Chapter 210 The Effect of Rolling Eyes
The ninjas of Konoha quickly deployed according to the arrangement. (っ◔◡◔)っ
The total ninja force of 500 people was divided into 50 teams with 10 people in each team. Each of the 50 teams was responsible for the defense of the 10-kilometer defense line.
Each team built a camp in their respective defense areas and took turns to defend.
Each team had at least one Hyuga clan ninja and a wind-style ninja.
This ensured the combat effectiveness of each team, and more importantly, they could support each other.
Such a 10-man team was enough to deal with the invading team of Kumogakure. Even if they were not strong enough, they could still launch flares so that the Hyuga clan members of other teams could see and come to support.
In this way, the defects and shortcomings of the previous patrol mission performed by the regular four-man ninja team were made up.
The only shortcoming was the shortage of high-level combat power.
In order to balance the strength of each team, all the senior ninjas were divided into different teams, and they would often switch their teams to use as high-level combat power.
Although the high-level combat power of the jonin was insufficient due to the influence of the Ninja World War and the Nine-Tails Rebellion, fortunately, there are a large number of experienced chunins as the backbone of the army, so the combat power is still strong, not to mention the existence of combat power far beyond ordinary people like Che.
After such deployment was completed, the defense situation in the northeast of the Land of Fire showed a trend of improvement in an instant.
The defense line that was originally leaking like a sieve became stable, and the attack of the Hidden Cloud Village in the Land of Lightning was obviously blocked.
Somewhere on the front line, Konoha's ninja team was patrolling.
This team is a ten-man team led by Hyuga Hizashi, patrolling in the forest on the border.
Hyuga Hizashi is an extremely calm and careful character. He led the team to be meticulously alert to any enemies that might appear on the border, and his eyes were meticulously scanning all the situations on the battlefield.
At this moment, Hyuga Hizashi suddenly raised his head, and the blue veins around his eyes looked a little hideous and terrifying.
"There are enemies two kilometers ahead."
Hinata Hizashi suddenly reminded. As the captain of the team and a member of the Hyuga clan, Hizashi's words are as good as gold.
Everyone in the team relies on Hizashi's strength and the ability of the Byakugan, so they naturally obey Hizashi's orders and follow Hizashi to quickly support the front.
It only takes a few minutes for a ninja to reach two kilometers, and this is still the case when traveling in the dense forest at the border of the Land of Fire.
On the Kumogakure side, eight Kumogakure ninjas are shuttling through the forest. To be precise, these eight Kumogakure ninjas are actually two four-person ninja teams.
Since Konoha changed the border ninja deployment method, the harassment strategy of Kumogakure has also been adjusted.
The original harassment strategy of Kumogakure Village was to send a four-person ninja team to harass, but this method is obviously not suitable for now, otherwise it would be a delivery of food to Konoha ninjas, so changes must be made.
At present, the practice of Kumogakure is to gather two or three teams to harass, so that they can ensure that they have the strength to fight against the Konoha ninjas without the scale being too large to cause the war to escalate.
The captain of the two Kumogakure teams is a Kumogakure jonin named Mokai. Such troops are aimed at the teams without jonins in Konoha, so even if there are two fewer people, they will not lack in combat power.
But unfortunately, it was Hyuga Hizashi's team that came.
Hyuga Hizashi's figure flashed, rushing forward like an arrow from a string, his eyes were firm and sharp, as if he wanted to pierce the enemy, and the ability of the white eyes allowed him to accurately lock on the enemy's strongest ninja Mokai. With a wave of his arm, a powerful chakra instantly condensed in his palm.
Then, Hyuga Hizashi shouted: "Eight Trigrams Empty Palm!" His palm suddenly pushed forward, and a huge shock wave came out in response, with a fierce momentum, and went straight to Mokai in the enemy camp.
This shock wave was like a surging wave, unstoppable. Wherever it passed, the air was torn apart, making a series of piercing whistling sounds. Mokai was shocked to see such a powerful attack coming, but he did not retreat, and immediately used his ninjutsu to try to resist. However, Hyuga Hizashi's strength obviously exceeded his expectations, and the Eight Trigrams Palm easily broke through his defense and hit him hard.
Mokai only felt a sharp pain, and his body flew backwards involuntarily. He fell heavily to the ground, and a trace of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth. Seeing this, the surrounding enemies were all shocked and retreated, not daring to easily challenge Hyuga Hizashi's majesty.
Mokai is a black-skinned person unique to the Land of Lightning. His dark face, which seemed to have been struck by lightning, showed an ugly expression, making his already dark face even darker. "Damn it, everyone retreat!"
Without any hesitation, Mokai chose to retreat, because this unit was originally here to take advantage of opportunities, and the worst plan was to encounter a Konoha ninja team without a jonin.
