Naruto's civilian cannon fodder starts with the three-body technique

Chapter 158 Half the Country's Wealth
"What a magnificent sea fortress! It's truly a place where one man can hold off ten thousand ships."

Sasuke Umino stood on the observation platform inside the mountain, looking down at the river below, filled with emotion.

This sea fortress was actually built inside the mountain, in an extremely precipitous location, which perfectly guarded the southern entrance to the sea of ​​the River Country.

Once this coastal fortress is captured, any attempt to invade the land of Sichuan or engage in maritime trade will be thwarted by it; it is undoubtedly a natural stronghold.

"Fortunately, we didn't launch a full-scale attack, otherwise the consequences would have been unimaginable."

Once inside the sea fortress, Umino Sasuke truly realized just how terrifying the defenses of this formidable pass were.

Faced with such a formidable pass, only by deploying truly powerful individuals, ignoring the advantages of terrain, and launching a crushing assault can we achieve any results; otherwise, sending more ordinary ninjas would be futile.

"Lord Baizhan, Lord Hefugui has ordered that the spoils be loaded onto the ship and transported back to the country first, just in case."

Just then, one of the Watermelon Pufferfish Demon's subordinates ran over.

"Huh?" Sasuke Umino frowned slightly, noticing that Suigetsu Hobuki and the others had already left the coastal fortress and retreated to a large ship in the river. In particular, that Ao was a powerful sensory ninja.

"Pity."

Sasuke Umino shook his head, feeling somewhat regretful that he hadn't been able to eliminate Suigetsu Hozuki and the others in one fell swoop. Taking them down in the future would be quite difficult; elite Jonin were powerful and not easy to kill.

Obviously.

His transformation technique was indeed extremely impressive, but the sensory ninjas of Kirigakure were not to be trifled with. Although they panicked when they first learned of the Kirigakure army's defeat and allowed a large number of transformed shadow clones to infiltrate the coastal fortress, they were not hard to detect the anomaly once they calmed down.

In addition, Ao's sensory abilities were quite good, and he quickly discovered that many Mist Ninja were actually Konoha ninja in disguise. Ao quickly provided this information to Suigetsu Hobuki.

Suigetsu Hobuki originally intended to inspect the coastal fortress and find the Konoha ninja who had infiltrated, but when he thought about the pursuers behind him and the fact that so many Konoha ninja had infiltrated the fortress, he knew that things were going to get very bad.

Suigetsu Hobuki couldn't help but think that such a profound transformation technique must mean that the Konoha ninja who infiltrated the area must be quite strong, especially that puppet-level expert who must have also infiltrated the coastal fortress.

Suigetsu Hozuki finally realized that the defenses inside and outside the sea fortress were riddled with holes and could no longer stop the Konoha Hundred. In fact, if things went wrong, they might not even have a chance to escape back to the Land of Water.

Thinking of this, Suigetsu Hozuki immediately decided to escape. Taking advantage of the fact that he was a Konoha expert disguised as someone who had entered the sea fortress, he thought that he had not been exposed and that escaping was the right thing to do.

The Watermelon Pufferfish Demon did the same. After escaping to the ship, he originally intended to leave directly, but then he thought of all the gold and silver treasures he had looted, as well as the organized military supplies, and his greed returned.

During this period, they robbed a large number of nobles and villages, and the gold and silver treasures they plundered were worth at least hundreds of millions of taels, all of which were hidden in the warehouses inside the sea defense fortress.

Even excluding the gold and silver jewelry, the military supplies alone are worth tens of millions of taels.

Previously, those Sand Ninja had gone to great lengths, stockpiling a large amount of military supplies. If it weren't for the Seven Ninja Swordsmen's sudden attack and the lack of strong defenders in the coastal fortress, they wouldn't have been able to capture this formidable pass so quickly, let alone seize so many military supplies.

"Lord Hundred Battles, Lord Pufferfish Demon is also thinking about safety, you see—"

"Then let's move."

