NABC Chapter 33 Great Battle
Chapter 33 Great Battle
Smoke signals rose everywhere, and blood stained the earth red.
A bright sun hung high in the sky, and the shouts of battle shook the mountains and shattered rocks, reaching straight to the heavens.
In front of the Konoha camp, the Sand Ninja surged in like waves, crashing against the camp walls.
After several days of probing, the Sand Village commander launched a full-scale attack on the Leaf Village camp.
Therefore, Chiyo and Ebizo, two Kage-level powerhouses, have secretly arrived at the front lines.
The purpose was to catch Konoha off guard.
After more than two months of infiltration, stealth, and positional battles, the Sand Ninja have cleared all obstacles surrounding the Konoha camp.
Achieve the established goals.
The Sand Village has the advantage in both the number of ninjas and the number of Kage-level ninjas.
When Konoha's frontline camp lost its last strategic advantage, the balance of the war tipped in favor of the Sand Village.
The Sand Village needs a victory, a fair and square victory, to silence the voices of the opposition within the village.
With favorable timing, location, and popular support, the Sand Ninja's all-out offensive began.
According to Chiyo, even a lion uses its full strength to hunt a rabbit, so the Sand Ninja should crush them and not give Orochimaru any chance to take advantage.
Her words came true.
Without the previous step-by-step preparations, how could we have achieved such a great success today?
Unlike individual battles between ninjas, unified operations by an army group require greater teamwork and coordination.
A massive wave of fire crashed down on the Sand Ninja forces, forming a wall of fire hundreds of meters high, with the scorching heat reaping lives every moment.
Nearly a hundred Sand Ninja unleashed a combination ninjutsu, "Water Release: Water Wall," successfully blocking a wave of attacks from Konoha.
On the battlefield, the role of an individual is almost negligible; the norm is for groups to engage in ninjutsu duels.
Just as a Sand Ninja finished unleashing an Earth Release ninjutsu, the opponent's Great Fireball came crashing down on his head.
The temperature was several thousand degrees Celsius, and he could even smell the burning of his hair.
As a battle-hardened ninja, he managed to unleash a defensive ninjutsu at the last second before the ninjutsu was unleashed.
Then, he felt a sharp pain and knew nothing more.
Where he couldn't see, behind the Great Fireball Technique,
It was followed by three powerful fireballs.
His defenses were as flimsy as paper, instantly reduced to ashes by a barrage of fireballs.
"The main camp has fallen!"
"The main camp has fallen!"
……
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The excited shouts spread like a virus to every corner of the battlefield.
Amidst the deafening explosions, a figure resembling a giant was blasted to pieces on the wall of the Konoha camp.
The vanguard of the Sand Ninja blasted three breaches in the camp wall in one go.
The others caught up, and the Sand Ninja troops surged into the Leaf Village camp through the breach.
Hikaru Inuzuka's comrade Benimaru has died in battle, and he himself is also seriously injured.
When the messenger found him, he agreed without hesitation to stay and fight to the death with the camp.
With his childhood friend Benimaru gone first, it was time for him to put the Will of Fire into practice.
As the Sand Ninja surged into the breach like a tide, Hikaru Inuzuka unleashed the last ninjutsu of his life.
He was like a hero going against the tide, facing the giant waves—
He plunged in headfirst.
It doesn't taste good to have blood splattered on your body, face, and even in your mouth.
It has a slightly fishy smell.
There were many who went against the tide, most of them dragging their broken bodies and disappearing into the enemy's overwhelming offensive.
"Bang!"
Spiritual communication.
A giant snake, over 50 meters tall, appeared in the center of the camp.
Standing atop his head was Orochimaru, the commander Konoha had assigned to the Sand Village front.
"Orochimaru, you'd better have prepared a sacrifice."
"Heh! Manda, you can eat as much as you want today, as long as you have the strength."
While dealing with the summoned beast at his feet, Orochimaru kept his eyes on the two people opposite him.
A young man with red hair and black eyes was lifted up by gold dust and stood at the same height as him.
This person is very likely Magnet Release: Rasa, who has recently gained fame in Sunagakure.
Intelligence indicated that he was a strong contender to become the Fourth Kazekage, which is why Orochimaru took a second look at him.
And the other one.
She is the old lady Chiyo, who is known as a top-notch puppeteer.
Chiyo flew to a high place on the puppet and, together with Rasa, restrained Orochimaru.
The three ascended into the air, escaping the battle on the ground.
"Orochimaru, you've lost! Have you thought about how you're going to explain this to your teacher?"
Faced with Chiyo's provocation, Orochimaru suddenly felt bored.
The ninjas' battles, the hateful gazes, the ambition to rise to power—all these desires intertwined at this moment.
Everything before him failed to pique Orochimaru's interest, and he found it less enjoyable than an experiment.
"How boring."
Orochimaru muttered to himself in frustration.
"Manda, attack!"
Having lost interest in playing along with the Sand Ninja, Orochimaru just wanted to end this farce in his eyes as soon as possible.
"roar!"
The massive body of the ten thousand serpents crashed down like the sky collapsing.
Faced with the unshakeable behemoth, the Sand Ninja below felt as if they had fallen into an ice cellar. They wanted to move, but their legs simply wouldn't obey them.
This is a fear that originates at the genetic level.
"Magnetic Escape·Golden Coffin!"
At the critical moment, Luo Sha manipulated the gold dust to temporarily stop the Thousand Snakes.
