The Uchiha Clan's Sun

"The Sunagakure army numbers around four thousand, led by the Fourth Kazekage of Sunagakure, Rasa, accompanied by Chiyo, an elder of Sunagakure!"

"The Cloud Village army has more than a thousand men, led by the Fourth Raikage, A. However, he was severely injured by the Uchiha clan chief and is still undergoing emergency treatment!"

At this point, Nara Shikaku subconsciously looked at Uchiha Jin, his eyes filled with curiosity and inquiry.

Although he already knew that Uchiha Jin might be very strong, he did not expect that Uchiha Jin could seriously injure the Fourth Raikage when he was outnumbered!

With this kind of performance, it's estimated that no one in Konoha Village besides Minato Namikaze could restrain him!

Upon hearing this, everyone else in the command center cast admiring and even grateful glances at Uchiha Jin!

To be honest, if Uchiha Jin hadn't killed the Two-Tails Jinchuriki of Kumogakure, rescued the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki of Kumogakure, and then traveled thousands of miles to severely injure the Fourth Raikage and defend Mount Kikyo, they wouldn't be holding a war meeting here right now; they would be besieging Konoha!

Regardless of the outcome of this battle, Uchiha Jin has already made a significant contribution!

"Hahaha, as expected of Jhin! Looks like I'll have to work even harder in the upcoming battle!"

Others might have restrained themselves due to the relationship between the Uchiha clan and the village, but Might Guy, with his straightforward nature, had no such reservations and praised them directly.

Nara Shikaku collected his thoughts and continued, "Our initial estimate is that the enemy numbers over ten thousand, including at least two Jinchuriki of the Tailed Beasts, and countless other elite ninjas!"

"The pressure that Konoha is facing this time is greater than anything we have encountered in the previous three Shinobi World Wars!"

Whether it was the First Shinobi World War, the Second Shinobi World War, or the recently concluded Third Shinobi World War, Konoha had faced attacks from other villages, but this was the first time since the village's founding that the enemy had broken through its defenses and reached its doorstep!

This time, Konoha even sent their trump card, the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki Kushina Uzumaki, to the battlefield, which shows how much pressure they were under!

Nara Shikaku exhaled a deep breath and continued, "But no matter how strong the enemy is this time, we must hold them off here at all costs!"

"Because the village is right behind us!"

“Our family, companions, relatives, and friends are all in the village. If we retreat, not only will the village be plunged into an abyss of destruction, but our family, companions, relatives, and friends will also perish!”

"So this time, I hope everyone can put aside past grievances, stop holding back, and get through this difficult time together!"

Chapter 208 Surprise Attack!

Nara Shikaku bowed deeply to everyone in the war room as he spoke, expressing his emotions.

Nara Shikaku did this because he had no other choice.

It should be noted that the regular combat forces in Konoha Village had been dispatched long ago. Whether it was the pursuit team that Uchiha Jin initially led, or the reinforcements that he and Namikaze Minato brought later, they were basically clan ninjas drawn from various clans in the village!

Although they are all ninjas from Konoha Village, they are different from ordinary ninjas. Ninjas with clans have to consider the concept of a clan between the village and the individual!

In their hearts, they each have their own way of weighing the importance of themselves, their families, and their villages!

In Konoha Village, there are bound to be some frictions between the clans as they vie for more resources and benefits.

These frictions might have been harmless in the past, but they could be fatal on the battlefield.

Therefore, in order to eliminate these potential problems, Nara Shikaku had no choice but to lower his stance and ask everyone to temporarily put aside their past grievances.

"Chief Nara, you flatter us. These are extraordinary times, and of course, we must prioritize the interests of the village. We can still distinguish between what is important and what is not!"

"Yes, Chief Nara, when the nest is overturned, no egg remains intact! We're just joking around among ourselves, we don't take it seriously!"

"Chief Nara, just tell us what you need us to do!"

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Everyone in the command room gave Nara Shikaku a lot of face and spoke up one after another.

Seeing this, Nara Shikaku realized that going too far was counterproductive, so he didn't say anything more about the matter. He stood up, pointed to the map, and said, "According to the intelligence gathered by the village, neither the Iwagakure army, the Kumogakure army, nor the Sunagakure army carried much food and supplies this time."

