Chapter 170 Combat Force Arrangement
"It is only natural for to be casualties in battle, even for Kage. How can we gamble the entire Hidden Cloud Village just to avenge the previous generation?"
"Mochizuki Souji killed the former Raikage in full view of everyone.
Whether Mochizuki Souji was incredibly strong or used strange techniques, the fact remains that he was able to kill both the Mizukage and the former Raikage.
Before we investigate the matter thoroughly and formulate a countermeasure, avoiding a direct conflict with Konoha is the best course of action."
Not only did Raikage ignore these words, he also showed great disdain and cursed:
"Pah! Coward!"
"What did you say!"
This high-ranking member of the Cloud Village instantly flew into a rage, slammed his fist on the table, and stood up to confront the Raikage.
Seeing this, the others quickly tried to stop the two from fighting, but the root of the conflict was something they couldn't do.
The Raikage wanted to take this opportunity to mobilize all the forces of Kumogakure to attack Konoha and avenge his father.
However, more than half of the high-ranking members of the Cloud Village disagreed.
Strictly speaking, most people would accept attacking Konoha, but not the idea of betting everything on it.
If something goes wrong, wouldn't Hidden in the Clouds suffer a major blow?
But how could they possibly defeat such a powerful Konoha without launching an all-out attack?
Naturally, the Raikage was very dissatisfied with this and had been clashing with a group of high-ranking members of the Cloud Village for days.
"Fine, whether you support me or not is up to you. I'll take my men and get to work!"
Raikage said coldly, then walked out of the conference room.
There aren't many people who are completely on the Raikage's side; they can probably take away about 30% of the Cloud Village's strength.
This ratio is reasonable, because it's not that people don't want to avenge their predecessors, they just don't want to go all in.
So no one said anything more at this point.
"You ignorant brat, now is clearly not the time to talk about revenge..."
"Alright, let's not talk about this anymore. This isn't something we can discuss openly..."
A high-ranking member of the Cloud Hidden Sect made a pointed remark, but was immediately stopped by others.
However, everyone understood the underlying meaning without saying it, which caused them some distress.
We should actually let Mochizuki Souji deal with the daimyo of the Land of Lightning so that Kumogakure can take over everything.
But right now, this Fourth Raikage is only thinking about avenging his father, so these words are useless...
They couldn't stop them, and they couldn't reason with them. The high-ranking members of the Cloud Hidden Clan were having a real headache.
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Leaf.
Conference room in the Hokage Building.
Upon receiving intelligence about the movements of the four major ninja villages, the group quickly began discussing how to deploy their forces to respond.
Because it is now under Souji's control, even though Hiruzen Sarutobi is still the Hokage, this matter is still being arranged by Souji.
Ultimately, Kirigakure felt they had no chance of winning and explicitly refused the Daimyo's order. They even reported the matter to Konoha and offered to help Konoha.
Although it sounded good, since even Konoha's own ninjas weren't being used, there was naturally no need for Kirigakure's help.
Therefore, Souji immediately replied and refused, telling Kirigakure to simply wait for the outcome.
In this way, they would only need to face the three major ninja villages of Sand, Rock, and Cloud.
Including myself, there are a total of seven Kage-level fighters.
Although some are strong and some are weak, their combat strength is still quite abundant.
After careful consideration, the Souji made arrangements.
"Sunagakure has two thousand troops, and only the chief advisor Chiyo was sent out as a Kage-level figure.
The Kazekage Rasa is stationed in the village, and his attitude seems to be... perfunctory in his dealings with the Daimyo's orders."
Souji looked at Sasori and Kakuzu.
Now that he's about to become Hokage, the subordinates he recruited in secret can naturally enter Konoha openly.
"Sasori, Kakuzu, you two are going to deal with Sunagakure, is that alright?"
"Alright."
Kakuzu nodded indifferently, but Sasori was clearly somewhat displeased.
"You really want me to go?"
"Wouldn't it be nice to go see Grandma?"
"Hmph, you're not trying to meddle, are you..."
"I can't say I've never considered it, but the main reason is that you're most familiar with Sunagakure, so sending you there is the safest option, and also..."
Souji smiled at Sasori:
"Don't you yourself want to challenge your grandmother?"
"..."
Sasori remained silent for a long while before softly saying:
"Okay, I got it, I'll go then..."
"Don't worry, it's not about making you, grandfather and grandson, fight each other.
Sunagakure is only sending this much force, so they obviously don't intend to seriously attack Konoha.
They'll just have a quick battle and then retreat soon."
"Just think of it as visiting your grandmother and having a friendly sparring session."
"We're going with Kakuzu just in case."
Chiyo and Sasori, sooner or later they need to let this grandmother and grandson meet, and now is the right time.
The secret of the Third Kazekage can now also be revealed.
In the past, if the fact that Sasori killed the Third Kazekage were made public, it would have caused a lot of trouble.
But now that he exists, having killed the Mizukage and Raikage, there are next to the Daimyo of various countries.
The entire ninja world is focused on him now, so compared to that, the matter of the Third Kazekage is nothing.
Even if you try to hide it, this feeling is a secret that will be discovered sooner or later. It's better to find a suitable time to reveal it yourself sooner rather than later.
To put it bluntly, at this point, maybe nobody even cares about the wind or the shadow anymore...
"Next up is Iwagakure, because they have mobilized the Tsuchikage and his son, as well as their two Jinchūriki, so they cannot be underestimated."
"Third Hokage, Jiraiya, and Shinnosuke, I hope the three of you will deal with Iwagakure."
"Just us?" Shinnosuke frowned slightly.
"Iwagakure has four Kage-level fighters and tens of thousands of troops!"
"Actually, in my opinion, Iwagakure is just putting on a show.
Their fighting spirit is not as strong as it seems. There may not be much of a battle.
The three of you should be strong enough."
Souji replied:
"However, if things are different from what I think, then you just need to stall Iwagakure for a bit.
At this point, there's no need to risk a fight to the death."
"Minato and I will handle things in Kumogakure.
If needed, I can go there to provide support immediately after I've dealt with Kumogakure."
"Even the Five Kage are easy for me to deal with."
"If the Tsuchikage is truly that foolish, then I have no choice but to make him the third Kage to die by my hand..."
The Souji spoke calmly, but everyone else couldn't help but feel a pang of sympathy.
The Five Kage can be easily dealt with...
Although he has the record of killing the Mizukage and Raikage, this is not just empty boasting...
But that's still a bit too casual of me...
However, having such a powerful figure on our side is quite reassuring.
Only someone with such immense power has the confidence to carry out a grand undertaking that will change the entire ninja world!
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