Naruto: From Kushina Uzumaki onwards, a traitor

Qianyu began her daily consolidation training.

...

the next morning.

The 32 remaining ninjas who are still capable of fighting have regrouped.

Orochimaru remains the commander of these 32 ninjas.

"Everyone, use your Shadow Clone Technique to create as many Shadow Clones as possible. Then, form a team, with your main body maintaining the formation of your clones, and advance the front line! Jiraiya!"

Upon hearing Orochimaru call his name, Jiraiya replied solemnly, "Yes!"

Orochimaru ordered Jiraiya, "Jiraiya, you and I will stand at the very ends of the formation, summoning our beasts. If we encounter any Cloud Ninja, we'll use our beasts to drive them away! Any stragglers will be dealt with by the two of us!"

Jiraiya, accepting Orochimaru's order, replied in a low voice, "Yes!"

Orochimaru called out again, "Senba!"

Qianyu stepped forward: "Here!"

Orochimaru commanded, "Here's a task for you. You're the fastest and most mobile. Search within a 50-meter radius of the team. If you spot an enemy, immediately use your summoning beast to notify me."

Chiba asked, "Orochimaru-sensei, is this just simple reconnaissance?"

Orochimaru said coldly, "Kill if you're confident!"

Qianyu bowed and said, "Yes!"

Orochimaru looked at the remaining ninja and ordered, "The rest of you, unless the Cloud Ninja really gets close to us, your task is to maintain the Shadow Clones and their formations as much as possible. Do you understand?"

"understand!"

Orochimaru announced, "Now begin advancing the front line! After advancing to ten kilometers, set up traps nearby to defend the front line, and then follow my orders at any time!"

The ninjas began to create shadow clones and other clones, and started to form teams.

Jiraiya noticed that Minato Namikaze looked very unwell and frowned, asking, "Minato, what's wrong? Why do you look so pale? Did you not get enough rest yesterday?"

Minato Namikaze shook his head and said, "I'm fine, Jiraiya-sensei. It won't affect the battle."

Jiraiya instructed, "Then be careful and don't overexert yourself."

Everyone has already created shadow clones and clones.

Even if a ninja creates one shadow clone, five clones would make seven people.

There are 32 people, seven each, so there are more than 200 people, which looks like a pretty good number.

Orochimaru nodded in satisfaction: "Let's depart immediately!"

Led by Orochimaru and Jiraiya, the group of ninjas began to advance forward.

Meanwhile, Chiyu began to act alone, conducting reconnaissance within a 50-meter radius of the group.

For the first two kilometers, Chiba didn't notice anything unusual.

But starting from two kilometers, Chiba noticed that there was some movement.

Qianyu formed a hand seal with both hands and pressed one hand to the ground.

"The Formation of Ten Thousand Snakes!"

Compared to Orochimaru, who spews out a large number of snakes from his mouth, Chiba summons a large number of snakes directly from his sleeves.

Chiyu ordered the snakes to scatter and report back the intelligence they had gathered.

At the same time, Qianyu summoned a small black snake from the Dragon Cave.

"Go find Orochimaru-sensei and tell him that things are starting to move, and warn them to be careful."

"Yes, Lord Senba!"

The little black snake twisted its body and quickly left.

soon.

Several snakes returned to Qianyu's body, coiled around his arm, and reported the situation they had discovered to him.

"Is a three-person squad conducting reconnaissance?"

A cold glint flashed in Qianyu's eyes as she tightened her grip on the ninja sword.

The battle is about to begin!

Chapter 67 Successfully Advances

According to the information Qianyu received from the snake, a three-person team was conducting reconnaissance about 40 meters away.

Qianyu crept over silently and found the three-person team.

One of the sensory ninjas was using his senses with his eyes closed, while the other two were on guard around him.

"Iijima, how are you? Have you sensed anything?"

"Yes, but something is very wrong."

"Something's not right? What's wrong?"

"I roughly estimate that there are more than two hundred Konoha ninjas, but more than one hundred of them feel very strange to me."

"Hiss! More than two hundred people? Just how many people did Konoha send to the Land of Hot Springs?!"

"It seems that Konoha is planning a counterattack, especially since Orochimaru, another of the Legendary Sannin, has come to the Land of Hot Springs."

