Uchiha's personal opinion

This method of using explosive tags, combined with knowledge of artillery application from a previous life, also dealt a brutal blow to the ninjas behind the Cloud Village's formation.

As the explosive tags were depleted, the fierce bombardment gradually subsided. Uchiha Tokumitsu took out the explosive tag sealing scroll given to him by the Uzumaki clan leader, and, imitating Troy, put it in his mouth, ready to launch a second round of explosive tag attacks at any time.

"Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!"

The wounded Shimura ninja struggled to activate his Wind Release ninjutsu to quickly disperse the thick smoke, while screams of pain from those struck by the Wind Release ninjutsu could be heard from within the smoke.

Uchiha Tokumitsu's eyes lit up. He quickly took the scroll from his mouth, formed hand seals, and unleashed a Fire Release ninjutsu—

"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"

With another round of fire-style attacks, the Cloud Village's battleground, where the smoke had cleared, revealed an extremely tragic scene.

The bombardment of tens of thousands of explosive tags caused more than half of the Cloud Village's elite ninja army to be killed or wounded in the chaos, and those who were lucky enough to survive were also injured.

Just as the emboldened mobile forces and the Uzumaki clans seized the opportunity to launch a counterattack, Sakumo Hatake, who was lurking in the Kirigakure headquarters a kilometer away, made his move.

In order to support the Kirigakure offensive, the Yuan Master's personal guards have been repeatedly deployed to the battlefield, and inevitably, gaps have begun to appear in his guards.

A beam of white light formed from lightning chakra burst forth from the ground twenty meters away from the Yuanshi headquarters, slashing down with overwhelming force.

"Be careful……"

The Yuan Master guard only had time to shout out before the old but vigorous Yuan Master turned his snake staff around and shot out a beam of green light, which struck the flashing Leaf White Fang.

But even so, it was to no avail. Yuan Shi's attack seemed to have no effect, and he himself was beheaded by Hatake Sakumo with a single blow.

Without hesitation, Hatake Sakumo, carrying Genji's head, swiftly charged into the Kirigakure ranks from the rear, unleashing a bloodbath among the Kirigakure Chunin.

"Master Yuan!"

The Kirigakure ninja, who were still reeling from the fierce attacks of Hatake Sakumo, heard a mournful cry coming from their main camp behind them. They turned around and saw two guards holding the headless corpse of a master and crying to the sky. Several other master guards rushed towards Hatake Sakumo, who was swinging his swords like madmen.

"Master Yuanshi..."

The distraught Kirigakure ninja, based on the scene before him, naturally guessed the truth.

"Dead..."

He was then beheaded by Hatake Sakumo, who moved past him, leaving only his last thought before plunging into darkness.

"Victory!"

The morale-boosting mobile force and the Vortex tribes naturally witnessed this classic scene of one man taking down a head.

Summoning his physical and mental energy, ignoring the excruciating pain in his body after desperately squeezing out his chakra, he unleashed ninjutsu at the stunned enemy soldiers, even the wounded, using their last bit of strength to throw kunai shuriken.

For a time, the mobile forces, which were outnumbered, and the Vortex Clan launched an attack that forced the allied forces of the three kingdoms to retreat step by step.

The once tightly sealed encirclement began to loosen.

"Diamond Lockdown!"

Taking advantage of the Hidden Mist ninjas' unpreparedness, the Uzumaki clan chief used his sealing technique to instantly capture three Hidden Mist Jonin.

Enveloped in flames, Uchiha Tokumitsu leaped into the air and swung his greatsword, beheading all three Jonin.

Deserters have begun to appear in the Hidden Mist Ninja Army.

The terrified Chunin from Kirigakure, having been slaughtered, began aimlessly trying to escape this incredibly terrifying battlefield.

Even though the Kirigakure Jonin who was overseeing the battle showed no mercy in wielding his sword to kill deserters, he could not stop the chaos in the Kirigakure army.

Master Yuan, a living fossil of the Hidden Mist.

He was an important advisor when the first Mizukage, Byakuren, founded Kirigakure. To this day, no one in Kirigakure is unaware of or does not recognize this powerful and influential old man.

But now, on a battlefield where victory seemed assured and victory was completely overwhelming, he is dead.