"With the resources they have, they can only support one major war at most. Therefore, this war will not involve any probing or feints. They will definitely commit all their forces for a desperate fight in the very first engagement!"

"What we need to do is use the 4,500 men inside the Kikyo Mountain Fortress to hold off their attack!"

Nara Shikaku's expression was solemn, and his tone was extremely heavy.

Four thousand against ten thousand – this seems like a war with no suspense whatsoever!

"Four thousand against ten thousand, how are we supposed to fight that?"

"Wait a minute, isn't there still Lord Orochimaru leading his two thousand-strong army?"

"Hmm, didn't Lord Orochimaru's two thousand troops set off last night? Although they were going in the wrong direction, they should have arrived here by now after changing course!"

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After Nara Shikaku finished speaking, many people in the command room looked puzzled and noticed something unusual.

Orochimaru led two thousand troops out of the village last night to prepare to besiege the Cloud Village army. Even if the situation has changed, Orochimaru should have received the news and rushed to Kikyo Mountain Fortress long ago.

However, Orochimaru and his two thousand men have not been seen so far, which has made many people uneasy.

"Please calm down, everyone," Nara Shikaku immediately said loudly upon seeing the situation. "Orochimaru and his two thousand troops have not lost contact; rather, a new situation has arisen!"

Upon hearing this, everyone stopped discussing and looked at Nara Shikaku, waiting for his explanation.

Nara Shikaku pointed to the border of the Land of Hot Water on the map and explained, "The latest situation is that at dawn yesterday, the Hidden Cloud Village gathered another 3,000 troops at the border of the Land of Hot Water and sent out several small teams to attempt to invade the Land of Fire, making a forward pressuring posture."

"At the same time, several outposts along the southern coast of the Land of Fire have reported signs of Kirigakure ninja landing and are requesting support from the village!"

"Without a doubt, they are doing this to tie down our forces and buy time for the combined forces of Iwagakure, Kumogakure, and Sunagakure to capture Kikyo-yama!"

Nara Shikaku's words immediately caused a huge uproar in the operations room!

They knew that Konoha Village was in a bad situation and were prepared to fight to the death, but they did not expect the situation to have become so serious!

It was one thing for Iwagakure, Kumogakure, and Sunagakure to unite, but unexpectedly, Kirigakure also got involved!

This time, Konoha Village truly faces an enemy from the entire world!

Hiashi Hyuga frowned and asked, "Nara clan chief, does this mean that Orochimaru and his two thousand troops have already been divided up to support the front lines of the Land of Hot Springs and the southern coastline?"

This was a question that everyone in the meeting room was eager to know the answer to regarding Hiashi Hyuga.

After all, if it were 6,000 against 10,000, they would have some confidence in winning the war, but if it were 4,000 against 10,000, let alone winning, they would probably all die here!

“We are splitting up our forces, but not to reinforce the front lines of the Land of Hot Springs and the southern coastline!” Nara Shikaku shook his head and explained, “Jiraiya still has nearly two thousand border guard ninjas under his command in the Land of Hot Springs. Although they are under pressure to deal with the three thousand Cloud Village troops, they can still hold on.”

"As for the southern coastline, there's no need to worry too much. The village is well-prepared, so there shouldn't be any major problems."

"Faced with the enemy's attempt to tie down our forces, the village's response was to have Orochimaru and his two thousand men create the illusion that they were splitting up and heading to the front lines of the Land of Hot Springs and the southern coastline!"

"In reality, Orochimaru and his two thousand men have already broken up into smaller groups and infiltrated the flanks and rear of the combined forces of Iwagakure, Kumogakure, and Sunagakure, just waiting for the battle to begin so they can launch a pincer attack on the combined forces of the three villages!"

Nara Shikaku pointed to several locations on the map as he spoke, indicating where Orochimaru and his group were currently located.

Six thousand against ten thousand—although they could fight, Konoha's disadvantage was still very obvious. Only by using an unconventional method could they win!

Nara Shikaku came up with this strategy on the spot, treating Orochimaru's two thousand men as an ambush force!

"I see!"

Everyone in the operations room breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this, feeling somewhat at ease.

Nara Shikaku continued, "But if we want Orochimaru's surprise force to play its greatest role, we must make the three-mura alliance hold nothing back!"

