Promote the theory of threat to Konoha, why Kirigakure brings Hide! - Chapter 277

c276 Sea Battle

On October 15, 47th year of Kirigakure, the Anti-Kirigakure Alliance, led by the four major ninja villages of Konoha, Sand Village, Iwagakure, and Kumogakure, was officially established.

Because of the usurpation of the title of Daimyo by Kizuna Shingetsu, the Anti-Kirigakure Alliance this time is more powerful than the Anti-Kirigakure Alliance in the Third Ninja World War.

All the countries with Daimyo in the Ninja World basically responded to the call of the Anti-Kirigakure Alliance. The number of responding countries and the wide range of influence can be called the Ninja World version of the Anti-French Alliance.

Even the ordinary Anti-French Alliance is not enough to describe the grand occasion of this alliance. If we really want to compare it, it has to be the Seventh Anti-French Alliance formed by European countries after Napoleon escaped from the Island of Elba.

The establishment of the Anti-Kirigakure Alliance, because of its large number of members, can be said to be unparalleled in momentum. Those people who don’t know the inside story have basically determined that Kirigakure Village has been defeated this time.

After all, even a strong Konoha, which has maintained its title of the first in the ninja world for decades, was still defeated by the four major ninja villages in the Third Ninja World War.

The anti-Kirigakure alliance this time is much more powerful than before, and not many people think that Kirigakure has the possibility of winning.

In particular, the joining of the “demigod” Salamander Hanzo has added a bit of power to the alliance.

As a strong man who raised the inferior ninja village of Amegakure to the level that it can compete with Takigakure for the sixth largest ninja village with his own strength, it is self-evident how famous Salamander Hanzo is in the ninja world.

Therefore, the strong will always be strong, and more and more people with various purposes have poured into the alliance army, looking forward to biting off a piece of fat meat in the war against Kirigakure.

While these people have expanded the momentum of the alliance, they have inevitably made the composition of the alliance more complicated.

There is no need to think that Kirigakure must rely on these people to mix sand in the alliance.

Ohnoki and others still welcomed this. At the very least, these people could also consume the supplies of Kirigakure Village.

However, for the sake of confidentiality, some highly confidential plans such as the “decapitation plan” would definitely not be told to these people.

So after the initial training and coordination, on October 25, the Anti-Kirigakure Alliance officially announced that it would launch a war against Kirigakure Village.

According to the data on paper, the Anti-Kirigakure Alliance has about 100,000 ninjas, while Kirigakure Village has only 20,000 ninjas at most. The data of nearly five to one made all those present who had not really seen the strength of Kirigakure Shingetsu full of confidence in victory.

Facing this unprecedented anti-Kirigakure alliance, the first thing Kirigakure Village had to do was to abolish all the major forward military bases located outside the Land of Water and gather all the personnel.

After the Second Ninja World War, the five major countries divided their spheres of influence. Hozuki Shingetsu used the policies of the Oceanic Ninja Alliance and the Kirigakure students to absorb the ninja villages of the small countries around the Land of Water into the military system of the Kirigakure Village.

On weekdays, these small ninja villages scattered around the Land of Water are the military forward bases of the Kirigakure Village, mainly responsible for supplying the Kirigakure Ninjas outside and providing strategic support at critical moments.

However, in the face of such a huge military offensive, these forward bases scattered along the coast of the continent can’t play any role at all.

Deploying manpower here can’t play any role except giving the other side heads for nothing.

So Hozuki Shingetsu simply retreated the front line, handed over all these coastal territories including the Land of Whirlpool, and concentrated on setting up the main battlefield in the ocean and the land of the Land of Water.

So the first war between the Anti-Kirigakure Alliance and the Kirigakure Village was officially launched on the ocean.

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Whirl!

The sound of the waves is surging, and it will not change because of the changes in the ninja world.

The number of passenger and cargo ships in the coastal waters, which used to be busy day and night, has dropped drastically in the past few days, and even no merchant ships can be seen sailing on the coastal waters all night.

But today is different. A huge fleet that covers the sky and the sun is coming from the direction of the distant ninja continent, slowly sailing towards the direction of the Water Country.

Perhaps out of caution, perhaps for the sake of maintaining the formation, or in order to gather so many ships, some of the sailors on the ships are inexperienced, and the speed of this huge fleet is abnormally slow.

However, this also leads to the fact that from a distance, this huge fleet is like a mountain, rushing towards the Water Country with a majestic and heavy posture and a slow but resolute attitude.