He was still beheaded by a single blow.

Moreover, Konoha's White Fang, who had killed the Yuan Master, had already returned to the battlefield and was rampaging through the crowd with unstoppable force.

Within the Hidden Mist Formation, more and more ninjas lost their will to fight.

"Retreat!" Troy, the Cloud Ninja Army commander, was the first to issue the retreat order, his teeth clenched.

The Cloud Village ninja army had already suffered more than half its casualties in Uchiha Tokumitsu's attack of exploding tags. Now, even the commander of the Mist Village, who had deployed the most troops, had been killed. The Mist Village ninja army was on the verge of a complete collapse. If they didn't retreat now, when would they?

As the Hidden Cloud Village steadily withdrew from the battlefield, the Hidden Mist Ninja Army collapsed even faster.

The Iwagakure, which had built an earthen wall for defense and obstruction, began to retreat under cross-cover, heading in the direction where the Kumogakure had retreated.

It seems that with the end of the cooperation, the arch-rivals Iwagakure and Kumogakure will inevitably have to fight again.

The mobile forces and the Uzumaki clan members had no time to worry about the retreating Cloud Village and Iwa Village, and they just launched a close-combat charge towards the Mist Village.

There was no other way; apart from the Uzumaki ninja, everyone else's chakra was almost completely depleted during the intense battle. Even after consuming a lot of soldier pills, they didn't have time to convert it into chakra.

The collapse of the Fog Shadow is happening at an increasingly rapid pace.

Left with no other choice, a Kirigakure Jonin, disregarding being targeted by the mobile forces, pulled out a conch shell from his pocket and sounded the retreat signal.

"Waaaaah~~"

The originally deep and resonant sound of the conch shell horn sounded particularly desolate and bleak against the backdrop of the Mist Shadow's crushing defeat.

The mobile unit ignored the Kirigakure Jonin who sounded the retreat signal and relentlessly pursued the Kirigakure ninja who tried to turn their backs and retreat during the battle.

Now that everyone is nearly exhausted, it would be better to use our swords to cut down those relatively weaker ninja who have already lost their will to fight.

After a round of exhilarating pursuit and indiscriminate slaughter, Uchiha Tokumitsu was the first to reunite with Hatake Sakumo.

"Lord Deguang!"

"Sakumo-kun!"

Ignoring the fact that they were on the battlefield and that the Hidden Mist was desperately fleeing not far away, the two held hands tightly.

"What a thrilling battle!" exclaimed the battle-hardened Hatake Sakumo. "Tokumitsu-kun truly lives up to his reputation as a genius of the Uchiha clan!"

"The heroic figure of Jonin Sakumo who single-handedly took down the enemy leader also makes me yearn for him."

The two then burst into laughter, before brandishing their swords and rejoining the exhilarating chase.

……

Once the dust settles.

The mobile force ninjas, all wounded, slumped to the ground, allowing the surviving medical ninjas to bandage them.

Of the twenty-one combat jonin in the newly formed mobile unit, thirteen survived. Among them, two Uchiha jonin were killed in action, two Sarutobi jonin were killed in action, one Shimura jonin died from his injuries, and three jonin from ordinary ninja clans were killed in action. The rest were all wounded.

The support ninjas suffered even greater casualties. Of the eighteen support ninjas, two were killed in the sensory team, the sealing team was wiped out, the tracking team was wiped out, and one was killed in the medical team. Of the six surviving support ninjas, only four sensory ninjas and two medical ninjas remained.

Judging from the casualty ratio, the losses can be described as devastating.

Of the Uzumaki clan, only sixty-two survived. Compared to the peak population of the Uzumaki clan in the Land of Whirlpools, this was a mere one in twenty, a truly tragic loss.

But the results were also incredibly brilliant.

Based on the number of corpses abandoned on the battlefield, the Kirigakure ninja suffered the heaviest casualties among the three allied forces, with 553 corpses on this battlefield alone. Most of them were killed after the collapse, showing that pursuit was indeed the easiest way to achieve results. Including those Kirigakure ninjas killed on their way to reinforcements, the Kirigakure army lost nearly a thousand people in the War of the Uzushiogakure.

