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

Chapter 190 The Tactics of Spending Money
"Samehada, give me your chakra."

A large amount of chakra was transmitted, and Umino Sasuke quickly activated the Explosive Blade Spray Blade, imprinting a large number of temporary explosive tags.

Samehada had used up most of its chakra during the process of defeating the Iwa ninja explosive force, but fortunately it captured a lot of Iwa ninja along the way.

With the help of Iwa ninja's chakra, Umino Sasuke used the Explosive Blade Spray Blade to rapidly print temporary explosive tags, much like a printing press.

"Tang, you're in charge of the first layer of ambush traps."

"Yes, Captain."

Tekudo, carrying a large box of temporary detonating tags, led his subordinate blade handling squadron and quickly left.

Meanwhile, the weapon-controlling squads of Shan Guiyao, Gang Qianshi, and Mitarai Bailian all left to set up multi-layered ambush traps. However, each of these squads left behind a small team of members to wait for the temporary detonation tags to be printed, so that they could add detonation tag effects to the traps at any time.

Unfortunately, time was of the essence. Seeing that the left flank of the Iwa ninja army had been breached, they increased their retreat speed. Umino Sasuke only managed to create less than 100,000 temporary explosive tags, barely completing the three-layer explosive tag trap.

If there is enough time, the chakra of those Iwa ninja prisoners can be converted into at least hundreds of thousands of temporary explosive tags.

In order to reduce casualties, the Umino troops knew to act within their capabilities and did not directly block the mountain pass that was the main route of the Iwa ninja army. Instead, they were all deployed on the left foothills, where they could continue to use the explosive tag kunai tactic from a high vantage point.

These detonation tags were all freshly printed; they were still warm when the Umino troops held them in their hands.

Hiruzen Sarutobi was in his prime, possessed immense combat power, and had exceptional leadership skills in his legion, a rarity in the ninja world.

The name Ren Xiong is truly well-deserved.

Higashi Shijin, the commander of the Iwagakure Ninja Army, possessed terrifying military command abilities that were among the best in the ninja world. Unfortunately, his own strength was limited, and when faced with the rampaging Hiruzen Sarutobi, he could only fight and retreat, using powerful Earth Release ninjutsu to cover each other's retreat.

Now that they knew their retreat might be cut off, the Iwa ninja army's morale finally wavered, and their fighting and retreating tactics revealed a flaw. Hiruzen Sarutobi seized the opportunity and launched a powerful attack.

With pursuers ahead and ambushes behind, the Iwa ninja army finally collapsed completely. Thousands of Iwa ninja wished they had more legs so they could run faster than their teammates.

Meanwhile, another piece of bad news arrived: Han, the Five-Tails Jinchuriki, still managed to unleash five tails despite being surrounded by the three legendary Sannin of Konoha. He had completely transformed into a tailed beast and was now indiscriminate in his ability to distinguish friend from foe. In fact, the Iwa ninja were drawing even more hatred from the Five-Tails.

The Iwa ninja army had originally planned to flank and retreat from the right flank to avoid the ambush trap set by the Umino troops, but now they had no choice.

In their view, compared to the right wing that was fully transformed into a tailed beast and releasing tailed beast balls everywhere, the retreat route of the Umino troops' ambush trap was obviously safer. After all, it was a temporary ambush trap, so how powerful could it be?

As long as the elite vanguard ninjas use the Hardening Technique to clear the ambush traps, even if the main Iwa ninja force suffers some losses, they shouldn't be too great.

If they avoid this ambush trap and flank from the right, once they are hit by a Tailed Beast Ball, it won't take many hits; one or two will be enough to hurt them.

The only threat was the five hundred Konoha ninja soldiers on the left flank foothills. Faced with the main force of Iwa ninja numbering over five thousand, even if their flanks were exposed, how much fighting strength could these mere five hundred men retain after expending so many explosive tags?
Soon, the Iwa ninja army engaged in battle with the Umino forces. As expected, the Umino forces chose to temporarily avoid direct confrontation, using the foothills as a fortress and continuously throwing explosive tags and kunai at their sides and below.

Meanwhile, the wind-attribute ninjas in the Umino unit, along with their shadow clones, continuously unleashed wind-style ninjutsu, blowing the explosive tag kunai toward the wide mountain pass to their side and below.

Unfortunately, the Land of Grass is mostly plains and grasslands, and even though the Iwa ninja chose a mountainous environment to set up their defensive positions, there weren't many suitable mountain passes for ambushes.

The mountain pass where the main Iwa ninja army retreated was at least three or four miles wide, and the mountains on both sides were not steep. If it weren't for the terrifying presence of the Five-Tails on the right, even with the Wind Release technique, the Umino troops stationed on these small hills might not have been able to throw the explosive tag kunai at the heads of the main Iwa ninja army.

"Do not linger, continue the retreat."

The Eastern Dead Man was extremely skilled in commanding large armies. In his view, the five hundred explosive ninja soldiers on the left foothills were nothing more than a minor nuisance, not a threat at all. On the contrary, the thousands of Konoha soldiers led by Hiruzen Sarutobi in the rear were the real threat.

If they are held back by these 500 explosive ninja soldiers, allowing the thousands of Konoha troops behind them to catch up and catch them by the tail, then even with the Iwa ninja army's strong defensive capabilities, they will have no choice but to cut off their tail to survive.

Faced with the main force of the Iwa ninja army that was collapsing to the side and below, the Umino troops did not rush down the foothills to intercept them in a rash manner. Instead, they continued to throw explosive tags and kunai to bombard the area. At the same time, they used infrasound shockwaves to hold down the Iwa ninja who wanted to use earth release to change the terrain of the foothills.

In this way, the Ueno troops at the foot of the mountain acted like a meat grinder, sifting through the main force of the Iwa ninja army that was passing by from the side and below.

"Just how many explosive tags has this Konoha demolition squad stockpiled?!"

Seeing the endless stream of exploding tag kunai raining down from above, the Higashi-no-Kami cursed Konoha for its wasteful spending.

At the same time, he finally realized something was wrong. Before he could make any tactical adjustments, the ground shook violently.

The vanguard of the retreating troops actually fell into the explosive tag trap. The terrifying explosion effect must have detonated tens of thousands of explosive tags at the same time.

Now that the Ninja World War has begun, the price of explosive tags has risen significantly. Even if you buy them in bulk, each tag costs close to 7,000 taels, and 10,000 explosive tags would cost 70 million taels.

This explosive tag trap alone would cost at least several hundred million taels of silver.

How much is Iwagakure's annual military budget? How many explosive tags could it buy?

Has Konoha Village struck gold? They're so incredibly extravagant!
If Konoha has no other sources of income, this kind of fighting would undoubtedly be a lose-lose situation.

While Iwagakure has lost a large number of ninjas, Konoha is not much better off. Human life is not worth much in the ninja world. Even if ninjas are more valuable, an ordinary ninja is not worth a million taels, right?
The explosive tag trap just now resulted in at most one or two hundred casualties for the advance team, and most of them were junior ninjas. Spread out among the hundreds of millions of ryo, each ninja would lose several million ryo.

With those millions of taels, Iwagakure could train dozens of ninjas.

(End of this chapter)