Chapter 639: News spread back

Konoha Year 44.

The second year of the outbreak of the Third Ninja World War.

Silver Flash Lu Chen, alone killed his way into the Rain Village, killed Hanzo of the Salamander, the leader of the Rain Village, inside the Rain Village, and completely crushed the Rain Village!

The news spread.

The entire Ninja World was shaken by it!

Konoha camp.

Inside the central tent.

Orochimaru was standing in front of the sand table map, fiddling with the flags on the sand table map.

Each small flag represents a squad of Rock Ninjas, each large flag represents a detachment, and different colors represent the nature of the team. Some are reconnaissance squads, some are assassination squads, and some are combat troops.

The atmosphere in the tent seemed a bit oppressive. Danzo was sitting not far away, also looking at the sand table map, pondering without speaking. Beside him were several elite Jonin who also had low expressions.

"The activities of the Sand Ninjas have brought great pressure to the flanks."

After Orochimaru inserted a few flags somewhere on the sand table map, his voice spoke slowly and somewhat hoarsely.

The situation is very bad now!

Dealing with the Rock Ninjas and Rain Ninjas themselves had already exerted huge pressure, and as a result, the day before yesterday, the Sand Ninjas also started activities on the southern border flank.

These Sand Ninjas were sent out by the Fourth Kazekage Rasa. As for the purpose, it was very peculiar, not purely for war, but to clear out dissidents.

In the previous war, Chiyo was killed by Lu Chen, and Ebizo's prestige also suffered a heavy blow. Rasa, who was forced to take the position and was not standing firm, had already firmly sat in the position of the Fourth Kazekage.

And after sitting firmly in the position of the Fourth Kazekage, Rasa didn't stop his collection of power. He either bribed, suppressed, or coerced the high-level officials of the village, and controlled most of the Sand Village in a very short time.

And those who could not be controlled, who formed groups... similar to the Uchiha clan of Konoha which was difficult to control, were sent out by him to invade the territory of the Land of Fire.

The Sand Ninjas didn't completely tear up the previously signed contract.

This batch of Sand Ninjas that appeared were merely active in the border area, taking actions in some areas with unclear ownership, and had not yet fought with Konoha's ninjas, nor had they actively started a war.

But the problem is, even if the Sand Ninjas didn't actively start a war, just displaying a force of hundreds of people on the border was still a great pressure for the Konoha side!

It's impossible to ignore it!

The stationing of this batch of Sand Ninjas forced Orochimaru to split a part of his troops to deal with it. Under these circumstances, the conflict with the Rock Ninjas on the front line became very severe.

Tsuchikage Onoki is unusually insidious and cunning, especially after Lu Chen and Namikaze Minato became famous, he almost never launched a large-scale attack, but carried out scattered battles.

Thousands of Rock Ninjas, divided into hundreds of troops, were active in the border area, and some directly invaded the interior of the Land of Fire.

The purpose of doing this is very simple.

It is to guard against Namikaze Minato and Lu Chen.

Even if Namikaze Minato and Lu Chen both appeared on this battlefield, at most they would lose one troop, and there would not be large-scale losses. If they noticed something wrong, they would retreat immediately.

Because Konoha was fighting three major ninja villages at the same time, the number of ninjas on the Rock Ninja battlefield was only seven or eight thousand. After this period of casualties, the actual combat power had plummeted to less than six thousand.

And looking at the Rock Ninja side, there were still nearly ten thousand ninjas eyeing them covetously.

The lack of troops also made it difficult for Konoha to launch a frontal decisive battle offensive. After all, the other side had more people than you, and if they didn't intend to fight you frontally, it was impossible for you to carry out a counter-encirclement with fewer people.

So the Konoha side could only be forced to deal with this small-scale combat method of the Rock Ninjas. Orochimaru and Danzo had successively led teams out, but the actual results were not ideal, because Tsuchikage Onoki would also often lead elite troops to launch surprise attacks.

"The actions of the Sand Ninjas indeed need to be guarded against. It seems they haven't made a move yet, but they have the possibility of starting a war with us again at any time."

Danzo stared at the sand table map and said in a deep voice.

Now everyone is very clear about one point, that is, except for the Land of Fire, the other four great nations will not attack each other again, because once they attack each other, the remaining two nations will inevitably be unable to resist Konoha's power and will be defeated and eroded one by one.

The Sand Village is precisely clear about this, so without worrying that the Rock Ninjas will sneak attack them, and with no worries behind them, they may participate in the war at any time!

"If we could settle the Rain Village, the situation would stabilize... but that guy Hanzo of the Salamander..."

A gloomy and uncertain expression flickered in Orochimaru's eyes.

If it were any other small ninja village, it would pose no threat to Konoha at all, and sending a batch of ninjas could directly wipe out the other side...

But the Rain Village is different. The number of ninjas in the Rain Village is not small, with two or three thousand, and the most critical point is the leader of the Rain Village, Hanzo of the Salamander, who is not like the leaders of other small ninja villages whose strength is average, but is an extremely powerful ninja!

Even the Five Kage would find it difficult to do anything to the other side!

Under these circumstances, the Rain Village has become an extremely troublesome existence.

If it were normal times, Konoha wouldn't fear it, but now they are confronting the Rock Village frontally and have to guard against the Sand Village, so the actions of the Rain Village would be very fatal.

"Is there no news from Lu Chen yet?"

Orochimaru turned his head to look at Danzo.

The war situation in the Land of Rain has always been the responsibility of Danzo, and many Root ninjas under Danzo are scattered within the Land of Rain, collecting intelligence, and some are also watching the Rain Village.

Danzo shook his head and said, "I have lost contact with Lu Chen, but my people detected the actions of the Rain Ninjas. They arrived at a town not far from the Rain Village one day ago, and now they should have returned to the village."

"This guy Hanzo..."

Orochimaru muttered with a gloomy face.

Hanzo of the Salamander's style of doing things is too cautious, cautious to the point that there is no opportunity to solve the threat of the Rain Ninjas. In this situation, only by letting Lu Chen return first, and then letting Lu Chen go to deal with the Rock Ninjas' detachments.

As long as a few detachments are wiped out, the Rock Ninjas will notice the intelligence that Silver Flash is active on this battlefield, and the activity level and scale of action will inevitably be greatly reduced.

That way, the frontal pressure can be relieved a lot.

If Hanzo of the Salamander launches a sudden flank attack again, then let Lu Chen lead a team to meet Hanzo. Currently, this is the most suitable response strategy.

"Lord Danzo."

Just when Orochimaru was pondering, a Root ninja suddenly walked in, and while saluting Danzo, handed a sealed scroll to Danzo, saying, "This is intelligence from the Rain Village side."

"Hmm..."

Danzo took the scroll and opened it slowly. His gaze swept over, and he saw the first line describing the news that Hanzo of the Salamander had already led the Rain Ninjas back to the Rain Village.

Danzo glanced at Orochimaru and said, "Hanzo has already returned to the Rain Village. I don't know Lu Chen's specific location now. Orochimaru, do you have any news? I will let my people go to contact Lu Chen..."