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On June 49, Konoha 6, the Iwa Ninja Village dispatched five thousand ninjas from the northern polar ice ocean to raid the northern part of the Kingdom of Thunder.

Cloud Ninja Village mobilized three thousand ninjas, and the military advisor Dodai and the two-tailed Jinchuriki were jointly led by Bokuto to counterattack.

On June 6, two thousand Konoha ninjas raided the Yuno defense line.

Within a day, the Kumo ninja's first line of defense collapsed, and Konoha's army marched straight in, wreaking havoc deep inside the Land of Thunder.

On June 6, Raikage Ai took command and went out to prevent the invasion of Konoha.

"Toad Sage" Jiraiya and Uchiha Clan Chief Uchiha Fugaku joined forces to face the enemy. The Raikage retreated, and the southern defense line of the Land of Thunder was declared lost. The Kumo ninja retreated to the Thundercloud Canyon, giving up one-fifth of the southern territory.

On June 6, Sunagakure Village advisor Chiyo and Jounin Maki led 19 ninjas in a long-distance attack on the southern part of Earth Country, and the Iwa Ninja Village defenders were defeated.

On June 6, Kirigakure joined the war, landed from the Country of Waves, and tried to sneak into the Country of Fire to plunder resources. However, they were noticed by the ANBU of Konoha, and after a big war broke out, they all retreated.

At this point, all five major ninja villages participated in the war, and the Fourth Ninja War broke out.

——"Chronicle of Major Events in the Ninja World-Revised Edition of the First Year of the New Calendar"

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After the war between the four major ninja villages began, just a dozen days later, Kirigakure Village couldn't help but get involved and wanted to fight against the autumn wind.

This was something Fang Zhou didn't expect at first.

However, this is in line with the temperament of this generation of senior management of Kirigakure Village.

Let’s take a look at the list of senior members of Kirigakure Village.

Sitting on the Mizukage's seat is Kaguya Sukeo, the leader of the Kaguya clan, who is known for his bellicosity. In the original book, he even played himself to death because of his belligerence.

Sasuke is served by the heads of blood successor families such as Oniden, Minazuki, and the Snow clan.

The only one with a conservative personality is the elder, Yuanshi, who theoretically has the same rights as Mizukage.

However, it is one thing for the elders to theoretically have the same authority as Mizukage, but when other high-level officials support Mizukage, Genshi can hardly influence the major decisions of Kirigakure Village.

These war-like senior family leaders have a strong desire for expansion.

Of course, although the senior management of Kirigakure Village are a little crazy, they are not complete idiots after all.

They had no intention of actually launching a massive invasion of the Fire Nation.

Even if Konoha's main focus is on the Kumo ninja in the north, Kirigakure is not qualified to covet them.

All they wanted to do was to take advantage of the heat of the war between Konoha and Kumo Ninja to loot some wealth and supplies.

It would be even more perfect if we could steal some valuable information, such as some unique secret technique.

This is also the purpose of Kirigakure Village's invasion of the Country of Fire.

However, even this purpose was not achieved.

Under the control of Namikaze Minato, Konoha completely entered a state of war, and the ANBU intelligence ninja almost controlled the entire Fire Country airtight.

As soon as the ninjas from Kirigakure Village entered the Land of Fire, the reserve forces left in Konoha had already set off to repel these enemies as quickly as possible.

However, while sending most of the troops to the north to attack the Cloud Ninjas, they must also be on guard against the Kingdom of Wind in the south, the Kingdom of Water in the east, and even the ally in the west, the Iwa Ninja Village.

Even though Konoha is the ninja village with the strongest overall strength in the ninja world, it is still somewhat stretched in terms of military strength.

Especially among the Jonin and Chuunin who are the backbone of the force, the manpower is very tight and they would like to split a person into ten parts.

Although Konoha has announced that it will no longer accept external commissions before the end of the war, there are too many war missions in the village to keep most jounin and chuunin busy.

Ninjas like Kakashi Hatake who can stand alone are slightly better, as they only need to perform the most important tasks.

The slightly weaker Jonin and Chuunin were almost tasked one after another, with very little time to rest.

"Sarutobi-senpai, our manpower is too tight."

