Chapter 105 Garrison

In the southeast of Konoha, there are 3,000 troops led by Jiraiya, plus the 2,000 reinforcements led by Minato, a total of 5,000 people.

In terms of numbers, this seems to be equivalent to the northeastern defense force when Konoha and Kumogakure went to war.

But in fact, these two situations are completely different.

In the northeastern defense line, Konoha is guarding the narrow and long road between the Frost Country and the Hot Spring Country.

If Kumogakure attacks from land, it can only go here. As long as the defense line is defended, it can't be said that one man guards the pass and ten thousand men can't open it, at least five thousand men guard the pass and ten thousand men can't open it.

However, the southeastern defense line is a long coastline, and the depth is the entire hinterland of the Fire Country, so the troops have to be dispersed.

Therefore, 5,000 troops are actually far from enough.

But there is no way, Konoha has already taken out most of the soldiers who can fight.

There are 10,000 troops on the west line fighting with Sand Village, 2,000 are left in the northwest to defend Rock Village, and 2,000 are left in the northeast to defend Kumogakure, leaving only 5,000 troops in the southeast.

If the fight continues, the only option is to mobilize the reserve ninjas left in the village.

The troops arrived at the Southeast Defense Line Headquarters. Minato temporarily settled the troops and brought Fugaku, Che, Hyuga Tokuyo, and Hyuga Yuesheng to Jiraiya's tent.

"Oh, it's Minato."

Jiraiya seemed to be reading a book. When he saw Minato coming in, he immediately put it back in the drawer and hid it. It was probably not a serious book.

"Teacher Jiraiya, how are you?" Minato asked straight to the point.

"I'm doing very well. I can eat three bowls of rice in one meal." Jiraiya said with amusement.

Minato laughed dryly twice, then said: "Teacher Jiraiya, let's be serious, how is the situation on the battlefield?"

Jiraiya then became serious, stood up and said: "The situation on the battlefield is not good."

"The battle line is too long, and the three thousand people under my command are not enough. Even with the two thousand reinforcements that the old man squeezed out, it is far from being able to consolidate the southeastern defense line of the Land of Fire to a foolproof level."

"The Hidden Mist has two attack directions. One is to use the eastern Wave Country as a springboard to harass the eastern coast of our country."

"The other is to attack the southern hinterland of our country from the ruins of the Whirlpool Country in the south of our country."

"We have to guard against both directions, which is really a bit difficult."

Jiraiya shook his head with a bitter face, and suddenly asked: "By the way, why didn't Orochimaru come?"

Minato scratched his head and answered vaguely: "Lord Orochimaru didn't even come to the Jonin meeting. He must have something to do."

But Che knew that Orochimaru's research had entered a breakthrough period, and naturally he was reluctant to leave his research institute.

Jiraiya sighed and said with a little regret: "It's a pity, one less fighting force."

Minato looked at Che at this time and said to Jiraiya: "In my opinion, Che's strength can stand alone. He made great contributions during the northeastern defense line. I believe that this time, Che can also make the same contribution."

"I heard about it too." Jiraiya suddenly came over and took Che's hand and said: "You defeated the Eight-Tails alone and forced back the landing troops of the Cloud Hidden Village. You have a bright future!"

Che was embarrassed by Jiraiya's familiarity.

After a few more conversations, Jiraiya arranged tasks for the reinforcements.

Minato led a thousand troops to garrison the southern defense line of the Fire Country, and Uchiha and Hyuga each led 500 people to garrison the eastern defense line of the Fire Country.

Then each of them led their troops to the locations they were responsible for.

The garrisons of Uchiha and Hyuga were at the outermost of the overall defense line, consolidating the defense of the defense line and responsible for reconnaissance and vigilance.

The two forces can support each other and can also take care of each other.

Che came to the garrison, and was surrounded by three members of Che's team, Sarutobi Asuma, Uchiha Tonghuo and Uchiha Tiehuo.

Tonghuo and Tiehuo are of course both members of the Uchiha, while Asuma applied to follow Che as the captain. It is said that he had a quarrel with the Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen and insisted on staying in Che's team.

"I wonder which one is more difficult to deal with, the Mist Ninja or the Cloud Ninja?"

Asuma sighed.

Che smiled and said, "The military strength of the Hidden Cloud Village is strong, and the military strength of the Hidden Cloud Village is also quite strong."

"But the strengths of the two are different. The strength of the Hidden Cloud Village is based on militarized management and a brave fighting style."

"The Hidden Mist Village is also known as the Blood Mist Village. Their strength is based on personal strength and a cruel style of killing."

"The Blood Mist Village?" Asuma seemed to have heard of it.

Che said, "Yes, it's the Blood Mist Village where graduates fight each other. Ninjas trained by such a system are probably all freaks."

As he said that, Che thought of a beautiful figure.

Mei Terumi, although she doesn't seem to be murderous and cruel, Che thinks this woman is also very strange.

She was crazy about him when they first met, and later kidnapped Hong but didn't hurt her, and kissed him inexplicably.

Che touched his cheek and thought, "I don't know what will happen if we meet this time, but I will definitely not let her kiss me again."

"Anyway, no matter what it is, it's not our brother Che's opponent." Tonghuo didn't miss any opportunity to flatter Che, and said with a flattering smile.

Che had long been accustomed to Tonghuo's appearance, and ignored it, and the four continued to patrol.

"It seems that something happened in the village ahead."

Che keenly noticed the abnormality.

Tonghuo immediately put away the smile on his face when he heard it, and took out a kunai seriously.

Asuma and Tiehuo each took out their weapons and prepared to fight.

The four of them quickly rushed to the village ahead.

The place was already devastated, with corpses of villagers dead everywhere.

The remaining villagers were terrified when they saw Che and his men dressed as ninjas, thinking they were murderers.

Some villagers were so blinded by hatred that they rushed towards the four men with weapons in hand, but were knocked unconscious by Tonghuo.

Asuma was so angry that his lips were trembling.

"Kirigakure, these beasts!"

Che sighed and said, "It seems that this happened before we were stationed."

"I only heard about Kirigakure's cruel methods before, but now I have seen it."

Tiehuo asked, "Why don't we set up defenses on the coastline and protect these civilians behind us?"

Che said, "Set up a buffer zone, so as to minimize bloodshed and avoid casualties. This is the strategy of the Third Hokage."

"Will civilians be exposed in the middle of the battlefield just to set up a buffer zone?" Asuma said angrily.

"After all, no one knows that Kirigakure is so shameless that it is condemned to attack civilians." Che said lightly.

A sense of dissatisfaction arose in the hearts of Asuma, Tonghuo and Tiehuo at the same time.

Che observed this from the side and thought: "I don't need to say anything, the seeds have already been planted. Let's see how they will sprout in the future."