In addition, there were 39 corpses abandoned by the Hidden Cloud Village, but some of the dead may have been brought back. Judging from the battlefield at the time, it is estimated that nearly 50 people died in battle.

The seemingly simple-minded yet cunning Iwagakure, on the other hand, escaped with almost no corpses remaining, having left almost unharmed.

The mobile forces and the Vortex Clan members collapsed to the ground, quietly receiving aid and bandages.

Victory?

We won.

But so what?

Facing their fallen comrades, even the most glorious and dazzling achievements could not inspire them to celebrate.

Only endless exhaustion.

The dead are gone, the living are like this.

Chapter 63 After the Battle! Endless Exhaustion and an Abnormal Sharingan

Uchiha Tokumitsu, exhausted, closed his eyes and sat on the corpse of a Hidden Mist ninja, ignoring the bloodstains, resting with his eyes closed.

War has never been a poetic or picturesque affair; it is war, and from the Warring States period to the present day, it has always been serious and brutal.

War is not child's play, nor is it a game for children. War means that people will sacrifice themselves, whether it is the death of one's own comrades or the loss of enemy troops. In the end, what is brought to the widows of the dead is endless sorrow and pain.

The result of being ambitious and eager for quick success and engaging in militarism is just like the corpses of the Hidden Mist and Hidden Cloud ninjas lying in foreign lands, piled up like garbage and burned to ashes.

Hatake Sakumo was also sitting on the ground, receiving treatment from a medical ninja.

When he killed the commander of the Hidden Mist, Yuan Shi, in order to complete the kill quickly, he ignored the attack of Yuan Shi's Serpent Staff and directly took the hit of the green ray with his body. The price he paid was that his left shoulder is now showing signs of gradually petrifying.

Despite the treatment from medical ninjas and the efforts of Sakumo Hatake himself to suppress the petrification, the petrification on his left shoulder continued to spread across his body at a rate imperceptible to the naked eye.

"Tokumitsu-kun's Fire Release ninjutsu must be the strongest I've ever seen among ninjas." To divert attention, Hatake Sakumo chatted with Uchiha Tokumitsu with a smile.

"I wouldn't call myself the strongest..." Although he felt incredibly sore and empty all over after pushing his chakra to its limits, Uchiha Tokumitsu still mustered some energy and started chatting with Hatake Sakumo. "In the Uchiha clan, there are many senior Jonin whose Fire Release techniques are stronger than mine. Besides, in Konoha, shouldn't the strongest Fire Release user be the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, who possesses all five elemental attributes?"

At this moment, the medical ninja is treating Sakumo Hatake's shoulder injury with the most primitive treatment method, holding a willow-leaf knife that looks incredibly sharp, removing the lesion piece by piece—a process commonly known as "cutting flesh."

Watching the stone-like pieces of flesh being ripped from Hatake Sakumo's shoulders, Uchiha Tokumitsu felt a dull ache in his own shoulder.

“Sakumo-kun…” Uchiha Tokumitsu hesitated, looking at Hatake Sakumo’s strange expression. “Could it be… that you didn’t use anesthesia?”

"We're out of anesthetics," the medical ninja replied without looking up. "The Jonin Mori who was in charge of the surgery died in battle, and the sealing scroll carrying the medicine is also damaged and unusable."

Ok.

Sakumo Hatake is also a ruthless person.

Although injuries are commonplace for ninjas in their combat careers, as long as they are not fatal or crippled, they can generally be saved if their injuries are treated in time.

Especially for a swordsmanship master like Hatake Sakumo, the importance of the shoulders and hands is self-evident.

"I feel alright, not much pain." Although Hatake Sakumo's brows were furrowed, he still smiled and continued chatting with Uchiha Tokumitsu.

"The absence of pain is the most terrifying thing." The medical ninja remained unmoved, his sword flashing faster and faster. "That's because the pain receptors in his left shoulder have become petrified and lost their function..."

"Can you handle it?" Uchiha Tokumitsu raised an eyebrow and asked.

He didn't think the medical ninjas transferred to the mobile unit would have a high level of medical expertise.

"It won't work, but it can at least slow down the spread of petrification." With each swing of the medical ninja's scalpel, the pieces of flesh removed from the lesions grew smaller and smaller.