Now that they are facing the team led by Hizashi Hizashi, let alone whether they can beat them, if Hizashi Hizashi sends out flares to attract other teams, then the troops led by Mokai will be completely wiped out.
The wounded Mokai endured the pain and led his group of cloud ninjas to fight a fierce battle with the Konoha ninjas.
In the fierce battle, Mokai used all his skills and finally displayed his best ninjutsu - Thunder Fantasy Lightning Pillar! This dazzling lightning instantly illuminated the entire battlefield, making the ninjas of Konoha Village blurry and losing the ability to track the enemy.
Taking advantage of this brief and precious opportunity, Mokai decisively led the only two remaining loyal subordinates to successfully break out.
For the sake of the overall situation, Hyuga Hiashi did not lead the team to pursue, which allowed Mokai's team to escape.
The experience of Mokai's team can be said to be the common fate of most Kumogakure teams in recent times.
With the role of the Byakugan, Konoha has a great advantage.
Mokai and his two men fled back to Kumogakure Village in a panic and reported the battle situation in detail to the Fourth Raikage.
"Baiyan, why is it Byakugan again! Why does the extremely hateful Konoha have so many powerful ninja families? Before, it was the Uchiha clan's Sharingan, and now even the Hyuga clan's Byakugan has joined in the fun!"
The Fourth Raikage Ai was furious and slammed his palm on the table. Ai now only has one arm left, and this broken arm was broken by Uchiha Che in the last Ninja World War. The broken arm caused Ai to encounter many inconveniences in life, and even most of the daily affairs could only be handled by the secretary beside him.
Not only that, Ai's temperament became more and more irritable, especially after the frequent defeats in the war with Konoha, he would smash a table out of anger almost every few days.
At this time, Ai was panting like an angry bull. After a long time, he gradually calmed down under the persuasion of his secretary Ma Buyi.
Ma Buyi's skin showed a healthy wheat color, and she was an absolute black beauty. She combed her silver hair into a neat bun, with a beautiful face, willow-leaf eyebrows and beautiful eyes. She wore a dark green professional suit, and the whole person looked smart and charming.
Ma Buyi was definitely not a vase with nothing but appearance. On the contrary, she had extraordinary wisdom and keen insight. It is no exaggeration to say that in the Hidden Cloud Village, which was known for its recklessness, her mind was top-notch.
Because of this, she was able to take on the important position of the Raikage's secretary at such a young age.
Faced with the thorny problem in front of her, Mabui thought quickly and put forward her own views: "Since the opponent's Byakugan is so difficult to deal with, we might as well expand the scale of the attack and increase the frequency of the attack to overwhelm Konoha." Then, she added: "According to the current intelligence, Konoha's troops deployed in the border area this time are relatively limited."
After listening to Mabui's suggestion, Ai fell into a brief contemplation. After a moment, he nodded slightly to express his agreement, and decisively ordered: "Immediately convene all the senior ninjas to hold an emergency meeting to discuss specific combat plans together. We must give Konoha a heavy blow and let them taste the bitterness!"
In the end, the combat plan drawn up by the senior ninja meeting of the Hidden Cloud Village was freshly released. Facing Konoha, which has the Byakugan of the Hyuga clan and has the advantage of reconnaissance and information transmission, the Hidden Cloud Village will send multiple ninja teams with more than ten people to attack at the same time.
In this way, Konoha's ninja teams will be unable to take care of themselves, let alone support each other.
This was a last resort. After all, although Konoha had suffered the Nine-Tails Rebellion, it was still the strongest ninja village in the ninja world.
Although the Hidden Cloud Village was strong in the border conflict, it had not recovered from the last Ninja World War.
This also made Ai and other Kumo ninjas hate the Byakugan of the Hyuga clan and drool at the same time.
Not long after, the Hidden Cloud Village assembled ten teams of twenty people and launched an offensive against Konoha's defense line at the same time.
This wave of offensive was highly expected by the Hidden Cloud Village. Since winter had passed and spring had arrived, this offensive was named the Spring Offensive.
Mokai and another senior ninja led a team of twenty elites to launch a surprise attack, and met the team led by Hyuga Hiashi on a narrow road.
As early as before the enemy approached, Hyuga Hiashi had seen through their whereabouts with his unique Byakugan ability. With such an advantage, he not only quickly made full preparations to deal with the battle, but also decisively fired a flare in the hope of obtaining reinforcements and support.
Unfortunately, as of now, the reinforcements have not arrived at the scene. This situation indicates that the surrounding Konoha teams may have also been attacked by the enemy, or have gone to other teams to provide assistance.
"It's you again!" Mokai roared angrily, obviously mistaking Hyuga Hiashi for Hyuga Hiashi.
Faced with the other party's questioning, Hyuga Hiashi couldn't help but feel confused: "Have we met before?"
Mokai felt so ashamed and angry that he instantly formed seals with both hands and used the Thunder Release·Gratitude Wave! In an instant, more than a dozen dazzling lightning bolts shot out like a rain of arrows, drawing gorgeous arcs in the air, and bombarded Hyuga Hiashi directly.
