Build the Swarm Tech Tree in Konoha

Chapter 73 It’s time to make up your mind

After dark, Feng Ying's face was ashen as he looked at the baggage puppet that was still burning in front of him. Now that all the accompanying baggage was lost, the sand ninja only had two days of dry food that he carried with him, and even the basic warning barrier for the camp.

It can't be arranged, which is very difficult to do.

The Third Kazekage stood aside, watching his subordinates inspect the traces of the battle, clenching his hands into fists, and his whole body was trembling slightly.

He realized the danger after receiving the first report of the baggage train being attacked, and immediately led the Shadow Guards to come to support him. However, the enemy led him by the nose and used bugs to attack and distract him, chasing him twice in a row.

The rescue target was missed.

Until now, Konoha's ninjas had not launched a single attack on him, but they almost destroyed two baggage troops in front of him. Kazekage was completely humiliated.

Seeing the flames burning the last baggage troop, Feng Ying's anger destroyed Feng Ying's sanity. He summoned the sky full of iron sand and flew directly to the battlefield, killing all the bugs he could see at the time.

The Kazekage's outbreak was just a meaningless vent. The reason Sunagakure Village chose the risky raid plan as a last ditch effort was because the war resources were exhausted and they were no longer able to continue the war.

Only the second day after the raid plan started, all the supplies carried by Konoha ninjas whom they had not met were burned. This was one-third of all the supplies in the entire plan.

Although there are still more supplies stockpiled in the village, the remaining two-thirds are already insufficient. Not only has there been no unexpected redundancy, but there have been questions about whether the raid plan can continue to be implemented.

After calculation, Sunagakure's staff suggested three possibilities for Kazekage to complete the plan.

First, from now on, the raiding legions must reduce their consumption. Each person's food ration will be reduced by one-third, and combat materials will be concentrated on the supply of elites.

Second, do not reduce supplies, quickly and smoothly pass through Kawa no Kuni within three days, and then capture Konoha's supply team within one day and capture all supplies completely.

Third, pray that the three thousand ninjas of the Assault Legion can perform for a long time, fight continuously within seven days, and quickly defeat the Konoha Legion and Orochimaru Legion.

Hearing the third possible suggestion, Kazekage almost beat the idiot to death on the spot. If he could do such an exaggerated thing, he would have led ten thousand sand ninjas to conquer the Leaf Village. Now he should be thinking about how to conquer the whole world.

The problem of the ninja world.

However, the staff agreed that the premise of everything was to kill the Konoha ninjas who attacked the baggage train today. Otherwise, if the baggage train was completely wiped out again, everyone would just go back to Sunagakure Village and prepare to surrender.

"Tomorrow, we must kill them." The Sandaime Kazekage gave the order harshly, and all the elites went out to search for any clues about the enemy.

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After successfully completing four attacks and successfully escaping the pursuit of Kazekage himself, the Aburame team retreated to a hidden camp as planned and began to rest.

The camp here is a cave specially dug with two ninety-degree turns. Aburame Iron Pill lit a fire in the deepest part. There was a kettle and an iron pot on the fire, and the delicious mushroom broth had begun to boil.

Uchiha Hiro and Inuzukao stood guard at the entrance of the cave. Their excitement had not subsided. They were chattering about the day's battle and the iron sand in the sky at the last shocking moment.

Today, the three of them followed the captain for a whole day and won four consecutive victories with completely different styles. The last two battles were fought with the support of the Kazekage. The three headed by the Kazekage and his Shadow Guards After chasing the Sand Gakure ninjas for an entire afternoon, the captain used various means to mislead the Kazekage's judgment. He used bugs, bug clones, and shadow clones to lead the Sand Ninja around, completely missing the traces of the Aburame team.

The final battle was even more incredible. Aburame Tetsumaru led his team and walked towards the Kazekage, almost passing by the Kazekage, taking advantage of the Kazekage's gap, and successfully eliminated the enemy's last baggage train.

This is the legend.

Among the three, Nara Yoshino was the most shocked. The Nara family has always been known for its resourcefulness and has also served as the staff think tank for all previous Hokages. Because he knew more, he understood even more how exaggerated today's results were.

Aburame Tetsumaru himself had mixed feelings. On the one hand, he successfully imitated the instructor's tactics for the first time, achieved a satisfactory record, and was in a happy mood.

On the other hand, he remotely controlled a siege against the Sunagakure ninja from a distance of one hundred kilometers away. The target was the Sunagakure brigade in the southern part of his defense area, with a total of 284 people.

Aburame Tetsumaru gathered fifty sword mantises, four hundred bomb locusts, and four million giant insects to launch a strong attack on the sand ninja brigade.

