Chapter 124 Frontline Situation
In addition to the invasion of external enemies, Konoha also has many problems within itself.

When Uchiha Hiba left Konoha, he threw out a lot of negative information about the Root and Konoha, almost causing the Konoha's top leaders to lose all their prestige.

If Konoha wasn't in the middle of a war right now, it was estimated that either the Third Hokage would step down directly, or the entire Konoha would be plunged into civil war!
Even at this critical moment, the various forces within the ninja village are only superficially united and can barely cope with the enemy's offensive. It is absolutely impossible for them to support the Konoha high-level officials like before without any second thoughts.

The group that reacted the most, naturally, was the Uchiha clan. You know, among all the negative information about Danzo, the ones about the Uchiha clan were definitely the most numerous and the most brutal.

Not to mention anything else, the fact that Danzo captured several Uchiha ninjas and sent them to Orochimaru as human experiment materials was enough to make the Uchiha clan hate him with gnashing teeth.

Although Danzo is dead, everyone knows that this matter must have been tacitly approved by the Konoha high-level officials. In this case, the Uchiha clan did not directly attack the Hokage Building, which shows that Uchiha Fugaku has a soft character.

As for expecting the Uchiha clan to continue to work hard for Konoha, forget about it in the short term. If they don't stab Konoha, they are already considering the overall situation.

Originally, in the Third Ninja World War, the Uchiha clan should have been sent to deal with the Mist Ninja. Although it was a bit ridiculous to let the Uchiha clan, who were good at Fire Style, deal with the ninjas from the Water Country, in fact, the Uchiha clan did contribute a lot to Konoha.

Due to environmental factors and the barrier of the ocean, it is almost impossible for the Mist Village to invade the mainland. Therefore, in every Ninja World War, the Mist Village's intention to invade is not strong. Most of the time, they just take advantage of the fire and basically only send out one or two thousand ninjas.

But if we consider that the Uchiha clan only had a few hundred ninjas, we will know that the Uchiha at that time absolutely tried their best to resist the attack of the Mist Ninja.

Now, because of the lack of the Uchiha clan, if Konoha wants to withstand the attack of the Mist Ninja, it must transfer more ninjas from other battlefields, which makes Konoha's situation worse.

However, this is actually not much different from Konoha's Third Ninja World War in the original work. At most, it became a little more difficult due to the absence of the Uchiha clan and Orochimaru.

What really surprised Uchiha Feiyu was another thing:
"You mean, the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki also went to the front line of the Rock Village? Jiraiya was transferred to deal with the Mist Ninja?"

Looking at Orochimaru's men in front of him, Uchiha Feiyu asked with some surprise.

"Yes, it is said that the Golden Flash on the front line and our Konoha's Nine-Tails Jinchuriki are a couple. The two of them joined forces to fight against the invasion of the entire Rock Ninja. By the way, they also took care of the Lightning Country front and deterred the Cloud Ninja."

"As for Lord Jiraiya, he is now stationed at the coastline of Konoha, leading Konoha's troops to fight against the Mist Ninja led by the Seven Ninja Swordsmen."

Sure enough, the plot changed. I remember that in the original work, the Seven Ninja Swordsmen suddenly attacked into the heart of Konoha. But in the end, because they kept chasing Might Guy, they were kicked into the Three Lucky Stars by Might Guy's father who opened the Eight Gates Formation.

It was precisely because of Might Dai's sudden outburst that the invasion of the Mist Ninja did not cause any harm and was quickly and completely repelled.

As a result, although Jiraiya stopped the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, he also turned the original surprise attack and crushing situation into a long-term tug-of-war. In the long run, the losses caused may be even greater.

However, Uchiha Feiyu didn't care much about the Mist Ninja and the Seven Ninja Swordsmen. He waved his hand, asked the hidden man of Orochimaru to retreat, and stroked his chin to think.

Judging from various signs in the original Naruto, the current Mist Village is most likely controlled by Uchiha Madara. Before he directly raids Uchiha Madara, he does not want to come into contact with the Mist Village, so as not to alert the old Korean Uchiha Madara.

"Or... I can do the opposite and use the power of the Sharingan more to directly attract Uchiha Madara's attention, so that Uchiha Madara will use me as his backup and summon me over?"

