Duanmu Baiyun of Konoha

Chapter 345 The Beginning of the Struggle

As the biggest contributor to this victory, Duanmu summoned Leitong, Kakashi, Sisen and others to patrol the messy battlefield together.

Of course, the main reason was that he didn't want to stay in the headquarters tent and see Nara Shikahisa's face like a pig's liver.

Duanmu still remembers that when he first entered the battlefield, the young Fourth Generation was meticulous in every post-war tour of the battlefield.

See a ninja ninja, a few words of relief.

These proud ninjas finally recognized Duanmu's strength, and finally had the minimum respect for Duanmu.

Seeing civilian ninjas, Duanmu's attitude became much better.

Lei Tong followed Duanmu and wrote down the needs of each wounded person, or asked the order ninja to implement them directly, or counted the wounded with the same needs, and prepared to deal with them in a unified manner.

Wind attribute ninjas are not common in Konoha, and Water Dun and Earth Dun are at a disadvantage in front of Cloud Ninja's Thunder Dun.

Most of Konoha's ninjas were injured by Yun Nin's thunder escape ninjutsu.

These injuries manifest as severe burns both inside and outside the body.

Extensive burns on the body surface require a large number of dressings.

Internal injuries also need to take decoction for a long time.

For a time, lack of medicine became the biggest problem for the injured.

Without investigation, there is no right to speak. Duanmu suddenly thought of an idea, which can be brought up at the evening ninja class meeting.

Duanmu turned around and said to Lei Tong and others behind him:

"It seems that our people are mainly injured by Yun Nin's thunder escape ninjutsu. Can we think of some countermeasures for the next battle?"

Litong shook his head: "Duanmu, you are a survivor."

Duanmu asked with some doubts: "How?"

Rayton continued:

"Most of the wounded you saw were injured by Thunder Dunjutsu."

"That's because you didn't see the person who died, so this kind of wrong judgment occurred."

"On the contrary, the majority of people who have only been hit by the thunder escape ninjutsu are the most likely to survive."

"Actually, Yunin's sword skills are very strong, especially the sword skills combined with Lei Dun are even more deadly. Almost no Konoha ninjas hit by this kind of knife skills survived."

"Moreover, the Konoha Ninja who was hit by the Tailed Beast Jade couldn't even find the corpse. We can only use the method of elimination to confirm the identity of the Konoha Ninja who died in the Tailed Beast Jade."

Duanmu nodded, agreeing with the similar judgment.

Duanmu asked: "Are you ready for the memorial ceremony for the sacrificial ninja?"

Lei Tong replied: "This is arranged by the commander-in-chief, and I don't know."

Speaking of Nara Shikajiu, Duanmu hurriedly asked, "Where's Matt Kay?"

Kakashi on the side replied: "Kai... was stimulated by the taijutsu showdown between you and Raikage, and I don't know where to go to exercise."

Duanmu was also very speechless, and said: "There will be a memorial ceremony in the evening, and there will be a ninja meeting in the evening. Kai will not miss it..."

Kakashi also felt that it was possible, and the blink technique disappeared, so he went to find the frustrated Kai.

Duanmu must find Kai to come, and another purpose is to take advantage of this victory to improve the positions of his friends.

In the evening, Konoha's sacrificial ninja corpses will be sorted out.

The funeral ceremony begins.

Nara Lujiu and Duanmu Baiyun stood at the front of the team, saying goodbye to the compatriots who died.

The white ribbon on the arm fluttered, Duanmu silently thought, wishing you could go back to Duanmu's past life, where there was no war for a long time.

Death is fair, no matter whether you were a ninja or a ninja, a ninja or a commoner, you are all one of the densely packed body bags at this time.

Some body bags are empty, and only the clothes or ninja tools of the ninja were placed inside, which should be used as a souvenir.

According to statistics, the sacrificed ninjas of both Konoha and Yunnin reached about 200 people, and the number of wounded was about the same.

It is said that in the era of cold weapons, when the battle damage reaches 5.00%, the army will collapse.

But for the ninja war, the ninja has the characteristics of high attack and low defense, and the battle damage will quickly reach 20.00% or more within a few minutes, and the battle is over before it collapses.

Nara Shikahisa's face was very gloomy.In Duanmu's view, today is a victory.In Nara Shikaku's view, today is just a miserable victory.

After the memorial ceremony, the Konoha ninjas dispersed.

Before the start of the Ninja meeting, Duanmu summoned the representative of the Hyuga clan on the front line, Hyuga Nichika, to his tent.

Hyuga Nichika is Nichizu's cousin and became a Jonin early on.After Hyuga Hyuzu left the village, it was Natsuka who was in charge of matters related to the Hyuga clan on the front line.

