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

Chapter 198 Onoki's Waist

Seeing that the entire front had collapsed, Onoki realized there was no need to cover the retreat, so he led a group of elite Iwa ninja, including Yotsuchi and Akatsuchi, to begin their retreat.

Hiruzen Sarutobi, however, could not do as Onoki wished. He led the Sannin and other elite Konoha warriors to continuously block and besiege them.

While the title of Hiruzen Sarutobi as the strongest Hokage may be somewhat exaggerated, his strength was definitely not weak; in fact, he could be considered the strongest Third Hokage in the current ninja world.

Among the five great kage of the ninja world, Hiruzen Sarutobi is the most well-rounded and there is no situation where he is countered.

Even the Third Raikage, who had maxed out his attack, defense, and speed, actually had a relatively simple set of ninjutsu techniques, making him extremely easy to counter.

If the Third Raikage were to encounter the Third Kazekage's Magnet Release, not only would it be difficult to break through the Magnet Release defense, but it would also be difficult to hit the Third Kazekage in the air. He would even be easily controlled. If he were to be poisoned by the all-pervasive Magnet Sand, he would most likely be defeated. In fact, he wouldn't even need to use poison; the Magnet Release seal could seal the Third Raikage in the magnetic storm.

The Third Raikage was completely countered by the Third Kazekage.

When the Third Kazekage faced the Third Tsuchikage, Onoki, the Dust Release attack was unparalleled, and Onoki could also fly. Onoki was the complete nemesis of the Third Kazekage's Magnet Release.

The Third Kazekage was utterly defeated; even escaping would have been difficult.

Similarly, the Third Tsuchikage, Onoki, was also countered by the Third Raikage. Onoki's Dust Release required charging up and could not hit the lightning-fast Third Raikage at all. His other Earth Release techniques were also countered by Lightning Release. If Onoki had not had the advantage of flight, he probably would not have lasted long before being defeated.

However, the Light-Heavy Rock Technique requires chakra to fly. With the Third Raikage's speed, he could easily defeat Onoki once he ran out of chakra and landed.

As for the Third Mizukage, his presence was extremely weak, and he couldn't even suppress the internal ninja clans; he was completely incompetent.

Looking at the five Kage of the ninja world, only Hiruzen Sarutobi is truly versatile. He's basically an enhanced version of Kakashi Hatake. He can put up a fight against the Kage of each village. He might not be able to win completely, but he's definitely not going to be defeated easily.

In a typical Kage-level battle, the principle of mutual restraint between ninjutsu still applies.

Even the seemingly powerful Third Raikage would likely not fare well against Hiruzen Sarutobi. With the combined physical skills of Hiruzen Sarutobi and the Monkey King, the Third Raikage could at most only temporarily suppress Hiruzen Sarutobi in terms of physical techniques.

Given Hiruzen Sarutobi's reputation as a ninjutsu expert, he could easily control the field with ninjutsu without even needing the Five Elements Great Combo Technique. Konoha has a plethora of combination ninjutsu and forbidden techniques, and there's bound to be one that suits the Third Raikage. Tobirama Senju's legacy is quite substantial, and it's not all aimed at the Uchiha clan; there are also methods specifically designed to deal with taijutsu ninjas.

A control-type ninjutsu, plus a Water Severing Wave, would be enough to overwhelm even the Third Raikage, let alone others.

Hiruzen Sarutobi's reputation as the strongest Third Hokage is not entirely a joke.

If Onoki, who was now completely defeated, dared to linger on the battlefield using his air superiority, Hiruzen Sarutobi might actually be able to keep him there.

Hiruzen Sarutobi did just that; he was like a human cannon, unleashing a barrage of combined ninjutsu attacks on Onoki in the air.

If it weren't for the help of his apprentice Chitu, he would probably have already capsized in the ditch.