“Huh… This ocean is really not suitable!”

A dark-skinned cloud ninja took a long breath towards the sea, leaned on the deck railing, looked up at the blue sky and white clouds, and sighed.

Although the four major countries are all close to the ocean, not everyone is adapted to the ocean. Even among the senior ninjas, many have suffered from seasickness in recent days.

Obviously, this Cloud Ninja is a seasick patient.

“Yanzo, cheer up. The Hidden Mist Village will definitely not sit still and wait for death. With their naval warfare technology and the poor strategic depth of the Land of Water, they will definitely fight us on the sea.”

An older Cloud Ninja was lying on the deck, his hands crossed behind his head, lazily reminding his teammates.

There were also capable people in the coalition. The Hidden Mist Village deliberately evacuated the coastal strongholds of the mainland, which made it easy for people to guess that the Hidden Mist Village was going to fight the coalition at sea.

“Strictly speaking, our ships are the center of the fleet. Even if an attack is launched, the Hidden Mist Ninja will not attack us first, right? Don’t worry, with those cannon fodders on the periphery to test, we are very safe here.”

The fleet, from the periphery to the inside, is composed of those mercenary ninjas, small ninja village ninjas, and ninjas from the four major ninja villages.

If the Hidden Mist Village attacks, it will certainly attack in this order, which is why the Cloud Ninja is so relaxed.

Woo!

While the two were talking, a large area of ​​fog suddenly appeared on the sea in the distance.

The fog appeared so quickly and covered such a wide area that this huge fleet had no time to turn around and entered the fog as a whole.

“Be careful, this must be a trick of the Hidden Mist Village!”

This strange fog instantly attracted the attention of the ninjas on the fleet. However, when it comes to naval battles, the Hidden Mist Village can be said to be their ancestor. Even if they found clues, they still couldn’t guard against the Hidden Mist Village’s offensive.

“…Ship, the cabin is flooded!”

The first is the most classic water ghost ship-drilling battle. The Mist Ninjas hidden under the bottom of the ship held sharp blades and drilled holes one after another on the bottom of the ship, causing many ships to sink at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Although the ninjas present can stand on the water with chakra, this is not a long-term solution.

On this boundless ocean, even ninjas will only end up with chakra depleted and buried in the sea.

And even if they don’t fall into the water, the Mist Ninjas are really not afraid of anyone when they fight on the water on this ocean.

After the water ghost ship-drilling battle, the Hidden Mist armored warships hidden in the thick fog carried out long-range volley artillery bombardment.

After the industrial revolution, the artillery technology of the Hidden Mist Village has also made great progress.

These artillery may not be very effective against the agile ninjas, but they are effective against these fleets with large targets and difficult turns.

Under the ultra-long-range attack of the ironclad warships, many of the coalition warships sank immediately, and the ninjas on the ships fell into the ocean one by one like dumplings.

It can only be said that fortunately the commander of the coalition did not have a “flash of inspiration” to lock the ships with iron chains to stabilize the ships.

Otherwise, in this era when only the Hidden Mist Village has ironclad warships, the Ghost Lantern Crescent Moon only needs to imitate the predecessors to have a Red Cliff Fire.

However, the coalition forces are large in number after all. After experiencing the initial panic, they quickly restored their organization, gathered their military spirit, and spontaneously counterattacked with the resistance force based on the upper ninjas in each area.

Although the Mist Ninjas are first-class in naval battles, they cannot withstand the large number of people on the opposite side. After a short initial advantage, they soon fell into a disadvantage.

“Heh, I thought the Mist Ninja’s naval warfare skills were so strong, but now it seems that they are just so-so…”

Just when a man was standing at the bow, looking down on the performance of the Mist Ninja not far away, he suddenly felt a dark cloud rising above his head. He looked up and saw a huge turtle slowly emerging from the water, with its eyes as tall as a person staring at him.

Before he could react, he saw the turtle open its mouth, a little red light flashing from it, and in a short time it expanded into a tailed beast ball with a diameter of several meters, spraying towards him.

Boom!

The three-tailed beast ball directly destroyed all the nearby ships, and even the remaining force was not reduced. The tailed beast ball pierced through the ship and hit the ocean, and also exploded a huge splash, causing waves.

Ang!

Seeing this scene, the three-tailed beast roared excitedly.

Although the three-tailed Isobu is known as the most Buddhist of the nine tailed beasts, it is still a tailed beast after all. When it is engaged in life and death killing, it is inevitable that some of its nature will be exposed.