"Let's retreat and report quickly."

"Wait a little longer, let me sense it again. Those hundred-plus people are really strange."

Suddenly, the sensory ninja named Iijima shouted, "Watch out! Someone's approaching us!"

"You only sensed me when you were this close. Your sensory ninja skills aren't very good."

Qianyu appeared behind the three Cloud Ninja, her hands rapidly forming hand seals.

"Latent Shadow Snake Hand!"

Several snakes darted out from Qianyu's sleeves and attacked the three Cloud Ninjas. Their sharp fangs bit down hard on their necks and injected venom.

The poison took effect, causing the three Cloud Ninja to become paralyzed.

Qianyu gripped a kunai in his hand and swiftly slit the throats of the three Cloud Ninjas.

...

The Konoha ninja continued their advance.

They also encountered some attacks during this period.

However, Orochimaru and Jiraiya's summoned beasts acted in time and killed it.

Even if any escapees slip through the net, Orochimaru and Jiraiya will personally deal with them before the Cloud Ninja discover anything amiss.

Meanwhile, Chiba kept moving around the group, reporting the information she obtained to Orochimaru through her summoning beast.

Orochimaru also intended to let a few Cloud Ninja go, wanting them to return and report back.

As the front lines advanced further and further, the Cloud Ninja's reconnaissance and harassment became more and more frequent.

However, just as expected, the Cloud Ninja's operation this time was merely to investigate the situation of the Leaf Ninja, and there was no direct confrontation.

After all, more than two hundred Konoha ninjas were advancing their lines in a grand manner.

If the Cloud Ninja wanted to start a war, they would need to gather at least three hundred ninjas.

If a war breaks out, hundreds of ninjas will fight each other, which is equivalent to a small battle.

The Cloud Ninja are not prepared for a full-scale war with Konoha, so it is impossible for them to gather a large number of ninjas.

Therefore, the Cloud Ninja are currently operating quite conservatively, focusing primarily on reconnaissance and secondarily on harassment, in order to ascertain the current situation of the Leaf Ninja.

As for the advance of Konoha, the Cloud Ninja didn't care.

Previously, the Cloud Ninja had managed to force the approximately 150 ninjas brought by Jiraiya to retreat to the border. They were confident that they could once again force these 200 ninjas to retreat to the border.

They were certain that after the Konoha ninjas finished advancing their lines, they would definitely send out ninjas to act separately, and it was impossible for them to stay together indefinitely.

Once the Konoha ninjas split up, that's when the Cloud Ninjas' opportunity will come.

...

The Konoha ninjas were advancing their lines very smoothly. Although the further they went, the slower their advance became, at least they were moving forward.

It was already dark by this time.

Just after Qianyu assassinated a group of Cloud Ninja, a snake from the Dragon Cave found him.

"Lord Senba, Lord Orochimaru wants you to rejoin the main force."

"I see."

After delivering the message to Chiba, the snake from Ryuchi Cave turned into smoke and returned to Ryuchi Cave.

Chiyu wiped the blood off the ninja sword on the clean clothes of the corpse at her feet and then sheathed it.

Since Orochimaru allowed him to rejoin the main force, it means that the front line has successfully advanced to ten kilometers.

Qianyu immediately rushed back to rejoin the main force.

After Chiba rejoined the main force, Orochimaru nodded to her.

Chiyu deserves a lot of credit for the fact that the front line was able to advance so smoothly.

Because Chiba would occasionally pass on information about what was happening ahead, Orochimaru could directly avoid areas with many Cloud Ninja and take a detour.

Orochimaru looked at the 'two hundred' ninjas in front of him and said, "Half of the ninjas will continue to use Shadow Clones and clones, while the other half will dispel Shadow Clones and clones, rest and recover their stamina and chakra, and then switch roles in two hours."

Furthermore, each of the ninjas who dispelled their shadow clones and their clones should receive a summoning scroll containing steel wire and explosive tags from me or Jiraiya, and use it to set traps around the area!

Half of the ninjas dispelled their shadow clones and took scrolls from Orochimaru and Jiraiya, then began setting up traps around the area.

Qianyu also went to collect the scroll, but instead of setting up traps, she sat down by a tree to rest.

After all, he had been assigned a separate mission and had fought his way up the front lines, so this was not something he should be doing.