Hiruzen Sarutobi led the Konoha ninja army in a frenzied charge, chasing after Onoki and his group through the air and across the land as they fled in a frantic escape.

Meanwhile, Umino Sasuke, riding Big White, had already begun setting up explosive tag traps dozens of miles away to block the routed Iwa ninja army.

pity.

This is the land of grass, and its terrain is far inferior to that of the land of rivers. There are very few mountain passes and valleys suitable for ambush, and there are many routes to choose from for evacuation.

All he could do was set up some simple explosive tag traps at a few mountain passes to delay the retreat of the routed Iwa ninja.

If it were the terrain of the Land of Rivers, he was certain that he could completely annihilate these defeated Iwa ninja.

In this pursuit, Hiruzen Sarutobi led the Konoha ninja army for 800 li (approximately 400 kilometers) before finally stopping, just before they were about to leave the Land of Grass and reach the mountain range bordering the Land of Rain. Hiruzen Sarutobi left a small portion of the Konoha army to garrison the area, personally overseeing the area, while the rest of the Konoha ninja scattered and returned to capture the fleeing and hiding Iwa ninja.

Such a good job was naturally offered to the Umino troops. With the help of sonic radar, these defeated Iwa ninja soldiers were captured one by one.

There's no need for Umino Sasuke to go out personally; he can simply send out some shadow clones to lead Umino's troops to make targeted arrests.

His ragtag force of 500 men was even more efficient at capturing enemies than the main Konoha army.

The task of capturing prisoners was handed over to the Umino unit and the shadow clones, while his main body, riding the Great White, used the Telescope Technique to follow Ōnoki and his group.

At this moment, Ōnoki, pursued by Hiruzen Sarutobi, had long lost his former glory. He was in a sorry state, panting heavily, and had even stopped flying.

Ōnoki had exhausted a great deal of chakra and was now sitting on Akatsuchi's back, letting his disciple carry him away.

Every ten miles or so they would encounter explosive tag traps. These traps were not very harmful to powerful people like them, but they were extremely humiliating.

Finally, they retreated to a giant tree and began to rest, only to find a line of large characters written on the tree: "Ōnoki died under this tree."

Upon seeing these large characters, a Jonin with sensory abilities went to investigate and found that there were indeed many explosive tags hidden under the tree, but there were no other abnormalities within a few hundred meters around.

After all the explosive tags were dismantled, Onoki jumped off Akatsuchi, came to the tree, and looked at the large characters with anger in his eyes.

The Iwa ninja army suffered a crushing defeat, a blow that can be described as crippling.

I wonder how many of the eight thousand Iwa ninja will manage to escape?
These are the Eight Thousand Rock Ninja! If it were Sunagakure, they would probably have wiped out the entire village.

Although Iwagakure can mobilize tens of thousands of ninja, these eight thousand Iwagakure ninja are all regular ninja, the elite of Iwagakure. Now, they almost suffered total annihilation due to a single careless move.

"hateful!"

Onoki slammed his fist into the giant tree, the immense force shattering the tree and the insulting inscription on it into dust.

Just then, ten miles away in the sky, Umino Sasuke saw Ōnoki enter the trap area through his telescope and quickly made a hand gesture downwards.

The six shadow clones below had already formed a battle formation and used the Shadow Clone Coordination Flying Thunder God Technique to teleport the three shadow clones in the middle over.

A spatial fluctuation flashed by.

Three shadow clones suddenly appeared around Onoki.

Onoki cast a Hardening Technique on himself, and at the same time, he clasped his hands together. Without even forming hand seals, a large number of Rock Thief Sticks shot out from the ground, easily blasting the three shadow clones apart.

Unfortunately, a shadow clone, positioned in a blind spot, placed its hand on Onoki's lower back.

"Multiply each other's detonating talismans!"

Another spatial fluctuation occurred, and a series of explosive tags exploded directly on Onoki's waist.

The explosions were almost inexhaustible.

(End of this chapter)