The fire defense line shrinks.

Since the beginning of the year, the Fire Country Damingfu ninja troops and defense forces, temporarily led by the roots, have been shrinking in strength.

This method of hiding in the dark and waiting for opportunities made Nagato feel troubled.

However, Nagato felt relieved when he thought about the leader behind the Damingfu Ninja Force.

Throughout Danzo's life, he has been a ninja in the dark since the Third Hokage came to power.

Darkness is the area that Root is most familiar with and the area that it is best at.

Although Bai Jue was sent to investigate, only the most peripheral information was detected.

The entire camp is surrounded by a special sensory barrier and is very tightly defended. It is also monitored day and night by White-Eyed Ninjas. Under such double insurance, Bai Jue is unable to sneak into the root base and investigate any useful information.

But shrinking the front line does not mean that the Fire Nation is afraid of Amegakure. Nagato is self-aware. With the exception of him, there is nothing worthy of the Fire Nation's attention.

"This method of shrinking the front line seems to be secretly storing up something... Do you want to take down Yugakure in one go?"

In the tent at the camp, Nagato frowned and thought.

The stove next to it quietly radiated light and heat, making the cold tent a little brighter and warmer.

A normal war should deal a huge blow to the enemy with minimal sacrifice.

During the Third Ninja War, Konoha demonstrated the strategic miracle of individual tactics.

It also proved the feasibility of such tactics.

The Fourth Hokage, Yellow Flash, single-handedly reversed the unfavorable situation for Konoha in the three battles. He ended the battle with Iwagakure at the speed of light. Then he quickly moved to the country of Yu to fight against Kumogakure's ninja troops, allowing Kumogakure to also fight against Yellow Flash.

His name is feared like a god.

The reason why this happened is because in these two battles, Yellow Flash won with speed and at the minimum cost, he won for Konoha and became the key figure in Konoha's victory in the Third Ninja War.

Cut off the supply lines and harass individual soldiers, thereby containing the main force on the front and making it afraid to act rashly.

This is not a tactic unique to Yellow Flash,

During the Second Ninja War, Konoha's White Fang team composed of four people, including Sakumo Hatake, Ruri Uchiha, Ayane Hyuga, and Shiraishi Chiba, had already mastered the sabotage work behind enemy lines by a small elite force.

Great tactical and strategic experience.

Their harassment work behind enemy lines even affected the balance of power between the Ninja Village and the Ninja Village, causing Sunagakure to shrink back and not dare to fight Konoha head-on.

However, due to the powerful reconnaissance function of the White Eyes, every encirclement and suppression campaign was reversely annihilated by the White Fang team.

Thanks to this, the yellow flash of the White Fang Team was even faster and became the master of this type of tactics.

As a result, Konoha's ninja sacrifice rate dropped significantly in the middle of the Third Ninja War, laying a solid foundation for the subsequent battle with Kumogakure.

According to this type of tactics, cutting off supply lines and harassing behind enemy lines with small groups of elite troops are what Konoha is best at.

It stands to reason that Konoha, which has accumulated so much experience, even if it cannot reproduce the glorious achievements of the White Fang Team and Yellow Flash, can still rely on its previous experience to effectively attack Amegakure's power.

However, since the Kingdom of Ghosts officially intervened in the Kingdom of Rain, the Kingdom of Fire has been deliberately shrinking its defense line.

Although there are still basic ninja activities, they are for the purpose of collecting intelligence, not to cut off the supplies behind Amegakure, and to harass behind enemy lines... The main mission of Aburame Ryoma, who sneaked into Amegakure's rear, is still to collect intelligence.

This resulted in a series of deployments made by Nagato years ago, all of which were misguided and wasted effort.

"Is it because of Chiba Shiraishi?"

Nagato thought.

Indeed, Yellow Flash is dead, as is Konoha White Fang Hatake Sakumoge, but the other three members of the White Fang team are not dead.

Compared with Konoha's theoretical experience statistics, Chiba Shiraishi, as a person who has experienced it personally in the past, is obviously better than Konoha in these fields. He also knows how to use such tactics and set traps.

Perhaps it was because of this that the Fire Nation did not dare to repeat such tactics in the Rain Nation. Firstly, the quality of ninjas in Damingfu was not as good as that of Konoha. Secondly, because of Chiba Shiraishi, they were afraid of being counterattacked.

The intervention of the Kingdom of Ghosts changed the overall strategy of the Kingdom of Fire. Nagato, who noticed this, was somewhat depressed.

So, Nagato is a little unsure of what countermeasures Danzo will take next.

Compared with this veteran in the ninja world, his combat experience is still too immature.

