Chapter 588 started

"Everyone be alert, start fighting!"

Amidst the sound of the siren, the jnin captains of the squads on the high wall saw a large number of figures rushing out of the forest, and after a moment of astonishment, they immediately recovered from their daze and began to shout loudly.

"Captain, Konoha's ninjas are attacking!"

Hyuga clan ninja who possesses farsightedness shouted loudly.

Using his supercilious ability, he could clearly see the identities of the ninjas who came by surprise, and they came from Konoha Ninja Village.

"Which side he belongs to, defeat them for me!"

Jounin Captain was puzzled about the reason why Konoha Ninja appeared here, but now the enemy has arrived, the most important thing is to defend this fortress and repel the enemy.

At this moment, the walkie-talkie that Captain Jonin was hanging by his ear first made a noisy sound, and then stabilized.

On the other side of the walkie-talkie, he quickly said a word and gave an order, which made the Junin captains guarding the high wall look shocked.

"What's the matter, Captain?"

Noticing that the faces of the Jonin captains were different, the team members standing next to them couldn't help asking.

"The superior asked us to stand here for half an hour, and then quickly catch up with the retreat of the troops, focusing on protecting ourselves. There is no need to charge forward and fight the enemy to the death..."

Junin captain replied dryly, as if he hadn't fully recovered from the inexplicable instructions given by his superiors.

The battle has not yet started, so why are you considering the issue of retreat? Is it a little too fast?

It's as if the commanders already knew that they couldn't beat the Konoha ninjas who came by surprise and needed to retreat?

Although they were puzzled, the Jonin captains only hesitated for a moment at the order of their superiors, and ordered all the team members:

"Get ready to fight, pay attention to the signal flares in the sky after half an hour, and withdraw from the front immediately after hearing the signal!"

"yes!"

The ghost country ninjas standing on the high wall responded one after another.

The Konoha ninja troops rushed out of the forest and rushed towards the front of the high wall of the fortress. They did not adopt any detours or trap tactics. Firstly, this was a tough battle, and secondly, the opponent also had ninjas from the Hyuga clan. Any tactics were not as effective as a frontal assault.

Although doing so will cause Konoha's casualties to be a little heavy, as long as this fortress is captured and the garrison base stationed by the Kingdom of Demons on the border of the Kingdom of Bears is removed, the strategic goal of the first step can be completed.

Only when the first step is completed, the second and third steps of the strategy can be effectively implemented.

For Konoha, this is a tough battle to the death!

No matter how great the sacrifice is, we must take down this fortress!

"Turn on the mechanism and consume their number and chakra as much as possible!"

Looking at the Konoha ninja troops that look like locusts crossing the border, the number is roughly a thousand, and it may even reach more than 1,500 and less than 2,000.

This number is far higher than the number of ghost country ninjas stationed on the border of the Bear Country.

Aside from the logistical work and medical staff, there are less than 300 ninjas stationed here.

The kingdom of ghosts has always adopted a strategy of elite soldiers against ninjas.

Even for ninja, there are extremely high professional requirements.

Because of this, the number of ninjas in the Kingdom of Ghosts seems to be far inferior to other big countries.

As such an order was issued, pitch-black barbs protruded immediately from the originally smooth high wall of the fortress. Under the snowy night, they shone with dazzling silver light, proving their sharpness.

The barbs are densely arranged between the barbs, and the gap left is not enough for the ninja to have a foothold on it.

If a ninja wants to climb over this high wall by climbing, he will definitely be injured by such a dark barb piercing the sole of his foot.

The place other than the barb is the groove area. The sound of mechanical gears began to roar, the groove opened the window, and the pitch-black gun barrel of the same color as the barb protruded from the window of the groove, which was extremely conspicuous in the cold white night.

"Use earth to attack!"

I wanted to reach the top of the fort by climbing the wall, but now the outside of the fort is full of barbed areas, and it is impossible for people to run on it.