The reason why Uchiha Madara chose Uchiha Obito was partly coincidence and partly he had no choice. Uchiha Hiba would never believe that he had set his sights on Obito from the very beginning.

Even though Uchiha Madara knew that the more emotional an Uchiha is, the greater the possibility of awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan, the awakening of the Mangekyō Sharingan actually still depends on luck. Otherwise, there are also people in the Uchiha clan who appear cold on the outside but are loyal and righteous on the inside. Why did he choose Uchiha Obito?
The biggest reason is that when Obito awakened the two magatama Sharingan, he had already demonstrated some of the abilities of the Mangekyō. His body, which was originally suppressed, was partially weakened by the power of Kamui, which saved him from being crushed to death by the boulder.

This performance also attracted the attention of White Zetsu who was nearby at the time, which made Uchiha Madara convinced that Obito had great potential.

Another point is that at that time, there was no one in the Uchiha clan who could awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan. Only one Uchiha Fugaku had the possibility of awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan, but he had been hiding it and had not made a move. Uchiha Madara could not find any suitable person to choose.

In this situation, Uchiha Madara had no other choice but to train him himself, so Obito caught the eye of Uchiha Madara.

Although this was Uchiha Feiyu's guess, he also believed that it was almost correct. If he displayed abilities such as Susanoo in this situation, wouldn't it immediately attract the attention of Uchiha Madara?
In addition, Uchiha Toba is a defector ninja of Konoha, and he has no complicated relationship or feelings with the Uchiha clan. From this point of view, he is simply the person born to replace Uchiha Madara and implement the Moon Eye Plan!

Thinking of this, Uchiha Feiyu immediately made up his mind to show his strength with Susanoo on the Rock Ninja battlefield.

As for which side to deal with at that time, we will just have to see which ninja village has provoked us!

……

At the Konoha front, Minato Namikaze took a look at the information in his hand and handed it to his staff from the Nara clan.

Although the future Fourth Hokage was definitely not stupid, he was not good at battlefield planning either.

Although he possesses the unimaginable space-time ninjutsu of Flying Thunder God, his value in supporting various teams on the front line is far less than having him command from the rear. That is why Minato Namikaze has no experience in command.

It's not just Minato Namikaze. The other Kage-level fighter of Konoha, the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki Uzumaki Kushina, who is sitting next to Minato Namikaze, is also not good at commanding. Therefore, the command power has long fallen into the hands of the staff officer Nara Shikaku.

This staff officer of the Nara clan seemed to have long been accustomed to Minato Namikaze's practices. He took a look at the information in his hand and frowned slightly.

"What's wrong? Is it hard to handle, Shikaku?"

Namikaze Minato asked curiously, and Nara Shikaku shook his head:

"The Iwagakure has increased its military strength again. It seems like these country rats will never die." Namikaze Minato chuckled.
"Don't worry. Wasn't the situation just as difficult before? We still managed to hold on. Although there aren't many troops left in the rear, the current Konoha ninjas have all been trained."

"That brat Kakashi is already a quasi-Kage-level ninja. If the battle continues like this, I think he will become a Kage-level ninja right on the battlefield. Then the battle will be much easier."

Nara Shikaku patted his face and smiled bitterly:
"I just think the plan has failed. The strategy of diverting trouble to others has never had any effect."

The so-called strategy of diverting trouble to others is to shift the target of the Iwagakure to the Kumogakure.

Logically speaking, the Cloud Ninja suffered heavy casualties. The Third Raikage and the only candidate for the Fourth Raikage were both dead, leaving only the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki to support the group alone. It would be absolutely difficult for them to face the invasion of the Rock Ninja.

Faced with such a huge piece of fat with little resistance, Nara Shikaku always thought that Ohnoki would not be able to resist the temptation. However, the fact is that Ohnoki finally set his sights on Konoha and did not turn to Iwagakure.

"Perhaps this is also related to the complete destruction of the Root... I have to admit that although the Root is very disgusting, it is indeed a very useful poisonous blade when facing the outside world."

"Okay, Minato, don't say any more about the Root."

