Chapter 77: Beat up, bread with cheese!

Chapter 77: Beat up, bread with cheese!

Chapter 77: Beat up, bread with cheese!

A week later
"I was wrong, I was really wrong!"

"Why should I act on my own initiative? Why should I sell the futures I have?"

"No!!! Qiuya (crossed out)"

"what is this."

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Kakuzu was venting his anger alone in the woods. The surroundings were in a mess. Large tracts of trees were burned by fire, and the air was filled with a burning smell.

After selling the futures, Kakuzu was disappointed not long after he was happy. The price of pig iron did not plummet as he had imagined, but instead continued to rise.

Although it was not as drastic as before, but just seeing it increase by one or two levels every day made Kakuzu so heartbroken that he couldn't breathe.

For Kakuzu, not making the money he could have made was more painful than killing him.

"I can't give up just like that. I must carve out a niche in the futures market!"

Kakuzu recalled the past few days he spent in the trading hall, when that group of leeks who had made a lot of money, each of them looked at him as if he were a fool.

If they weren't afraid of my strength, they would probably jump in my face and mock me!
Humiliation lingered in Kakuzu's heart. Why could these leeks make money but I couldn't?

I had once assassinated the Shodaime Hokage and successfully survived from his hands. Every ninja knows the strength of the Shodaime Hokage, and the significance of surviving from his hands after assassinating the Shodaime is self-evident!

Unique in the Ninja World!
Failure is never a shame, but the fear of failure is!
After figuring it out, Kakuzu once again entered the futures market. With his smart brain and Uchiha Nan's secret of taking advantage of the market, he continued to make money.

Of course, there is no so-called skill involved. It was simply catching up with a bull market. The rises, pullbacks, and small declines in the middle were all carried out in an orderly manner under the manipulation of Nara Shikato.

Nara Shikaon has an extremely high IQ, and with Konoha's intelligence advantage, he can manipulate the market like a fish in water. His rapid progress even shocked Uchiha Nan.

Nara Shikato was born to do this job!

After seeing Nara Shikaon's abilities, Uchiha Nan confidently handed over the entire futures plan to Nara Shikaon. At the beginning, Uchiha Nan was able to control the rhythm.

But later on, once the plate was opened, Uchiha Nan could no longer control it. As an Uchiha, he was still good at chopping people.

The peaceful days did not last long, and the war that Uchiha Nan least expected began.

The Iwagakure Village raided the Konoha base as planned. For a time, the Konoha army was defeated and the camp retreated dozens of miles. This was of course pretended.

Konoha will face a war on two or even three fronts this time. Although the Hidden Cloud Village has signed a peace agreement, Uchiha Nan is still worried. Those black guys have abnormal brain circuits and might be able to give Uchiha Nan a surprise.

In order to reduce financial pressure, Uchiha Nan decided to shorten the battle line. Konoha had an intelligence advantage and had already seen the enemy's combat plan in advance, and this advantage must be utilized.

The strength of Konoha's intelligence department was beyond Uchiha Kusunoki's imagination, and this was thanks to Senju Tobirama. God knows how he managed to plant so many spies inside the Iwagakure Village.

Lure the enemy deep into your territory and stretch their supply lines!
The Iwagakure people saw the hope of annihilating Konoha, and there was no way the Second Tsuchikage would give up this opportunity.

Konoha Operations Meeting Room

"Everything is going according to plan. Uchiha Tomita has successfully completed the blocking mission and has welded the Iwagakure troops to this place."

Uchiha Nan pointed to a wooded area on the map of the Ninja World. Uchiha Tomita had built defenses here and was firmly anchored here. The elite of Konoha's defenses gathered here and relied on the favorable terrain to deal a heavy blow to Iwagakure.

Originally they were going smoothly all the way to Iwagakure, the hometown of Konoha, but they experienced what it meant when an arrogant army will be defeated. Their troops could not advance at all, as if their previous victory was the result of the enemy letting them win and deliberately luring them forward.

But this is indeed the case.

The disadvantages of the unstoppable advance in the past also appeared here. The supply lines were too long, and the daily money-burning accounts made Tsuchikage so anxious that he wanted to tear the bandages apart.

Explosive Talisman, Kunai, Shuriken, Hōryōgan
Treat the wounded and purchase medical care.
Various bills were placed in front of Tsuchikage like flowing water.

Uchiha Nan was determined to continue wasting time here with the Tsuchikage. At worst he could sell some futures, but he would make less money. The battle line was so long that the consumption of Iwagakure had been two or three times that of Konoha, and this number was still increasing.

