Chapter 139: Tough Fight (Edited)

Behind the Iwagakure army, the army commander and Onoki's assistant, Shoudu, and the captain of Iwagakure's Anbu department, stood in subdued but natural astonishment.

Seeing Sakumo order the Jounins into battle, the two revealed a look of astonishment.

Shoudu's gaze was unmistakably cold and murderous, for it was impossible to say that he did not hate Sakumo, who had cut off his arm.

But the person he hated the most was Naito.

If it wasn't for Naito, he wouldn't have been distracted and lost to Sakumo, and now with the loss of his arm, he could only do them with one hand and his strength had decreased by at least a third.

"You're running out of strength, aren't you? Now you're expanding the scale of the battle, that's good."

With a glint in his eye, Shoudu gave the order, signaling the Iwagakure ninja to enter the battlefield as well.

Although he didn't know why Sakumo was expanding the battle so quickly, it was certainly a good thing for him.

With both ninja fighting, it would be difficult for Naito, the Ashura of Konoha, to make a full-scale attack, which would be advantageous for them.

However, there seemed to be no trace of the Konoha Ashura so far.

Shaking his head slightly, Shoudu's gaze drifted slightly in one direction, holding back complicated emotions.

That gaze was instantly withdrawn, and in the distance, Sakumo did not notice.

The battlefield was at its climax.

The two sides were evenly matched in terms of power, there were over five hundred Iwagakure ninja, but there were only four hundred ninja from the Konoha side.

This showed that the ninja of Konoha are, in general, a bit stronger than the ninja of other villages.

The ground Jutsus of the Iwagakure ninja were weakened to the Rain Country's environment, while the Konoha ninja knew a wide variety of Jutsus, so they had an advantage in this kind of situation.

Still, Sakumo was frowning slightly, Because the number of Iwagakure ninja outnumbered that of Konoha!

This time, although Konoha had sent several large troops to support them in the war in the Rain Country, and there were over two thousand Konoha ninja in the Rain Country, the ninja Sakumo could mobilize for this battle were only about fifteen hundred.

As they had gone deep into the center of the Rain Country, they began to engage the Amegakure ninja and the Sunagakure ninja at the same time.

Although the war against the Amegakure ninja and Sunagakure ninja was small and not as big as here, however, it was still holding back some of Konoha's troops.

Fortunately, Hanzo did not target Konoha, and was still in a stalemate with Sunagakure. He even heard that the Third Kazekage's advisor, Chiyo, managed to create an antidote to Hanzo's poison.

"We have a disadvantage in numbers, so we'll have to stall for a while... Hasn't Naito arrived yet?", Sakumo couldn't help but look behind him, and saw no sign of Naito or Tsunade's arrival.

This battle was a bit sudden.

Sakumo was leading an army to attack one of the Amegakure units, but was suddenly attacked by the Iwagakure army, so they began to fight.

Subsequently, support from both sides continued to arrive on the battlefield, and the scale of this small battle became larger and larger until it reached the current situation.

If the previous battle did not do much damage to Iwagakure to force them to retreat, this one will.

Just when Sakumo was waiting for Naito to arrive on the battlefield, the situation on the battlefield suddenly changed!

The terrain of the Rain Country was almost always muddy and wet, and even if a well was dug, it would quickly fill up with water, after all, it rains most of the day, and the rainwater penetrated the ground.

It was very difficult to move around underground in those conditions.

However, Iwagakure had a specially equipped squad that can move, attack and harass from underground, the Iwagakure surprise attack squad!

It takes a long time to train a surprise attack squad, and there were only three such squads in Iwagakure.

After the destruction of one of them, it seemed that Onoki had made up his mind and sent the remaining two squads into battle.

The battlefield situation changed the moment these two squadrons joined the battle.

Boom!!!

When the surprise attack squads entered the battlefield, various pits, cracks or spikes and raised spears began to appear on the ground, which greatly disturbed the battle of the Konoha ninjas.

The Konoha ninja had great difficulty in attacking the two Iwagakure surprise attack squads, as their attacks were easily blocked by the muddy ground.

The scene, of the two sides evenly matched, began to change and Konoha began to fall at a disadvantage.

In this situation, there was no way to retreat. In a small war, it might be possible to retreat and retreat freely, but in a large war, morale was a very important thing, and the order to retreat would collapse the morale of the army.

Sakumo had no choice but to send the newly arrived reinforcements to the battlefield.

Shoudu, behind the Iwagakure ninja, grimaced and did the same as Sakumo.

The ninja from Iwagakure and Konoha began to enter the battlefield, and the small confrontation turned into a big confrontation!

However, even with the reinforcements, Konoha was the losing side.

Under these circumstances, Sakumo finally could not hold back any longer and led the Anbus to the battlefield, and had a fierce battle with the Third Tsuchikage's advisor, Shoudu, and the Anbu Captain of Iwagakure's Anbu department.

Although it was somewhat unfavorable for him to deal with two Kage level ninja, Sakumo needed to find a way to deal with this quickly, otherwise, this battle will end before Naito will arrive!

Without uttering a word, Sakumo unsheathed his White Light Chakra sword to attack both Shoudu, who was having difficulty using one-handed seals, and the captain of Iwagakure's Anbu department.

Sakumo's strength surprised everyone who saw his battle.

However, he couldn't win, so he ended up in a stalemate, and the more he stalled, the worse the outcome of the war would be for Konoha.

"Hasn't Naito come yet...," While fighting against Shoudu and Captain Anbu of Iwagakure, Sakumo watched the battlefield anxiously.

At that moment, Konoha's army was gradually crumbling from the attacks of the two surprise attack squads from Iwagakure.

"Damn these rats!!!", On the battlefield, Jiraiya was fed up with the attacks coming out from under the ground, but he couldn't go underground to fight the Iwagakure ninjas, and his Ground Jutsus were easily blocked, so he had a headache on how to deal with the situation.

Orochimaru looked very calm, but his murderous intent was all over the place, he was very annoyed by the subway sneak attacks.

"The situation is getting worse, what do we do now?" a Jounin asked Jiraiya after he was almost injured by the attack from underground and the attack from the Iwagakure Jounin in front of him.

Jiraiya shook his head grimly and said, "There's nothing we can do, just hold on, unless.... Naito can arrive soon."

As soon as he mentioned Naito's name, the Jounin's pupils shrank for a moment, then he took a deep breath and said, "If Naito comes, I should be able to handle the situation easily, but these two surprise attack squads from Iwagakure are still a big problem."

"But what if he couldn't make it in time?"

"If only we had Anbu 'Yujin' among us, he would have been able to deal with them, I heard that he managed to take out one of these squads alone."

Mentioning 'Yujin' made everyone wish one of these two were here!

Hearing that, Jiraiya put on a strange expression.

The Anbu 'Yujin' was definitely Naito, but the Konoha Jounins present didn't know that, as the information of the Anbu 'Yujin' was still top secret in Konoha, even though the higher-ups of all the Great Ninja Villages had already guessed it. The information was still top secret.

Only a few knew about it.