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

Chapter 179 You Regret My Shadow
The door to the Hokage's office suddenly burst open. Shimura Danzo threw the "Amegakure Surrender Letter" onto his desk, and sparks from Hiruzen Sarutobi's pipe flew onto the clause regarding the cession of two iron mines, leaving scorch marks.

"You call this a surrender agreement?"

Danzo Shimura's single eye was bloodshot with rage. "You actually agreed to such garbage terms—allowing Rain Village to retain two thousand standing troops without ceding any territory or paying any reparations—and even stamped them with the Hokage's seal?"

Hiruzen Sarutobi, suppressing the anger that Danzo Shimura had just unleashed, lifted his Hokage hat and said in a gentle tone, "Isn't this a concession of two iron mines?"

“Those two iron mines are both low-grade mines. Their actual value is less than the cost of mining. You should cede the chakra metal mines in the northern part of the Land of Rain.”

Then, Danzo pulled out a kunai and nailed it to the surrender scroll, the blade embedded in the clause "withdraw thirty miles from the military buffer zone": "This is the surrender document you obtained by exchanging the lives of Konoha's elite ninjas. Is it Amegakure that has lost, or our Konoha?"

Sarutobi stroked the gold-embossed patterns on the edge of the scroll treaty and explained, "Amegakure has agreed to dismantle all border fortifications, and their ninja academy will use our Konoha's teaching materials..."

"Our textbooks?"

Danzo was taken aback, then became even angrier, and questioned, "Our Konoha education system is the most complete. You want the Land of Rain to adopt our teaching materials so that they can train even stronger and more disciplined ninjas to fight against our Konoha Village?"

What's even more unacceptable is that it includes a training program for medical ninjas. This is undoubtedly an attempt to have Amegakure utilize Konoha's advanced medical technology to cultivate a large number of new-generation poison ninjas.

Hiruzen Sarutobi straightened the Hokage's hat and pointed to the map of the Land of Rain: "The two iron mines are just the first batch. In the next ten years, we will open one more mining rights with Amegakure every year and develop them together. With cultural education and commercial activities, we can definitely tie ourselves to Amegakure."

"Binding? Why bind? Direct occupation and military control would be simple and effective. There's no need to go through all this trouble and add so many risks."

“A violent occupation would force the Rain Ninja to break up into smaller groups and wage guerrilla warfare.”

Hiruzen Sarutobi was deeply worried, having no idea that the Konoha ninja were mired in the quagmire of the Land of Rain.

"So you'd rather be a coward than let Konoha become great again."

Danzo Shimura was exasperated. The image of Tobirama choosing his successor as Hokage flashed through his mind once again. He thought to himself, "If only Tobirama had chosen me as Hokage back then! This monkey is simply not a qualified Hokage."

"Aren't you afraid of provoking the entire Land of Rain to rebel by doing this?"

"Then let's kill until no one can lift a kunai!"

Danzo Shimura pulled out a kunai from the scroll and broke it in two. "If they still dare to rebel, then I will brand all the Rain Ninja with sealing talismans. All males over the age of twelve will be sent to the mines, and the women and children will be moved to concentration camps. Ten years later, who will dare to call themselves a descendant of the Land of Rain?"

Upon hearing this, Hiruzen Sarutobi gripped his straw hat tightly, his knuckles turning white. He was vehemently opposed to such a radical plan, but had no good reason to refute it, so he could only say in a deep voice, "I am the Hokage!"

Danzo Shimura glanced coldly at Hiruzen Sarutobi, then flicked his wrist, slamming all the kunai fragments in his hand into the surrender scroll.

"You will regret this!"

Danzo Shimura slammed the door and left, leaving behind a desolate and ruthless figure.

On the very day that the Land of Rain signed the instrument of surrender.

The Land of Earth then declared war on the Land of Fire.

A large number of Iwa ninjas passed through the border of the Land of Rain, but Hanzo changed his previous tough stance and made a complete 180-degree turn. He completely let the ninjas from other countries run rampant, only caring about Amegakure and letting the ninja villages of the three lands of Wind, Fire and Earth run amok in other areas, acting like a coward.

The more assertive they were before, the more dejected they are now. The Iwa ninja were well-prepared. After imposing initial military control on the northern part of the Land of Rain, they took less than half a week to use the Land of Rain as a route to advance into the Land of Grass.

The Land of Grass, as the Land of Fire's earliest ally, is a complete fence-sitter. While ostensibly allied with the Land of Fire, it actually maintains connections with various other countries.

The Hidden Grass Village offered only token resistance to the Iwa Ninja Army, then, like the Hidden Rain Village, remained on the sidelines, even secretly sending ninjas to provide intelligence support to the Iwa Ninja.

While Kusagakure's combat strength is not particularly impressive, its intelligence capabilities are among the top three in the ninja world.

Since Kusagakure was willing to provide intelligence, Iwagakure was not in a hurry to make things too difficult for Kusagakure. They would wait until Konoha was bogged down in the war before trying to win over Kusagakure. At that time, Kusagakure, which also had the ambition of becoming a great power, would definitely want to share in the behemoth that was the Land of Fire.

"Brother-in-law No. 1, I'm going to the battlefield in the Land of Grass. You'll miss me."

Senju Nawaki tugged at Umino Sasuke's clothes, clearly reluctant to part.

"What 'brother-in-law number one'? You might as well just call me 'cheap teacher' and you'll feel more comfortable."

Sasuke Umino was speechless.

Ever since I met this little guy whose imagination rivals Naruto Uzumaki's, things haven't stopped going on.

"Brother-in-law No. 1, I have high hopes for you. Jiraiya and Kato Dan have no chance."

"So, you promoted me from number three brother-in-law to number one?"

Sasuke Umino is imbued with the spirit of a teacher; if Nawaki Senju answers incorrectly, he immediately launches into another loving lecture.

"Haha! Don't worry about the details, just know that you're the one I have the most faith in."

Senju Nawaki felt a chill run down his spine, and images of countless exploding tags flashed through his mind.

This little guy, Senju Nawaki, wasn't introduced by Tsunade. Orochimaru was too busy with his affairs to teach his disciples. After seeing that Umino Sasuke had excellent survival skills during the last battle, he asked him to teach Senju Nawaki some survival skills.

Knowing that Senju Nawaki would be killed by an explosive tag trap in the future, he agreed.

Besides teaching Senju Nawaki Water Release and Earth Release ninjutsu, he focused on training him in identifying explosive tags and mastering Earth Substitute.

Using the remnants of the Exploding Blade's flying droplets to imprint a large number of explosive tags, Senju Nawaki has been quite fortunate lately, getting covered in dust and grime every day from the explosions, the tags booming and shaking him to his core.

As long as he isn't killed by the explosion, under the combined effects of Yang Release: Gluttony Technique and Samehada, Senju Nawaki will basically not be in great danger.

After some training, Senju Nawaki's survival skills greatly improved.

Significant progress has also been made in the development of earth-based stand-ins.

While it's far from reaching Orochimaru's level, it's sufficient, especially after Orochimaru personally taught him the secrets of Earth Substitute. As long as active soil is created beforehand, the Earth Substitute's life-saving ability increases several levels.

(End of this chapter)