Chapter 237 Dense Landmines

"The time has come! Action begins!"

In the woods at the edge of the Death Forest, Shikaku looked at the time on his wrist and finally gave the order.

As Shikaku gave the order, the hidden ninjas used hand gestures to pass on orders to each other, came out of their hiding places, and carefully moved deeper into the Death Forest.

"Hong, a fight is about to break out. Remember to find cover and lie on the ground as soon as possible!"

In the middle of the marching ninjas, Asuma warned Yuhi Kurenai with a serious face.

Before being sent here, the village had already taught everyone how to deal with long-range attacks from the enemy.

As the son of the Hokage and with the special care of the Third Hokage, Asuma is even more aware of the power of the enemy's weapons.

"Okay!" Xi Ri Hong nodded solemnly.

"Crack!"

However, at this moment, a crisp crackling sound suddenly came from under Yuhi Kurenai's feet.

"Bang!" The next second, a cloud of white smoke suddenly exploded on the left side of Xihi Hong, and a flare shot up into the sky rapidly from the ground, and then exploded in the sky, leaving behind a bright white light.

"This~!"

Everyone was stunned when they heard the sudden explosion and saw the flares rising into the sky.

"Charge with your clones, and the rest of you retreat!"

The next second, Shikaku was the first to react and immediately shouted and gave orders.

"withdraw!"

Upon hearing Shikaku's order, all the ninjas immediately retreated to the edge of the forest as quickly as possible. At the same time, the ninjas' water clones, earth clones, and shadow clones also began to charge forward with all their strength.

“Bang, bang, bang~~!”

As the shadow clones continued to charge forward, more and more traps were stepped on. Suddenly, groups of flares rose in the sky.

At the same time, landmines were constantly stepped on by the charging clones, and shadow clones were constantly blown into water droplets, mud and white smoke by the landmines. A large amount of smoke began to emerge from the forest.

“Swish, swish, swish~~~!”

The next second, the sky was filled with whistling sounds, and mortar shells and 105mm shells continued to fall into the forest, breaking trees and blowing the soil up to a height of more than ten meters. The ninjas' charging clones suddenly broke and disintegrated at a faster speed.

"Damn it! The enemy's defenses are better!"

The retreating Shikaku looked back at the explosion behind him and gritted his teeth.

Last time they successfully reached the enemy's defense line, but this time they were exposed after only 300 meters into the forest.

It is now very difficult to easily reach the enemy's defense line.

Fortunately, the enemy only chased the charging clones and launched long-range attacks, and did not chase them as they retreated, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous.

"How could it be so powerful!"

At the same time, the other retreating ninjas looked back at the area behind them that was covered by the explosion, and their faces turned pale.

They did not have accurate intelligence about the enemy, but looking at the scene behind them, they knew that if they were to pass through such a dense attack area of ​​the enemy, more than half of their men would be killed or wounded, or even more.
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"It looks like the war has already started!"

In the trench position outside the forest, the Third Generation personally led 15,000 ninjas to guard the periphery. Listening to the constant explosions in the forest and watching the white smoke rising from the forest, he frowned and felt heavy in his heart.

Judging from the distance from which the white smoke rose, the five thousand ninjas led by Shikaku had only penetrated three hundred meters into the Death Forest.

"Hokage-sama, the vanguard is withdrawing!"

Just then, a ninja suddenly spoke.

Upon hearing the noise, the Sandaime hurried to the forest entrance, only to see Shikaku and a large number of ninjas retreating from the forest like headless ants. "The exploratory attack failed!"

The heart of the third generation suddenly became heavier. He didn't know how many casualties there were!
Soon, Shikaku led the ninjas to retreat to the trench position.

Shikaku immediately found the Third Hokage and reported with a heavy face: "Third Hokage, the enemy has set up a lot of traps in the forest. We only advanced 300 meters before the traps were triggered. We were attacked by the enemy on a large scale. Fortunately, we retreated in time and there were no casualties!"

Hearing this, the Third Generation heaved a sigh of relief. It was good that there were no major casualties. What Konoha lacked most now was ninjas. As long as there were enough ninjas, there was still a chance.

It’s just that the enemy’s defenses are more complete, which also means that there will be greater casualties.

"what is that?"

Just then, an Anbu suddenly pointed towards the sky above the forest and shouted.

The ninjas who heard the shouting looked up towards the sky above the Death Forest, and saw five strange objects hovering above the Death Forest, and also scattered a large amount of things that could not be seen clearly into the area where the explosion had just occurred.

Although I don't know what that thing hovering in the sky is, and I don't know what that thing that was scattered into the forest is, it is definitely not beneficial to Konoha.

"Shikaku, take a break, re-prepare your clones, and attack again in an hour!"

The Sandai gave an order to Shikaku.

The 5,000 ninjas led by Shikaku are almost all the ninjas in Konoha who are good at physical clones. They are also the vanguards who withstand casualties and open up the situation. Of course, there are also some special ninjas, such as Yuhi Kurenai and Asuma, who have special roles.

"Hi!" Shikamaru immediately took the order and went to make arrangements.

"Hiashi, send fifty Hyuga ninjas to follow the operation and help Shikaku and the others avoid the traps!"

The third generation turned to look at the patriarchs of the surrounding families and gave orders to Hinata Hiashi.

Now the enemy is more than twice the size of Konoha, and the Third Generation must carefully count every powerful ninja or ninja with special abilities. In the previous operation, because the Hyuga family did not have physical clones, the Third Generation did not send many in.

But now, in order to avoid falling into traps and being attacked by enemies from a distance, more Hyuga ninjas must be involved.

"Hi!"

Hinata Hiashi agreed immediately.
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Forty minutes later, Shikaku once again led five thousand ninjas in a scattered formation into the outskirts of the forest and then reunited.

"Elder Rixi, please mark the location of the trap first!"

Shikaku said sternly to the leading Hyuga elder.

"Don't worry!" Hyuga elder Hyuga Hiashi said solemnly. Then he led the Hyuga ninjas to open their Byakugan and go deep into the forest.

Each of these Hyuga ninjas is followed by two ninjas who are good at earth escape and are responsible for protecting their safety.

Shikaku and others quickly created a large number of physical clones, and then swallowed the soldiers' pills to restore their chakra.

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Fifteen minutes later, Hinata Rixi came back with his men.

"Elder Hyuga, what's the problem?"

Seeing Hinata Rixi coming back, Shikaku felt heavy in his heart and asked quickly.

Judging from the density of traps they had touched before, it was impossible for the Hyuga clan to eliminate most of them within fifteen minutes, let alone all of them.

"There are too many traps to dismantle!"

Hinata Hiashi looked serious. He took out a damaged butterfly mine from his arms and told what he had observed: "The enemy has deployed a large number of these things in the forest. They are almost everywhere. They will explode with just a slight touch. Although the power is not great, it is enough to injure our ninjas!"

Then Hinata Hiashi asked the tribesmen behind him to take out a damaged Broadsword mine, as well as individual mines, and said with a heavy face: "There are also many traps of this type. There are too many of them. Let alone one or two hours, even a few days cannot clear them all. We can only use ninjutsu to clear them."

After that, Hinata Rixi asked the ninja to bring the sealing scroll. After opening the scroll, he found intact versions of several types of mines inside.

(End of this chapter)