Naruto: My Ninjutsu is mediocre

At the same time, these ninjas also brought news about the previous attack on the Uzumaki clan... Fortunately, the Uzumaki clan's losses were not too great.

Yu Zhen was a little puzzled. If the Uzumaki clan did not join Konoha, they would have been wiped out in a few decades. Now that the Uzumaki clan chose to join Konoha, they were almost wiped out on the spot... If it weren't for Senju Tobirama who had mastered the Flying Thunder God, which had extremely exaggerated battlefield support capabilities in advance, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

With two dire situations before us, it's hard not to feel like there's a dark hand at play... Is that you, Black Zetsu? Is there any need to be so afraid of whirlpools?

But no matter what, the conspiracy against the Uzumaki clan failed. After that, the Uzumaki clan and the Senju clan became close, and it became more difficult to target them.

Yu Zhen temporarily put aside the matter of the vortex and turned his attention back to the next combat mission.

After the combat team was assembled, all the ninjas at the squadron leader level who had certain command tasks came to a conference room to listen to the next combat plan.

Haneki wanted to increase Nara Hideyuki's "exposure", so he was in charge of this meeting.

"Our goal in this mission is to survey the northwestern border of the Land of Fire. Therefore, our targets are the following ninja clans..."

Yinghuo ignored the slow progress of Senju. At this time, they had already openly called the great country that would be formed in the future the "Land of Fire"... In theory, it was not up to Yuzhen and others to name it.

Nara Hideyuki wrote the names of the five ninja clans on a whiteboard and continued:

"These are all medium-sized ninja clans, each with a certain level of strength, but they won't pose a major threat to us in a head-on battle. After all, these clans are still fighting on their own and it's impossible for them to unite."

"According to our battle plan, this is the first enemy we will face."

As he spoke, he circled the name of a ninja clan on the whiteboard.

"The Kato clan."

"The average strength of the Kato clan is average, but according to the intelligence we've gathered, several of them possess certain secret techniques that make them extremely threatening."

"Their way of survival in the ninja world has always been to avoid direct combat with other ninja clans, relying on decapitation moves to intimidate and defeat the enemy."

This way of fighting is somewhat similar to Yuzhen's style of doing things. When the average strength of a ninja clan is average but there are a few people who stand out, it is indeed suitable to do so.

The Kato clan? Yu Zhen has some impression of it. The so-called secret technique mastered by this ninja clan should be the "Spiritual Transformation Technique", which is a secret technique that relies on "soul leaving the body" to attack the enemy.

This secret technique is rather alternative and non-mainstream, and is indeed quite threatening, but it is obvious that it is not the kind of secret technique that can be popularized on a large scale.

If everyone could become a spirit, then a "ghost army" would have appeared in the ninja world long ago. In that case, why would the Kato clan be classified as a "small and medium-sized ninja clan"?

Yuzhen interrupted Nara Hideyuki and said:

"I have some understanding of that secret technique. Chief Shanzhong, please stay for a while so we can sync our intelligence and discuss specific methods to deal with it... I have a specific idea. We can implement the 'exchange of homes' tactic."

After finishing speaking, he nodded to Nara Hideyuki, indicating that he should continue.

"In general, we can defeat those ninja clans one by one, but considering that our ultimate combat goal is to establish our territory and stabilize the internal and external situation, we should focus on absorbing and subduing those ninja clans or driving them away in a targeted manner rather than directly killing them..."

Yuzhen had to interrupt Nara Hideyuki again.

"No, no, everyone should fight as they should. Just leave the hypocritical relationship-building work to me."

In a ninja battle, asking one's own side to hold back will only harm both the other and oneself. An inappropriate order is worse than no order at all. Yu Zhen will never sacrifice the lives of his own team members for so-called "mercy".

So our troops should just fight as they should, and Yuzhen can handle the rest of the matters himself.

After hearing what Yu Zhen said, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief. Drive away? Hold back? That would be difficult to do. It would be better to just pick up a knife and chop people.

After being interrupted by Yu Zhen, Xiuzhi knew that he had said the wrong thing. He took a deep breath and continued to talk about the next combat team issue.

Of course, Yu Zhen would not use a hundred people together, as that would be equivalent to a "long snake formation", which would easily lead to bad associations.

He would divide it into three combat battalions, with two combat teams and one reserve team... At least when launching combat operations, they could take care of each other and launch a pincer attack.

After assigning the combat tasks, Yuzhen had a discussion with Yamanaka Tokuya and determined the method to deal with the Kato clan.

