The major Ninja Villages in this main world are no exception.
In fact, because they lacked the experience of two Ninja World Wars from another world, the minor mistakes they made during the Ninja World War were countless. For instance, at the very beginning, they openly purchased food and weapons from merchants in other countries, and the normal transportation of all supply lines was essentially legitimate and exposed to the outside world.
The consequence of all this was that Second Hokage Tobirama Senju constantly seized upon these weaknesses, launching ruthless attacks on the merchants who supplied the purchased food and weapons.
It was practically a policy of 'kill all, spare none.' As long as a merchant caravan had accepted orders from an enemy country,
they would all fall under Senju Tobirama's attacks.
These merchants were either forcibly deprived of their food or brutally assassinated; the purchasing personnel were either incinerated during transport or subjected to multiple surprise attacks, preventing them from returning the supplies to their Village.
Weapons were slightly better, only being plundered or destroyed, but food was extremely vulnerable to being burned after a surprise attack, which amounted to a huge waste of funds.
It's important to know that even a Ninja Village, as the military representative of a country, needed to pay a large sum of money upfront to purchase food from the powerful and wealthy merchants. At least half of the deposit had to be paid.
Therefore, although the burned food made the merchants feel the transaction was void, they at least received a large deposit, and during the transportation process, since the Ninja themselves escorted it, the losses were borne by the Ninja Village.
Compared to merchants who were directly assassinated, this was actually the best outcome.
However, as such incidents occurred repeatedly, resource transactions related to war throughout the Ninja World had ceased, and there was virtually no overt trade along merchant routes.
Everything shifted to covert transactions.
They even made the Ninja Village purchasing the supplies pay the full amount upfront and handle their own transportation and transfer to avoid any risks themselves.
This greatly intensified the conflict of this war.
Among them, the Land of Lightning and the Land of Earth suffered greatly.
With the continuous purchasing channels being disrupted, and internal supplies being repeatedly raided and destroyed by Second Hokage Tobirama Senju, who disguised himself and led other Ninja Villages in constant surprise attacks,
even the funds, food, and other logistical supplies they had originally gathered suffered significant losses.
This caused great heartache for the two Villages.
Regarding this,
the Hidden Mist Village of the Land of Water and the Sand Ninja Village of the Land of Wind, which possessed natural barriers like the sea and desert, were fortunate enough to avoid most attacks, suffering almost no major losses.
After all, having already prepared for war, they were ready for battle. Facing individuals who wished to sneak into their territory by crossing vast deserts and seas to launch surprise attacks,
they would never expose such weaknesses.
Conversely, even with excellent defenses, the Rock Ninja Village and Hidden Cloud Village, which lacked natural barriers, were still no match for Senju Tobirama's formidable strength when he personally led the team!
However, at this very moment, the Hidden Cloud Village of the Land of Lightning and the Rock Ninja Village of the Land of Earth also began to counterattack!
"The First Kages of these two Ninja Villages are exceptionally volatile. Due to Senju Tobirama's sudden attacks, they could no longer tolerate it. The day before yesterday, they unhesitatingly launched a direct war. All small countries along their path were within the scope of attack, and the Takigakure, which was framed by Senju Tobirama, was also forced to retaliate."
Uchiha Lingyue spoke, introducing Uchiha Tenxiu to the changes that had occurred during this period.
"The flames of this war have spread to the Land of Hot Water, the Land of Grass, the Takigakure, and the Land of Sound, forming a situation where four fronts are attacking simultaneously! Currently, both sides are in a brutal fight, intense battles have erupted, there's no room for probing, and a large number of personnel have suffered heavy losses!"
"Facing such a situation, Senju Tobirama had already reacted. He decisively dispatched the Northeast Army and Northwest Army to respectively meet the frontal attacks of the Hidden Cloud Village and Rock Ninja Village."
"At the same time, the two armies in the southeast and southwest have also crossed the border, quietly deploying a large number of personnel into those small countries serving as buffer zones, meticulously setting up ambushes, awaiting the arrival of the Sand Ninja and Kirigakure Villages."
"However, what's surprising is that the Sand Ninja Village and Kirigakure Village haven't joined this melee in advance like the other Ninja Villages. It seems they are still observing the development of the situation, wanting to see how things unfold." Uchiha Chiri paused here, her eyes filled with surprise, and she couldn't help but sigh inwardly. Facing Konoha's immense strength, the Sand Ninja and Kirigakure still dared to harbor illusions. Did they truly believe they could win this fierce war?
However,
regardless of who wins or loses this war,
it has little to do with their own family.
They are merely spectators in Konoha!
"I see!" Uchiha Tenxiu nodded, truly not expecting the war to erupt so quickly under Senju Tobirama's coercion, with both countries launching full-scale attacks on the battlefield.
However, according to the information from the Shadow Ninja,
during this period, the First Raikage, who had fallen ill due to developing Lightning Release secret techniques, was still alive and possessed nearly full combat power.
As the First Raikage, his strength should absolutely not be underestimated; the Lightning Release Armor was a unique skill he developed.
As its creator, his strength was definitely at the Super Kage Level. Although somewhat specialized, he was still within the Super Kage Level range.
And in the Rock Ninja Village, the First Tsuchikage Ishikawa.
He himself was the first Ninja in the Ninja World to openly activate a Bloodline Limit. His Dust Release's destructive power was arguably the pinnacle of Ninjutsu today, and coupled with the Ninja World's unique flying Ninjutsu, he practically avoided most weaknesses.
Such a powerful individual was not someone ordinary Kage Level Ninja could contend with; he also belonged to the near Super Kage Level range.
"Of course, if you consider overall stats, they are basically defined as Kage Level peak. If they can't casually use area-of-effect techniques, they aren't even the most basic Super Kage Level!"
"It seems the front lines will be in a bitter struggle for a short time!" Uchiha Tenxiu slowly said, "At least, without more power from the various clans, ending this war is impossible!"
"Yes, although our Konoha has deep reserves and has specially formed four Ninja armies, the strength of those two Villages is not weak. They have gathered a large number of surviving Sengoku clans, possessing various secret techniques, and even Senju Tobirama, the Hokage, is being run ragged!"
"This has led him to intensify his efforts in disrupting logistics, believing that the missing food and supplies in the Ninja World are hidden in these two countries. For more logistical resource confiscation, Senju Tobirama has been personally leading operations. Although the confiscations are not many, this behavior has directly brought all normal activities and trade in the two countries to a complete halt."
"Given that the Daimyo's resource reserves are not abundant, if the war continues to drag on, even Konoha won't be able to bear it, and he will have to find a way himself."
"It seems he's been pushed to his limit!" Uchiha Yukino said, covering her mouth with her delicate hand and chuckling.
Compared to outsiders, who were all guessing which country had hoarded so much food, causing the Ninja World's resources to almost disappear, thinking it was the enemy countries doing it for the war,
the ones who truly did such a thing were actually their Great Zhou personnel who had been lurking.
With Great Zhou's covert efforts,
the production value in the Ninja World has been continuously harvested, and the remaining total production is no longer sufficient to support their overt self-consumption.
If the upper echelons of the Ninja World tightened their belts, stopped exploiting the common people, and dispersed some of their resources, they could still maintain it.
But it's obvious to think that
that would be absolutely impossible!