Chiyo hastily retreated, and nine figures shot up from below, all attacking Orochimaru on top of Manda's head.
That was Chiyo's signature move—
"The White Secret Technique: The Ten Ninja of Chikamatsu!"
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Nara Shikaku hurried through the forest. He had long since left the Konoha camp and would soon be out of the mountains.
He was followed by two teammates, Akimichi Choza and Yamanaka Inoichi.
They are the pig-deer-butterfly of this generation.
The three grew up together and have an inseparable relationship, and their fighting teamwork is also excellent.
Although he is only a Jonin, with the combined effects of his clan's secret techniques, he would not easily be defeated even when fighting a Kage-level opponent.
Such high-end combat power did not appear on the main battlefield.
The trees flew backward one by one, and the three of them were all more or less injured.
It's clear that the previous battles weren't easy either.
"Haiyi, how far away are the pursuers?"
Yamanaka Inoichi, as the eyes of the Ino-Shika-Cho trio, also possesses sharp sensory ninjutsu.
During the jump, he put his index and middle fingers together and touched his forehead, which took only a few breaths.
"The pursuers are about 800 meters behind us, very close."
Nara Shikaku nodded, leaped and landed on a tree trunk, his chakra exploding beneath his feet as he shot towards his next landing point.
During the escape, Yamanaka Inoichi would occasionally report the enemy's location.
Nara Shikaku led his squad, maintaining a distance of about 1000 meters from the Sand Ninja pursuers.
"Shikaku, what's the mission this time? Can't you tell me yet?"
Choza Akimichi's voice is naturally deep and honest; you can tell from his voice that he is a reliable teammate.
Shikaku frowned unconsciously, as if he had thought of something unpleasant.
"Don't ask. You'll regret it when you find out."
Dingza wisely shut his mouth; he unconditionally trusted Shikaku's intelligence.
Since Shikaku did this, he must have his reasons.
Although Inoichi was also puzzled, he only glanced at Shikaku.
Seeing that he didn't look too good, she stopped talking.
Ten minutes later, the three of them stepped over the last big tree, and their view suddenly opened up.
The vast grasslands stretched as far as the eye could see.
The three rushed out of the jungle, which meant they were now out of the front lines.
The enemy was still chasing them, and they didn't have much time left.
As soon as the three appeared, the ninja squad responsible for providing support immediately came to meet them.
Without wasting words, Shikaku nodded to the person who was there to meet him and gave the final instructions.
Ten seconds.
Explosions echoed through the sky.
An explosion was heard as a fire broke out in the forest, instantly igniting the entire mountain forest, and the fire quickly spread into the depths of the dense forest.
This is not a naturally occurring disaster; there must have been fuel materials prepared in the forest beforehand, otherwise the wildfire would not have spread so quickly.
Shikaku seemed to be waiting for something, his gaze fixed on something further away.
The secret plan has been in progress for a long time; now it's time to close the net.
They weren't kept waiting long.
Suddenly, the sun rose above the highest point of the distant mountain ridge.
Shikaku squinted his eyes, knowing that it wasn't the sun.
It is the effect produced by the simultaneous detonation of more than 100,000 explosive tags.
A huge mushroom-shaped cloud appeared above the mountain ridge, and even at a distance of more than ten kilometers, it still felt dazzling to him.
The mushroom cloud hung silently in the sky.
Four words suddenly popped into Nara Shikaku's mind.
Great sound!
"boom!"
Sure enough, after a while, a huge explosion that shook the heavens and the earth finally came.
My eardrums were ringing loudly, and then a strong wind rushed towards me, and the wild grass under my feet clung tightly to the ground.
The wind howled past my ears, my hair flew wildly backward, and the gale blew wrinkles into my face.
A deafening roar, a gust of wind, and a mushroom cloud—the explosion occurred at Konoha's main camp on the front lines.
Akimichi Choza stared in disbelief, muttering to himself as he gazed at the mountain ridge.
"To die together?" He immediately denied it, "No!"
The word "trap" came to mind, and his expression turned solemn.
Suddenly.
He turned to stare at Lu Jiu, and asked in a trembling voice:
"Who...who was it? Who was left behind as bait?"
Nara Shikaku remained silent, his clenched fist tightening and loosening repeatedly.
He kept recalling what Orochimaru had once told him.
"Shikaku-kun, why do fish bite the hook? Only with bait."
"This is war, and war means death!"
He couldn't refute Orochimaru's words, but he couldn't teach them to his two best friends.
Silence is also an answer.
Similarly, he cannot say that Orochimaru was wrong; on the contrary, it was precisely because of the implementation of the plan that the Sand Ninja's offensive was successfully blocked.
This also bought time and space for maneuvering in subsequent battles.
Judging solely by the results, Orochimaru was undoubtedly an outstanding commander.
But he felt like a heavy stone was lodged in his heart, and he couldn't exhale the pent-up anger in his chest.
800 people, 800 ninjas, all fearless individuals with the will of fire in their hearts.
Such a huge loss is unprecedented in Konoha's history, and he doesn't know whether what he did was right or wrong.
Among those who sacrificed their lives were not only the wounded, but also the ninjas who voluntarily stayed behind for the sake of the village.
even……
He even personally issued orders to send six squads deep behind enemy lines to cut off the Sand Ninja's supplies.
Then, unwittingly, the Sand Ninja's spies obtained this intelligence.
His only intention was to mislead his opponents, making them believe that Orochimaru would hold out indefinitely and was still thinking of ways to break the deadlock.
This time, however, the bait was too heavy.