Chapter 203 About Fast and Faster

Because of Jiraiya's recommendation, and because of Minato's own excellent qualities, he has become the third generation Hokage's confirmed candidate for the next generation of Hokage.

Therefore, the candidates for Minato's escort team are undoubtedly powerful and reliable ninjas.

The escort team consisted of three people, all of whom were jonin without exception.

The first is Hagoromo. If we summarize his characteristics as a ninja, the first point is not that he is young. Being able to become a Jonin must be recognized for his strength. Age is no longer something that will make him look differently.

What is the first and most striking characteristic of Hagoromo? It's "Thunder Escape" and the high offensiveness brought by Thunder Escape. According to the information on the surface, after a certain period of time, he can hold back his ultimate move and activate it when necessary. Judging from the current intelligence, the single attack power of his move is extremely strong. As long as it hits If you defeat the enemy, probably no one can stop it.

The second feature is the sealing technique. To be precise, it is an offensive sealing technique. In fact, it just refers to a specific sealing technique - the revised version of the Four Elephants Seal. Hagoromo often uses this technique as a ultimate move for attack and defense. Among them, the advantage is that it is very unsolvable, and the disadvantage is that it costs too much mana, and because the range is too large, it is easy to cause accidental damage. These two points limit the scope of use of this technique.

Being taught by Kushina, Hagoromo is also proficient in sealing techniques of other departments, but because many techniques require preparation in advance, many of them are not applicable in a battlefield environment.

As for the remaining two people in the bodyguard, Hagoromo also looked familiar and had performed missions together.

Apart from Hagoromo, the name of the second guarding ninja is Aburame Shihui. He comes from the Aburame clan, is an insect controller with a poker face, and is an elite jounin with extremely strong overall strength. Objectively speaking, this person is more useful than Hagoromo most of the time. He is a rare all-rounder ninja who can do reconnaissance, attack, and defense very well.

Needless to say, the role of the Aburame Clan's insect control technique in attack and defense. In addition, the Aburame Clan can use parasitic insects for ultra-long-distance reconnaissance and tracking. Under certain special circumstances, this ability is better than the Hyuga Clan's Byakugan. It is more adaptable. At the same time, he can also use different bugs for medical purposes. He can treat, detoxify, and quickly heal wounds.

Aburame Shihui can be used as an attacker, and can also be a good support. Because of this comprehensive ability and extremely calm personality, during the Third Ninja War, he was one of the few ninjas who could often perform tasks alone. And the mission success rate is extremely high. In a word, he is one of the rare ninjas who has not been surpassed by the next generation of sons.

The last one left is Akimichi Choza.

The doubling technique used by the Akimichi clan is a special ninjutsu, which also integrates offense and defense.

Unlike Shihui Aburame, who has a lone ranger nature, Akimichi Tingza belongs to the fixed elite team "Inaraka Butterfly" due to clan and cooperative relationships. However, this team was temporarily dismantled in order to serve as a guard.

These two are mature ninjas in their twenties and forties, and together with Hagoromo, who has a young body and an uncle's heart, they can basically form a mature fighting system.

In terms of team composition, there is something more important besides strength. Hagoromo is a disciple of Kushina and has a close relationship with Minato. Akimichi Choza and Aburame Shihui both come from small and medium-sized ninja sects that are closely united around the Third Hokage, so there is no problem with trust.

Coupled with Namikaze Minato himself, the composition of this four-person team can basically guarantee that they can survive on any battlefield, be able to handle various tasks with ease, and be able to escape unscathed from major crises.

The new team is more than N times more powerful than the young ninjas originally led by Minato.

As for the member of Minato's team who survived the last battle, Jounin Hatake Kakashi was eventually stuffed into the ANBU by Minato.

In terms of Kakashi's current state, he is really not suitable for activities on the frontal battlefield. For a twelve-year-old ANBU ninja, this record will probably take a long time to be broken by a certain Uchiha... Maybe Kakashi The meaning of existence is to create young records one after another?

After the new Minato team was formed, they quickly returned to the battlefield after a brief familiarization.

In the peace agreement signed with Kirigakure, Konoha did not benefit as much as it did with Sunagakure before. After all, the situations between the two were different.

But now, Konoha wants nothing but peace.