"So I plan to take the initiative and expand the battle line to this place, here, here, and several hills in front of the Kikyō Mountain Fortress, so that they can commit all their forces at once!"

Nara Shikaku tapped his finger on several mountains outside Kikyōyama Fortress, more than doubling the fortress's defensive line!

Logically speaking, for the defending side with a numerical disadvantage, the smaller the defensive line, the better. Only in this way can they concentrate all their strength to defend and limit the enemy's numerical advantage to the greatest extent.

Take Kikyo Mountain Fortress as an example. The enemy can only send a few thousand people to attack at the same time. Otherwise, if there are too many people, it will not only limit the performance of their ninjas, but also make it easier for the defenders to cause large-scale casualties.

In this way, although they are said to be 4,000 against 10,000, in reality they only face a few thousand enemies each time!

After expanding their defensive line, they still had four thousand men, but the enemy could deploy even more forces. It was quite possible that four thousand would actually be able to defeat ten thousand!

They would never do such a thing under normal circumstances.

However, considering that they were being used as bait to lure Orochimaru into a trap, while Orochimaru's two thousand men were the real killing blow, no one objected!

Seeing that no one objected, Nara Shikaku took a deep breath and said, "Then I will now assign the specific tasks!"

Chapter 209 Even if it were ten thousand pigs, it would take three days to slaughter them!

Meanwhile, on a hill dozens of kilometers away from the Kikyo Mountain Fortress, tens of thousands of ninja troops were stationed in three distinct camps, relying on each other while also being wary of one another!

Inside an unremarkable tent atop the mountain, the leaders of the Iwagakure, Sunagakure, and Kumogakure armies gathered for a strategic meeting!

"I'm not exaggerating, but that Uchiha Jin is indeed very powerful! His wide-range fire jutsu is extremely difficult to deal with. If no one can stop him, he will definitely cause us huge losses!"

The Fourth Raikage of Kumogakure, A, was covered in bandages and looked very weak, but his spirit was high and his eyes were bright!

After receiving joint treatment from the medical ninjas of Kumogakure, Iwagakure, and Sunagakure, A, who was severely injured by Uchiha Jin, has not yet fully recovered and is unable to engage in high-intensity activities. However, he has regained consciousness and is able to participate in this battle meeting.

After several hours of discussion, the allied forces of Kumogakure, Iwagakure, and Sunagakure have determined their basic offensive tactics: the strongest members of the three villages will hold back the experts in the Konoha army, and then the three villages will swarm in and quickly eliminate the Konoha defenders!

With a force of 10,000 against 4,000, they didn't need to devise any ingenious schemes; they could simply crush them head-on!

However, the leaders of the three factions—Kumogakure, Iwagakure, and Sunagakure—had some disagreements on how to specifically restrain the strong members of Konoha and were unable to reach a consensus.

The Fourth Raikage, A, who had suffered a great loss at the hands of Uchiha Jin, proposed to allocate more resources to target Uchiha Jin. However, the Hidden Stone Village and the Hidden Sand Village believed that Minato Namikaze, the Yellow Flash who had shaken the ninja world during the Third Shinobi World War, was the biggest threat, and that the three villages should focus their main target on Minato Namikaze!

Ai continued excitedly, "Even if Minato Namikaze were to go even faster, he could only take down a few people at most. Our Three Villages Alliance has ten thousand ninja troops!"

"Even if ten thousand pigs lined up to be killed by Minato Namikaze, he could kill them for three days and three nights. So we don't need to put too much effort into him. As long as we break through Kikyo Mountain Fortress, we will win!"

"But Uchiha Jin is different! His fire-style ninjutsu can easily cover dozens or even hundreds of people. A single ordinary Great Fire Annihilation Technique would require an entire squad of water-style ninjas to use their water-style techniques simultaneously to neutralize it. Ordinary ninjas simply can't stop him!"

"If we don't restrain Uchiha Jin, the fate of my Cloud Village army will serve as a warning!"

Ai is now extremely wary of Uchiha Jin, especially after learning that Uchiha Jin has awakened the legendary Mangekyou Sharingan of the Uchiha clan!