Maybe the overall situation is not inferior to the opponent, but when it comes to the details of the arrangement, in the eyes of experienced people, it is a frustrating move full of loopholes.

"Nagato."

Xiaonan walked in from outside, wearing not the Akatsuki organization's red cloud uniform, but a black hooded raincoat.

She took off the hat on her head, and her clothes were stained with rainwater.

"What's wrong? Is there any new news from Bai Jue?"

Nagato turned his head and asked.

"No. The envoy from the Kingdom of Ghosts has arrived. Do you want to see him?"

Nagato thought for a moment and then agreed.

"It doesn't hurt to meet him. Let the envoy come in."

Xiaonan nodded, turned around and walked out.

When I returned again, I was followed by a young woman about twenty years old, wearing a raincoat and bamboo hat like an ascetic monk, but from the collar and the bottom of the skirt that was not completely covered by the raincoat, it could be seen that

This is the wandering witch from the land of ghosts.

In the name of practicing medicine, they are military espionage agents from the Kingdom of Demons all over the ninja world.

However, it's not the same one as last time. Has the person in charge been replaced? Seeing that this wandering miko was not the same person as the wandering miko who was responsible for negotiating with him last time, Nagato secretly guessed.

"Sir Payne."

The Wandering Miko gave a slight salute to express her respect for Nagato, the leader of the Raingakure.

"Come here at this time. Does your country of ghosts have any new plans?"

"Yes, there is a problem in the Country of Waves. Lord Shiraishi is worried that it will affect the Country of Rain, so he specially asked me to come over and have new cooperation with Lord Pain."

The wandering witch brought such news.

Nagato's eyes flickered.

"The Country of Waves."

This was something he didn't pay much attention to.

Although he knew that there was also a stage for small countries to compete between the Kingdom of Ghosts and the Kingdom of Fire, it was not his own country after all. In order to deal with the Kingdom of Fire, he did not have the energy to pay attention to the situation there for the time being, and only paid attention to it occasionally.

Looking at it now, the root cause of the recent abnormality is probably because the countermeasures against the Country of Waves have changed, which has caused the situation here to also change.

"I roughly understand the matter...but what is the new cooperation you are talking about?"

Nagato asked.

"I hope Lord Nagato can select twenty Amegakure ninjas as soon as possible, and we will give Lord Pain a satisfactory answer by then."

"Twenty Amegakure ninjas?"

Nagato narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Yes, our country of ghosts has recently developed a batch of new bombs, which are far more powerful than the detonating charms used by ninjas. They can be mounted on flying ninjas. However, due to some operational problems, it requires two or three days of training.

.”

The wandering witch tells the truth.

After hearing this, Nagato looked expressionless and stared at the wandering miko for a moment, then nodded and said, "Okay. Konan, you take her to select twenty Amegakure ninjas. Priority will be given to Amegakure ninjas who have operated flying ninja tools.

"

Naturally, Amegakure Village also purchased some of the flying ninja tools developed by the Demon Country. However, since the number purchased was not large, only five, they were usually used to detect the enemy's situation rather than attack.

Because the assault capability is too weak, and the Fire Nation has also purchased flying ninja tools, Amegakure does not have an advantage in terms of quantity.

"plz follow me."

Xiaonan nodded, said something to the wandering witch, and turned to leave.

The wandering miko bowed slightly to Nagato and left with Konan.

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The Land of Fire, Daming Mansion.

The daimyo of the Fire Country who received the letter from the Daimyo of the Country of Waves showed a satisfied smile after reading the entire letter.

Recently, there have been frequent reports of unfriendly news to the Fire Nation, which made him, a famous figure in the Fire Nation, feel a little flustered. However, the situation is finally a bit more stable now.

The workers' cooperatives of the Country of Waves were sealed off in the official name of the Daming Prefecture of the Country of Waves. Although it intensified some dissatisfaction at the bottom, this method was simply necessary to appease the civilians at the bottom.

Next, as long as the granary is opened a little and some food is distributed for free, it will be enough to appease the resentment and dissatisfaction of these civilians.

Without anyone's deliberate guidance, the Daimyo of the Country of Fire knew that these civilians had no future. Although these civilians united, it would not be a trouble, but if there was a secret temptation from the Country of Ghosts behind this, then

, the situation is completely different.

The only thing he was worried about was that the Kingdom of Ghosts would penetrate too hard into the people of the Kingdom of Waves and dominate the public opinion of the entire Kingdom of Waves, causing the Kingdom of Waves to fall into civil strife like the Kingdom of Rain.

The Kingdom of Rain needs war and the Kingdom of Waves needs stability. This is the policy tone decided from the beginning.
To be continued...