Shadow Stream of Leaf

The mopping-up stage of this battle lasted about three days in total.

In terms of results, the result of the battle was a total victory for Konoha's side. Kirigakure's foothold in the Land of Fire was wiped out, and the advantage the enemy had gained by attacking Konoha's reconnaissance force suddenly was wiped out after this battle.

The Konoha Front pushed forward directly, and advanced to the coast again, preparing to build a new line of defense. But given the size of Konoha's troops this time, it is already impossible for Kirigakure to launch another surprise attack like the previous one and achieve the same results.

When Kirigakure launches the next attack, it will definitely still be a large-scale battle with thousands of people, and it will never be smaller than this battle.

As the progress of the war progresses, it is normal for each other to win and lose. In order to defend the victory and eliminate the defeat, both sides in the battle will naturally increase the scale, and the scale of each battle will also increase...until there is no more to add.

Increasing the number of frontline ninjas in order to win will eventually lead to "failure" becoming an unbearable result, and at that time, the war should end.

But if the war is going to develop normally, it will be very far away—but Hanyu doesn't want to spend five or ten years on the front line.

At present, Kirigakure's failure can only be regarded as a small setback. Although the failure of the front line is a matter that greatly affects the confidence in the war and future expectations, even if Kirigakure's army that broke into Konoha is completely wiped out, it will be a great deal for a big ninja village. It's not a disruptive failure to say the least.

What's more, it is impossible to wipe out the enemy completely.

Three days later, the "cleaning" of the war was over, and the real cleanup came next.

The injured ninjas on our side were treated immediately, and then everyone began to recover the remains of the dead ninjas. As for the enemy's corpses, except for a small part that will be used for dissection, research to obtain in-depth information, or other experiments, most of them will be burned directly.

Then throw the ashes of the enemy into the sea... Well, there is absolutely no hatred in it, it is just the "light of humanity" of Konoha Ninja:

May the endless waves bring the ashes of the enemy back to their hometown, the land of water.

Although no one has cared about the direction of the ocean current this season. As for the part swallowed by sea fish in the middle, there is no way to do it, it is a kind of toll.

In short, in order to prevent the spread of epidemics, the cleaning of the battlefield is a matter worthy of serious attention.

Occasionally captured living enemies will be sent back to Konoha just like the Kirigakure documents captured by Hanyu. How to deal with them and them will be decided by the village, and that is no longer a matter for the front line.

Tidying up the terrain is also a big job, don't forget what Konoha's ninja brigade did when the battle started.

While some Konoha ninjas were busy with these "labor tasks", Konoha's headquarters and camp had been relocated back to the coast, and the post-war summary meeting was held accordingly.

"...In terms of the overall results, we have completed the combat objectives set in advance, and according to the rough statistics just obtained, the battle loss ratio between our side and the enemy in this battle is even slightly lower than one to three— —That is to say, this battle is a great victory for us." Uzumaki Zikou summarized the just-concluded battle.

And its result should satisfy everyone.

The first purpose of the battle itself is to pull out the wedge that Kirigakure laid in the Land of Fire. This is an absolute requirement, that is, the achievement of such a purpose is the victory of the battle, otherwise it is a failure.

Minimizing the damage on Konoha's side is only secondary, and it is even said that in order to achieve the combat goal, Konoha is worth paying a lot of sacrifices.

However, due to the adoption of relatively unconventional tactics, the Konoha East Front not only did not make a large number of sacrifices as imagined, but the overall loss ratio was only one-third of the enemy's... It is equivalent to sacrificing a Konoha ninja, which will pull Three Kirigakure ninjas were buried with him.

On average, ninjas can hit one against three, which is quite an exaggeration. Do we still expect everyone to hit seven against one?

With this kind of result, even the third Hokage, who is particularly particular about safety and is most opposed to radical combat, has no objection.

Hanyu also nodded in satisfaction, but he still had to be modest, "Fortunately, it's quite a normal result. After all, our ninjas are very brave in battle, and there are professional chopping kings like Hatake on the front line." fight."

This "complacent" attitude is a little bit embarrassing, but Hanyu's statement is not unreasonable-think about it, Konoha is playing a good game this time, and the data comparison will of course be very good.

"The result is satisfactory, but the conclusion of the battle is one aspect. We still cannot relax our vigilance... First of all, we should have a general understanding of the problem, that is, when will the next attack instigated by Kirigakure come?" Hanyu continued. Ask everyone.

The next counterattack will definitely come, the difference is only in the time when it comes... Could it be that Kirin is a ninja village, and after being beaten by Konoha, he shrinks back?

This idea is too whimsical.

You must know that Kirigakure adopted an offensive and active offensive strategy in this war. It is impossible for them to completely change the war strategy that has been established long ago because of a little counterattack—otherwise, why did they take the initiative in the first place? Fight against Konoha.

An enemy whose overall strategy can repeatedly jump around, or a country that does not know its own positioning and requirements at all, is not worth caring about.

"The specific time cannot be estimated, but according to our previous discussions, we believe that if we take into account factors such as the usual defeat arrangement, battlefield information analysis and summary, personnel regrouping, material reserves, secrecy and new plan decisions, etc. If so, at least the new round of large-scale attack by Kirigakure should be three months away." Uzumaki Zikou said.

"That is to say, under normal circumstances, we will have at least a three-month buffer period?"

Three months, Hanyu calculated silently, and felt that this is a very urgent time period... We can only hope that his "Mr. Spy" can achieve results within this period of time.

"Yes, Master Hanyu, but everyone's opinions are divided on the scale of the enemy's newly assembled offensive.

On the one hand, there are some opinions that Kirigakure's offensive scale will not be too large, and will still be comparable to ours. After all, from a fundamental point of view, Kirigakure's appeal to Konoha's battle is to constantly erode and weaken Konoha's overall strength.

On the other hand, the opinion is that because of the previous failure, Kirigakure will at least have the intention of "revenge" in the next battle, and in order to ensure victory, they will invest at least twice as many troops as ours..."

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Konoha.

While Hanyu and the others were discussing how to deal with Kirigakure, the Third Hokage had already received the results of the Eastern Front battle first.

In general, the result is naturally very satisfactory, however... I don't know why the more he read the information from the Eastern Front, the more headache he felt.

First of all, the third generation has just cleared up Konoha's public opinion, making the public's view of Hanyu oriented in a direction that is beneficial to the third Hokage and harmless to Hanyu himself.

However, just a few days after this kind of public opinion was formed, Hanyu actually gave Konoha a "brilliant victory" and returned.

What, how do you say this?

Where does this put the face of those who have been keen on pointing fingers at the "Eastern Front Commander" recently? Isn't the work done by the three generations now useless?

Hanyu...couldn't he be a little more peaceful?