Hyuga Rixia didn't know Duanmu's intention. After entering Duanmu's tent, he saluted Duanmu who was sitting cross-legged behind the low table:

"Lord Duanmu, I don't know what you need me to do?"

Duanmu said: "Nichika Jonin, the front line is very simple, so I can't invite you to sit down."

Rixia hurried back: "Lord Duanmu, it's nothing to be on the front line."

Duanmu nodded and said:
"Before I came to the front line, I wrote to your patriarch Hizuru-sama, hoping that the Hyuga clan and I can take care of each other on the front line."

"However, unfortunately, I did not receive a reply from Nizuzu-sama."

"Now, let me confirm with you one last time. The Hyuga Clan has a total of six Jnin on the front line. Can I get the support of these six Jnin in certain things?"

There was panic in Hyuga Nishia's heart, and cold sweat broke out from his head.

Before yesterday, Rixia was very supportive of their patriarch's decision.

The deputy commander Duanmu Baiyun regained the eyes of the Zongjia for the Hyuga clan, so in general affairs, he should support him as much as possible.

If the civilian deputy commander Duanmu Baiyun disagrees with the commander-in-chief Nara Shikahisa of the Goroku family, then they should maintain a consistent attitude. The interests of the Hyuga clan and the Goroku family are always consistent.

The deputy commander specially summoned him to a separate tent. It must not be because of ordinary things, but because he expected that the Hyuga clan might not be on his side.

However, after seeing the strength of the deputy commander this morning, Rixia was a little hard to grasp whether the patriarch's decision was correct or not.

In the end, after hesitating, Natsuka said:

"Master Duanmu, as long as you don't go against the orders and will of Commander-in-Chief Nara Shikoku, I, the Hyuga Clan, will only follow you!"

Duanmu nodded, indicating that he knew.

In fact, he knew the attitude of the Hyuga Clan when Hyuga Nichika hesitated.

Sure enough, compared with the interests of the family, the kindness of recovering the clan's supercilious eyes is nothing.

Even, Duanmu was thinking, secretly the Hyuga clan might not think it was kindness.

The loss of Bai Yan is a disgrace to the family, and Bai Yan being recovered by an outsider, isn't it another kind of shame?

Duanmu returned with a calm voice without tone: "Okay, I understand. You can go."

Ryuga Rixia left Duanmu's tent with conflicted feelings.

Behind the side curtain, they walked out in unison.

I only heard Lei Tong say:

"It's hard..."

"Eleven of the 63 Jnin sacrificed, leaving only 11 Jnin."

"There are 21 commoner ninjas. It can be confirmed now. Among them, 15 commoner ninjas, after seeing your strength, Duanmu, stated that they will put their future on our side."

"Six commoner ninjas attached to different ninja clans, their attitudes are unknown."

"The three medical ninjas will definitely support our proposal, which has nothing to do with the camp, just because of their responsibilities."

"The remaining 28 ninja jounin have absolutely no possibility of supporting us."

"That is to say, there are 18 people who support us, and 34 people who support Shikahisa Nara."

"The disparity is so great that there is no need to try to canvass votes further."

Duanmu nodded, knowing that they had no advantage in the first place.

Duanmu said: "Have we completed the review of the recommenders and task reports for promotion to Jonin?"

The same thing returned: "Maitkai, Tehisa, Gengen, me, and two special jnin recommended by Nishisen jnin, there are six people in total, and there is no problem with the materials for promotion to jnin."

"The 18 commoner ninja who were promoted to special jongin have also been reviewed."

Duanmu sighed and said:
"We can only do this first. Since our proposal will not be approved, then we should do a good job of publicity in secret and put more pressure on Shikaku Nara."

"The will of fire is a slogan proposed by the ninja to dedicate to Konoha."

"It can also be the other way around asking the Ninja to dedicate themselves to Konoha. Unless..."

Duanmu hesitated for a moment and continued: "Unless, they don't even want face. However, it is really possible."

"Let's go, let's go to the ninja class meeting tonight."

After closing the notebook, Lei Tong asked, "What about the attitude towards the Hyuga Clan? Do you want to adjust it?"

Duanmu said:

"I was naive. I thought that if I recovered the Zong family's eyes for them, they would stand by our side. But it turned out that I was overthinking."

"Exclude the Hyuga Clan from our list of possible allies."

Lei Tong said that this should be the case.

The moment he went out, Duanmu suddenly asked:
"Leitong, you know, I don't doubt you, it's just, why do you seem to be more dissatisfied with the ninja than I am?"

Rayton said:

"Actually, I have long discovered that you have a bad impression of ninjas. I used to think that you were obsessed with this matter. You are both Konoha's ninjas. What's the difference? Until..."

"I didn't know until I became the fourth-generation shadow guard that you were right."

