Naruto's civilian cannon fodder starts with the three-body technique

Chapter 112 Danzo's Conspiracy

Under the operation of Umino Sasuke, except for some auxiliary ninjas, basically all of his subordinates, according to their different attributes, took out loans to exchange for a C-level ninjutsu.

The most common loans exchanged were Water Chaos Wave and Continuous Flame Burning City, followed by Rock Shield Array, while Thousand Blade Storm and Suppressing Thunder Snake were relatively rare.

This is basically consistent with the statistical data of ninja attribute chakra. There are indeed relatively few ninjas who possess wind and lightning attribute chakra.

At present, in addition to practicing joint ninjutsu, his subordinates spend most of their time practicing chakra control by stepping on trees and water under the guidance of the Chunin officers.

There's no way around it, the Genin consumables are just so useless, apart from being quite competent in throwing kunai and shuriken, some of them are not even proficient in the Three Body Technique.

In order for them to reach the level of releasing joint ninjutsu, they must at least complete treading water before they can barely meet the standard.

On the contrary, those Chunin officers had experienced many wars, but they lacked opportunities. Now with the help of Umino Sasuke, they learned these joint ninjutsu very quickly.

Nearly 30 Chunin officers, the minimum number required to jointly release Water Wave, Continuous Flame Burning City and Rock Shield Formation, has reached the requirement. As for those Chunin officers with wind and lightning attribute chakra, their number is too small and they can only play auxiliary roles.

But it’s okay. After the water waves have subsided, it’s not a waste of endurance to launch a few thunder snakes.

As for the combination of Continuous Flames Burning the City and Thousand Blades Storm, their power is doubled, and it already has some of the power of combined ninjutsu.

The peaceful days of cultivation passed by quietly and uneventfully.

Ever since Umino Sasuke used a dust explosion to wipe out the 300 Sand Ninja puppet army, the Sand Ninja has completely shrunk its defense line and has never sent out even a single elite Sand Ninja team to infiltrate, thus cutting off Umino Sasuke's plan to take advantage of the opportunity to complete high-level tasks.

But it’s also a good thing this way. He just happens to have plenty of time to integrate these subordinates and help them quickly improve their strength.

As news of Sasuke Umino's battle record spread back to Konoha Village, the Umino family suddenly became the target of various forces.

As long as Sasuke Umino becomes a Jonin, with the large number of people in the Umino family, it is possible for them to become a third-rate ninja clan in Konoha.

Compared to ordinary ninjas and villagers who were paying attention to Umino Sasuke's achievements, those in power in the Konoha headquarters realized that if it weren't for Umino Sasuke's accidental use of forbidden techniques to annihilate the 300 Sand Ninja puppet army, the entire Shinano River left wing defense line would have been breached.

Realizing this problem, Sarutobi Hiruzen held a meeting with the Konoha Elders overnight and decided to send Uchiha clan ninjas to the Kawa no Guo defense line for support just in case.

As for the issue of Umino Sasuke being evaluated for the rank of Jonin, although it was temporarily shelved by the Konoha Ninja Clan on the grounds that a special Jonin had just been promoted, it was only a matter of time before Umino Sasuke was promoted to Jonin given his achievements.

What's more, Umino Sasuke is from the same line of Hokage. Although the evaluation for the title of Jonin has been temporarily shelved, the appointment as the commander of the left wing defense line in Shinano Forest has been made. Although the word "acting" was added in front of it, the actual power he should have is still the same.

With the cooperation between Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzo, one openly and one secretly, and the passing of the older generation of village founders, the Konoha Elders, led by the Hokage, have been able to suppress the power of the Konoha Ninja Clan.

As a member of the Hokage family, as long as Umino Sasuke takes the position of garrison commander and does not make any big mistakes, he will basically be safe.

The Uchiha ninjas provided support very quickly. As soon as they arrived at the front line of River Country, they launched continuous fierce attacks on the Sand Ninja defense line. They almost broke through the Sand Ninja defense line every time, but they were always just a little bit short.

Over time, the Uchiha ninja began to have a dispute with Shimura Danzo.

Especially this time the leader is Uchiha Setsuna, the elder of the Uchiha clan.

Uchiha Setsuna was very active during the reign of the Second Hokage, Senju Tobirama. He was a follower of Uchiha Madara and a typical hawkish member of the Uchiha clan.

During the reign of the Second Hokage, Senju Tobirama, Uchiha Setsuna instigated the Uchiha clan to rebel and try to seize power from the Senju clan. However, he was discovered in advance by Senju Tobirama, who sent members of the Anbu to arrest him and imprison him. He was not rescued until Senju Tobirama died in battle and Sarutobi Hiruzen came to power, and then the Uchiha clan rescued him through political compromise.

Shimura Danzo had always disliked Uchiha Setsuna, the two of them like oil and fire, bound to ignite whenever they met. Uchiha Setsuna even questioned Shimura Danzo's leadership and had the intention of seizing the position of overall commander of the River Country front.

Uchiha Setsuna's idea naturally touched upon Shimura Danzo's taboo.

Danzo Shimura was already full of malice towards the Uchiha clan, and had even coveted the Sharingan for a long time. There was no shortage of wise men in the Root, so he came up with an idea to kill two birds with one stone.

……

More than half a month passed in quiet days.

While Konoha's main army was fighting on the front line, their left wing of defense remained calm.

Finally, the good days were over. That night, Uchiha Setsuna and a group of Uchiha ninjas came to his left wing defense zone.

This time, Uchiha Setsuna brought not only Uchiha clan members, but also a large number of Uchiha clan's allied ninjas, with a total number of nearly two hundred people.

"Umino Sasuke, Elder Danzo has given orders!"

Uchiha Setsuna took out the transfer order and threw it to Umino Sasuke.

Umino Sasuke took the transfer order, took a look at it, and froze on the spot, "Why would Elder Danzo give such an order?"

It turned out that this transfer order actually required him to lead his troops and work together with the Uchiha ninja to break through the Sand Ninja's defense line, go deep behind enemy lines, and attack the Sand Ninja's logistics supply lines.

Afterwards, they found an opportunity to fight and joined forces with Konoha's main army to encircle the Sand Ninja Army.

Isn’t this a replica of the last time when Ebizo led the Sand Ninja puppet army to attack Konoha’s left wing defense zone?

After seeing this transfer order, Umino Sasuke even suspected that Uchiha Setsuna had forged the military order.

However, considering the consequences of forging military orders and the arrogance of the Uchiha, this situation is unlikely to occur. Instead, Danzo Shimura is full of uncertainties and unexpected events.

"There must be a conspiracy!"

Sasuke Umino was shocked and immediately realized the danger. If it was Nara Shikasa who led the team, he would think it was normal. But Danzo Shimura let Uchiha Setsuna lead the team deep behind enemy lines, which seemed to have bad intentions.

It is very likely that in order to gain Uchiha Setsuna's trust, he abandoned and sold out this good subordinate.

"This guy Shimura Danzo is really unreliable."

Sasuke Umino has a new understanding of Danzo Shimura's political acumen. Apart from using the Will of Fire to brainwash his subordinates, he has no political acumen and no leadership at all.

Any normal person would not join him.

Which leader would just throw away his subordinates without worrying that other subordinates would be disappointed?

Well, the Root Ninjas don’t even have emotions, so I guess their hearts are cold.

(End of this chapter)