Create a swarm technology tree in Konoha

After the meal, Aburame Tetsumaru began to sort out the two hundred or so carts of goods, released the adult insects to blow the air, buried the pupae in the ground, covered them with floating soil to keep them warm, and spread the soybean-sized eggs on the ground or trees. , spray hormones to promote hatching.

This was a lot of work. Fortunately, Tiewan didn't need to do it himself. He directed tens of thousands of work bugs to work, summoning all nearby bugs to help.

After working all night, when the sun rises, the last batch of eggs are placed in place, and the earliest batch of eggs have begun to break out of their shells under the stimulation of the sun.

So Aburame Tetsumaru became even busier. He had to direct the worker insects and ants to carry the larvae to the leafy trees or bushes, and he had to constantly supplement the insect colonies with various hormones and trace elements.

The egg shells should also be collected and ground, and they will be a very important nutrient during the first molt.

Aburame Eiji didn't waste much time. He simply said hello to the busy Tetsumaru and led the transportation team back.

Half an hour later, the transport team began to climb over the mountain. Once over, it was impossible not to see the campsite last night. Aburame Eiji jumped up to the treetops to take a last look at Aburame Tetsumaru, and then he saw the natural disaster.

The campsite has changed drastically. Leaves, shrubs, grass, and all green have disappeared, leaving only brown tree trunks, blue stones, and gray-white ground. Even the green in the distance is disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the speed is faster and faster.

Aburame Eiji was horrified to see the apocalyptic natural disaster scene, and her jaw dropped unconsciously. Then she found that her mouth was dry and there was no saliva in her mouth.

It turns out that ten million bugs look like this, it’s so terrifying.

Last night I heard Aburame Tetsumaru brag about ten million bugs. Eiji actually couldn't understand it at all. So what happened to ten million bugs?

He really has no idea. The scale of war that ninjas are accustomed to has never been large. After the first generation of Hokage, the scale has been upgraded from a hundred people to a thousand people, with thousands of people fighting each other at most.

The ninjas of the Aburome family are better. They control the parasitic insects to fight, and they can reach tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or even millions of them. However, the parasitic insects are small and the feeling is not very strong.

Aburame Tetsumaru's insect army usually used one hundred thousand in previous public displays, and the large-scale use in the Land of Rain three years ago did not reach the level of one million.

This time, the size of the insect swarm jumped from one million to tens of millions. Without directly seeing it with your own eyes, you would not be able to feel this quantitative change to qualitative change caused by the accumulation of numbers.

Aburame Eiji was already a mature ninja. He quickly calmed down, calmed the coachmen who were frightened into a trance by the sight of the natural disaster, and led the transport team to continue the journey back.

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After Aburame Eiji had gone far away, Aburame Tetsumaru dared to merge the batch of about 1.5 million large insects that had just arrived into the insect swarm.

Although Aburame Tetsumaru went around clamoring for ten million bugs, in fact, he prepared 30 million bugs. In addition to the eggs and pupae transported from Konoha Village, the other 20 million large bugs were all in the mother nest. The fully developed adult worm.

The bugs transported from the Leaf Village are just for cover, to prevent people from thinking of the existence of the mother nest, nothing more.

After all, the temporarily hatched insect eggs have incredible fighting power. If Sunagakure attacks within two days, the 70 million insect eggs will be completely useless.

How could Aburame Tetsumaru make such a mistake.

Besides, to the insect swarm, how could a mere ten million be considered too much?

The mother nest in the distance is still producing continuously. When the eggs transported from Konoha Village hatch and grow into adults ten days later, the total number of insects gathered in Kawanokuni will definitely reach 50 million.

It's still less than half of the small target, but this amount is probably enough.

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In the afternoon of the next day, the three genin came over based on the mission scroll left by Aburame Tetsumaru, and saw the swarm of rolling insects for the first time.

It's so scary. Black work bugs and dark brown ants carry fat and white larvae, rolling towards the vegetation, forming a dark gray wave.

This big wave rolled forward, leaving no grass growing wherever it went. Every small animal was spared and turned into a skeleton, or even no bones remained.

Inuzukao's ninja dog immediately peed on him, and the three of them were frightened out of their wits. Uchiha Hiro subconsciously performed three fire escapes in a row, and in desperation, he also fired a fireball, which consumed more than half of his chakra in an instant.

The four fire escapers hit the insect tide and burned hundreds of insects to death, but they had no effect on the large wave that was a hundred meters wide and spread out for more than ten kilometers horizontally.

The calmest Nara Yoshino almost took his two friends and ran away. He guessed that the insect wave was probably the captain's handiwork, but what if, what if it wasn't, what if the captain got away with it?

Fortunately, I didn't take it off.

