Chapter 419 Expedition to Mist Hidden
The two sides have been fighting for more than a month, and both sides have a lot of prisoners.
Tsunade and Ino previously argued that when the Konoha ninjas were at their wits' end and surrounded, they could be captured without having to fight to the death or be tortured. They could also reveal the village's intelligence. This was all normal. It was because of our commanders' incompetence that you were captured. The village will find a way to rescue you later.
The Kumogakure ninjas were relatively tough and would rather break than bend, so relatively few of them were captured. But this time, hundreds of Kirigakure ninjas led by Gonbei were captured, so the number of prisoners taken by both sides was almost the same.
Danzo also sent a message from the rear that some of his Root Ninjas were also captured, and he hoped that the village would step in and bring the prisoners back.
Jiraiya used the red gourd. No matter what the original reason was, the Root Ninja was part of the Konoha Ninja. It was unreasonable and could not turn a blind eye to the fact that they were captured while on a mission.
Finally, the two sides agreed to exchange prisoners.
All three parties were very careful and no mistakes were made when exchanging prisoners of war.
The Kirigakure exchanged the bodies of Gonbei and Nakayoshi, the Kumogakure brought back the captured ninjas, and Konoha also welcomed back a group of ninjas including Sai.
Sai was secretly taken away by Yamanaka Feng. This was thanks to Ino's relationship. She turned a blind eye and let Yamanaka Feng take away several Root ninjas including Sai. Jiraiya and Tsunade both knew about this and also acquiesced to this way of handling the matter.
The Root is just a pile of stinking dog shit, and it is not appropriate to let too many Konoha ninjas know about it.
The Fourth Raikage went to the Kirigakure camp alone to apologize and said that he had released all of your old, young, women and children, and if you were worried about the situation at home, you could withdraw from the war now.
With his mediation, the Thunder Kingdom and the Water Kingdom have also ceased fighting. The Thunder Kingdom, which has the upper hand, symbolically ceded an island at the northern end of the East China Sea to the Water Kingdom, and the two countries formally formed an alliance.
Mei Terumi was so angry that she was about to vomit blood. What else could she do? Would she go to Konoha to form an alliance? She could only go down this path.
She wanted to keep fighting, no matter what, there must be at least one result.
But the Kirigakure ninjas are all worried about their wives and children at home. Even Zabuza, who is full of murderous intent, is worried about Haku's safety and is unwilling to continue fighting with the Konoha ninjas in the Land of Hot Springs.
The ninja village system is a military mercenary organization. There is no sense of family and country. You cannot expect an ordinary Kirigakure ninja to have a high strategic vision.
Fight if you can win, run if you can't win. There are many cases of betrayal of the village. The proportion of Kirigakure ninjas betraying the village is second only to Konoha. It has almost become a tradition.
If Mei Terumi were to force the situation, several rebels would immediately jump out. It was like the lower class rebelling against the upper class. Do you understand? Her wife and children at home were more important than anything else. Mei Terumi was helpless. She wanted to continue fighting, but she could only retreat because she could not go against the will of the people.
After the Konoha Ninja withdrew from the Frost Country and regrouped, they immediately decided to open up a third front.
Beat Kirigakure! This time, not to mention Danzo who has always been a hawk, even Utane Koharu and Mitomon En chose to support it. Beat them, we must beat them!
Jiraiya quickly made adjustments, and he and Tsunade resisted the attack from the Hidden Cloud Village.
It is unrealistic to use the remaining manpower to fight against Kirigakure and destroy Kirigakure Village, but they must pay a heavy price.
There are too many water-style ninjas on the Kirigakure side, and Ino has a great advantage in this regard. Moreover, she is particularly good at destroying houses, and is already a well-known expert in destroying houses in the ninja world.
As long as Ino goes there and casts two ninjutsu in the center of Kirigakure Village, Kirigakure will not be able to recover in less than ten years. The Sand Village has a say in this regard.
Two thousand men were drawn from the eastern front, one thousand from the western front, and another one thousand were mobilized from the village. All the ninjas whose injuries were not serious on the two fronts were counted, and a total of five thousand ninjas were handed over to Ino, who was asked to lead the army to pursue the Kirigakure ninja.
A large number of family ninjas including Ino-Shika-Chou were taken away by her.
Special jonin such as Bizukuri and Aburamekitaka also set off together.
You can't retreat from the Ninja World War just because you want to. No matter in terms of morality or human nature, the Kirigakure's betrayal of the alliance has caused great harm to Konoha. Kakashi on the western front rejected the Sand Village ninja's request to join the war, saying, "No need. The biggest help you can get is if you just stay put."
The crowd was excited, and Ino led a large army to the seaside port.
When the Kirigakure ninja retreated, they took away all the ships in the coastal areas.
Want to run to the Hidden Mist Village in one breath by treading water? That's unrealistic.
Ships are still needed.
Nothing much to say, build a ship! Expedition to the Hidden Mist Village!
Both the Fire Nation and Konoha sent large sums of funds. Ino had no regrets about using other people's money, and she even called her own Cross Guild to build the ship together.
Anyway, the technical content of ships these days is not very high, and carpenters who can build houses can also help build ships.
Merchants and guilds from some small countries around heard the news and joined the feast.
Even Dazna and Inari, a grandfather and grandson from the Land of Waves, came with the villagers to take on the job.
Ino made a "small" profit from it, and she had only one request, and that was quick!
The ninjas under his command were also searching for ships everywhere.
Ino used the ruins of the former Whirlpool Country as her base and built ships on a large scale.
As her military strength was a little insufficient, she hired pirates, wandering ninjas, samurai and ninja monks to join the battle.
Referring to Foxconn's approach, they will be paid as soon as they arrive. There are basic salary, bonuses, commissions, and subsidies at the end of the month. The most prominent word is "rich".
Two months later, thousands of ships set out. Ino left a thousand ninjas to guard the harbor, and led four thousand Konoha ninjas and more than seven thousand miscellaneous troops, claiming to have thirty thousand ninjas, on an expedition across the sea to the Hidden Mist Village.
The Hidden Mist Village.
Mei Terumi excitedly took her own ninjas to help in the battle, hoping to get a share of the spoils after the war, but was forced to defect. After that, the Hidden Cloud Village released the hostages in a very noble manner. The Hidden Mist Village ninjas clamored to go home. When they returned home, the crisis was over. Some people felt that this trip was too depressing and started to pass on the blame, putting all the blame on her, the Mizukage.
It was she who wanted to make an alliance, it was also she who broke the alliance, it was she who actively participated in the war, and it seemed that she was also the one who actively retreated.
The subordinates did nothing wrong, all the blame was placed on her.
Some people thought that she brought shame to the Hidden Mist Village and wanted her to step down and select a new Mizukage. Mei Terumi was more resilient than expected. She could step down? She could, but definitely not now.
Ino is working hard to build ships and prepare to attack Kirigakure. If I step down, can you guys stop her? Anyway, my reputation is already rotten, so it doesn't matter if it gets even rottener.
Mei Terumi changed her previous gentle way of doing things and appointed Zabuza Momochi as the leader of the Anbu class in the name of the Fifth Mizukage.
Two of the Yuanshi's close confidants, Aoi and Gonbei, were appointed as advisors. It wasn't a promotion in name only, but they no longer had much actual power.
Chojuro, Haku, and Suigetsu Kizuki were all promoted to jonin and formed their own teams.
At the same time, she sent people to find the Six-Tails Jinchuriki Yugao who had left the village for many years. She even sent people to contact Hoshigaki Kisame. If you are willing to come back, all your previous sins will be written off.
(End of this chapter)
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