After that, Yinghuo Village prepared supplies, and two days later, Yu Zhen led a large army to set off.

Well, it should be called "Xingshi Beizhang"...

Uh, the "company" is heading north.

Captain Yu led his team into the reconnaissance range of the Kato clan and clearly stated their intentions.

It would be best if the other party was willing to surrender, but it seems that they have no intention of doing so.

Yes, if the ninja clan had the intention to surrender, even if they did not join the Hotaru organization at this time, they should at least express goodwill to Hotaru.

The Kato clan did not do this, which shows that there are stubborn elements in the clan.

In other words, they have great confidence in their own "spiritualization technique". Wouldn't it be embarrassing to surrender directly when they have such a secret technique?

You have to try to resist no matter what.

On the morning of the second day after setting up camp here, Hyuga Ninja immediately warned Yuzhen:

"Lord Yuzhen, the enemy has dispatched a small force and appears to be preparing for hostile action."

"Okay, that's kind of expected...Hinata needs to keep an eye on their movements. What about the people in the mountains? Are they ready?"

"I'm ready, Master Yuzhen."

"Then let's teach the Kato clan a lesson."

Carrying out beheading assassination? Yu Zhen is a grandfather.

"Everything is going according to plan. I have to hide. If I'm captured by the enemy, I'll be in big trouble."

Yu Zhen's words made everyone laugh. Are you kidding? Your battle plan is so insidious, you will fail?

Soon, three translucent "spirits" rushed towards Yinghuo's front-line camp, but they found it difficult to find the most valuable target to control... If they want to play "ghost possession", they can't possess the soldiers, right?

But while they were delaying, several ninjas came running from the direction they were attacking.

These spirits quickly noticed this, and then they were stunned...

Because the attacking enemy is none other than “themselves”.

To be precise, their bodies.

Chapter 156: Separation of Man and Dog

Although it seems blind to take direct action against the invading enemy, the patriarch of the Kato clan has become path-dependent on his long-standing "success"... The patriarch feels that he should respond actively.

There was no way, he trusted too much in the secret techniques mastered by his clan.

In fact, after discovering Yinghuo's movements, the Kato family also had a discussion on how to respond. However, the result obtained after the discussion was not very wise.

"Chief, if the organization we are facing is indeed the Firefly Organization, then surrendering to them might not be a wise decision."

There are also some people within the Kato family who have "capitulationist" tendencies... Well, here they should be regarded as more rational and pragmatic people with better judgment.

The patriarch of the Kato clan is called Kato Owl. He is not blind enough to think that he can defeat the Firefly Organization with his own strength... The current Firefly is like a behemoth to them.

But he also does not approve of direct surrender.

"That's true, but... we're moving too slowly. If we join Yinghuo at this stage, we'll only be at the bottom of this organization."

"We surrendered too late, even under their threat... You can imagine how we would be treated."

This concern is not groundless. In fact, there is indeed a certain gap in treatment among different ninja clans who joined the Firefly Organization at different time periods. This is inevitable. After all, absolute fairness will inevitably breed absolute unfairness.

The original shareholders and ordinary shareholders are treated differently, and no one can gossip about this.

"The patriarch means..."

"At least we should demonstrate our strength before discussing surrender."

There is nothing wrong with Kato Oshige's brain. The struggle is for better treatment of surrender. This idea does have a lot of room for operation in theory.

"Then we must do our utmost to avoid a large-scale conflict with Yinghuo, otherwise both sides will inevitably fall into a situation of life and death."

"Of course, we should use our advantages to conduct infiltration and decapitation operations... just as we have done in the past."

"This plan does seem feasible, but Chief... the distance between the enemy camp and our village is quite delicate. If we want to use the Spiritual Transformation technique to attack them, then due to the distance, we must move away from the village to perform the technique."

Leaving the village means that the caster will not have the best protection and may be attacked... The spirit transformation technique requires the caster's soul to leave the body, and then the unconscious body falls into a coma, with no ability to resist at all.

Some ninjas of later generations could leave their bodies behind when using the spirit transformation technique, and their spirits were able to cross several battlefields, but the current Kato ninja seemed unable to do so.

Obviously, this secret technique also has a relatively complete development and evolutionary context.

For Kato Ninja, who can now use the spiritual transformation technique, he might lose control after a few kilometers of "human-machine separation".

"It's okay. We can hide. If you want to do something, you have to take some risks... I've decided to take action at dawn."

