Uchiha's personal opinion

With a gloomy expression, Sarutobi Shinnosuke strode out and said to Jiraiya, "Among the village's rogue ninjas these days, you're the most impressive!"

Sarutobi Tomoaki immediately bowed to the two of them, then disappeared into the "wall".

"It's been a long time, Shinnosuke..."

Jiraiya greeted Sarutobi Shinnosuke, his gaze drifting to the wall behind him.

"Stop looking, this is a secret technique of the Ape Demon Clan."

Sarutobi Shinnosuke said calmly, "I'm no longer the son of the Hokage I used to be. I can't guarantee my safety without using some tricks."

"Come with me, let's overthrow the tyranny of the Uchiha clan together!"

Jiraiya stopped beating around the bush, "I've formed an organization and gained the support of Mount Myōboku. Now we need more strength to fight against the tyrannical Uchiha..."

"...The Akatsuki organization, is it?"

Sarutobi Shinnosuke tilted his head. "That's a good name. It seems to have a lot of power, like it might even be able to destroy Konoha..."

"What I want to do is not indiscriminate destruction, but to save my fellow Konoha people who are oppressed by the Uchiha clan!"

Jiraiya solemnly stated, "The village needs to get back on track, and it will become even stronger under the guidance of the Will of Fire!"

"What you said makes a lot of sense, I'm almost starting to believe you..."

Sarutobi Shinnosuke nodded. "I'll make a decision by noon tomorrow, and I'll get back to you then."

After saying that, he ignored Jiraiya's attempt to say something more, casually formed a hand seal, and then turned into a wisp of smoke.

"...So it was a shadow clone!"

Jiraiya was somewhat surprised, but then a smile appeared on his face.

"What a coincidence! Me too!"

Jiraiya spoke to a mirror on the wall of the secret room.

He then formed hand seals to dispel the ninjutsu and turned into a cloud of smoke.

"...a bunch of crazy riddle-solving lunatics!"

Muttering curses, Sarutobi Tomoaki pushed open the secret door from under the mirror and stepped out.

……

"Tokumitsu-kun, the commotion caused by Iwagakure and Kumogakure lately is quite significant. The village needs to take some countermeasures."

With a heavy heart, Hatake Sakumo once again came to Uchiha Tokumitsu's office.

"Right on my mind!"

Uchiha Tokumitsu said that great minds think alike.

"You have a plan?"

Sakumo Hatake was somewhat surprised and immediately realized that his worries were unnecessary.

"I had a plan in mind all along."

Uchiha Tokumitsu was confident.

I'd like to hear more details.

Sakumo Hatake adopted a posture of listening attentively.

Uchiha Tokumitsu stood up, took a kunai from his ninja tool bag, and threw it onto the ninja world map hanging on the wall.

Hatake Sakumo followed the trail and saw that the kunai was stuck right on the Konoha-occupied territory in the southeastern part of the Land of Lightning.

"This is……"

"We must wage a real, powerful counter-terrorism war!"

Uchiha Tokumitsu said, hands on his hips.

It's time to show these ninja natives what a modern counter-terrorism war that fully incorporates advanced experience looks like!

Chapter 323 Teaching a Lesson to the Young Loess Plateau

Although the counter-terrorism force is a newly formed ninja army, its personnel and equipment are quite impressive. With a strength of 2,400 people, plus a relatively high proportion of Konoha ninjas, it is capable of waging a medium-sized ninja war.

This is why Onoki was able to breach the defenses directly after learning about the organization and personnel composition of the anti-terrorism unit.

Although Uchiha Tokumitsu formed this anti-terrorism force on a whim, with the aim of breaking the "Iwagakure-Takigakure" triangular alliance, and even the title of Ninja Army came from his own perverse sense of humor, it seems that the name is quite useful now.

For example, cross-border counter-terrorism.

……

According to the plan following the "peacekeeping operation," the southwestern region of the Land of Lightning was to be occupied and garrisoned by the Iwagakure Ninja Army.

However, the southwestern region of the Land of Lightning is geographically easy to attack but difficult to defend, and has no natural defenses. In addition, it needs to directly face the Cloud Village ninja army in the central region of the Land of Lightning. Therefore, the main force of the Iwagakure army is stationed in the northern region of the Land of Frost, which is across the sea, and only about 500 Iwagakure ninjas remain in the occupied area.

In addition, two days ago, the Tsuchikage of Iwagakure, assisted by Huang Tu, and the successor of Kumogakure, the Fourth Hokage A, held a historic meeting in the southwest region and reached an agreement to redeem Huang Tu. Therefore, the Iwagakure ninjas, who knew that they would have to retreat soon, were even more eager to make money, and their duty of guarding the border had long been forgotten.

Just as the southwest region was in chaos due to the rampant harassment and looting by the remaining Iwagakure, the anti-terrorist force quickly assembled under the command of Uchiha Tokumitsu. Led by Commander Uchiha Shiina, they first entered the southern part of the Land of Frost under the guise of training, and then advanced towards the southwest region of the Land of Lightning in a stealthy manner.

Meanwhile, Uchiha Tokumitsu set off back to Fubuki Castle in the Land of Whirlpools, the shogunate's headquarters, and ordered the eastern border defense forces to be redeployed to the northern border of the Land of Fire.

