Chapter 167 Takigakure Village Surrenders
January 46, Konoha 4.
The Konoha troops led by Hatake Sakumo attacked the Takigakure Village. At the same time, Jiraiya's troops in the Land of Grass attacked the Iwagakure Village troops stationed in the Land of Taki from the side.
The chief of Takigakure Village, Masakawa, was killed in the battle, and the commander of the Iwagakure Force, Higashihito, was captured.
What surprised everyone was that in the face of Konoha's sudden attack, Takigakure did not release the tailed beasts to resist.
There wasn't even a massive rebellion.
It was not until some surviving Takigakure followed the retreating Iwagakure ninja team back to the Land of Earth that the Iwagakure high-ranking officials learned that Takigakure had been suddenly attacked by unknown persons before Konoha launched the offensive.
Most of the Taki ninjas were killed in their sleep.
As for the tailed beasts——
Even among the Takinin high-ranking officials, only Masakawa's closest confidants knew about Nanao's disappearance, and all of his confidants had been killed in this sudden attack.
Therefore, these Taki ninjas did not understand why the village did not release the tailed beasts.
The Iwagakure Village's top leaders could only naturally assume that it was Konoha's surprise attack that prevented them from having the opportunity to release the tailed beast.
What made the Iwagakure Village even more angry was that as Konoha took over the Takigakure Village, Kyosuke was also released from prison by them.
Soon, Konoha announced through official channels that their attack was entirely to rescue Kyosuke who had stepped down due to a coup. Konoha only recognized the Takigakure Village led by Kyosuke, and at the same time declared the illegality of Masakawa's regime.
Kyosuke's autograph is clearly visible on this announcement.
"Asshole."
This was the first reaction of the top leaders of Iwagakure Village after hearing the news.
Although Masakawa's rise to power was indeed shady, he at least finally obtained the permission of the Daimyo of Takikuni.
Now Konoha is clamoring that the Masakawa regime is illegal, simply to demonstrate the legitimacy of its own raid from a legal perspective.
But would the Daimyo of Takikuni really agree with this statement? This would be equivalent to asking the Daimyo to swallow back what he had said.
However, as Danzo personally met with the Daimyo of Takikuni, the two sides had a "friendly" conversation. When Danzo just walked out of the Daimyo's mansion, the Daimyo's mansion issued an official announcement:
The Daimyo of Takigakure was forced to recognize the Masakawa regime under the threat of the Land of Earth, and Takigakure only recognized Kyousuke as the legitimate chief of Takigakure Village.
This daimyo proved with facts that even a daimyo who is sacred and inviolable can still swallow back what he has said.
This statement had a great effect. Many Taki ninjas who had evacuated with the Iwa ninjas fled back at Kyosuke's call.
This made the Iwagakure Village's plan of using them as cannon fodder fail.
Seeing that more and more Taki ninjas were trying to escape back to Takigakure, in the spirit of "if I can't get it, you can't get it either", with the tacit approval of Ohnoki, the top leaders of Takigakure lured the remaining Taki ninjas to Dongling Xiagu under the pretext of a meeting, and killed them all.
At this point, Takigakure Village had completely lost its bargaining chips after suffering a double blow from Konoha and Iwagakure Village.
The Takigakure Village rebuilt by Kyosuke could only completely turn to the Konoha Village and become a puppet.
The rapid fall of Takigakure Village caused Ōnoki to be extremely wary. Although small countries are always so powerless when facing big countries, the fall of Takigakure Village was really too rapid.
As the second largest village after the Hidden Rain Village, the situation could change in just one night. This made Ohnoki realize once again that there were some deviations in his estimation of Konoha's strength.
At the same time, his hatred for Danzo increased a bit.
If it weren't for Danzo's deliberate deception, he wouldn't have allowed Konoha to take advantage of such a big loophole.
This guy has such a dirty heart, how can he have the nerve to be called a ninja hero?
......
"My Lord, this Byakugan has been completely destroyed."
At the front line of the Hidden Cloud Village, several Cloud Ninjas surrounded Hinata Shimizu's body and carefully removed his Byakugan.
After their detailed inspection, they found that the white eye had been completely destroyed and had no use at all.
"Yeah."
Tutai was not too disappointed when he received this answer.
They had long heard that Konoha used a completely new method to protect the Byakugan that was different from that of the main branch, and they dug out the Byakugan because they thought that Hyuga Shimizu, as the clan leader, might not accept this kind of protection.
The corpse of a ninja is an important repository of intelligence. Although the Byakugan was not obtained, Hyuga Shimizu's corpse still played a significant role in the Hidden Cloud Village's research on the Hyuga clan.
"Continue the research, but try not to damage the body's appearance. We still need him to assist in the negotiations."
Although he caught Konoha off guard and killed the opponent's commander, Dodai did not take the opportunity to pursue the victory, but continued to stay on the defensive and lick his wounds.
His ultimate goal is to negotiate peace with Konoha.
Tsuchida's strategic goal against Konoha is to make Konoha realize through a small victory that it is not wise to fight to the death with the Hidden Cloud Village, and then accept the peace talks from the Hidden Cloud Village.
Soon, the second wave of diplomats set out from the Hidden Cloud Village and headed for Konoha.
......
Inside Konoha Village.
Sarutobi Hiruzen, who had transformed into Danzo, was walking around the village to inspect as he usually did.
"Mrs. Magu, how was your business today?"
"Kenjiro, be careful with the firewood behind you."
"Mrs. Yoshikawa, your dumplings are still so sweet."
The villagers of Konoha, who were not very adaptable at first, began to get used to the appearance of the acting Hokage as time passed.
In their opinion, Lord Danzo is worthy of being the Sandaime's good friend, as the two of them have almost the same style of doing things.
They are all very gentle people.
"Master Danzo, come and try the herbal tea I just made."
"Master Danzo, how is the battle situation on the front line?"
"..."
This group of simple villagers responded to Lord Danzo with their own actions.
"I say, is this really Danzo-sama?"
Because Minato went to the front line and had nothing to do, Uchiha Obito could only patrol the village with the guards. He looked at Danzo not far away and asked a question from the bottom of his soul.
"Don't worry about adults' business, idiot."
Kakashi patted Obito's head, rubbed it hard, blinked his dead fish eyes, and complained unhappily.
Adults must have their reasons for doing this.
Looking at the "intimate" interaction between the two, Ringo Yuuri whistled.
It’s also a pleasure to watch the handsome guys interact with each other.
It would be a great blessing if Yugao could join in.