Moreover, the gun barrel protruding from the groove window is probably a very destructive artillery.

This weapon has been improved by the military technicians of the Ghost Kingdom, and the destructive power and shock waves generated by its explosion have completely surpassed the general fire escape ninjutsu.

Under the ninjutsu of the earth escape ninja, a series of towering earth walls like city walls began to rise from the snow, and they continued to accumulate and increase in height.

However, with the black gun barrel on the wall of the fortress, bursting flames were sprayed out, and a row of shells fired out in salvo.

Boom!

The tall earth wall standing in front of the fortress instantly turned into countless clods of earth and rubble, splashing everywhere.

The Konoha ninjas who had just climbed onto the earth wall and wanted to jump up from the sky, fell from the sky like a goddess scattered flowers, vomiting blood and fell to the ground.

Although the built earth wall was shattered, a considerable part of the earth clods remained, which were not collapsed, and survived tenaciously from the artillery fire.

Therefore, this round of bombardment did not suppress the morale of Konoha's attack. Instead, he became more frustrated and braver to use earth escape, accumulating earth walls at a crazier speed.

In this way, one keeps firing shells and bombards, and the other keeps consuming chakra and superimposing earth dungeons.

After all, a fortress more than 30 meters high is not so easy to break through.

Especially under such a dense firepower coverage, basically there are not many blank areas for the Konoha ninjas to gain a foothold.

"put!"

On the high wall, following another order from the Jonin captain, each of them emitted fluorescence, and only palm-sized glass tubes were thrown out from the high wall.

These fluorescent glass tubes appeared high in the sky, attracting the attention of Konoha Ninja.

The moment they raised their heads, it was as if they were looking directly at the sun at noon. Their eyes turned white, their eyes began to sting and weep uncontrollably, and there was a painful moan from their mouths. They covered their eyes to prevent their eyes from being blinded by this flash weapon.

At this moment, a dark dot appeared in the distant sky, which was the swift figure of a ninja riding a flying ninja.

"Hmph, is it finally here?"

Captain Jonin snorted softly. The flying ninjas that appeared here were not the reconnaissance troops that went out to patrol in Oni Ninja, but the air combat troops that belonged to Konoha Ninja Village.

They bought a lot of flying ninja tools from the Kingdom of Ghosts. During these years of actual combat exercises, they obviously also have the ability to fight in the air.

Since it is a surprise attack, there is no reason why the air combat troops should not be dispatched.

However, Captain Jonin is not worried about this.

Not long after Konoha's air combat unit appeared, figures flew out of the fort one after another to meet Konoha's air combat unit.

Without air supremacy, it will be particularly difficult in today's war, especially when launching raids and cover operations.

The earth wall piled up by Konoha Ninja, even if it is more than ten meters thick, was unsurprisingly smashed under the cover of intensive artillery fire, and a huge hole was gouged out in the middle. The scene was as shocking as if it had been hit by a meteorite.

Snowflakes, blood, and tumbling soil mixed together, dyed an abnormal blood red.

The north wind raged, the earth shook, and the cannons continued to ring in the night before dawn.

"go to hell!"

Even though the progress of the siege of the earth wall made by Tudun can be said to be slow, the existence of ninjas cannot be deduced by common sense.

They only need to seize a momentary opportunity, and they may accomplish miraculous feats.

After experiencing a short but fierce resistance, finally Konoha's ninja rushed from the sky to the high wall surrounding the fortress.

A Jonin captain raised the gun in his hand and aimed the gun at the opponent.

The Konoha ninja also reacted in an instant, throwing out a kunai with a sharp lightning attached to it to resist the bullets fired from the muzzle of the opponent.

However-

From the dark and deep muzzle, what shoots out is not bullets, but a torrent of flames like lava.

With lightning speed, Kunai, who was carrying lightning, and the Konoha ninja behind him were swallowed into the torrent of flames. Without even a scream, a charred corpse fell from the sky, smelling of burnt meat.

