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

Chapter 115 Escape for life

Through the thin mirror in front of him, Uchiha Setsuna finally discovered the strange scene in the mirror.

He quickly opened the Three Magatama Sharingan to gain further insight and capture.

"How could this be?"

Uchiha Setsuna's expression suddenly changed.

"Look here."

Umino Sasuke maintained the telescope technique and turned in several directions.

"We're surrounded!"

Uchiha Setsuna was so startled that he staggered and almost fell off Dabai.

If the information in the mirror was not an illusion, not only were their retreat routes blocked, but they were also about to be surrounded on three sides.

Except for the direction of Riverrun Castle in the northwest, a large number of Sand Ninjas surrounded it from the other three directions, with a total number of at least seven or eight hundred people.

Ever since the Sand Ninja was killed by Sasuke Umino in a dust explosion and lost 300 puppet troops, although the Sand Ninja has increased its troops, the total strength of the Sand Ninja Corps in the entire Kawa no Naruto defense line is only a thousand people. With so many Sand Ninja, they can no longer be said to be the main force of the Sand Ninja. They have definitely come out in full force.

Aren’t the Sand Shinobi afraid that Konoha’s main army will take the opportunity to launch a surprise attack and break through their defense line?

"Who leaked the information?"

Uchiha Setsuna immediately realized that someone had betrayed their information, otherwise the Sand Ninjas would not have come out in full force and set up such a large ambush in advance.

Uchiha Setsuna was so naive that he still didn't suspect that this was Shimura Danzo's conspiracy.

Sasuke Umino didn't even need to analyze the intelligence to know that they were betrayed by Danzo Shimura.

The main purpose of these isolated troops deep behind enemy lines was to delay the main force of the Sand Shinobi. Now, not only has the goal been achieved, but it has even exceeded expectations. All the Sand Shinobi have come out in full force. As for the life and death of the Uchiha, Danzo Shimura probably hopes that all the Uchiha will die.

In order not to arouse Uchiha Setsuna's suspicion and to believe in the feasibility of this tactic, Danzo Shimura even sold out Umino Sasuke, his subordinate whom he had promoted.

Danzo Shimura's strategic intention was probably that as long as the Uchiha Legion could hold back the main force of the Sand Ninja, he would be able to break through the Sand Ninja's defense line in one fell swoop, completely recover the River Country, and even penetrate the territory of the Wind Country.

In other words, the Uchiha Corps was not an assault force behind enemy lines at all, but a bait to lure the Sand Ninjas to separate their main forces, while Shimura Danzo could take advantage of the absence of the Sand Ninjas' main forces and try his best to break through the defense line.

"Before the Sand Ninja Army surrounds us, let's quickly break out of the encirclement."

Sasuke Umino quickly proposed to integrate the troops and start breaking out towards the weaker parts of the encirclement.

"Sasuke, which direction should we break out from?"

Uchiha Setsuna also knew that the situation was serious. No matter how strong the Uchiha Army was, facing the absolute advantage in numbers of the main Sand Shinobi Army, they had no chance of winning and would most likely be wiped out.

After seeing how powerful Umino Sasuke was, Uchiha Setsuna's attitude suddenly improved a lot.

"If we go back east, there will definitely be an ambush. The north is where the Sand Ninja Corps is stationed, so that's not an option either. The west is the weakest, but it's deep in enemy territory. So, we can only break out south as quickly as possible and find an opportunity to go east, through the Shinano Forest and Mountains, and return to the Shinano Plains."

At this critical moment, Umino Sasuke immediately made strategic arrangements.

Of course, he did not explain all the strategic arrangements one by one. If they wanted to detour eastward and return to the Shinano Plain, their chances would definitely be slim, unless Danzo Shimura could quickly break through the Sand Ninja defense line and force the main Sand Ninja army to give up blocking and go back to rescue. Otherwise, with the mountainous terrain of River Country, the Sand Ninja only needed to defend a few mountain passes to block their return route.

However, he did not hold much hope that Danzo Shimura could break through the Sand Village's defenses.

It wasn't that he doubted Shimura Danzo's ability. Although Shimura Danzo's ability was indeed not very good, the Ino-Shika-Cho combination of Nara Shikasa and the other two was still trustworthy. The problem mainly lay with the Sand Ninja. The Sand Ninja dared to come out in full force, so they must have the confidence to hold the line. Otherwise, they would not have sent so many ninjas to ambush.

As for what means the Sand Ninja used to hold the defense line, it is unknown.

Umino Sasuke decided to break out to the south. In addition to placing his hopes on the main force of Shimura Danzo, he also considered that if something went wrong, he could continue to move south, or even break through the entire southern part of the River Country and return to the Fire Country from the sea.

The difficulty in breaking through all the way to the south is nothing more than the long return journey and lack of supplies.

The further south you go in the country of the river, the more abundant the aquatic products are. With his infrasonic ninjutsu, he doesn't have to worry about this logistical problem at all.

The problem was the replenishment of bladed tools and supplies. Although he brought all the bladed tools and supplies that he had stockpiled during this period, it was obviously not enough to meet the long-distance expedition needs of more than 300 Konoha ninja soldiers.

"I hope Shimura Danzo can give it some strength this time. Don't be an expert in internal battles but a novice in external battles again."

As long as Danzo Shimura can break through the Sand Ninja's defense line, the main Sand Ninja army will definitely not have time to eat these baits.

After receiving strategic guidance from Umino Sasuke, Uchiha Setsuna agreed with this analysis and immediately ordered his troops to turn south.

Sasuke Umino also returned to the rear, leading his troops and following behind the Uchiha Ninja Army.

At the same time, he created a large number of shadow clones, performed the teleportation technique, and went to the front to conduct reconnaissance first.

After advancing less than five kilometers to the south, they were finally blocked by the Sand Ninja.

Obviously.

The Sand Ninjas also realized that the ambush had been exposed and the Konoha Ninjas were moving south, so they accelerated the encirclement.

When the Uchiha Army saw the Sand Ninjas surrounding them from the left, they immediately released a joint Fire Release.

"Fire Style: Yatagarasu Flame Song!"

Such a powerful combined fire attack immediately set the forest for several kilometers on the left side on fire, forming a natural barrier defense line.

The Uchiha Corps took the opportunity to quickly pass through the large gap in the encirclement, while the Kaino Corps following behind was delayed for a while. If they had rushed through the gap regardless of anything, the rear of the Kaino Corps would have been attacked by the Sand Ninja on the right.

If the Uchiha Legion that escaped the encirclement could help at this time, I think they could easily break through this big gap in the encirclement.

Unfortunately, Uchiha Setsuna had no intention of stopping and continued to advance.

Obviously.

Uchiha Setsuna wanted to implement the tail-cutting tactic, using the Umino troops to delay the Sand Ninjas and buy more time to escape.

"As expected, I can only rely on myself."

Fortunately, Umino Sasuke had a plan in advance, otherwise he would have been killed by Uchiha Setsuna.

Umino Sasuke immediately gave the order to keep advancing in the same direction.

Soon, Umino Sasuke led most of the troops and broke out of the encirclement. However, in order to support the subordinates at the rear, the front troops made a detour to the right side of the Sand Ninja.

"Don't save the detonating talismans, escape is the most important thing!"

Sasuke Umino was afraid that his subordinates were used to being poor and would be reluctant to use detonating tags, so he gave them another tactical reminder.

(End of this chapter)