But now we can neither advance nor retreat. The fight has come to this point. Should we just go back in disgrace?
Even if the Tsuchikage could accept it, his subordinates could not accept it and were just waiting to kill Konoha and gain military merit.

It’s time to fight another fucking war of attrition!
The ninja teams from both sides moved through the woods in the forests and hilly areas, taking out the other side's defensive positions one by one, using assassinations, ambushes, and poisonings as they wish.

This group of experienced ninjas were engaged in an extremely brutal fight. Soon after the war began, it was already showing signs of intensifying. A senior ninja might die beside an inconspicuous stone and die silently in such a place. No one wanted to see such a situation.

Uchiha Nan was also helpless about this, but this was war, and the enemies Konoha faced at this time were not so easy to deal with.

"What's the situation at Kirigakure?"

Uchiha Nan turned around and asked about the information from Kirigakure. They were the top priority of this war and their direction was related to that of the war.

"The warship of the Hidden Mist Village has been repaired and set out three days ago. It must have docked by now. We will have to wait until tomorrow for the exact information."

Uzumaki Mito took the intelligence and reported it to Uchiha Nan. Although the two had many conflicts, when faced with a powerful enemy, the two of them still chose to forget their previous unpleasantness.

"That's it"

"Pay close attention to Kirigakure's intelligence and report any news immediately!"

On a certain shore in the Land of Fire

"What's the intelligence on Iwagakure?"

As soon as Hozuki Huanyue stepped onto the land, he couldn't wait to ask for information about Iwagakure. He had not been having a good time recently.

The ninjas of Konoha, in cooperation with the Uzumaki clan, have been carrying out small-scale harassment on their fleet, still using the same tactics, only blowing up the ships and not the people.

All they used were shadow clones. No ninja could sustain consuming shadow clones for such a long period of time. But the Uzumaki clan were not ordinary ninjas. Large amounts of chakra and thick blood were their racial talents, which really disgusted Hozuki Gengetsu.

Hozuki Gengetsu couldn't help but worry about the logistics. If they continued like this, the Hidden Mist Village might not be able to defeat Konoha.

It’s still more reliable to fight Iwagakure.

"Iwagakure has led his army deep into the enemy territory and is now unable to advance or retreat."

Hozuki Gengetsu took the information and browsed through the recent war between Iwagakure Village and Konoha. Hozuki Gengetsu, who was outside the situation, keenly discovered Konoha's plan.

Lure the enemy deep into our territory, stretch out the battle line, and prepare for a war of attrition to wear down Yanying!

Any ninja who has fought in a war knows that a war of attrition tests a ninja's endurance. They have to fight all the time, and their companions who were fighting side by side with them a few days ago may die beside them in the next second.

To be honest, Uchiha Nan didn't want to use such tactics, but his strength didn't allow it. He didn't have the combat power of the Six Paths level, and his Mangekyō Sharingan was not permanent. If he used it too much, it would become blind.

Hozuki Gengetsu remembered the Uzumaki clan's latest disgusting tactics. He was afraid that once Kirigakure would engage in a war with Konoha, it would inevitably fall into attrition. The logistics front would be harassed by the Uzumaki clan all the time, and it would end up like Iwagakure.

Hozuki Gengetsu didn't know whether Konoha could survive the consumption of fighting on two fronts.

However, Hozuki Gengetsu knew that his own Hidden Mist Village would definitely be seriously damaged. The strong men in Konoha Village had not yet been dispatched. The final outcome of the bloody battle with Konoha was probably only known by the Six Paths Sage.

After careful consideration, Hozuki Gengetsu became more determined to defeat Iwagakure easily. This time, he must achieve some results. Konoha is a tough opponent, so it would be better to squeeze Iwagakure, which is a soft persimmon.

Hozuki Gengetsu couldn't help but get excited. When he led the Kirigakure army to make a huge circle and outflank the Iwagakure army from behind, the expression on Tsuchikage Mu's face must have been very complicated.

It's just a pity that Tsuchikage is wrapped up like a mummy, with his face covered up, so his expression can't be seen.
"Let's go, Konoha is strong, Iwagakure is bleeding from Konoha right now, surprise attack Iwagakure!"

Gui Deng Huan Yue immediately gave the order and turned the gun to shoot directly behind Iwagakure!

The strange attack direction of Kirigakure left the Konoha defense ninjas confused. The direction is wrong!
Why are you heading towards Iwagakure?

Uchiha Nan received the intelligence about Kirigakure the next day and immediately held a combat meeting excitedly. Although others might not know Kirigakure's thoughts, how could Uchiha Nan not know it?