Kunai fell powerlessly at Jonin Captain's feet, making a crackling sound.

After being incinerated by the torrent of high-temperature flames, the lightning attribute chakra on Kunai has dissipated, and there are still serious burn gaps, which can no longer be used.

Seeing this scene, the Konoha ninjas all showed shock.

Immediately, he felt awe-inspiring, thinking that he must never be hit head-on by that kind of weapon.

When the ninjas of the Demon Country on the high wall and the Konoha ninja troops who came by surprise launched a fierce offensive battle

Command posts, warehouses, dormitories and other areas in the fortress are also in action.

I saw the fighters and staff staying inside the fortress, completing the tasks assigned by their superiors in an orderly manner.

Even if this fortress was attacked fiercely by the enemy, they only felt a little nervous, but they did not fall into disorderly chaos.

They began to move all the intelligence documents and combat preparation materials that they could take away to the outside.

After moving these things out, a large number of large military off-road transport vehicles have been waiting outside for a long time.

Weapons, food, medicine, clothes, sundries, etc., were stuffed into the transport vehicle at an extremely exaggerated speed, leaving almost no supplies that could be used by the enemy.

The gunfire roared outside, and the flames burned half of the sky. Even if the high-temperature air flow was inside the fortress, one could clearly feel it, as well as the smell of blood floating in the air.

This undoubtedly further accelerated their work speed.

on the high wall, with the first Konoha ninja who breaks through the defense line, there will be a second, a third, and so on.

Therefore, after eliminating the first Konoha ninja who tried to climb the high wall, Captain Jnin did not look relaxed. He knew that this kind of defense could not resist the advance of Konoha ninja troops.

Judging from their stable and efficient operation of attacking the fortified battle, and deliberately choosing this cold winter night that no one could have imagined, it is obvious that they came prepared, and they were not attacking indiscriminately.

As time went by, the blocking force of the artillery fire became smaller and smaller. Although a lot of Konoha Ninja's Chakra was consumed, the lethality caused by the accumulation of layers of earth escapes was limited after all.

Konoha Ninja only jumps from the dirt wall and attacks the high wall, the casualties increase rapidly.

But even so, under the suppression of several times the force, the ninja squad of the ghost country guarding the high wall is limited in what it can do.

They can only use their strengths as much as possible, and then delay as much as possible, dragging Konoha Ninja to this place.

The torrent of flames was sprayed out again, and the Konoha ninja who was trying to attack from a high altitude was burned to death, and the rest of the team members also took action.

Because more Konoha ninjas jumped up, after paying a considerable price, Konoha's ninjas obviously passed the most difficult stage in this tough battle.

Ding!

"What!?"

Kunai with wind attribute chakra was unable to pierce the chakra armor on the captain of the ninja. More than that, the Konoha ninja who attacked him suddenly felt weak all over his body, and the chakra in his body began to decrease crazily, with horror and despair in his eyes.

boom!

Didn't fire the torrent of flames, the captain of the ninja directly took the **** of the gun, and hit the Konoha ninja **** the head, the skull was shattered, blood spurted out, and he fell powerlessly to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, he turned around again, and the dark muzzle of the gun immediately touched the forehead of the Konoha ninja who was about to attack him from behind, causing cold sweat of fear to drip from the opponent's forehead, and his eyes were indifferent.

Hum!

The flames spurted out, and the scorching air waves rolled and spread to all directions, engulfing Konoha Ninja's body and burning it into a charred corpse exuding a burnt smell.

Flying snowflakes, mixed with the explosion of lightning, flames, water polo, and stone pillar attack, the high wall was reduced to a fierce battlefield.

In the sky, the air combat ninjas on both sides kept manipulating ninja gear and firing explosive bombs while dodging the enemy's attacks, causing the sky to burn out of thin air and turn into a raging sea of flames, with black smoke billowing endlessly.

Boom!

The high walls shake.

What a strong attack.

