Konoha: Bind Namikaze Minato at the start

The huge conference room suddenly fell into silence.

Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, but no one spoke.

"Uh, Lu Ming, you are the Jonin squad leader. Please tell me how many people we have on hand right now."

As a last resort, Sarutobi Hiruzen could only skip the topic of "should we go to the rescue?"

Luming, whose full name is Nara Luming, is the head of the Nara clan of this generation, the father of Nara Shikaku, and the future grandfather of Shikamaru.

This man is Konoha's contemporary think tank or strategist, and is also the squad leader of the jounin class. He is of the same generation as Sarutobi Hiruzen, Danzo, Koharu Koharu, Mito Kadenen, and Akimichi Tōfū.

Suddenly being called upon by Sarutobi Hiruzen, Nara Luming didn't panic at all. He was silent for a while, and then thought about it carefully before speaking:

"Excluding the personnel stationed at several major borders and the daily guards in the village, the number of people we can mobilize now is less than two thousand, including one thousand, four hundred and sixty two genin, 460 seven chunin, and a total of 350 jonin including special jounin. 78 people.”

Nara Luming spoke in great detail, down to single digits. He was able to answer such precise figures in such a short period of time, which shows his ability.

Of course, what Nara Luming said above does not completely include all the forces within each clan. As a ninja clan, it is impossible for them to send out all their hands without reservation until the last moment.

Hiding part of one's strength is almost something most ninjas will do, unless there is really no way to hide it.

Take the Uchiha clan for example. Their clan has more than 1000 people. Among them, there are no less than 30 jounin alone, not to mention the middle genin, which adds up to two or three hundred people.

Any Uchiha with open eyes, even a Magatama, has no problem reaching the chuunin level as long as he exercises.

Not to mention genin, the Uchiha clan is almost genius per capita, as long as they are willing to become ninja, genin is basically guaranteed.

With such strength, he is fully worthy of being the largest clan in Konoha and deserves the title.

Although some other big families are not as good as Uchiha, they are not much weaker, especially families like Hinata, "Inarakacho", Inuzuka, Aburame, Sarutobi and so on.

If we really want to count all their strength, it must be more than what Nara Luming just said, but the question is, who is willing?

Unless Konoha really can't stand it anymore, and there are no eggs left under the overturned nest, they will try their best, but the current situation is to rescue the country of whirlpool.

To put it bluntly, the Uzumaki clan's allies are actually the Senju clan, not Konoha. If they want to be saved, it is the Senju clan who must save them.

However, no one would say such words, firstly because they dare not, and secondly because they want to lose face.

Sarutobi Hiruzen asked again: "Excluding other aspects that must use people, how many people can we send out?"

Nara Luming frowned and said: "We still have to leave some to serve as rescue troops, so we can send 1000 people to survive."

Hearing this, Sarutobi Hiruzen glanced at Uzumaki Mito, who was sitting in the corner with his eyes closed, taking a deep breath and said: "One thousand is enough, organize the manpower immediately, and lead the team..."

"Sakumo, I leave it to you."

After hearing the decision made by Sarutobi Hiruzen, Uzumaki Mito said nothing, silently stood up and left the conference room.

Although there were fewer people, she could understand Konoha's difficulties.

1000 people, still led by Hatake Sakumo. With such strength, even if the country of Uzumaki cannot be saved, there is still no problem in saving some tribesmen, Uzumaki Mito thought.

Judging from the results, today's meeting was quite successful, at least there was no scene that required her to intervene forcefully.

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Soon, all aspects of mobilization were issued from the Hokage Building, and Konoha moved up and down like a high-speed motor.

However, what no one expected was that shortly after the meeting ended, another letter was delivered to Sarutobi Hiruzen.

The person who wrote the letter is none other than a famous figure from the Kingdom of Fire!

The letter clearly mentioned that Sarutobi Hiruzen should not support the Kingdom of Whirlpool. If this was not possible, the support would have to be delayed.

All in all, the Country of Whirlpool cannot be saved, and all countries do not allow such a special country as the Country of Whirlpool to exist.

This time, it is clear that Kirigakure is trying to attack the Uzumaki clan, but in fact, it is the various countries that are fueling the flames. They have been unhappy with the Uzumaki country for a long time.

There's nothing wrong with the head of a clan serving as the shadow of a village, but you can't be a daimyo at the same time, with military, political, and financial power at your fingertips. Why, you're the only one special! ?You're the one who's awesome! ?

Destroy it without saying anything. The country of Whirlpool must be destroyed. The ninja world does not allow such an awesome existence. What if other ninja villages follow suit one day?