This is the target of Iwagakure. Uchiha Nan's battle plan finally worked, and the world line of the ninja world is still running in the original direction.

Don't give Kirigakure and Iwagakure the chance to engage in a head-on battle, and instead fight a war of attrition with them until the three villages are drained of their last drop of blood.

Iwagakure was advancing triumphantly all the way to victory, penetrating deep into the heart of the Fire Nation, but by the time they reacted, they had been dragged down by Konoha and were unable to move.

If Hozuki Huanyue is not stupid, he will avoid this situation. It is impossible to go back after fighting to this point. If he does not want to return empty-handed, he can only head north to raid Iwagakure!

War Room

Uzumaki Mito looked at the map and intelligence, puzzled and had no idea of ​​Hozuki Gengetsu's strategic intention.

"The direction of Kirigakure's attack is really strange. It's completely out of our defense range."

"Do we need to continue adjusting the battle plan to stop the Mist Hidden?"

Uzumaki Mito was a little uncertain. According to the direction of Kirigakure's attack, the original defense plan would have to be greatly adjusted. There were too many weak areas in the defense line of Kirigakure in the direction of its advance, which could easily be breached by Kirigakure.

"No need, let Kirigakure go!"

"It's just a show to carry out the blocking mission. Kirigakure's target is Iwagakure!"

Uchiha Nan gave orders with confidence. Konoha's combat plan needed to be studied and planned by the top leaders together. Every combat plan needed to be voted on by a show of hands. Only the plan approved by the majority would be implemented. This was considered an unspoken rule within Konoha. Everyone voted by raising their hands, and if the operation failed, everyone would share the blame.

Of course, the Hokage can also not follow this unspoken rule, but the consequences of the failure of the combat plan will have to be borne by the Hokage alone. Even Tobirama Senju has rarely used this right. War is a dangerous time, and the failure of a battle will greatly damage the authority of the Hokage.

"Ridiculous! How can we make such a decision on the battle plan when we haven't even gathered enough intelligence?"

Uzumaki Mito retorted with dissatisfaction, this situation happened again, just like the last so-called futures proposal!

Uzumaki Mito objected several times, but was pushed out by Uchiha Nan. In the end, he even listed the futures proposal as a separate project and handed it all to Hinata Takuma and Nara Shikaon, and no one else was allowed to interfere.

It was simply a joke to treat Konoha's safety as a joke. Uchiha Nan took out 10 billion as project funds at one time, which was one-third of Konoha's previous funding.
Now, no one knows how much money has been spent on this damn plan except Nara Shikato, Hinata Takuma and Uchiha Kusunoki.

"Uzumaki Mito, the safety of the entire Konoha rests on me, not you!"

"Uchiha Nan, you will regret this!"

"That's enough, Uzumaki Mito, I am the Hokage!"

Uchiha Nan threw a look at the ANBU member beside him, who skillfully lifted up Uzumaki Mito and asked him to leave the combat meeting room.

This situation has happened more than once or twice, and they have become accustomed to it.

Uchiha Nan once again acted arbitrarily and used his power as Hokage against the remaining Konoha high-level officials, and this plan was naturally passed again.

As Uchiha Nan's orders were carried out, the Kirigakure army advanced unimpeded. Konoha's defense was just a show. Every time they met the enemy, they would release two or three shurikens as a gesture and then immediately retreat.

Originally, Hozuki Gengetsu thought that it would cost some price to get around the flank of the Iwagakure Village headquarters, but he didn't expect it to be so smooth.

Hozuki Gengetsu is not stupid. He can see that Konoha is letting the enemy win. This time, Iwagakure will have a hard time escaping even if it has wings.

Iwagakure doesn't have as much oil and water as Konoha, but just a bite like this can fill your stomach.

at the same time
The battle in the futures hall was more intense than before, and its intensity was no less than that of the ninja war.

The only difference is that the ninja war burns blood and flesh, while the futures war burns money.

Over the past month, Bai Ya has appeared from time to time under the instructions of Nara Shikato to guide public opinion. Every time he appears, he predicts a rise on the eve of a rise.

Nara Shikato would also deliberately smash the market to scare White Teeth and predict the decline in advance.

Give these leeks a little sweetness from time to time to facilitate the final harvest.

Not long after, Nara Shikaon received information from Uchiha Nan and knew that the final harvest was about to begin.

The Second Tsuchikage Mu will eventually die together with the Second Mizukage Hozuki Gengetsu. The First Ninja World War is about to end, and Uchiha Nan tells them the outcome of this war in advance.

Although he didn't know how the Hokage predicted the future, since the Hokage had given the order, he had to take action.

(End of this chapter)