During this period of time, the troops originally belonging to Orochimaru were gradually moving towards Jiraiya's front. Since then, all the combat pressure of Konoha has been concentrated here.

After all, the Kingdom of Fire will not hand over to the Kingdom of Water. After the later plan, only a small number of reconnaissance troops remained here.

At this time, the only remaining enemies of Konoha were the half-broken Iwagakure and the stubborn Kumogakure. According to Konoha's strategy, it is natural to give priority to dealing with Iwagakure, who is at a disadvantage in various situations.

Ninjas do not rely on supplies like ordinary people fight, but this is at best the difference between starving for seven days or ten days.

What's more important is the casualty rate of ninjas. They are extremely dependent on medical drugs. Without medical protection, there is no guarantee of combat effectiveness.

Therefore, after the supply lines were cut off, Iwagakure's large-scale supplies were no longer sustainable. Only on a small scale, Iwagakure's stranded troops in the Country of Grass could not be maintained.

However, now that the battle of Kannabi Bridge has passed, the opponent still shows no sign of wanting to evacuate from the Country of Grass.

For the Iwagakure ninja, it was probably a very unwilling thing to be defeated in this way.

It's just that such persistence is meaningless. Without supplies, there is no combat power. As long as Konoha makes a slight impact on Iwagakure's front line, the other party will know how unwise it is to "know that something cannot be done" , even the stubborn old man Onoki would not do something that would cost thousands of ninjas their lives.

What Konoha needs to do now is to attack this front.

"We will launch a surprise attack on the Iwagakure front soon, and it will be a frontal attack on the surface. After all, we did not hide our whereabouts in this operation."

"In terms of numbers, we are only a medium-sized force compared to the enemy on the opposite side, but this attack, compared with the results achieved by the attack, is more important for Iwagakure to understand our determination to attack."

"Iwagakure must be eliminated from the Land of Grass."

"Next, our team will take action first."

Minato squatted on the ground and said to Hagoromo and the other three people in front of him.

From the looks of it, he has already gotten over the previous events, but even if he has not, he will not be affected by it on the battlefield.

There were only about 800 Konoha ninjas performing this frontal attack mission. Their strategy was to attack, engage the enemy, and then retreat.

This cycle continues until Iwagakure can no longer bear it.

Therefore, this battle is continuous, and it is not so much a continuous attack as a continuous harassment. Under this strategy, the Iwagakure troops, who lacked medical treatment, food, and clothing, had no choice but to retreat.

The whereabouts of the Konoha ninjas were indeed not concealed. This was a real frontal battle, and there was already the Iwagakure Kagezuo moving on the opposite side.

What comes immediately is the confrontation.

In terms of the sharing of responsibilities among specific individuals in Minato's team, Aburame Shikei's first mission is reconnaissance and perimeter security, Akimichi Choza's active defense, while Minato and Hagoromo... are offensive.

If you compare the intimidating power of the golden flash in each village, the first one is definitely Iwagakure, not to mention that it was Minato's team that just destroyed the opponent's supply line.

Therefore, when Minato Namikaze appeared on the battlefield at the forefront, he clearly felt that there was a commotion among the Iwagakure ninjas on the opposite side.

Minato then launched an attack with Konoha's attack force.

Hagoromo followed closely behind Minato.

"Is it the golden flash of Konoha?" someone among the Iwagakure ninjas wondered.

"It's the golden flash of Konoha!" When Minato started scattering Thunder God Kunai all over the ground and started to carry out instant kill activities invisibly, the other party finally confirmed his identity.

"Wait a minute... The little thunder escape kid next to him seems to be faster than the golden flash?"

"How can there be a ninja faster than the Golden Flash!"

"I think it's at most the same speed..."

"Actually, the golden flash is faster, if you look carefully."

A captain-level Iwagakure ninja had a gloomy look on his face. Hearing these messy words, he said nothing.

Otherwise, he was the captain. He knew that reporting the situation was the most important thing at this time, so... he turned around and ran away.

"Mapai, second-rate guy, the one following the golden flash is Shirayaksha. Are you here for a picnic? Why don't you run away and have a discussion! No matter who is faster, he will soon be much faster than you, so why don't you just wait to die?"