Next, Aburame Tetsumaru separated his shadow clone and followed the insect wave, traveling throughout the war zone. A large number of insects were buried deep in the land and trees to hide.

It took two full days of busy work to complete the initial deployment. As bugs continue to gather in the future, this work will continue until the end of the battle.

However, the workload later on would not be so heavy. A few shadow clones could handle it without him having to do it himself. So Aburame Tetsumaru began to lead three disciples to practice new tactics, under the cover of a huge insect swarm. Raid tactics, study how to use the lives of insects more efficiently in exchange for victory.

…

At this time, the southern front was overturned.

In the Konoha ninja army, the jounin and below did not understand the battle plan, so the attack by the southern front army on Kumasugi Castle was very real and the fight was very fierce.

In just five days of attack and defense, more than 500 people were killed on both sides.

Coupled with serious injuries and disabilities, the losses of the Xiongshan City defenders reached 400, and the defenders lost nearly 30%.

Sunagakure Village can no longer think about whether the Konoha Ninja Army is feigning an attack. If they don't support Kumasugi City, they will be defeated. Even if they are feinting, they will treat it as a strong attack.

The Third Kazekage has also become a ruthless character who has grown up in the war. Since the Sunagakure ninja army has to move, it will use all its strength to launch a full-scale counterattack, leaving no room for maneuver for itself. The ruthless character of the desert people is fully demonstrated. .

Facing the Sunagakure ninja army that came out in full force, Konoha's southern army was unable to resist an army of ten thousand people. The two armies were defeated as soon as they came into contact. Orochimaru led more than a thousand remaining soldiers to fight and retreat.

The scale of Sunagakure's army completely exceeded Orochimaru's expectations, so much so that the entire army collapsed after being beaten. However, the resistance of Konoha's remaining soldiers also exceeded the imagination of Sunagakure's top brass. The tens of thousands of troops were overwhelmed by more than a thousand defeated soldiers and could only slow down. Advance slowly.

This kind of mobile combat in the wild is Orochimaru's specialty. He once again proved the intimidation of top ninjas.

All the remnants of Konoha were chuunin and jounin. When they were defeated, 90% of the genin died on the spot. All the surviving genin were promoted by Orochimaru on the spot.

The trouble with the Sand Ninjas is that the average level of the Konoha Ninjas is too high. It's enough to miss one or two teams of Konoha Ninjas during the army's advance. If more than a dozen teams of Konoha Ninjas infiltrate into the rear, the supply line will be ruined.

Therefore, Sunagakure must strictly inspect and advance in an orderly manner.

The bigger trouble is Orochimaru and his psychic beast Banja. This combination can kill a Jonin in a single encounter. A dozen chuunin and genin are not enough for Banja to fill his teeth.

No matter where Orochimaru goes, he can tear a huge hole in the battle line within a few minutes, lead the Konoha ninja across the battle line, and mess up the rear of Sunagakure.

When Sunagakure deployed enough troops to sweep away, Orochimaru opened the gap again and led his men back to Konoha.

With just two back and forths like this, Orochimaru forced Sunagakure to continuously concentrate his troops on the front line. At the same time, the elite jonin who could resist Orochimaru were evenly distributed throughout the front line so that they could be attacked when Orochimaru attacked. Hold on until the experts support you.

As the elites were evenly spread out and tried their best to maintain a straight battle line, Orochimaru was delayed in several surprise attacks, and then was repulsed by Kazekage or Chiyo.

Sunagakure was forced to defend with all his strength, so his attack power dropped to a feeble level, and his advancement speed dropped to less than thirty miles a day.

In any case, Orochimaru's plan to lure and ambush failed. The plan was to lure out four to five thousand Sunagakure ninjas for encirclement and annihilation, but tens of thousands came.

The meal was too big to be eaten, and the meal was sharp and bitey, so they had no choice but to give up the plan and quickly retreat back home, and then switch to defense as soon as possible.

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Under the green light, the hideous wounds gradually healed. Tsunade turned to the next wound with a solemn expression. There were too many wounds.

Orochimaru, who had lost too much blood and turned pale, still kept a smile and said: "Fortunately, Tsunade, you are here, otherwise I would have to continue to retreat."

"Why did it get so serious?"

"I was accidentally ambushed by Chiyo Obasan. The toxin she prepared acted too fast this time, so I had no choice but to cut off the flesh. Hahahaha, I almost died."

"Why are you becoming more and more like Jiraiya? You are so careless."

"Baga, how can I be like a crane? It's just that I have made too many raids, and it is inevitable that I will miss occasionally."

"Then don't make a surprise attack."

"Well, there will be no more raids in the future. The current situation can only be a confrontation. The key to victory or defeat turns to Hatake-senpai."