This unstable factor must be eliminated as soon as possible, otherwise they will have trouble sleeping and eating!

As for the letter from the daimyo, of course, as the Hokage, you can ignore him. The Hokage and the daimyo are equal, but it also depends on who is the Hokage. Sarutobi Hiruzen is not Senju Tobirama, he is not as strong as the latter.

If Senju Tobirama was in power now, he wouldn't have a daimyo at all, but now Sarutobi Hiruzen is in power.

In some small matters, Sarutobi Hiruzen can ignore the Daimyo, but now the Daimyo has also mentioned in the letter that once Konoha insists on rescuing the country of Whirlpool, in the next few years, the Daimyo will reduce Konoha's military expenditures. .

Regarding this threat, Sarutobi Hiruzen couldn't care less. If it was peacetime, just reduce it. You could grit your teeth and hold on.

But what is the situation now? The second ninja war may break out at any time. If we cut military expenditures at this time, wouldn't it cost our lives?

And it was precisely because the daimyo knew this that he dared to threaten him like this. This blow directly hit Sarutobi Hiruzen's seven inches, and he couldn't agree even if he didn't agree.

"call……"

Sarutobi Hiruzen puffed out a smoke ring, his face shrouded in smoke.

There was silence for a long time, and finally Sarutobi Hiruzen sighed deeply helplessly.

There is no doubt that this action to destroy the Whirlpool Country was the result of the tacit consent of all countries. The countries did not know when they reached a tacit understanding.

Or maybe they have been in contact for a long time and only recently acted.

But either possibility has no impact on the result.

Needless to say, the reason can be imagined. It is nothing more than taking advantage of the imminent Second Ninja War, when the Ninja Villages, especially Konoha, are too busy to take care of themselves, to get rid of the "alien" of the Uzumaki Country first.

Under this situation, even if Sarutobi Hiruzen was unable to change it as Hokage, he did not have the courage to change it. By now, the demise of the Kingdom of Whirlpool was inevitable.

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Finally, without convening anyone for discussion, Sarutobi Hiruzen directly gave an order to Hatake Sakumo, asking him to slow down the support and delay the team's advance as much as possible. He only needed to arrive at the Country of Whirlpool in three days. .

When he made this decision, he felt both sad and happy, extremely complicated.

Sad because Konoha is about to lose an extremely loyal ally, and there may not even be such a loyal ally in the future.

Fortunately, Konoha can preserve its strength in the context of an imminent war without having to involve those 1000 people.

Maybe it can delay the outbreak of the Second Ninja War.

As for why it was three days, it was because that was what was written in the daimyo's letter, but you can guess that the countries planned to fight quickly.

But yes, Kirigakure himself is already strong enough, and if he unites with the surrounding small ninja villages, including some shadows of the big ninja villages, with such strength, it is not difficult to quickly destroy the country of whirlpool.

Not to mention that the current country of Whirlpool has not yet recovered from the first ninja war.

Unlike a large family like Konoha, Uzushio Village or the Country of Uzumaki is just a small family. It lost a large number of elites in the First World War, and it was really damaged for decades, and it is not so easy to recover.

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In the blink of an eye, time came three days later.

A shocking news suddenly spread throughout the ninja world at a rapid speed, and then the whole world was shocked.

The Kingdom of Whirlpool is destroyed!

The country is ruined and the family is destroyed!

Only a few people escaped in the chaos and then disappeared without a trace.

As for Konoha, as an ally, they sent support troops, but they did not arrive until a few hours after the demise of the Whirlpool Kingdom.

At this time, all they faced were corpses and ruins all over the mountains and plains...

The corpses were those of ordinary people and were of little value. The valuable corpses of the Uzumaki clan members had already been collected and taken away.

Now that everyone in the Uzumaki Country is dead, Konoha, as an ally, can only accept the legacy left by the Uzumaki clan with tears.

I just don’t know whether these tears are sad tears or happy tears.

Of course, the so-called inheritance is actually nothing. First of all, the country of Uzumaki destroyed a large number of things before its demise, and then went through Kirigakure and other ninja villages to plunder it, and finally the few things left were returned to Konoha.

The biggest winner must be the Kingdom of Fire, which took over the territory that originally belonged to the Kingdom of Whirlpool at almost no cost.

This time, the nobles of the Fire Country were extremely happy.

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PS:

After thinking about it, the Kingdom of Whirlpool was still destroyed. There was no way. The Kingdom of Whirlpool was too special, but it did not have the strength of Konoha, so...