Hyuga Hiashi remained calm in the face of danger and resolutely used the Hyuga family's unique skill, Bagua Palm·Return to Heaven.
His body spun rapidly like a spinning top, and his body continuously released powerful chakras. These chakras gathered into an extremely solid hemispherical chakra shield, which easily bounced back all the incoming lightning pillars.
Seeing this, another senior ninja from the Hidden Cloud Village also joined the battle. The two of them besieged Hyuga Hiashi together, and only then did they barely suppress Hyuga Hiashi.
Hyuga Hiashi was strong, and he could fight two senior ninjas alone, but that didn't mean that every Konoha ninja was like this.
The Hidden Cloud Village had an advantage in numbers after all, and Konoha soon fell into decline and suffered casualties.
Just when Hyuga Hiashi was anxious, he suddenly noticed several figures coming from a distance. One of them was familiar to him, and it was his fellow brother Hyuga Hiashi.
So Hyuga Hiashi fought and reminded him: "Our reinforcements have arrived, everyone must hold on!"
The Konoha side ignited their fighting spirit and held on under the siege of enemies twice their number.
Hyuga Hiashi's reinforcements came, with only five people, but it was enough to change the situation, after all, Konoha had another jonin.
Eight Trigrams Empty Palm!
With a roar, Hyuga Hiashi swung his palm with all his strength, and the powerful palm force surged towards Mokayi like a tidal wave.
Mokayi was caught off guard and was directly knocked away, falling heavily to the ground. This familiar feeling directly stunned Mokayi.
Taking this opportunity, Hyuga Hiashi quickly rushed into the center of the battlefield and fought side by side with his brother Hiashi. His arrival reduced the pressure on Hiashi, who was originally at a disadvantage. The two cooperated with each other and beat the opponent without any chance to fight back.
At the same time, other ninjas who came to support also found their targets and joined the battle. Their joining made Konoha gradually reverse the situation and regain the initiative.
The tacit understanding between the two brothers, Hyuga Hiashi and Hizashi, was perfect. They not only used the same moves, but also supported each other at critical moments.
When another Kumogakure jonin launched a ninjutsu attack on Hiashi, Hyuga Hizashi gave up the fight with Mokai without hesitation, moved to Hiashi's side in an instant, and launched a counterattack with him.
"Hah!" Only two roars sounded at the same time, and the eight trigrams of Hiashi and Hizashi gathered into a huge energy wave in the air. This extremely powerful shock wave hit the opponent's ninjutsu with a devastating force, and instantly shattered it. The Cloud Hidden Ninja flew backwards like a kite with a broken string, and hit several large trees in the distance, making a dull noise.
It was not until this moment that Mokai woke up from his dream and realized that the Hyuga Hiashi and Hyuga Hiashi in front of him were actually a pair of brothers. Moreover, this pair of brothers was obviously very powerful and could not be easily provoked.
Mokai wanted to use the same trick again and use the Lightning Pillar to escape, but Hyuga Hiashi had already prepared and blocked Mokai's retreat in advance, and closed his eyes tightly.
Thunder Illusion Lightning Pillar is a rare ninjutsu in the ninja world. It uses illusions to amplify the light emitted by the lightning escape, which plays a role in blinding the enemy's vision.
However, Hyuga Hiashi closed his eyes and was not affected by the illusion, so the effect of the Lightning Pillar was greatly reduced, and the Lightning Chakra in his hand became a target from the perspective of the Byakugan.
Eight Trigrams Empty Palm!
Another palm was hit, and Mokai flew backwards.
Hyuga Hiashi stepped forward with his palms raised, and performed a set of smooth and flowing Eight Diagrams Sixty-four Palms. Chakra was injected into Mokayi's body to block the acupuncture points, and the fragile internal organs were also hit terribly. In the end, Mokayi was beaten to death by vomiting blood.
The rest of the Cloud Ninjas saw that the situation was hopeless and fled the battlefield one after another.
Hyuga Hiashi stared at his younger brother Hizashi in front of him, with sincere gratitude in his eyes. He whispered: "Thank you, Hizashi. If you hadn't helped in time, I'm afraid the consequences would be disastrous."
After hearing his brother's thanks, Hizashi nodded slightly in response, but his expression seemed a little stiff and unnatural. He whispered: "This is what I should do as a branch family, no need to thank me." Although the tone was calm, it seemed to contain a hint of helplessness and bitterness.
On the battlefield, they cooperated tacitly, as if they were connected in spirit, but back in real life, the invisible gap still lay between the brothers-the difference in status between the main family and the branch family made it difficult for them to get close.
This situation is not an isolated case, but a deep-rooted disease of the entire Hyuga family. Even brothers who are connected by blood cannot escape the shackles of this fate.