In the Hokage's office, Minato Namikaze held a document and looked at Sarutobi Hiruzen with a headache: "The report just submitted by the Anbu said that due to the invasion of a large number of enemy intelligence personnel, our Anbu intelligence personnel have suffered great losses. Seriously insufficient. At least two hundred chuunin and fifty jonin need to be supplemented to ensure the integrity of the domestic intelligence system, and they must be the type who are good at collecting intelligence."

"It's hard to handle 250 people."

Sarutobi Hiruzen took the document and looked at it for a few times, picked up his pipe and took a few puffs, and suggested with a sad face: "How about promoting a group of genin? Some genin have reached the level of strength, but because of their character or qualifications The reasons in this aspect have been suppressed. After all, this is war time, and it is the time when people are needed. Promoting these genin should be able to alleviate the problem of shortage of manpower. "

Among the five major ninja villages, Konoha's ninja promotion standards are the highest.

Not only does combat effectiveness have to meet certain requirements, but it also requires certain advantages in theoretical knowledge, intelligence collection capabilities, etc.

In addition, the promotion of genin to chunin, and the promotion of chunin to jounin will also require tactical command capabilities and other aspects.

In comparison, Sunagakure, Kirigakure and Kumo ninja all only need to meet the combat effectiveness standards to be promoted.

The Iwa Ninja Village is even more relaxed, especially the genin, who only need to be able to skillfully use chakra to fight.

In the original work, things like Naruto almost failed to become a ninja because he failed the exam, and Xiao Li almost failed to graduate because he only knew taijutsu. This would never happen in other ninja villages.

Of course, this high standard is also the foundation of Konoha's strength.

As long as the standards for promotion are high enough, Konoha's ninjas will always have an advantage in competitions of the same level.

It's not that other ninja villages don't want to learn, but they don't have the conditions.

For example, the sparsely populated Sunagakure Village would probably not have many new genin in a year if it followed Konoha's standards.

If the number of genin is small, it will naturally affect the number of chuunin and jounin.

Without a sufficient number of ninjas, even task commissions cannot be completed, and it is difficult to maintain the status of the five major ninja villages, let alone develop.

Except for Konoha Village in the Country of Fire, which occupies the most abundant resources, no village can implement such high standards of promotion rules.

Of course, even Konoha will only increase the requirements for ninja promotion during peacetime.

During the war, manpower was already in short supply. It would also not work if promotion standards were strictly adhered to and no capable people were allowed to come in.

In the past several great ninja wars, Konoha even allowed children who had not graduated from the ninja school to be promoted to genin in advance and go to the battlefield more than once.

Although most of these people have become cannon fodder and died in the war, it is not that there are no strong ones.

Not to mention, during the Third Ninja War, two super geniuses named Hatake Kakashi and Uchiha Shisui appeared in the ninja world.

But it is undeniable that lowering promotion requirements and promoting new ninjas on a large scale will lead to a large number of casualties.

Chuunin and jounin who were promoted under special circumstances were fine. At least they had gone through the necessary assessments when they became genin, so they wouldn't be too bad.

The proportion of casualties in the war for those genin who were specially promoted will be a very shocking number.

Among the children who came out of the ninja school in the same batch as Kakashi, only Kakashi is still alive today.

(Note: Obito is Kakashi’s teammate, but he did not graduate at the same time. Lin is the same.)

Everyone else died on the battlefield of the Third Ninja War.

Namikaze Minato knew very well that when necessary, it was necessary to relax the restrictions on ninja promotion and promote a large number of less qualified ninjas to supplement the shortage of manpower.

But this decision would cause thousands of families to be torn apart. Until the last moment, Namikaze Minato could not convince himself to sign such an order document.

"Wait a little longer, now is not the time."

Namikaze Minato shook his head and asked: "How is the communication with the Ninja clan? Are those families willing to send more people?"

To solve the problem of lack of manpower, besides promoting new ninjas in an exceptional way, there is another way.

In Konoha, or in any great ninja village, there is more than one ninja family.

These families all have their own special features, either some kind of blood inheritance limit or some unique secret technique.

Coupled with a higher starting point than ordinary people, these families are far beyond ordinary people in their ability to cultivate ninjas.

Even if it is only a medium-sized family, there are often dozens of qualified ninjas in the family, and the ratio of chunin and jounin will be much higher than the average level of the ninja world.

In Konoha, there are many such families, and the more famous ones include the Uchiha, Hinata, Kurama and other blood families, as well as the "secret ninjutsu" families like Ino Shikacho.

Not all ninjas in these families will register and be promoted according to the village's procedures.

