Chapter 143 Additional Troops
The Hidden Mist Village is finished.
This is Ōnoki's conclusion about the Hidden Mist Village.
The reason for this conclusion was not because of the death of the Sandaime Mizukage, but because their Anbu actually sold such important information to other countries.
This makes the Hidden Mist Village, which has always been known for its excellent confidentiality policy, completely become a clown.
Internal decay cannot be solved by simply replacing a shadow.
The current status of the Mist Village in Ohnoki's heart is only worthy of being on the same level as the Sand Village.
If it weren't for the fact that the Iwagakure Village's navigation industry was not very developed, the other side had the sea as a natural line of defense.
At this moment, Oonoki wanted to send troops directly to the Hidden Mist Village.
Besides...
Lao Zi’s whereabouts are still unknown.
For this reason, he specially sent people to keep a close watch on Han.
Ōnoki was furious at having lost his personal jinchūriki for no reason.
At the same time, in the Hidden Cloud Village.
After holding a memorial service for the ninjas who died fighting the rampage of the Eight-Tails, the Sandaime Raikage immediately increased the number of ninjas sent to the border between the Land of Hot Springs and the Land of Fire.
In his opinion, Konoha must not be allowed to discover the clues in the village at this time.
Especially at times like this, the more we need to show a tough stance to the outside world.
And we have to hurry up and select a new Jinchūriki.
It would be best if he could unleash the power of the tailed beast in a short period of time.
The news that the Hidden Cloud Village had sent additional personnel soon reached Sarutobi Hiruzen.
To this end, Sarutobi Hiruzen convened a high-level meeting in the conference room.
At this time in Konoha Village, due to the approaching war, the power structure was adjusted again.
Mitokado En and Utane Koharu return to the center of power again.
One is in charge of the logistics department and the other is in charge of the foreign affairs department.
Since both of them retained their advisory status, there was no resistance to their return.
However, the Finance Ministry, which was previously under the charge of Mito Kado En, was handed over by Sarutobi Hiruzen to his clan member Sarutobi Aoba.
The administrative department was under Danzo's name, but the person who actually managed the affairs was a guy named Muji, who was also a close confidant of Sarutobi Hiruzen.
Since Danzo was still on his way back to the Water Country, he was not present at this high-level meeting.
"The Hidden Cloud Village has sent thousands of ninjas to the front line. Should we fight back?"
In the conference room, there were others, besides Sarutobi Hiruzen, Mito Kado En, and Utane Koharu, who were sitting at the very top.
Below are representatives of the major ninja clans in Konoha Village.
"The Hidden Cloud Village has sent in more men. Now the enemy's numbers have surpassed the number of ninjas on our defense line."
Seeing that everyone was present, Mito Kado En, at Hiruzen's signal, announced the news of the reinforcement of troops in the Hidden Cloud Village.
At this time, the border force headed by Shimura Tae, a member of the Shimura clan, and whose members were mostly civilian ninjas, was confronting the Hidden Cloud Village in the Land of Hot Springs.
Guarding the border is a tough mission with a high casualty rate but relatively fast promotions, and civilian ninjas have always been the majority of the task.
After all, if you just carry out commissions in the village, you will never be able to be promoted to a jonin in your lifetime.
The reason why Mitomon En said this was because the civilian ninjas in the village were already stretched to the limit.
Most of them have been sent to the front lines.
If we want to send more people now, we need people from all ethnic groups.
The representatives, who had become experienced, were naturally well aware of the hidden meaning behind Mito Kado En's words.
Everyone remained silent.
They are waiting, waiting for the commitment from these senior executives.
Promising them what they would gain by sending out the ninja.
Seeing that the representatives of each tribe did not respond, Sarutobi Hiruzen, who had already anticipated their reaction, looked down at Sarutobi Aoba.
Sarutobi Aoba, who noticed Sarutobi Hiruzen's gaze, immediately responded:
"My Sarutobi clan is willing to send 200 elite ninjas to the front lines to help."
200 people?
The Sarutobi clan has more than 3000 ninjas, and you only provide 200 of them?
The several clan leaders who knew the Sarutobi clan's background sneered in their hearts, but did not show it on their faces.
But the Hokage's clan members have already expressed their stance, and it would be unacceptable if he didn't follow suit.
"The Nara clan is willing to provide 100 people."
Upon seeing this, Nara Shikasui immediately expressed his opinion.
"The mountain tribe is willing to provide 100 people."
"The Akimichi clan is willing to provide 100 people."
Ino-Shika-cho always followed the opinions of the Nara clan, and when Nara Shikasui spoke, the chiefs of the other two clans immediately followed suit.
With the opinions expressed by the clan leaders, 1000 ninjas were finally gathered.
"When the time comes, I'll have to trouble the clan leaders to hand over the list to Mitomon En."
Seeing that his goal had been achieved, Sarutobi Hiruzen stood up with a smile, and after comforting everyone with a few words according to the management, he left through the back door with two consultants.
"After returning, write to the clan leaders of Kato, Mitarai and other clans and ask them to send out their best ninjas."
Holding a pipe in his mouth, Sarutobi Hiruzen gave instructions to Muji who was waiting outside.
For these big clans, the Konoha high-level officials can only use "voluntary" means to get them to send out people. As for these small clans, a letter is enough to make them obey.
"understood."
Mu Ji nodded and said he would do it immediately.
"Has Danzo not come back yet?"
After returning to the office and asking his men to bring chairs to the two consultants, Sarutobi Hiruzen began to inquire about the news about Danzo.
"Not yet. Currently, Kato Dan is still in charge of the Root."
Sarutobi Hiruzen was quite disappointed to hear that Danzo had not returned yet.
His own Anbu is still not as good as the Root in gathering information. If Danzo were here, he would definitely know why the Hidden Cloud Village took such action.
Could it be the other party's "hunting plan"...
Speaking of which, that guy Hatake Sakumo was borrowed by Danzo and hasn't come back yet. Could he have died in the Hidden Cloud Village?
"Tell Kato Dan to write to Danzo immediately and ask him to return as soon as possible."
At this time, Sarutobi Hiruzen was very eager to meet Danzo.
Mizuto Kado En and Utane Koharu on the side looked at each other. At this time, Mizuto Kado En wanted to take this opportunity to put some eye drops on Danzo.
Knowing what the other party was thinking, Utane Koharu shook her head, implying to the other party that now was not the right time.
Seeing his partner's objection, Mizuto Menyan tactfully gave up the idea.