The first wave of explosion traps caused more than forty casualties in Sunagakure. The Sunagakure ninjas did not show any panic. They quickly formed a formation and fought in an orderly manner under unified command.

Faced with a four-hour siege by millions of bugs, Sunagakure used ninjutsu, poison, detonating charms and other means to resist, killing nearly a million bugs. Because under orderly command, all Sand Ninjas could get a rest. The opportunity, the continuous attacks did not exhaust their chakra, and finally more than 150 Sunagakure ninjas successfully broke through and joined the Kazekage's large army.

During the battle, Dao Mantis conducted many assaults. Facing the highly organized ninjutsu attack, Dao Mantis's defense was insufficient. All fifty Dao Mantis participating in the assault died, but the results were very few.

Sunagakure's death was mainly caused by four hundred explosive migratory locusts. The first wave of the locusts' first attack was the most fruitful. A total of 16 of the twenty migratory locusts rushed into Sunagakure's position and exploded, causing five More than ten people died.

Using the cover of the explosion, ten sword mantises rushed into the Sunagakure position and killed seven or eight ninjas. This was the only successful attack by sword mantises.

After that, Sunagakure initially mastered the information about the sword mantis and migratory locust, and the response became more and more effective. Although Aburame Tetsumaru invested more and more migratory locusts, the results were getting less and less.

Until the migratory locusts were exhausted and all the Sword Mantises died in the battle, the insect swarm that lost the support of its core combat power could no longer pose a threat to Sunagakure. Even the siege seemed powerless, and Sunagakure finally succeeded in breaking out of the siege.

The biggest problem here is that Aburame Tetsumaru is an ultra-long-range command, and the information is unclear and the response is severely delayed. As a result, the battle of the insect swarm completely loses its rhythm, and it can only attack without thinking, which seriously reduces the combat effectiveness.

However, actual combat has also proved that Dao Mantis's combat power is indeed equivalent to that of a chunin, but it is only a taijutsu ninja. Once the number of both parties involved in the battle reaches hundreds, Dao Mantis cannot be compared with ninjas.

The characteristics of ninjas are high attack and agility, low health and low defense, but the power of ninjutsu is too great. As long as there are enough ninjas, the continuous ninjutsu can form an impeccable firepower network.

A ninja brigade of more than 200 people can be effectively organized, allowing the ninjas to take turns to fight and have time to recover chakra. It is impossible to win simply by relying on the number of bugs.

Under such circumstances, the numerical advantage of the insect swarm is not absolute.

More importantly, a ninja brigade of this size was still able to organize the ninjas to retreat in an orderly manner when chakra was insufficient. However, this time the sand ninjas broke through and ran away.

If there were no Explosive Locusts to act as long-range firepower, Sunagakure might not have even suffered thirty casualties in this siege.

And judging from the entire battle, Sunagakure's ninjas are getting smoother and smoother, and the insect swarm is getting weaker and weaker. It can be predicted that as the intelligence is leaked, the combat effectiveness of the insect swarm will continue to decline.

If you want to defeat a large-scale ninja team, you must have Aburame Tetsumaru to command nearby, maximize the advantage of numbers, and pay at least millions of insects as a price.

Aburame Tetsumaru sighed, without intermediate command units, the insect swarm could only fight effectively with itself as the core, and had to extinguish the delusion of destroying the army by one person.

Although not perfect, Aburame Tetsumaru was the winner of today's five battles. All his worries were happy worries, so he was able to leave everything behind and rest peacefully after a good meal.

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It was impossible for the Kazekage on the other side to rest.

After dark, news from all the raiding forces began to converge on him. Because he was attacked by Konoha ninjas, he had to make a decision as quickly as possible.

Most of the raiding force sneaked into Kawa no Kuni smoothly and annihilated two teams of Konoha ninjas without letting the Konoha ninjas pass on the news.

However, there was a problem with a large group and the troops led by the Kazekage himself, especially since the Kazekage Guards failed to find the Konoha ninja who launched the attack, the news must not be hidden.

Tomorrow, or tonight, Konoha Village or Orochimaru Legion will dispatch reinforcements. The suddenness based on the raid plan has been lost, but there is still a little gap time for the execution of the risk. Should we continue to move forward or retreat immediately?

withdraw?

Twenty-four Jonin, members of the Kazekage Guards, and thousands of Sunagakure ninjas are waiting for Kazekage's decision. But the fate of Sunagakure Village and the lives of thousands of Sunagakure ninjas depend on Kazekage's thoughts.

How can Ying make a decision quickly?

In the end, Feng Ying drove everyone away and asked them to go back to rest and wait. He stayed alone in the tent to think hard and weigh repeatedly.

"When I was young, I always felt that the second generation was not decisive and had insufficient wisdom. Now I understand that the second generation is not only wise, wise and far-sighted, but the wise and decisiveness that I despise is not comparable to mine."