Sasuke Umino waved his hand and agreed.

Since Suigetsu Hozuki was pretending not to notice and was already planning to escape, Umino Sasuke was happy to oblige.

He certainly wanted all that gold, silver, jewelry, and military supplies; it would be such a waste to destroy them all.

"Thinking you can leave with so much loot is just wishful thinking."

Sasuke Umino looked down at the dozens of large ships in the river below, his eyes burning with fervor.

Compared to gold, silver, jewelry, and military supplies, Sasuke Umino valued these large ships more, as they were all capable of long-distance ocean navigation.

While the Land of Water may excel in many other areas, its shipbuilding industry is exceptionally advanced, and such massive seagoing vessels are incredibly valuable. The fact that the Mist Ninja have brought so many large ships suggests that after capturing the coastal fortress, they intend to plunder the Land of Rivers.

Compared to Sunagakure, which wanted both money and resources as well as land, Kirigakure's idea was much simpler: they simply wanted to plunder and empty most of the Land of Rivers.

They didn't even spare people, especially women who were good-looking; aside from those killed on the front lines, they basically abducted them all.

Young and beautiful women are a form of hard currency, while strong and healthy commoners can be sold to work in the mines.

In order to take all these spoils of war back, the Mist Ninja violated the Ninja Code and forcibly took control of many of the Land of Water's merchant ships, which is why the fleet was this large.

"Lord Fugu Demon, the loading is complete. May we depart now?"

Qing finally loaded all the spoils onto the ship and then delivered the ledger to Suigetsu Hozuki.

"Yeah, well done."

Suigetsu no Kawamoto nodded, but he didn't understand anything about ledgers. He simply put it away and planned to have another subordinate check the accounts when he got back.

With a look of reluctance in his eyes, Qing still mustered his courage and suggested, "Lord Fuguki, the main force of the Konoha Hundred has not yet caught up. Why don't we annihilate those Konoha ninja in the coastal fortress first, and then leave?"

"this--"

Suigetsu Hozuki didn't want to take any risks, but leaving in such a dejected manner wasn't his usual style.

However, Juzo Biwa, who was standing to the side, had a different opinion: "Pufferfish Demon, do you think that watermelon rind might have already entered the sea defense fortress?"

Hearing this, Kurozuki Raiga shuddered, his eyes filled with fear.

Just as the Watermelon Mountain Pufferfish Demon was hesitating.

But then a loud bang resounded.

The whole world seemed to have collapsed, like the end of the world.

The coastal fortress built inside the mountain was subjected to a devastating explosion, causing the entire mountain to collapse.

The mountain collapsed, blocking the upstream section of the river. The towering waves shook the boats in the river, causing them to huddle together. The last large boat, loaded with supplies, even had its stern crushed by the boulder.

"What kind of forbidden technique is this? How can it have such power?"

When Pipa Juzo and the others saw this world-ending scene, they were immediately terrified.

"Information from Konoha Village indicates that this forbidden technique should be Dust Release: Multiple Infinite Explosion Array Annihilation Arrow Zero Style. I thought it was made up, but it turns out it really is not an explosive tag, but a real technique."

Suigetsu Hozuki, who controlled the Kirigakure intelligence system, had also received this information. At the time, after deduction, he thought that the Sand Ninja Puppet Army had been careless and had been killed by the explosive tag trap. Now it seems that this White Blood Demon has indeed mastered a forbidden technique that is capable of destroying the world.

"escape!"

The Watermelon Mountain Pufferfish Demon was terrified.

With such forbidden techniques at their disposal, even the powerful watermelon-skin puppet-level expert wouldn't need to make a move; the White Blood Demon alone could wipe them out.

Suigetsu Hobutsuki and his crew already intended to escape, and faced with this perilous situation, they dared not linger any longer. They immediately urged the sailors to set sail and leave this dangerous place.

At this moment, even Lian Qing had no objections whatsoever.

(End of this chapter)