There will be a considerable number of clan members, even if they have the required strength, knowledge, etc., they will not choose to become an official ninja, but will only work for the family.

One or two families, even a big family like Uchiha, would not have many such ninjas.

But when all the families are added together, it’s quite astonishing.

In particular, the number of chuunin and jounin among them can almost match the total number of chunin and jonin in the village who were born civilians.

However, although these families are willing to contribute to the village, they are not willing to give without reservation.

Preserving strength is a choice that almost every family will make.

Except for the Uchiha clan, which had no reservations due to its current alliance with Namikaze Minato, other families, although they also sent a large number of clan members to participate in the war, more or less retained a lot of force.

Although Namikaze Minato is the Hokage, he has only been in office for a short time and his foundation is somewhat shallow. It is impossible to force these families to fight with all their strength through mandatory orders. He can only use reason and emotion.

But the effect is...

Taking into account the close relationship between the three major families of the Sandaime and Inorakacho, Namikaze Minato gave the task of persuading each ninja clan to Sarutobi Hiruzen.

However, although Namikaze Minato had expectations, he also knew very well that he wanted to have a result within a few days, and the possibility was so low that it could be ignored.

Sure enough, after listening to Namikaze Minato's question, Sarutobi Hiruzen shook his head and said: "The Ino Shika Butterfly clan agreed to send an additional hundred ninjas on the original basis, including fifteen jounin and Thirty chuunin. As for other families..."

100 people cannot solve the current manpower shortage dilemma at all.

But dozens of chuunin and jounin can do a lot of things.

Namikaze Minato frowned at first, then quickly relaxed and showed a gentle smile: "At least it can solve a lot of problems, which is always good news. Sarutobi-senpai, I asked you to do this, and as expected, It’s a correct decision, and the effect is much better than if I came forward!”

After a pause, Namikaze Minato said before Hiruzen Sarutobi could speak, "Then, Sarutobi-senpai, I'll leave it to you to convince the other ninjas."

Hearing Namikaze Minato's words, Sarutobi Hiruzen's wrinkled face almost turned into a bitter melon: "You are really going to give me problems! Is it so easy to convince these ninjas?"

"He who is capable should work harder! If you were not capable of this, I would not trust you to entrust such an important task to you!"

Namikaze Minato chuckled, brought up the topic lightly, and said casually: "Jiraiya-sensei came back by contacting the frog and sent a message, and the battle situation on the front line has made a major breakthrough."

"Ok?"

Hearing Namikaze Minato mention his disciple, Sarutobi Hiruzen's interest was also piqued, and he put on a listening posture: "Tell me more specifically?"

"One day ago, Fugaku-kun and Kakashi each led a team to outflank the Cloud Thunder Canyon defense line from two directions. Mr. Jiraiya personally took action to hold back the Fourth Raikage. Our side won a great victory. Not only did we obtain the Cloud Raid Taking control of the Thunder Canyon defense line, we also killed and captured a total of hundreds of Kumo ninjas!”

Namikaze Minato was in high spirits.

This great victory almost established the situation in the Kingdom of Thunder.

Theoretically speaking, after this great victory, no matter how the subsequent battle situation changes, Konoha's interests are absolutely guaranteed.

The location of Leiyun Canyon is so dangerous that it can be said that it strangles the throat of Yunren Village.

Once Konoha controls this place, the Cloud Ninja Village will have to make a big circle if they want to go south, and their control over the southern part of the Kingdom of Thunder will drop to the bottom.

Whether the Cloud Ninja Village wants to regain control of Thundercloud Canyon through war or peace talks, Konoha can cut off a large piece of flesh from the opponent.

After hearing Namikaze Minato's description, Sarutobi Hiruzen also understood the significance of this victory to Konoha.

After all, he is a person who has been a Hokage, and his acumen in this area is quite high.

"Good! Well done!"

Sarutobi Hiruzen shouted excitedly, and then sighed: "Minato, you are indeed much better than me. Maybe you are right, my character is too weak, it is better to be an ordinary high-level person, but to be Hokage If you do, it will only make the village weaker."

"Sarutobi-senpai, you have done well before."

Namikaze Minato comforted him, and then said with some sadness: "Unfortunately, our losses were also great. More than 200 people were killed in battle alone, and the number of injured was more than five times. If only Tsunade-sama was still there, Well, we don’t have enough medical ninjas anymore!”