The one who died was indeed the real leader, the real high-ranking member of Kumogakure.

Perhaps their real purpose was not to get the White Eyes, but to alienate the relationship between Hyuga and Konoha, and at the same time find an excuse to start a war.

They also calculated that Konoha would not dare to move lightly.

And the third generation pretended not to know at the beginning. This was clearly a problem that he, the Hokage, should deal with, but he threw it to the Hyuga clan.

After thinking about this, the Hyuga elders present looked at the third generation with some unkindness.

They, the Hyuga, are die-hard supporters of the Hokage line. They didn't expect that the third generation would treat them like this at the critical moment. It was really chilling.

Even if they understood the third generation's painstaking efforts, understood the current situation of Konoha, and knew that they couldn't fight, they still had to force the third generation to take a stand.

The third generation Hokage glared at Danzo fiercely, and then comforted the Hyuga elders, but no one was willing to listen to him.

"Third generation, if Konoha goes to war with Kumogakure now, what are you going to do?"

At this time, Hyuga Muneaki directly brought the question to the key point.

Seeing that this question was inevitable, the third generation replied in a deep voice: "If a war breaks out, in addition to being wary of the other three countries, the strength of the Kumogakure vanguard is also a big problem. Everyone knows the current situation of the village.

Konoha can fight, but it is best not to fight.

Even if we know that this matter was provoked by Kumogakure, their leader died in Hyuga and Konoha after all.

They are right. Once this matter is reported to the daimyo, we will be charged with the crime of actively provoking the war.

I think Kumogakure did this to force the daimyo of the Lightning Country to express his position!

After all, although the dead were ninjas of Kumogakure, the more serious thing is that they came on behalf of the daimyo of the Lightning Country, and they slapped the daimyo in the face."

In fact, the third generation didn't say another sentence. If the death of one or two people can quell the war, then the daimyo of the Fire Country is obviously very happy.

At this time, Qianhe, who had been silent all the time, suddenly said: "Who said they are right!?"

Faced with Qianhe's sudden voice, several Hyuga elders showed displeasure. Although this kid saved Ayane, he was not qualified to speak.

And everyone present knew that the Kumogakure envoys were not right, but who let them appear to be right? Konoha could only suffer in silence!

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Qianhe continued, "According to the Kumogakure envoys, their envoys mistakenly entered the backyard of the Hyuga clan and were killed by Lord Hiashi.

But we can also say that their people have been planning for a long time and are plotting to get the Hyuga clan's Byakugan.

Not only that, Miss Ayane of the Hyuga clan was ambushed by the Kumogakure assassins and was seriously injured. Her life is at stake. The elder is old and is bedridden because of his worry about his granddaughter's injury.

And the assassin may not be a member of the envoys, but followed the envoys secretly.

As for the evidence, the assassin left a Kumogakure forehead protector at the scene."

Bang!

As he said that, Qianhe threw out a Kumogakure forehead protector from the storage scroll. These were the two Kumogakure forehead protectors he found in the scroll when he was sorting out the spoils. I don't know which two unlucky guys contributed them.

"This..."

"Isn't this a little too..."

Seeing the hesitation on everyone's face, Qianhe continued:

"Kumogakure is shameless, why should we have shame in Konoha? Compared to shamelessness and shamelessness, can we still lose?

Anyway, it's just a quibble, and our losses are more serious.

When the time comes, we will bring the matter to the daimyo, I think he will support us."

"It's a good idea." At this time, a person who Qianhe didn't expect spoke up. That person turned out to be Danzo. He didn't refute, but praised Qianhe's idea.

However, Danzo then asked Qianhe: "But have you ever thought about it? Doing this can only make Konoha win back a city on the surface.

Kumogakure can still use this as an excuse to start a war!

Although in my opinion, Kumogakure may not fight Konoha to the death.

But if we lose the first battle, other ninja villages will see that Konoha is not as strong as before.

Have you thought about the consequences?"

Qianhe suddenly showed an arrogant smile: "What if we win?"

Danzo shook his head and laughed, saying: "Young people think that Konoha can win against Kumogakure alone.

But what Konoha needs is a crushing victory in the first battle to deter other countries and boost morale.

So we can't rely on the advantage in the number of troops to win, and we don't have a chance to win by numbers.

At least two-thirds of the troops in the village must be kept to guard against the invasion of the other three countries. Attack.

Now there are more than 200 Konoha elites on the northern front, and they have to face an enemy that is ten or even dozens of times larger, led by the Fourth Raikage.

Jiraiya can stop the Fourth Raikage, but what about the other thousands of Kumogakure ninjas?

Konoha can now summon at most a thousand ninjas to support the front line. How to solve the problem of material supply in the meantime?

The terrain of the Land of Lightning is rugged and easy to defend but difficult to attack. Once Kumogakure is defeated, they can withdraw and we cannot pursue them.

The border of the Land of Fire is long, and the territory is mainly plains, which are easy to attack but difficult to defend.

If we win, we can't take advantage. Once we lose, there will be a smooth road ahead for Kumogakure, and then it will be a complete defeat.

In the past, Konoha was able to win with fewer people, but it was never won by the number of ninjas.

In all the previous wars, the enemy was blocked outside the Land of Fire.

Only this time, I'm afraid it can't be done.

It will take at least three days for thousands of troops to rush to the front line. During this period, the border has already been lost. Once it is lost, who can lead us to retake it?

If the Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze is still there, with the elusiveness of the Flying Thunder God Technique, the army can take the enemy's head and cause chaos in Kumogakure.

That may be possible, but who else in Konoha can lead thousands of Konoha to resist thousands of Kumogakure?

Is it me? Or Hiruzen? We can't do it. "

Faced with Danzo's doubts, Qianhe said confidently: "Without the Fourth Hokage, there is still me! Flying Thunder God, I can do it too!"