Chapter 54 Situation Analysis
"Then I hope that Feiyu-kun can perform more actively in this battle."

Orochimaru spoke with a smile on his face, but Uchiha Feiyu's answer was a bit funny:

"Uh... I'll try my best, but I'm always invisible during battle, so you probably won't be able to see me in action!"

"After all, safety comes first on the battlefield... Whether I'm active or not, let's wait until I survive!"

As soon as these words came out, not only Orochimaru, but also the other jonin in the headquarters were speechless. Sitting next to Orochimaru, Akimichi Toukou, who was like a mountain, patted his belly and laughed:

"You really don't look like an Uchiha, little brat! Hahaha, you look a bit like our Akimichi!"

The people of the Akimichi clan have always been fat and kind-hearted, with simple and honest personalities, so even if they are afraid of death, they will show it obviously.

When he was the bodyguard of the Second Hokage, in the famous scene when the Second Hokage proposed the task of covering the rear, Akimichi Toukaze said naively: The person covering the rear will be dead, right?
Of course, the Akimichi clan is still a ninja clan of Konoha, and they will fight to the death when they really have to. This is completely different from Uchiha Toba.

As a veteran of Konoha, Akimichi Norifuge has seen countless normal or abnormal Uchiha ninjas. He has even been a teammate of Uchiha Kagami, so he can be said to be knowledgeable.

But no matter whether it is the Uchiha who is close to the village or the family-based Uchiha, they all have a sense of pride in their character, but some are arrogant on the outside and have an overbearing personality, while others are gentle on the outside but square on the inside, with pride in their bones. None of them would show their fear of death so obviously.

"I didn't want to be an Uchiha in the first place. I had to join only because I awakened the Sharingan. The Uchiha people didn't think much of me."

Uchiha Feiyu said calmly and sat on the other side of Orochimaru. In terms of position, he was almost the right-hand man of the camp.

However, none of the jonin in the command center had any objection to this. Even though Uchiha Feiyu was only a special jonin and had no position in the camp, the lives of the hundreds of Rock and Sand ninjas under him were his greatest support in being able to sit in a high position.

A ninja's status is determined to a certain extent by personal connections, but the most important thing is whether he can fight. So even though Uchiha Feiyu has always been a loner in the camp and is afraid of death, it does not affect his rising status.

"Okay, everyone is here now. Shikano, let me report to everyone the current movements of the Sand Ninja!"

Orochimaru clapped his hands to attract everyone's attention. Fortunately, he did not have any Uchiha under his command, so even if Uchiha Feiyu spoke nonsense, other ninjas were just surprised and gossiped without too much feeling.

Nara Shikano, who had just been listening to the news, also put away his gossiping heart. The relationship between this newly emerged Uchiha strongman, the Uchiha, and the village was something that should be considered after the war. Now, the only thing that the many ninjas present should consider is how to defeat the Sand Ninja.

"According to the intelligence we received, the Sand Ninjas have left their camp this time and are coming out in full force to attack in this direction."

Nara Shikano pointed at the map, and Uchiha Feiyu recognized it at a glance. That was exactly the direction to Mount Kikyo on the map.

"It's obvious that they want to break through the blockade of Mount Kikyo. Once they break through the blockade, it will be a smooth journey to the Land of Fire. With the character of the bandits in the Sand Ninja group, it would be a huge disaster if hundreds or thousands of ninjas entered the Land of Fire." The Sand Ninjas born in the Land of Wind are usually afraid of poverty. Even in a small country like the Land of River, they have exposed the faces of bandits and robbers, plundering supplies on a large scale. If they were to the Land of Fire, which has more abundant resources, these guys would obviously show no mercy.

Ninjas are much more capable of destruction than construction. If thousands of ninjas were to flow into the Fire Country, it would be enough to cause the Fire Country to devastate thousands of miles and cause its economy to regress for several years, not to mention the entire Sand Ninja army.

"It seems that we must intercept these Sand Ninjas at Mount Kikyo... that is where the final battle will take place!"

"What is the current situation of the Sand Ninja? How many people are there in the main force? How many famous strong men are there?"

Hearing the question from the jonin below, Nara Shikano spoke very calmly:
"The Sand Village is said to have sent out tens of thousands of ninjas. Of course... that's definitely an exaggeration. The entire Sand Village probably doesn't even have tens of thousands of ninjas. Unless the Sand Village completely ignores the battle lines in other directions and doesn't keep any reserve troops in its own village, it's impossible for it to have a ninja army of this size."

"But if we cut off half of them, 5000 ninjas, it is still possible in the current situation of a decisive battle. According to the estimation of the supplies of the entire camp, their number should be between 4 and 5."

"As for the famous ninjas in the Sand Ninja... the current Sand Ninja is in a period of transition. The most talented of the younger generation of the Sand Ninja, Scorpion, is said to have disappeared with the Third Kazekage. The current younger generation only has the Fourth Kazekage Rasa and the Scorch Release User Yekura. They are key targets that need attention."

"The older generation Chiyo should still be able to fight. Puppet masters are less affected by age, and Chiyo is also a standard Kage-level fighter."

"Another thing to note is that if the Sand Ninja is defeated, the One-Tailed Shukaku Jinchuriki may be sent to the battlefield. However, I heard that this Jinchuriki doesn't like fighting. I don't know if this news is true or not."

Uchiha Feiyu knows a little about the Jinchūriki, and it should be the monk Fenfuku.

Although this old monk became a Jinchūriki, and a perfect-level Jinchūriki at that, he had never used the power of the tailed beasts in his entire life and could only be considered a container for the tailed beasts.

Even the Sand Ninja had no idea about the situation of their own family's Chuuriki - otherwise they wouldn't have locked the old monk up in prison until he died out of fear of Shukaku.

Of course, even if the Sand Ninja invited out the old monk Bunfuku, given the old monk's personality, he probably wouldn't take action, so there was no need to consider the issue of the Sand Ninja Jinchuriki at all.

After Nara Shikano finished analyzing the information about the Sand Village, there was a sudden silence. After a moment, a senior ninja frowned and said:

"This battle is not going to be easy... Is there something wrong with the Sand Ninjas' brains? They actually concentrated all the Kage-level forces on this front. Aren't they afraid of sneak attacks from other ninja villages?"

"This group of Sand Scorpions has always been like this. Every time the Ninja World War starts, they gamble their lives. After so many times, they have never really learned their lesson!"

Akimichi Tofu, who had experienced three Ninja World Wars, snorted coldly and said this.

(End of this chapter)