Hiding the main body and arranging some guards around it can basically ensure the safety of the main body during the spell, but...

It would be impossible to hide it. The Kato family had no idea how many pairs of white eyes there were in the camp opposite.

How many pairs? More than a dozen!

They still suffered from the lack of information. They knew nothing about the Thousand Hands Alliance, let alone the relationship between Yinghuo and the Thousand Hands Alliance.

So just when these Kato ninjas thought they were sneaking out of the village secretly, several pairs of white eyes were already staring at them.

While Kato Owl and two other ninjas who could perform the spirit transformation technique hid themselves, drew out their spirit bodies, and charged towards the Firefly camp, a Firefly commando team also launched the action according to plan.

This commando team consists of two Hyuga ninjas, five Yamanaka ninjas, and three Nara ninjas, and the leader is Nara Hideyuki.

They quickly found the place, and the Nara ninja immediately controlled several guards of the Kato clan. Then the three Yamanaka ninjas each found a target and used the Heart Turn Technique at the same time.

The bodies of the three Kato ninjas, including the clan leader Kato Owl, were unable to offer any resistance and were directly picked up by the Yamanaka ninjas.

Our ninjas carried the bodies of the three Yamanaka ninjas, the three Yamanaka ninjas controlled the bodies of the three Kato ninjas, and the Nara ninjas released their control over several enemy guards, and then they appeared and retreated in a flash.

This scene stunned Kato's guarding ninjas, and they even forgot to pursue for a moment.

"Why did the clan leader follow the enemy? Did the clan leader betray?"

"Stop talking nonsense! The enemy has taken control of the clan leader and his men. Don't you understand?"

"Then...should we catch up?"

"Chase chase chase!"

However, there is an obvious gap in strength between the ninjas of both sides, and they cannot catch up with Yinghuo's people.

The mountain ninja rushed towards the front-line camp with three bodies.

So, this is the scene where the spirit of Kato Ousou, who had not yet found his target, saw them "rushing towards him".

I can only say that this "changing homes" tactic is very crude and effective.

Kato Owl's body, regardless of any danger, rushed directly to Kato Owl's spirit, and asked directly:

"My Lord, do you have anything else to say?"

How could this be possible? A grown man's body was found?

Kato Owl was stunned. The incomprehensible emotional impact made his spirit body a little unstable. In an instant, countless thoughts emerged in his mind.

Finally, he remembered what his teacher said when he had just learned the art of spiritualization... The art of spiritualization will bring extremely high returns, but don't forget its risks. It will always be a double-edged sword.

The other party just controlled his body and did not take any other excessive actions. This was already enough to give face. Kato Xiao was not so ungrateful as to say that he did not know what was good for him.

In a flash, he regained his sanity.

"I...we surrender."

For some reason, he felt like he had made a mess of things and brought shame upon himself.

Yu Zhen did not hide as he told him. In fact, he just stayed in the defensive barrier set up by the Uzumaki clan, and then he heard the news of the Kato clan's surrender.

"It's actually going quite smoothly? As expected, the best strategy is to attack the enemy's strategy."

The Uzumaki ninjas around looked at each other in bewilderment. They thought that Lord Yuzhen was indeed very cunning and actually had such a way to win.

"Return the bodies to them, have them return to Kato Village, and then see how they react."

Yu Zhen did not fully believe in the enemy's sincerity in surrendering, but he boldly let their clan leader go back... If you can win once, you can win a second time. The enemy is the type that can win everything with one trick. After breaking this trick, let's see what they can do.

The answer is no. The fact that his body was picked up by someone seriously hit Kato Owl's self-confidence.

In the past, only his spirit had entered and exited other people's bodies, but now that his body was being entered and exited by other consciousnesses, he finally understood what kind of pain this was.

Since the benefits are not being earned, what else can I do? I'll just vote.

As soon as the thought of surrendering to the enemy came to my mind, I suddenly felt the world was wide open.

The attack began in the early morning and the failure was confirmed five minutes later. After Kato Oshiro took back his body and returned to the village, he told everyone what had just happened. Everyone had no objection to surrendering.

In the afternoon, all of Kato's tribesmen left the village and came to Yinghuo's front-line camp... Well, Yuzhen could believe their sincerity in surrendering.

After leaving the three unlucky guys on the front line and bringing the remaining Kato people back to Yinghuo Village, the matter here was settled.

Isn't this the easy goal of the campaign? No one on the enemy side died, and no one on our side died either, so the enemy has become one of ours.