Naruto's strongest wooden escape

In time, Uchiha Matsuri will definitely break through the boundaries between jounin and shadow-level masters, and become a powerful shadow-level master in the ninja world.

"Matsura, Minato, have your tents been set up?" In the distance, a white-haired ninja turned to Uchiha Matsuri and Namikaze Minato and asked.

"Senior Shuo Mao."

"Lord Shuo Moo."

"Father."

Seeing Hatake Sakumo walking towards them, everyone quickly saluted.

"Kakashi, Shikaku's side happens to be short of a few manpower. Please hurry up and take your classmates there." Hatake Sakumo said.

"Yeah." Kakashi nodded, then turned to Metkai and the others, "Let's go help."

After all the six Kakashi had gone away, Uchiha Matsuri asked: "Sakumo-senpai, is there something wrong with you leaving me and Minato here alone?"

The moment Hatake Sakumo pushed Kakashi and others away, Uchiha Matsuri had a premonition that Hatake Sakumo's appearance near his camp was not accidental, but that he came specifically to find himself and Namikaze Minato. of.

Hatake Sakumo glanced around, and after making sure there was no one else around, he whispered: "Masatsu, Minato, as the captains of the advance force, you two should know the mission of our advance force."

There were a total of 2000 ninjas in Konoha's advance force. Before leaving, the Third Hokage divided the 2000 ninjas into four squads, each with a squad leader.

Uchiha Matsuri and Namikaze Minato are the captains of two of the teams.The two of them each commanded 500 ninjas.

During the battle, due to the confrontation between Hatake Sakumo and the leader of Suna Ninja, the four squad captains naturally assumed the responsibility of frontline commanders when the commander-in-chief was unable to exercise command authority.

This is undoubtedly not a huge challenge for the two who became commanders for the first time.

In the past, Uchiha Matsuri and Namikaze Minato, as masters of individual fighting, only had to take care of themselves and the three disciples of their team during the battle.

This time, after assuming the responsibility of commanders, the two of them will always focus on these 500 ninjas.

"Due to the limitation of the amount of food and grass transported, the food and grass transported by Konoha cannot support too many ninjas fighting on the front line. Therefore, the Third Hokage had to send an advance force of 2000 people in order to slow down the progress of the Suna Ninja at Mount Kikyo." Uchi Hamatsuri looked at Hatake Sakumo and expressed his understanding.

If the soldiers and horses are not moving, the grain and grass will go first.

The wily Third Hokage certainly knew this.

However, because Sunagakure Village's declaration of war was so sudden, Konoha had no time to react and prepare in all aspects.

According to Konoha's current logistics capacity, the food Konoha transports to the front line in one day is only enough for 2000 ninjas to barely satisfy their hunger.

Therefore, the Third Hokage had to reduce the number of advance troops.

"Yes, the transfer of food and grass is a big deal. Konoha's food and grass cannot feed more ninjas, so Hokage-sama can only send 2000 of us over first." Hatake Sakumo nodded in agreement.

"Sakumo-senpai, I have a question." Namikaze Minato pondered for a moment and suddenly said, "Since our name is the advance team, when will the team from the village later to support us arrive?"

Namikaze Minato was worried in his heart. The Third Hokage wanted to use a team of 2000 people to resist the team of 5000 people in Sunagakure Village. Isn't he afraid of the Konoha ninjas?

The entire army was wiped out?

Two fists are no match for four hands.

If reinforcements fail to arrive, no matter how determined the advance troops are, they will eventually be unable to withstand the opponent's successive attacks.

"Well... before I left, I asked Hokage-sama this question." Hatake Sakumo had some hesitation in his eyes, "Hokage-sama just said as soon as possible. I don't know how long it will take."

If the transport capacity cannot be increased, the reinforcements will not be able to move.

When reinforcements can come to the front line to support, it mainly depends on when Konoha's logistics support can keep up with the requirements of the war.

"As soon as possible..." Uchiha Matsuri's eyebrows wrinkled.

In war, the most taboo thing is to be vague.

As soon as possible, how fast?

One day or one month?

Without knowing when the reinforcements would arrive, Hatake Sakumo was unable to make many arrangements.

The Third Hokage seems to have posed a big problem for Hatake Sakumo on this issue. When the reinforcements are coming without knowing when, should Hatake Sakumo wait for the reinforcements to gather and then fight, or should he concentrate his forces to catch Suna Ninja off guard?

"According to the information from the Hyuga clan ninja who is responsible for the investigation, the Suna ninja army has entered Mount Kikyo." Hatake Sakumo shared an information, "27 kilometers. Their camp is only 27 kilometers away from us. ”

27 kilometers is not a very far distance for a ninja.

If they march at full speed, it will only take a few hours for the Suna Ninja army to reach the location of Uchiha Matsuri's camp.

In order to prevent the Suna ninja army from traveling at night and sneaking up on him, Hatake Sakumo had to send out several teams of Hyuga ninjas to alternately detect the real-time location of the Suna ninja army.

Fortunately, the distance between the Suna Ninja army and Konoha's advance troops was always only 27 kilometers.The night attack that Hatake Sakumo was worried about didn't seem to happen.

"Only 27 kilometers?" Hearing this, Uchiha Matsuri and Namikaze Minato were surprised.

Before, Uchiha Matsuri and Namikaze Minato were still struggling with whether to wait for the reinforcements to gather before fighting, or to take action now.

It was only now that the two of them realized that the previous entanglement was really unnecessary.The initiative to start the fight was actually held by Shabaluosha early on.

Regardless of whether Hatake Sakumo wants it or not, if we keep moving at the normal speed, tomorrow will be the day when the Suna ninja army and Konoha's advance troops fight.

"There is indeed some trouble. If we want to stop the Suna Ninja at Mount Kikyo, we must fight against them tomorrow." Uchiha Matsuri frowned, "We can only rely on ourselves now."

Since Sunabata Rasa did not give Konoha time to wait for reinforcements, then the 2000 ninjas in the advance force had to rely on themselves.

"I have already discussed this with Shikaku before meeting you..." Hatake Sakumo suddenly said.

"Lu Jiu?"

"That's right. Shikaku's suggestion is to attack the Suna Ninja camp at night while the Suna Ninja army is unprepared." Hatake Sakumo said seriously.

After succeeding as the leader of the Nara clan, Nara Shikaku has been serving as Konoha's adviser.

Nara Shikaku's opinion cannot be ignored by Hatake Sakumo, and Uchiha Matsuri cannot ignore it.

"Since Shikaku's suggestion is to attack the Suna Ninja at night, what does Sakumo-senpai mean?" Uchiha Matsuri raised his head and asked.