After a night of nothing, Feng Ying made a decision and continued eastward.

The next day, Orochimaru's order came back. He asked Aburame Tetsumaru to resist resolutely for more than five days, and reported the information that Konoha Village was mobilizing.

"Five days, then we have to fight another tough battle."

After thinking over and over again, Aburame Tetsumaru decided to fight another tough battle. The reason for this decision was based on the results of yesterday's battle and the movements of the Sand Ninja Legion this morning.

Yesterday, he won the small-scale battle in the south, but half of the sand ninjas escaped. The results proved that his pre-battle guesses were very wrong. Even with the addition of Dao Mantis as the backbone, Bomb Locust as long-range firepower, and Bugs

The group was unable to deal with the large ninja force without his immediate command.

But this morning, Sunagakure continued to move eastward, and dispersed a dozen squadrons of dozens of people, as well as a ninja brigade of two to three hundred people, to conduct reconnaissance and exploration. These brigade allowed the control range of Sunagakure Army to exceed fifty kilometers, and soon

It's about to hit my face.

The defensive strategy he chose was to conduct mobile warfare and guerrilla warfare on a vast battlefield, but the instructor wrote very clearly in the book that there are three prerequisites for the implementation of guerrilla warfare: intelligence superiority, survival space, and tactical deterrence.

The intelligence superiority is in Tetsumaru's hands, and the living space is abundant. However, yesterday he did not have a head-on battle with the strongest Kazekage, nor was he able to annihilate a sand ninja brigade, which means that his deterrent power cannot contain the sand ninja's actions.

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Without sufficient deterrence, Sunagakure will execute the plan without any scruples, and dare to disperse into small, flexible units, spreading out like a large net to encircle and suppress them. Their own living space will inevitably be severely compressed, and guerrilla tactics will not be carried out.

At that time, Boss Peng tried to annihilate the Yamazaki Brigade at all costs, just to deter the young people from invading the base area in units of brigades and to gain living space for the base areas behind enemy lines.

In the same way, Aburame Tetsumaru must prove to Sunagakure that he has the combat power to annihilate 300 ninja troops in one fell swoop, forcing them to only operate with a scale of more than 400 people.

In this way, the Sunagakure troops on the battlefield can be divided into three or four troops at most, and the control range can be reduced to twenty kilometers, so that their own living space will not be affected.

Today's battle plan is to annihilate a ninja group of sand ninjas, or more, to make up for the missing deterrent link.

Gathering the team members together, Aburame Tetsumaru talked about his thoughts and decisions.

The three children became excited after hearing this. They had practiced the giant insect assault tactic with the captain for half a month. They had great confidence in this tactic and wanted to rush in and fight immediately.

Aburame Tetsumaru smiled, let's have a big fight.

The meaning of a big fight is not to rush forward and fight hard. After all, Tiewan's physical strength is really invincible. Otherwise, if he uses Mao's guerrilla tactics, he will definitely go up to encircle and annihilate them.

Relying on Aburame Tetsumaru's perception ability, Team 121 sneaked around and bypassed the relocation reconnaissance brigade, patiently observing the movements of Sunagakure's army.

Sunagakure chose to continue the attack, and 1,200 ninjas formed a formation, with four hundred-man brigades as the backbone, sixteen thirty-man squadrons as the net, and at the end there was a large force of more than three hundred people, because of the scope of control

It's huge, and the entire legion moves forward very quickly.

This is an attack arrangement. If Aburame Tetsumaru doesn't try to stop it, the sand ninja can quickly pass through the Kingdom of Kawa within two days and directly enter the hinterland of the Kingdom of Fire.

If Aburame Tetsumaru tries to stop him, the squadrons that spread out will quickly surround him like a fishing net, and then surround and destroy the enemy.

Nara Yoshino received the information relayed by Aburame Tetsumaru, thought for a moment, and said: "Commander Sunagakure is convinced that the Konoha ninjas here are insufficient in combat power, so he chose this formation that combines maneuverability and attack."

"The teacher's decision is right. We must give them a hard blow today to slow them down."

"Our numbers are too small and we cannot stop so many sand ninjas from breaking through."

Aburame Tetsumaru raised his thumb, indicating that this kid had a good mind, and then raised his index finger and shook it to stop Nara from continuing.

Inuzukao nodded frequently and pretended to understand, but in fact he must not understand either. He knew that he would have to fight a tough battle next.

"Let's fight it hard, I can't wait!"

As long as you can play happily, you can say whatever you want, I don't care, I don't understand you anyway.

Uchiha Hiro understood half of it, but he didn't know why Tetsumaru Aburame stopped Nara Yoshino from continuing, but he was also excited now and didn't care about it.

(End of chapter)