I saw the position of the gate, and in the violent explosion, a huge pothole appeared.

Although the door could not be completely hollowed out, the explosion was only the beginning, and more attacks were to follow, and they were added one after another.

It won't take long. This huge stone door, which is thick enough to withstand the bombardment of ninjutsu, can hardly last for too long under such a fierce attack.

Boom!

With the sound of the final explosion, the huge stone gate was finally blasted open by Konoha Ninja.

Large white stones rolled around, emitting billows of white dust, and it was hard to tell whether it was dust or snow flying.

One after another flickering figures followed, rushing into the fortress.

Even though his face is disheveled and Chakra looks inadequate, he is full of energy and bright eyes, and obviously he can continue to fight.

"Stop them! Don't let them get away!"

Konoha Kamijino, who took the lead, saw the transport vehicles full of various supplies. The other party seemed not planning to stick to it, but was planning to retreat, and the work of collecting supplies had come to an end. He couldn't help but quickly waved his hand, and asked the surrounding Konoha ninjas to follow up and stop him.

As long as it is stopped, this batch of materials will be reduced to their supplies, reducing the material pressure on the raiding troops.

Facing the rushing Konoha Ninja, the staff in charge of transporting supplies ignored them. Instead, they continued to stuff in the supplies calmly. The accompanying fighters took the first step to stop the rushing Konoha Ninja.

The flash bomb was thrown out, and the scorching sun directly blocked Konoha Ninja's vision.

"Fire EscapeExtinguish the Great Fire!"

The leading Jonin captain, wearing the Chakra armor, put the firearm on the backpack behind him, opened the red three-god Jade Sharingan, made mudras with both hands, accumulated a large amount of Chakra in his mouth, and spit forward.

The flames spread across the border, the snowflakes along the way instantly turned into boiling hot water, and the hard stone slabs were also dyed a scorched black color, like a galloping horse sweeping towards the incoming Konoha ninja.

"Water EscapeWater Array Wall!"

In the panic, although the Konoha ninjas couldn't figure out the specific situation ahead because of the flash bombs, they could still vaguely distinguish the situation and cast water escape to extinguish the fire.

The water and fire collided, and the hot steam covered many Konoha ninjas, screaming continuously, and the Konoha ninjas who were swallowed by the hot steam suffered severe burns, and the skin exposed to the air was destroyed in a large area.

"Retreat!"

The leading Uchiha ninja did not waver at this, but calmly made a gesture, indicating that the convoy with supplies should evacuate here quickly.

Phew!

The signal flare flew up into the sky, and it kept popping.

As the group of retreating flares fired into the sky, more flash bombs were also sent into the sky.

Illuminate the entire fortress, while blocking the vision of the Konoha ninja, it also provides a favorable protective environment for the ninja from the kingdom of ghosts to withdraw from the battlefield.

boom!

He knocked down a Konoha ninja whose field of vision was suddenly blocked with a gun. The captain of the ninja on the high wall didn't care about fighting, and issued an order through the communicator next to his ear, calling for the team members to evacuate.

Because more Konoha ninjas charged up, if they fell into the encirclement of Konoha's large army, they would definitely end in defeat.

Many members of the team have already started to be injured. Even if several jounin captains were wearing chakra armor, they could only hold on secretly and could not fight back effectively under the attack of Konoha jounin's group.

Chakra armor is not enough for them to defeat forces several times their own.

Being able to hold back the ferocious attacks of two jnin of the same level with one against two is already at its best.

Boom!

The lighting lighthouse located at the highest point of the fort collapsed for some reason, and directly drew a temporary dividing line between the ninjas of the ghost country and the ninjas of Konoha.

There were a few Konoha ninjas who were too unlucky to retreat in time, and were directly crushed in the ruins, not knowing whether they were alive or dead.

Dense dust rolled with snowflakes.

The smell of gunpowder and smoke of battle covered this area.