The ninja world's attention was immediately drawn to the movements of this border army, while the whereabouts of the anti-terrorism force that had secretly marched from the Land of Waterfall to the border of the Land of Lightning were unintentionally overlooked.

……

"Listen up, you inside! You have ten seconds to come out and surrender, or else..."

Uchiha Yatsuho, the commander of the 6th Anti-Terrorism Division, held an anti-terrorism manual in one hand and a megaphone in the other, loudly reciting the operational policy to the entrance of a black market outpost disguised as a fruit shop.

But his subordinates were already bursting with excitement. Just as Captain Uchiha Yatsushiro read the words, a Nohara ninja couldn't contain his excitement and habitually pulled the trigger of the "portable cluster explosive tag launcher" he was carrying on his shoulder.

"Whoosh—Boom!"

As a fiery dragon shot out from the launcher, a violent explosion of detonating tags echoed through the black market hideout.

The ninja next to him, who was also carrying an explosive tag launcher, reflexively pulled the trigger as well.

"Boom boom boom boom!!!"

The entrance to the black market outpost, still belching black smoke, was once again rocked by a series of violent explosions.

"You bastard!"

Uchiha Yatsuho's face immediately turned sour with rage that his nose almost twisted. He roared at the still-stunned Nohara ninja, "If the funds and data inside are burned or blown up, I will deduct your entire year's pay and performance bonus!"

He then turned and yelled at his still-stunned subordinates, "What are you all standing there for? Hurry up and go in to arrest people and put out the fire!"

"As ordered!"

A group of counter-terrorism ninjas immediately drew their swords and stormed into the black market stronghold.

"We surrender! We surrender!"

Several black market ronin survivors, dazed and battered from the explosion, raised their hands in surrender, only to have their throats slit by the oncoming counter-terrorism ninjas.

"Take them alive! You bunch of bastards!"

Standing at the back, hands on hips, directing the operation, Uchiha Yuta was even more furious at the sight of his subordinates' skillful silencing techniques.

"After you finish your work, I'll make sure you copy the anti-terrorism manual a hundred times!"

Uchiha Hachimoku pulled out the anti-terrorism manual again, flipped through it, and muttered curses under his breath.

"Luckily, we found a black market location, so at least we can get away with it."

……

Without notifying the garrison at Iwagakure, nearly two thousand anti-terrorism ninjas crossed the border and stormed into the southwestern region of the Land of Lightning, launching a massive anti-terrorism operation.

The Iwagakure, with only about 500 members scattered across various locations, had no time to react before being completely defeated and captured by the anti-terrorist ninjas who swept in, organized into squads.

Commander Uchiha Shiina's requirements were simple: while capturing the Iwagakure ninja left behind, they must also find evidence of collusion between Iwagakure and the "terrorist organization" to serve as proof for this cross-border operation—if there was no evidence, then the branch captains were asked to take initiative.

The Uchiha ninjas who served as junior captains in the counter-terrorism unit were all seasoned veterans of the police department, so they naturally understood what this officer with such an impressive background wanted.

……

"How are the other detachments progressing?"

Uchiha Yasuo asked the Kurama ninja beside him, "According to previous intelligence, there shouldn't be any black market outposts in their operational area, right?"

"...We haven't received any radio notifications yet, so there shouldn't be any progress."

The Kurama ninja carrying the radio fiddled with his earpiece for a moment, then shook his head. "Captain Hachidai, we should be the first to eliminate a valid target."

"Hey~ That's good!"

Uchiha Hachimoku nodded in satisfaction. "In that case, the matter of accidentally annihilating a few pairs of Iwagakure ninja should be considered closed now, right?"

"Perhaps..."

Kurama ninja chuckled twice, then began pressing buttons to send a post-battle report to the command center where Uchiha Shiina was located.

The cluster explosive tag launcher and the radio are standard ninja tools at the brigade level specially configured by Uchiha Tokumitsu for the counter-terrorism forces. It is precisely the addition of these two ninja tools that allows the counter-terrorism forces to "bomb" while rapidly infiltrating behind enemy lines!

……

Huang Tu, returning from the southwestern region of the Land of Lightning to the Iwagakure base in the northern part of the Land of Frost, was somewhat bewildered, holding an emergency report.

Have they completely fallen out?!

That shouldn't be happening!

His first reaction was that Uchiha Tokumitsu saw the possibility of Kumogakure redeeming the southwestern occupied territory, so he preemptively launched a war.

However, as far as he knew, Konoha had not yet begun war mobilization. Even the shogunate's direct ninja forces were still scattered in the Land of Water and the Land of Whirlpools, showing no signs of gathering. The only force mobilized was the weak border troops. Moreover, according to intelligence, the eastern border troops were still slowly making their way to the northern border of the Land of Fire.

How dare he!

Thinking of this, Huang Tu flew into a rage.

A mere newly formed Konoha ninja army dares to act so arrogantly towards him, the assistant to the Tsuchikage. If we don't retaliate immediately, what will Iwagakure think of him? What will the ninja world think of him?

"Assemble the ninja army! Prepare to cross the sea and engage in battle!"

Huang Tu threw the emergency report on the ground and roared at his subordinate Jonin.

"Your Excellency, please reconsider!"