Chapter 288

After Honda Yuichi left, Mizunuki Ryosuke recalled the intelligence Honda Yuichi had just told him in his heart; he looked at the moonlight outside the window, and a sharp light flashed in his eyes.

He never expected that the timing of his arrival was so perfect; he originally thought he would hibernate here and wait for a period of time, but he didn't expect that the timing of his arrival was just right.

In fact, Bee's guess was not wrong.

Mizunuki Ryosuke's arrival in the Land of Frost without a sound actually had another arrangement.

Since Mizunuki Ryosuke had long been prepared to intervene in the war between the Rock and the Cloud, he would naturally not act rashly; his heart had long had a plan.

According to the intelligence in Mizunuki Ryosuke's hands, the Rock's military force currently possessed about thirty thousand ninja in total.

The core combat power was about five hundred Jonin.

And the Cloud's military force currently should have about twenty thousand ninja in total, and the number of Jonin should be roughly two hundred.

This is because of the Tailed Beast accident that occurred in the Cloud not long ago, which led to a sharp decrease in the number of Jonin.

Looking at it this way, it is normal for the Cloud to be beaten by the Rock and unable to lift its head.

And compared to the Cloud and the Rock, although the Mist has recovered some vitality under Ryosuke's vigorous development in recent years.

But the previous overdraft still made the Mist's combat power slightly thin.

The total number of ninja recovered to twenty thousand, and the number of Jonin recovered to more than three hundred, which was roughly the same as the Cloud at this time.

And at this moment, although the Mist joined the Cloud's camp, forming a "two-on-one" situation.

But if you understand the specific military comparison between the two sides in detail, you will actually find that the overall strength of both sides is still relatively balanced, and there is no significant prominence.

Mizunuki Ryosuke had told Bee before that the Mist's Mist Anbu leader, Mangetsu Hozuki, and the White Shark Unit's leader, Kisame Hoshigaki, would each lead a team to support the Cloud.

This is naturally true.

But what Ryosuke didn't say was that the number of people in these two teams was only two thousand each.

Compared with the military force of tens of thousands of the Rock and the Cloud, the Mist as a third party only had four thousand people in total.

Although the number is not large, each team has one hundred Jonin as the backbone, and these four thousand troops are all elite combat forces of the Mist, plus two Kage-level powerhouses as leaders, these two troops naturally have extremely powerful combat power.

Even so, adding the combat power sent by the Mist, the overall combat power of both sides was only barely equal.

And the occurrence of such a situation is naturally normal.

For one thing, the ninja world is currently not peaceful, and the Land of Water still needs a large amount of military force to sit in town. Plus, the Land of Water's own internal needs to operate, naturally requires a large amount of power to maintain.

The Mist's factories are producing a large amount of war supplies every moment, and these supplies will eventually be transported to the Land of Wind, the Land of Lightning, and the Land of Rain.

And these supplies naturally all need ninja to be responsible for escorting.

For another, this war has a completely different meaning for the Mist and the Cloud; although Mizunuki Ryosuke decided to help the Cloud defeat the Rock.

But even if it is helping, it depends on what kind of "help" it is.

The Mist has no need to sacrifice its own interests and go all out for the survival of the Cloud.

Mizunuki Ryosuke naturally wants to ensure that the losses of the Mist are minimized and stop losses in time.

These four thousand people are already doing his best.

Furthermore, Mizunuki Ryosuke has always believed that soldiers are precious in quality, not in quantity.

He has the confidence that even if he only dispatches these forces, he can win this war without any effort.

Thinking of this, a sharp light flashed in Mizunuki Ryosuke's eyes.

And the key to whether he can decide the battle in one fight lies in Mizunuki Ryosuke being able to break the lifeline of the Rock!

And this lifeline is the Rock's supply line!

This is also the reason why Mizunuki Ryosuke chose to come to the Land of Frost.

The Land of Frost, a very transparent small country.

But at this moment, it has become the only way for the Rock to transport supplies!

It is also the key area that determines the direction of this war.

The ice and snow of the Land of Frost make the cost of building roads within the Land of Frost extremely high, and the development of transportation is extremely limited.

Therefore, the roads within the Land of Frost are relatively single.

Any large team wanting to cross the Land of Frost has only a limited number of paths to choose from.

And the small town where Mizunuki Ryosuke and the others are entrenched at the moment, although it looks unremarkable, is an important transportation hub connecting the north and south of the Land of Frost.

So Mizunuki Ryosuke judged that the Rock's supplies would inevitably pass through this small town.

At this moment, the main combat power of the Cloud is all trapped within the Land of Lightning, losing the ability to harass the Rock's logistics supply line.

The Cloud cannot do it, but that doesn't mean Mizunuki Ryosuke cannot do it.

As long as he can block the Rock's logistics transportation, then the Rock's army of tens of thousands of ninja will naturally be shaken and collapse without a fight.

Waiting for the critical moment when the Rock's supplies are cut off, the Mist's reinforcements will be the weight that crushes the Rock.

And before, what Mizunuki Ryosuke asked Honda Yuichi was naturally important intelligence about the Rock's supplies.

Ninja, by nature, is a dark profession based on deception and assassination.

For a major event like transporting supplies, the Rock would naturally not be stupid enough to do it openly, otherwise, wouldn't this be directly saying "come and rob me."

For the team responsible for transporting supplies, the Rock side would naturally carry out camouflage, and not only that, the Rock would also choose the most secret way to carry it out.

That is to say, the Rock would try to choose to transport at night.

Because for ninja, the night is the best curtain to cover their figures.

And almost needless to think, for the convenience of escorting supplies, the Rock's transport troops would naturally choose to disguise themselves as a caravan.

After all, if you want to reasonably escort a large number of supplies forward, only the form of a caravan can do it most reasonably.

Mizunuki Ryosuke put himself in the shoes of the Rock ninja and looked at the problem from the perspective of the Rock ninja; if he were the commander of the Rock ninja, how would he arrange such important material transportation?

The answer is very simple—that is, don't put all your eggs in one basket.

In this way, the Rock is very likely to choose to divide the transport team into several teams for transportation, so that not only can it ensure timely loss reduction in case of accidents, but it can also reduce the target of the transport team, thereby carrying out camouflage.

And after figuring all this out, the goal is actually very clear.

The instruction Mizunuki Ryosuke gave to the White Shark Unit is also very simple: investigate all caravans that choose to transport goods at night and have a large scale, and report the situation to him.

After all, the supplies for tens of thousands of ninja, even if the Rock disperses the scale of the caravan disguised as transport troops, the scale must not be small.

Under the intelligence network of the White Shark Unit, several highly suspicious caravans appearing within the Land of Frost were soon found.

Next, Mizunuki Ryosuke only needs to attack the suspicious targets.

As for what to do if he finds the wrong one?

If such a situation occurs, Mizunuki Ryosuke can only say sorry.

The matter is of great importance, so it is better to kill the wrong one than to let one go!

At this moment, a sharp look flashed in Mizunuki Ryosuke's eyes; it was already late, and they should take action.