The motor started to start, and the transport vehicle full of supplies ran wildly on the snow, and rushed out of the fort from the emergency exit with a sprint of 100 meters.

In addition to the necessary supplies, there are also non-ninja workers and medical personnel on the transport vehicle, while the fighting ninjas run on foot, galloping at the same speed, protecting the transport vehicle in the center of the team, and evacuating towards the west.

When Jiraiya came to this fortress that was attacked by Konoha, it was already dawn.

The gunpowder smoke and the hot air did not disappear from the battlefield, but continued, and the temperature was significantly higher than the surrounding snowfall area.

The interior of the fortress has been reduced to ruins. Although some places can still be used smoothly, such as water and electricity, such as housing, but after searching for most of the various supplies in the fortress, there are not many things that can be replenished. They were taken away by the ninjas of the ghost country.

Fortunately, the raiding force carried supplies with them and could persist for several days. In addition, Jiraiya, who arrived half a day later, and the hundreds of Konoha ninjas who followed him also brought a large amount of supplies, which added up to be enough for a long time.

After all, it was unrealistic from the very beginning to defeat the kingdom of ghosts with a blitzkrieg. Every shadow in the alliance understands this very well.

Even if four ninja villages enter the arena at the same time, it is not practical to end the war in a short time.

According to the best estimates, once this war starts, it is likely to last for two years or even longer.

But Jiraiya also has confidence that Konoha will win in the end.

Just like the past three Ninja World Wars, this time, they will also be illuminated by the glory of victory of the Hokages of all ages!

Along with Jiraiya, there are Nara Shikahisa, the jonin squad leader, Akimichi Choza of the Akimichi clan, and Yamanaka Kaiichi of the Yamanaka clan.

is the highest level of combat power here, and also the most powerful staff, except for him, the Sannin.

"I didn't expect that I would lose so much just by attacking a small front-line fortress..."

When Lu Jiu received the casualty reports from various units, his expression was extremely solemn.

The casualties were more serious than he had imagined.

Demon Country's ability to mobilize and counterattack when facing a surprise attack, and the ability to maneuver when evacuating, made Konoha unable to find any gaps, so he could only use his life to fill the holes and break through from the front.

In this raid, when Konoha had an absolute superiority in numbers, 207 ninjas were killed, 69 were seriously injured, and 260 were slightly injured.

One-third of the ninjas in the raiding force suffered casualties.

According to Konoha's statistics, the number of ninjas stationed in this fortress is less than 300, and with the rest of the support staff, there are no more than 600 at most.

But the fighting ninjas, especially those who wear chakra armor and serve as team leaders, their brave fighting power has caused headaches for the Konoha ninjas on the attacking side.

It often takes two upper ninjas to contain one person. Facing them, the middle ninja and the lower ninjas are a one-sided massacre.

The ninjas in the kingdom of ghosts, even on paper, their fighting power is shocking.

Now that it has gone through effective actual combat, it is even more shocking.

The will to fight and the ninjutsu mastered, they are not inferior to Konoha ninjas at all.

As for the ability to organize and mobilize in battle, as well as the weapons and equipment used in battle, even if he is unwilling, Lu Jiu has to admit that the opponent is better than Konoha.

Jilai also patted Lu Jiu on the shoulder as a sign of comfort.

"Don't worry, the ghost country is the fastest, and the counterattack will have to wait until tomorrow morning. And our support troops will arrive in the afternoon. In addition, Yan Yin has secretly sneaked into the bear country and blew up the railway connecting the ghost country and the bear country. The supply and support of the ghost country may be delayed. At that time, we can wipe out the ghost country ninja stationed in the bear country."

Shikahisa nodded, agreeing with Jiraiya's point of view.

So he began to direct the surrounding Konoha ninjas to use this fortress to build a command camp for Konoha.

Next, is the most difficult battle! Those three people, who will come over?

Lu Jiu looked at the gray and white sky in the distance, and said silently.

(end of this chapter)