Tsunade healed all of Orochimaru's wounds and gave him a few pills. Half of the pills were for blood replenishment, and the remaining half were for cleaning out residual toxins, promoting blood circulation and accelerating healing, and enhancing immunity. .

Orochimaru took the pill, rolled it into his mouth with his long tongue, and swallowed it all as soon as his throat bulged.

Orochimaru put on his clothes and walked out of the tent. Under the protection of Tsunade, Kato Dan and a group of elite jounin, he began to arrange patrols, barrier installation and other complicated tasks.

As the ninja armies of both sides deployed sealing barriers, a large number of traps, and layers of fortifications, the role of the top ninjas was greatly restricted.

Orochimaru was the first to suffer. Not only did Orochimaru fail to break through Sunagakure's position in his last attempt at a surprise attack, he was also attacked by Chiyo when he was under siege, almost losing his life.

A few days later, Orochimaru teamed up with Tsunade and Kato Dan to ambush the Kazekage who came to attack, beat him until he vomited blood, and fled back in embarrassment, becoming the second unlucky person.

The top commanders of both sides personally confirmed that in the current situation, whoever attacks will suffer losses, but whoever retreats may be pursued to the point of collapse, so they can only confront each other.

Orochimaru said that it didn't matter. He had sufficient resources from the Country of Fire, and his supply line was protected by the Country of Kawakawa. It was stable and safe, and his number was three thousand less than Sunagakure. The confrontation was slowly getting better. Time is on Konoha's side. side.

Orochimaru was calm and relaxed, recovering from his injuries, but Sunagakure was feeling uncomfortable.

Chiyo is an excellent medical ninja. She cured the Third Kazekage's trauma. As for the weakness caused by blood loss, she can also use medicine to speed up recovery. The real trouble is the damage caused by the attack of spiritual transformation. The damage of this forbidden technique is not physical at all, but it causes severe and continuous headaches.

Chiyo had no idea how to proceed with the treatment, so she could only use a large amount of painkillers to relieve the pain.

Watching the Sandaime Kazekage swallow the painkillers and his breathing gradually subside, Chiyo sighed: "Sandaime, we failed."

The Kingdom of Wind is rich in resources and minerals, but the lack of food is an irreparable weakness. The lack of food has led to the insufficient population of the Kingdom of Wind. The lack of food has caused the planned actions of Sunagakure Village to always come to an end. This is why the strategy of giving it a try is in Sunagakure Village. Always a favorite.

In the early stages of the war, the Kingdom of Wind had strong troops and strong family resources, so it could have fought steadily.

However, Chiyo and the Sandaime Kazekage chose the wrong strategy. They provoked the Three Kingdoms of Earth, Fire and Rain at the same time, but never achieved decisive results. The war that lasted for many years exhausted their family resources. By this battle, their national power was exhausted and they could only make a desperate move.

The tens of thousands of troops mobilized are a huge force, but also a huge burden. The Kingdom of Wind can maintain supplies for up to three months. It can be said that failure to defeat the main force of Konoha at once is a failure.

"No, there is still a chance." The Sandaime wiped the cold sweat from his head with a cloth, "Penetrate through the Kingdom of Sichuan, destroy Konoha's supply line, and outflank this place from the Kingdom of Fire. We still have a chance to win."

"Then we have to drive out the White Fang first. We need at least three thousand troops. Where will we gather so many ninjas, and who can command this army."

"I'll take command. The headache is already easing, and my injury will be better in a few days."

The Third Kazekage put away the soaked white cloth and continued: "The troops will be mobilized from here. I will take four thousand people back, leave one thousand people to guard against the 'White Fang', and then take three thousand people through the Kawa Country , completely destroy Konoha’s supply lines and eliminate Orochimaru.”

Chiyo's mouth opened slightly, speechless.

The Third Kazekage was also silent.

This plan is an adventure from beginning to end, and whether it can be achieved in almost every aspect is questionable:

Can the "Konoha White Fang" be successfully restrained? It's very difficult, almost uncertain.

Can you pass through Kawa no Kuni smoothly? It should be possible, but I'm not sure.

Can Konoha's supply lines be destroyed? It's not easy, but you can do it if you have the chance.

Finally, after all these links were successfully completed, the biggest problem faced was whether the ninja army who went deep into the Country of Fire alone could withstand the attack of Konoha Village and Orochimaru while cooperating with the forces here. The legion attacked Orochimaru's legion and quickly annihilated Orochimaru's Konoha legion?

After being silent for a while, the Third Kazekage said: "Chiyo, this is our last chance. The rise and fall of Sand Hidden Village and the Kingdom of Wind depend on this. If possible, I will go to the fire with Fenfu." country."