At that time, Ai was besieging Uchiha Jin with hundreds of Cloud Village ninjas. Then Uchiha Jin activated his Mangekyou Sharingan, and Ai was defeated inexplicably before he even knew what was happening. To this day, Ai still doesn't understand what Uchiha Jin's Mangekyou Sharingan eye technique is!

The existence of Uchiha Jin reminded A of the fear that the villages of the ninja world were dominated by the legendary Shura of the ninja world!

Han, the Five-Tails Jinchuriki of Iwagakure, spoke up upon hearing this: "That Uchiha Jin's Fire Release is indeed terrifying. Caught off guard, the vanguard of my Iwagakure army was also defeated by him in one blow. But if we're talking about threats, I don't think Uchiha Jin is more threatening than Namikaze Minato!"

"Don't forget, we also have powerful ninjutsu experts on our side who excel at large-scale destructive attacks!"

"Putting everything else aside, our Jinchuriki's Tailed Beast Ball far surpasses Uchiha Jin's Fire Release ninjutsu in both power and range!"

"Furthermore, the greater the power of Uchiha Jin's Fire Release ninjutsu, the more chakra he consumes!"

"This is war! How long can Uchiha Jin hold out under such sustained high-intensity attacks?"

"Anyway, after that Uchiha Jin used a Fire Release ninjutsu that fell from the sky to defeat the vanguard of my Iwagakure army, he basically lost the ability to resist!"

"If their reinforcements hadn't arrived in time, Uchiha Jin might already be dead at my hands!"

Han also fought against Uchiha Jin, and in his opinion, Uchiha Jin just caught them off guard and was not as powerful as A said!

"That's because Uchiha Jin didn't have much chakra left at the time!" A argued. "You know, Uchiha Jin had already led his men to pursue our Cloud Village delegation the night before. After annihilating our Cloud Village delegation and the hundreds of elite Cloud Ninja who came to our aid, he rushed thousands of miles to Kikyo Mountain without stopping!"

"After that, Uchiha Jin repelled the attack of our two thousand Cloud Village troops, and finally, it was the vanguard of your Iwagakure army!"

"Although Uchiha Jin's chakra isn't as much as that of the Senju or Uzumaki clans, it's definitely not far off!"

At this moment, Ai was both very excited and very anxious. He knew how terrifying Uchiha Jin was, which was why he was eager to make everyone pay attention to Uchiha Jin!

Of course, the main reason is that the Iwagakure army has 5,000 men and the Sunagakure army has 4,000 men, while the Kumogakure army only has a little over 1,000 men!

Aside from military strength, the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki of Kumogakure is still in Konoha's hands, the Two-Tails Jinchuriki is dead, and he himself is seriously injured and has lost his fighting ability, so he is simply unable to contend with Iwagakure and Sunagakure!

It can be said that the Hidden Cloud Village was the weakest party in this three-village alliance, and naturally had the least say in the matter!

The main reason why Ai is so anxious is that he has no say and cannot lead the three-village coalition!

"Heh, Raikage, you're exaggerating a bit!" said Rasa, the Kazekage of Sunagakure. "According to you, Uchiha Jin is indeed a great threat, but I don't believe he's more of a threat than the Yellow Flash, Minato Namikaze!"

"Yes, Minato Namikaze hasn't shown any large-scale destructive ninjutsu so far, and he can't take down too many people at once. But if he were to carry out a decapitation strike, how many of your subordinates besides us could stop him?"

"It would indeed be very difficult for one person to slaughter ten thousand pigs and sheep, but if he were given the option to selectively decapitate them and kill the leaders among those ten thousand pigs and sheep, the rest would collapse without a fight!"

"You must know that Minato Namikaze wasn't alone; Konoha also had thousands of troops on his side!"

"Therefore, I still believe that we must focus our main efforts on Minato Namikaze and restrain his actions!"

Chapter 210 Magma Overcomes Fire?

Unlike Uchiha Jin, Namikaze Minato earned his title of Yellow Flash through sheer hard work on the battlefield of the Third Shinobi World War!

Because the Flying Thunder God Technique granted Minato Namikaze great mobility, during the Third Shinobi World War, Minato Namikaze was like a firefighter, moving from one battlefield to another, going wherever he was needed!

It is precisely because of this that Minato Namikaze's reputation as the Yellow Flash resounded throughout the entire ninja world, making all the major ninja villages extremely wary!