Naruto Death Hero

The sun is scorching, and summer seems to be extremely long and hot in the Kingdom of Wind. It is only the middle of March, and people can feel the power of the scorching heat. This feeling is especially obvious in the desert of the Kingdom of Wind.

When you stretch your feet and step on the soft sand, it feels as if there is no force on your feet. Even your soul feels as if it wants to leave the body as all the water in your body is evaporated.

Even in such a harsh environment, a troop wearing Konoha forehead protectors on their heads was still marching silently, as if they were not affected by the poisonous sunlight from above.

It can only be seen from their heavy steps and slower speed than before that this Konoha army cannot ignore the sun hanging high in the sky.

At this time, more than two months had passed since Ichigo Kurosaki took office and became the leader of the frontline troops of the Kingdom of Wind.

During this period, Sunagakure Village, which had learned about the deployment of Konoha troops, naturally would not let go of such an opportunity and launched several sneak attacks against Konoha troops.

However, Konoha's side had already foreseen Sunagakure's intentions and had already prepared for defense. Therefore, the opponent's actions did not cause too much damage to Konoha's frontline troops.

Originally, Sunagakure wanted to take advantage of this time to continue the raid, intending to disrupt the position of the Konoha troops. Even in their expectations, it was not impossible to recover part of the Wind Kingdom territory occupied by the Konoha troops.

But what Sunagakure Village's senior officials didn't expect was that in just a few days, Konoha's senior officials would reinforce thousands of ninjas above Chunin to the front lines of the Land of Wind.

The reinforced frontline troops, led by Kurosaki Ichigo and others, caused the sneak attack troops of Sunagakure Village to suffer several times.

Of course, the senior management of Sunagakure Village were not fools. After suffering the loss, they immediately mobilized ANBU intelligence personnel, and soon learned that it was Kumo Hidden Village that sent thousands of ninjas to help, and Konoha then transferred some from the Earth Kingdom battlefield. The troops entered the battlefield of the Kingdom of Wind.

In fact, Konoha has no intention of hiding this matter at all. After all, the news that Cloud Hidden Village has come to help is also a good incentive for the ninjas on the front line.

Konoha will launch a fierce offensive next. This is something that everyone at the top of Sunagakure Village who has learned this information knows very well.

And they knew very well that in the face of the offensive launched by more than 6,000 Konoha ninjas, the exhausted Wind Kingdom would not be able to survive for a year and a half, no matter how tenacious its will to resist.

However, the senior management of Sunagakure Village did not become decadent because of this, because both Sunagakure Village and Konoha knew very well that although Sunagakure could not survive such an offensive for a year and a half, it was equally difficult for Konoha to maintain it. This offensive lasted for a year and a half.

You must know that since the start of the Second Ninja War, the Thunder and Fire Alliance, once known as the Iron Alliance, has become very fragile.

The reason is that on the one hand, isolationism prevails within the Kingdom of Thunder, and it does not want to get involved in the war between the three countries of wind, earth, and fire, which have complicated relationships.

On the other hand, after the First Ninja War, the victorious Fire Nation plundered a large amount of resources from other countries in order to restore its vitality, but the Thunder Nation did not gain much benefit. This naturally caused the Thunder Nation to country’s dissatisfaction.

Although Kumogakure helped Konoha hold back Iwagakure's troops in the north this time, the price paid by Konoha behind the scenes was not small.

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to expect Kumogakure to support Konoha for a long time and completely. This is why Sunagakure believes that it can survive.

According to the speculations of the senior officials of Sunagakure Village, as long as it lasts for one year, Kumogakure will definitely give up helping Konoha in order to preserve its strength. By then, Konoha will have to transfer its troops back to the Land of Earth.

In fact, the senior management of Sunagakure Village overestimated Konoha. As long as they can hold on for nine to ten months, Konoha's offensive will be difficult to save, and then it will be time for Sunagakure Village to counterattack.

However, Sunagakure Village was still roughly accurate, so they immediately adopted a shrinking tactic. In the past, Sunagakure Village would use the help of geographical location and puppetry to sneak attack Konoha's troops from time to time, but now they are completely hiding, not giving Konoha a chance to fight in the field.

Of course, Konoha had already expected that Sunagakure would adopt a turtle tactics when it spread the news of Kumogakure's attack, so they did not rush to fight, but gave Kurosaki Ichigo half a month to let him He reorganized and increased the number of frontline troops by nearly three-quarters.

Time came to February of the twenty-sixth year of Konoha. After a long preparation, the Konoha troops finally launched an attack on the Kingdom of Wind.

The purpose of Kurosaki Ichigo's attack is very clear, which is to defeat Sunagakure Village and the Kingdom of Wind in one battle. This is also the purpose of Konoha's top brass.

Therefore, in addition to the nearly two thousand ninjas responsible for defense and other necessary tasks, Konoha organized a large force of more than five thousand ninjas on the front line.

Kurosaki Ichigo's mission is to lead this force of more than 5,000 people to attack Sunagakure Village, the center of power in the Kingdom of Wind, from the front.

And in front of this force, which has assembled nearly half of Konoha's combat strength, is Shazhou City, which can be called the iron defense of the Kingdom of Wind.

As we all know, although the Country of Wind is the largest country on the Ninja Continent, most of its territory is desert.

In order to better communicate with the outside world, the first Kazekage Raito chose to build Sand Hidden Village on the edge of the Kingdom of Wind. This was also to firmly control the country of Kawakage, a water source country.

It is precisely because of this that Konoha is very close to Sunagakure Village. In the past, it only took about four days to get to Sunagakure Village from Konoha. If you worked around the clock, you could even arrive in three days.

But since the war between the two countries, Wind and Fire, Konoha has quickly taken the Kingdom of Kawa into its own hands, with its troops pointing directly at Sunagakure Village, as if a Sword of Damocles was hanging over the heads of the Sand Ninjas.

Therefore, the second-generation Kazekage Samana had to temporarily relocate Sunagakure Village to the oasis inside the Lata Desert, preparing to rely on the vast desert to prevent Konoha from coveting Sunagakure Village.

Obviously Salmon's decision was not made on a whim. According to the information obtained by Konoha, the Kingdom of Wind has gathered 80% of the country's resources and population into this Kingdom of Wind at the same time after noticing Konoha's actions. It is also the largest desert in the entire ninja continent.

If you want to defeat the entire Kingdom of Wind in one fell swoop, you must go straight through this desert, which is one-fifth the size of the Ninja Continent. Even based on the foot strength of the ninjas, it will take at least about two months to cross the Lata Desert. time.

This also means that if Konoha's troops want to cross this desert, they must replenish water at least once on the way to ensure that the troops still maintain more than 70% of their combat effectiveness after arriving at Sunagakure Village.

Sandbank City is the only oasis in the Lata Desert on the road leading directly to Sand Hidden Village.

In fact, it is not that there are no other oases in the Lata Desert, but if we take a detour to other oases, the marching time will be extended to four to five months.

Not to mention what accidents may happen on the road after the time is extended, let’s just say that the time required in the middle is something Konoha absolutely cannot afford. Therefore, if Konoha attacks Sunagakure Village, it must first capture Sandbank Castle.

Sunagakure, who also saw this clearly, had already made preparations. Not only did he deploy nearly three thousand ninjas in Shazhou City, but he also used puppetry to protect Shazhou City on three levels inside and outside.

After more than a month of traveling, Konoha's expeditionary force finally arrived 40 kilometers away from Shazhou City.