But it didn’t feel happy for long. Before it could fire a few tailed beast balls, a huge cat claw appeared out of thin air and slapped Isofu’s head.

“Tailed beast against tailed beast, that’s fair, isn’t it?”

The two-tailed Jinchūriki of the Hidden Cloud Village, Yumujin, stood on the flagpole of the ship, looking at Isofu’s huge body, and said lightly.

“It’s fair for a tailed beast to be against a tailed beast, but it’s not fair for a three-tailed Jinchūriki to be against a two-tailed Jinchūriki, little girl.”

The main commander of the attack, Yagura Kujitachi, appeared above Isofu, holding a short staff and looking at Yumujin, with a smile on his baby face.

Boom!

Before Yumujin could say anything, he saw a flash of light blue light in the distant sky, and then a thick chakra beam of light crossed the sky, hitting the two-tailed Nekomata fiercely with a swift momentum, and knocked it into the sea.

“How does the Chakra Cannon feel? If it weren’t for the rapid-fire consideration, this one shot would be enough to send you to see the Sage of Six Paths.”

Kokutachi Yagura commanded Isofusa to pursue the victory and try to annihilate Nekomata in one fell swoop.

“Rasengan!”

But before he could act, he felt a chill flash over his head. Yagura Kuji had no choice but to raise his coral staff and dodge the attack by relying on the hardness of the weapon.

“Yellow flash, the fifth Hokage…”

After a few ups and downs, he looked at Minato Namikaze who appeared on the battlefield and showed a rare cautious look.

Before coming, Kizuna Shingetsu repeatedly warned him to be careful of Minato Namikaze’s space-time ninjutsu and not to give him the chance to plant the Flying Thunder God mark on his body.

So Yagura Kuji had an idea and immediately drew a circle with his coral staff and performed the secret technique.

“Water escape·Water mirror technique!”

Suddenly, a figure who looked no different from Minato Namikaze appeared from the rippling water mirror and entangled with Minato Namikaze.

The battle on the ocean was in full swing, and strange noises were heard in the sky at this time.

The flying device obtained from the Air Ninja Village was naturally not forgotten by the Hidden Mist Village. With the support of the “aircraft carrier” of the Sky Fortress, hundreds of small black dots flew down from the sky, relying on the explosive packs of detonating talismans they carried with them, and bombed the fleet on the ocean recklessly.

There were flying ninja teams on the top, and long-range firepower support from the Tailed Beast Jade and Chakra Cannon from time to time in the middle. There were also Mist Ninjas who kept drilling through ships and were proficient in naval battles on the seabed. For a while, a strange phenomenon appeared on the sea surface that the Mist Ninjas were suppressing the coalition forces.

“Huh? Why is it like this? Ohnoki and the masters of the four major ninja villages, except for Minato Namikaze and the two-tailed Jinchuriki, none of them appeared?”

Kugagi Yagura was not excited at this time. On the contrary, he was only deeply uneasy at this moment.

According to the order of Kizuna Shingetsu, the actual purpose of his trip was actually a simple show of power, mainly for the purpose of harassment and delay.

As long as the masters of the opposite side appeared, this unit would withdraw.

But the war has reached this point, and except for Minato Namikaze and Yukito, no high-ranking officials from the four major ninja villages have been seen. This is undoubtedly a very abnormal phenomenon.

Wait!

“Minato Namikaze… Space-time ninjutsu?”

Just when Yagura Kujitsu noticed something, a ninja dog suddenly appeared beside Minato Namikaze.

In the roar of the ninja dog, Minato Namikaze seemed to hear something. After looking at Yagura Kujitsu with a smile, he put his hands together and disappeared on the spot with a space-time ninjutsu.

“Lure the tiger away from the mountain? No, it’s a feint to the east and attack in the west!”

“The coalition forces deliberately formed such a large fleet in such a high-profile manner, just to make us mobilize the masters to fight a naval battle with them! But in fact, their elite are not here!”

So many masters, if not here, where else can they be?

Although I don’t know how they will cross the ocean, Yagura Kujitsu feels an inexplicable chill behind him as long as he thinks of so many masters escaping the surveillance of the Hidden Mist Village.

Just as a chill was rising behind Kujiya, on the outskirts of the Land of Water, less than 30 kilometers away from the capital, an island covered with primeval forests was bravely moving forward under the efforts of a giant turtle.

Ohnoki, the Fourth Raikage, Rasa, Jiraiya and other top fighters from the four major ninja villages all appeared here!