Pokémon Ninja Scrolls of the Mizukage

Chapter 308 Then Starve
On the deserted battlefield.

A figure wearing a green Konoha vest slowly emerged from under the ground.

Orochimaru remained speechless for a long time as he looked at the battlefield, which was still in a mess even after a simple cleanup.

Originally, when he was fighting with Lan Zai, he used the "Orochi-style Substitution Technique" to successfully escape and hide underground, preparing to find an opportunity to launch a sneak attack on Jianchuan Ju.

However, when he saw Sarutobi Hiruzen lose his fighting spirit and surrender helplessly, he completely gave up the idea of ​​showing up and fighting back.

Even the plan to break out with the remaining Konoha ninjas had completely disappeared.

He finally showed up only after the Kirigakure forced all the prisoners to evacuate.

Orochimaru looked at the location where Sarutobi Hiruzen had last thrown the flare, licked his lips, and muttered to himself in his unique hoarse voice.

"Has your time passed? You are so fragile."

After leaving these confusing words, Orochimaru's figure slowly sank into the ground again.

However, what Orochimaru didn't know was.

After he left, another white figure quietly emerged from the ground.

However, the white figure just said "Huh~ How scary~" and then disappeared.

the other side.

On the whirlpool island at this time.

All the troops from the Hidden Mist Village that went into this battle have retreated back to the island.

Also included were all the Konoha captives, including Sarutobi Hiruzen.

According to a simple statistics on the way back.

However, after less than a morning of fierce fighting, the remaining ninjas on the Konoha side were less than a thousand.

In contrast, the number of casualties on the Kirigakure side was less than one thousand.

Although the Hidden Mist Village had the advantage in terms of military strength this time, the casualty ratio of nearly one to four was enough to be called a great victory.

It can even be said that if half of the battlefield had not been covered by the Mist Concealment Technique.

As a result, most of the remaining Konoha ninjas were unaware of such a huge casualty ratio, and perhaps their morale would collapse earlier and they would start to flee.

Perhaps the battle between ordinary ninjas will end earlier than the confrontation between top fighters on Jianchuan Ju's side.

Of course, if that's the case.

This time, Kirigakure may not be able to achieve the unprecedented feat of capturing the opponent's Kage.

So even the Kirigakure troops lost nearly a thousand people, and more than half of the remaining ninjas were injured.

But the return journey was still full of joy.

Even after returning to Whirlpool Island, many ninjas were still ready to celebrate this great victory together.

Senior officials like Jianchuan Ju and Qing naturally would not be too harsh on the victorious army. Instead, they allocated some of their limited supplies to allow these guys to celebrate wildly.

Of course, this also resulted in the already scarce supplies on the front line becoming even more stretched.

After all, before the war, the Hidden Mist Village's original plan was that regardless of the outcome of the battle, most of the ninjas would return to the village after the war.

"I think we should just kill them all?"

Kaguya Ryuya bumped his fists together with a "bang bang" sound, and looked at the other people present with excitement.

However, the others just rolled their eyes at his suggestion and showed no sign of agreeing at all.

At this time, the other ninjas in the Hidden Mist Village were either celebrating or resting and healing.

However, the leading jonin could not rest and all came to the front-line command tent to discuss various matters after the war. The most important thing was how to deal with the nearly 1,000 captured Konoha ninjas.

Qing rolled his eyes like everyone else when he heard Kaguya Ryuya's suggestion.

Then he rubbed his eyebrows with a headache and said.

"The shortage of supplies is only temporary. I have already sent the general report of this battle back to the village. The Yuanshi elders will send a new batch of supplies as soon as possible."

"And with this great victory, the Daimyo will not be stingy with supplies and should mobilize a batch of supplies from the western town of the Water Country as soon as possible."

Seeing that no one else agreed with his point of view, Kaguya Ryuuya didn't want to make trouble, so he just shut up and retreated.

Seeing this, Qing continued.

"In addition, we still have to transfer most of the ninjas back to the village according to the original plan, so the actual gap in supplies will not be particularly large."

At this stage, the defense capabilities within the Hidden Mist Village were extremely weak.

Although given the current situation, Konoha will definitely not attack the Hidden Mist Village.

But don't forget that the hatred level of the Hidden Cloud Village towards the Hidden Mist Village is not low at the moment.

Even though the Iwagakure Village, which killed the Third Raikage, is ahead of the Kirigakure Village, no one can guarantee that those barbarians in the Kumogakure Village won't suddenly have a change of heart and choose to attack the Kirigakure Village.

Therefore, withdrawing troops is an inevitable choice.

At this time, Jianchuan Ju, who was lazily leaning on a chair nearby, suddenly reminded him.

"There should still be a lot of supplies at the Konoha front camp, right?"

At this moment, Jianchuan Ju was in this kind of meeting with a very casual attitude. It was not that he was getting carried away after winning a victory and defeating the Third Hokage.

But in his current state, he really couldn't muster up the energy.

Previously on the battlefield, Jianchuan Ju originally thought that as long as he had the 'Sword of Regret' to replenish his life energy, he could perform 'acupoint pressing' infinitely and repeatedly squeeze chakra to maintain his combat power.

It turns out I was overthinking it a bit.

Although acupoint pressing can increase the power, even if it is 'double the chakra', it mainly consumes physical strength.

But it’s not that there is no mental consumption, it’s just that the consumption is not obvious.

When fighting, my spirit is in an excited state and I don’t feel anything.

After coming out of the acupoint amplification, Jianchuan Ju immediately felt mentally exhausted.

Although he had plenty of physical strength and chakra left, his slight mental deficiency was particularly obvious.

This also made Jianchuan Ju look like he was leaning there as if he had not woken up yet.

Fortunately, most of the senior ninjas present were familiar faces, and they all saw the scene of Jianchuan Tachibana displaying his mighty power on the battlefield just now.

So at this time no one would jump out to make trouble for themselves and think that they are being looked down upon.

Back to the previous topic.

When Qing heard Jianchuan Ju's reminder, his eyes lit up at first, and then he spoke hesitantly.

"Now that the battle is over, will robbing the Konoha camp have any impact on the subsequent peace talks?"

Jianchuan Ju, who was already a little distracted, sighed helplessly after hearing his teacher's somewhat naive remarks.

"Teacher Qing, there's no need to snatch it."

"Send someone to tell the frontline camp in Konoha that the Hidden Mist Village can't feed so many mouths in Konoha. If they don't send supplies, all the Konoha ninjas will starve."

"Everyone including Sarutobi Hiruzen, when the supplies are delivered, we will have food to eat!"

(End of this chapter)