"I thought that joining the Wind Organization was my first step to success, and becoming a Shadow Guard was my second step."

"At that time, I just wanted to stand out and become an admirable ninja."

"However, after being exposed to the daily work of the fourth generation, I realized that Konoha Village is more complicated than I thought."

"Some people seem harmless to humans and animals, but because of greed, they block the implementation of the fourth generation policy."

"And then, the fourth generation died, and I realized that the ninja has become a cancerous tumor of Konoha."

"Do you know, Duanmu, I have imagined countless times that if Uchiha Fugaku can make a move in the night of the Kyuubi, then the fourth generation will not die."

"The Uchiha clan has absolutely no reason to kill the fourth generation. They are the beneficiaries of the fourth generation policy."

"However, Uchiha, as an alternative among ninjas, was asked by the third generation to only watch in the night of Kyuubi for some ridiculous reasons."

"We were all taken care of by the fourth generation as we grew up. The fourth generation also taught me the forbidden technique of Flying Thunder God, but it's a pity that I can't master it alone..."

The light in the same eyes dimmed.

Duanmu patted the same elbow and said, "Let's go. We still have a long way to go, and there are many things we can do."

Lei Tong finally said: "Duanmu, after I'm promoted to Jonin, I don't plan to become the captain. I want to handle affairs for you all the time."

Duanmu replied: "Ah! That's really great! Although I have wronged you, I really need you very much!"

After entering the tent, Duanmu sat beside Nara Shikahisa.

He and Nara Shikahisa exchanged some ninja promotion documents. The promotion of Jōnin and Special Jōnin requires the consent of both of their commanders.

Duanmu will agree with the person recommended by the Ninja, and Nara Shikoku will agree with the person recommended by Duanmu.

Duanmu recommended six people, and Ninja recommended eight people.

This is because in today's battle, the frontal defense led by Duanmu played a decisive role in the battlefield, otherwise the ninja would never agree to promote six junin among the civilians in one battle.

The ninjas arrived one after another, and the meeting officially started.

The first is Nara Shikahisa's summary of today's battle:

"We achieved a victory and withstood the most powerful impact of cloud ninja, and the future situation will be very favorable to us."

"The frontal defense battlefield led by Deputy Commander Duanmu Baiyun achieved a great victory. Not only did the line of defense be defended, the strategic goal was accomplished, but also 1000 enemies were killed, with brilliant results."

"As the commander-in-chief, the raid force I led cannot be called a success."

"We, who were supposed to take on the main task of killing the enemy, only wiped out more than 500 cloud ninjas."

"More importantly, the raiding force also paid the sacrifice of as many as 1000 people."

"As the commander-in-chief, I don't have a suitable response plan under Tailed Beast Jade. I should bear the main responsibility."

Duanmu spoke at this time:
"Commander Nara doesn't have to blame himself. Who would have thought that the eight-tailed Jinchuriki's mastery of the eight-tails is so perfect. This is the first time I have seen it in the ninja world."

"In the past, when full-tailed beasts appeared on the battlefield, the tailed beasts would attack everyone indiscriminately."

"Therefore, the commander-in-chief is not to blame."

All the jounin began to talk about the horror of Perfect Jinchuriki Hachio, and the responsibility for the defeat of the raiding force should really not be placed on the head of the commander-in-chief.

Duanmu got up and said:

"The outcome of the battle should be fought by all of our Konoha ninjas together, not just one person."

"This is the root of our Konoha Fire's will to flourish!"

All the Junin continued to praise that the deputy commander was not only outstanding in strength, but also took care of the overall situation.

Shikahisa Nara's face looked a little better.

Hinata Hinata stood up at this moment and said:

"Master Duanmu's title of Zijin Immortal was established in this battle. He was able to compete with Raikage in physical skills, and he was able to eliminate hundreds of cloud ninjutsu with one ninjutsu. He is worthy of being an immortal with the same reputation as Master Jiraiya!"

Duanmu took a look at Rizhen, I recognize your credit for being a fan, but that's all.

Duanmu raised his hand, restored the silence in the tent, and said:
"I think the first thing we need to do is to make Konoha's wounded recover faster and reduce their pain!"

Lei Tong straightened up and came...
Duanmu continued:

"When I was inspecting the battlefield, I found that we now have as many as [-] wounded, suffering from the burning of Thunder Dunninjutsu."

"I have understood with the three medical ninjas that we are in urgent need of external and internal medicine to treat Lei Dun's injury."

"There is not enough medicine in the frontline camps."

"Therefore..." Duanmu turned to Shikahisa Nara.Speaking of:
"Master Nara, you are the patriarch of the Nara clan. The supply of wound medicine is completely in the hands of the Nara clan."

"I don't know what solution Nara-sama has for the lack of medicine at the front line?"

(End of this chapter)