Nara Shikaku interrupted Minato Namikaze's words. Ever since Orochimaru defected, Minato Namikaze had already been designated as the Fourth Hokage. Naturally, the smart people of the Nara clan also attached themselves to him early on.

It is precisely for this reason that Nara Shikaku does not want Namikaze Minato to say anything nonsense. You know, nowadays in the entire Konoha, criticizing the Root has become a politically correct thing.

Minato Namikaze only said a few words. In fact, he didn't have a good impression of the Root. After all, his wife was a Jinchūriki. Given Danzo's hateful personality, it would be strange if he didn't have any ideas about it.

In this situation, it was already considered good of Minato Namikaze for him not to spit out his saliva, and his words just now were just what he felt.

"If you don't want to talk about it, then don't talk about it. The key issue now is to discuss how to deal with the Rock Ninja."

"There's nothing to discuss about this!"

A crisp voice sounded, and the red-haired Uzumaki Kushina waved her small fist:
"Minato and I will join forces. No matter how many ninjas from the Iwagakure come to support us, we can defeat him!"

Seeing Uzumaki Kushina's confident expression, Nara Shikaku also smiled.

"That's right. With Minato's Flying Thunder God and the power of the Nine-Tails, we in Konoha reserve the right to overturn the table no matter what!"

Although the current Uzumaki Kushina is not a perfect Jinchūriki, she can still unleash most of the power of the Nine-Tails by relying on the Uzumaki clan's huge chakra and suppression of the tailed beasts.

Namikaze Minato, who possesses the Flying Thunder God Jutsu, is the most mobile ninja in the ninja world, and the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, who possesses the strongest tailed beast, is also the most destructive ninja in the ninja world.

With the strongest mobility and the strongest destructive power, if it is really let loose, it is enough to make any ninja village suffer.

If they were not afraid that the other side's Jinchūriki would also give up and cause heavy losses to Konoha, this young couple could end the war in an instant by joining forces!

Of course, the consequences would definitely be serious. If the Iwagakure ninja also chose to use the tailed beasts for a surprise attack, Konoha might be completely wiped out, and then the two sides would end up in a terrible battle.

However, as long as the two of them are there, Konoha will not be truly destroyed no matter what. At most, it will suffer some losses in this battle, but no ninja village will dare to push Konoha to its limit.

In fact, this is the role of the Tailed Beast Jinchuriki. Although in the original comics, when the Akatsuki organization was collecting Jinchuriki, the performances of those Jinchuriki were hard to describe, and few of them could stand up.

But in fact, the positioning of the Jinchūriki itself is an anti-village weapon. A large ninja village that is pushed to the limit can use ninjas to protect the Jinchūriki, and then rely on the Tailed Beast Ball's super attack range and huge destructive power to destroy it together with other ninja villages.

However, there are so many strange and bizarre ninjutsu in the ninja world, and this tactic is ultimately just a deterrent, and the possibility of success is not very high.

If the Jinchūriki is combined with Flying Thunder God, it would be really hard to defend against. Just thinking about it makes one's scalp tingle.

"Tsk, if you think about it this way, even I think this couple is a little outrageous!"

Uchiha Feiyu, who was also sitting in the tent, touched his chin and said with some emotion.

Yes, Uchiha Feiyu had already arrived at the Konoha camp in front. Relying on the illusion of controlling the five senses, he went directly to the command center and carefully read all kinds of information.

Even though he was openly looking through intelligence in the command center, walking around, and even whispering, the group of Konoha ninjas seemed to turn a blind eye and a deaf ear.

Even Minato Namikaze, who was known as the golden flash, or Kushina Uzumaki, the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, did not discover anything at all.

"Kannakun's Bridge, so there really is such a mission! But this time without Minato Namikaze, is it entirely up to Kakashi and his three men to carry it out?"

"Huh!? Uchiha Obito, Nohara Rin, and one is Might Guy?! When did such a team appear?"

Although he was a little confused about this, Uchiha Feiyu knew very well in his heart that it was probably his own butterfly effect that caused Kakashi to stand out earlier.

After all, he had stored the soul of Konoha White Fang on the White Fang short sword. In other words, when Kakashi was in danger, Hatake Sakumo could possess his son at any time and show him what it means to have a personal father to fight for him.

(End of this chapter)