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After the topic began to move closer to Hinata's "caged bird", Fang Zhou and Hinata Hizashi tacitly stopped chatting and hurried on.

Among the team of subordinates prepared by Konoha for Fangzhou, Hyuga Hizashi is the captain, but it is because he is "most familiar" with Fangzhou, not because of his strength or seniority.

Among the other four ninjas in the team, two are older than Hinata Hizashi, and one is stronger than Hinata Hizashi.

This person is Kosuke Maruhoshi, Konoha's "Ten Thousand Years Genin".

Kosuke Maruboshi's presence in the original work is not strong, and he only appeared in a small plot. He once killed his teammates due to a command error, and then vowed to "be a genin for the rest of his life and never be promoted."

Although he had a dark history of killing his companions, after decades of training, Kosuke Maruboshi has definitely reached the level of jounin in all aspects, and he is among the most outstanding jonins.

Many people even believe that Kosuke Maruboshi is stronger than the absolute elites among jounin such as Kakashi and Gai.

Of course, such a thing is naturally impossible.

Konoha can tolerate an elite jounin being a genin for a lifetime, but no matter how luxurious it is, it will not allow a person with the strength of a "shadow" to do the same thing.

In fact, in addition to being senior enough, Kosuke Maruboshi is just an "ordinary elite jounin" in all aspects.

Well, "mediocre" here is judged from Fangzhou's perspective.

For most ninjas, becoming an elite jounin may be a goal that cannot be achieved in a lifetime.

In addition to Maruboshi Kosuke, there is also a "seniority" in the team, one of the three guards of the fourth generation Hokage.

Hinazakurei's strength is not very strong, he is just a special jounin, and without the help of two teammates, the same person, Hinazakurei, cannot even activate the "Flying Thunder God Formation", and the actual effect he can exert is less than Ordinary chunin are stronger.

The reason why he appears in this team is more as a representative of the Fourth Hokage.

The last two were two ordinary jounin. Their names did not even appear in the original work, and Fang Zhou had no impression of them.

The weakest thing in this team is that they are all the same.

But even though they are similar, he is still a special jounin, and the overall strength of the team is very strong.

Maybe not as good as Konoha's few "ace teams" who rarely take action, but it's very close.

However, for Fang Zhou, the greatest significance of the existence of this team is that it can deal with some "minor troubles" without having to take action personally when encountering slightly stronger enemies.

Although Kirigakure Village has been competing with Suna Ninja for the last "throne" over the years, it is one of the five great ninja villages after all, and there are still some strong people who can cause trouble to Konoha.

If you encounter a slightly stronger enemy and ask Fangzhou to fight, although there is no danger, the trouble alone will give people a headache.

Fangzhou accepted the Yondaime's commission and came to guard the border of the Kingdom of Waves. He did not come to deal with such "insignificant little troubles".

An enemy that is truly worthy of Fang Zhou's attack must at least have shadow-level strength.

After Kisame Mikaki's defection, there were not many such people in the entire Kirigakure Village.

Excluding the Genshi who cannot leave the village because he is too old, and Terumi Mei, who is a woman and has no support from major forces and cannot obtain substantial rights, there are only two or three left.

With this number of enemies, Fangzhou's "workload" will be much smaller.

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The entire team is composed of high-level ninjas, and they are traveling very fast.

Just one day later, the group arrived at the border of the Country of Waves.

This is the closest and most convenient port from the Kingdom of Water to the mainland.

To a certain extent, if we only consider the coastline of the Country of Fire, this is almost the only landing location.

That's not to say there aren't other options.

Although the Country of Fire is a landlocked country, it also has a long coastline.

However, the wars in the ninja world are almost always limited to inland wars, and they are not enthusiastic about the expansion of sea power. There are even few people doing basic sea charting.

From the Kingdom of Water to the Kingdom of Fire, the only route to land via the Kingdom of Waves has been proven to be "safe and reliable" by years of experience.

In other places, no one knows where there will be hidden reefs or powerful sea monsters under the sea.

Even if most qualified ninjas can tread water, if they are too far from land, their chakra is not enough to support them ashore.

Although taking other directions can play a surprise role and bypass the defense line constructed by Konoha, compared with the risk of possible annihilation at sea, it is not cost-effective.

In the wars of the past generations, every time Kirigakure tried to attack the Country of Fire, they landed through the straits of the Country of Waves, without exception.

——If the development of the original work is followed, in more than ten years, a bridge will be built between the Kingdom of Waves and the Kingdom of Fire to connect the two sides.

At that time, once the war between Kirigakure and Konoha breaks out again, it will be more convenient for Kirigakure Village to fight.

A small country like the Country of Waves does not have any autonomy between the two big countries.

In fact, the daimyo of Wave Country don't care much about their country's "sovereignty".

As long as it does not affect his own luxury enjoyment, the status of the country is not at all within the scope of the daimyo's consideration.

In the ninja world, the daimyo of many small countries, and even big countries, are all of the same urinary nature.

If Konoha is willing, the defense line can even be deployed to the end of the Kingdom of Waves close to the Kingdom of Water.

However, the country of Waves is just an island country with a small territory.

If a defense line is deployed on the island, it will be easy for Kirigakure to cut off the retreat from the sea.

No one from the shinobi village is better at fighting in a marine environment than Kirigakure.

Even though there are many ninjas in Konoha who are good at water escape, the impact of the natural environment on combat is not only reflected in the blessing of the five elements attributes.

In addition, the Kingdom of Waves did not have much occupation value. Konoha did not send troops to invade on a large scale. It only left a certain number of intelligence spies in the Kingdom of Waves through secret channels.

The formal defense line is still built within the Kingdom of Fire, two kilometers away from the coastline.

This is to prevent the Kirito ninja from launching a large-scale water escape at sea and triggering a natural disaster such as a tsunami.

A group of robbers who aim at robbery never mind using any extreme means to achieve their goals.

With a two-kilometer buffer, even if the Kiri Ninja wanted to flood Konoha's defenses with a tsunami, it would be impossible to do so.

Even if the Mist ninja had the ability to launch a ninjutsu of this scale, Konoha's defensive ninjas would still have time to use earth release or other terrain-changing ninjutsu to defend themselves in time.

When the Mist Ninja invaded last time, Konoha had already organized a certain number of troops and began to build this line of defense.

Of course, the so-called "construction" is just a patchwork based on the previous wars, using old things left over from the past.

Especially for fortifications, there are almost no new plans.

In fact, there is really no need to build a new one.

Judging from the intelligence gathered from all aspects, the Mist Ninja did not intend to launch a full-scale war, and the biggest purpose was only to plunder resources.

If it weren't for the fear of having a bad reputation if it was revealed, and the top management of Konoha really didn't think highly of opponents like the Mist Ninja, there was even a voice within Konoha that believed that the defense against the Kingdom of Water should be given up and the Mist Ninja allowed to be left to its own devices. Go and plunder.

Anyway, the people who suffered the most were the common people, wealthy businessmen, and the nobles.

No matter how crazy the Mist Ninja was, there was no way he would dare to attack Konoha.

But this proposal ultimately failed to gain majority support.

After all, Konoha is not a village like Sand Ninja and Mist Ninja, and it still attaches great importance to its own image and reputation.

After all, in the Land of Fire, there is another daimyo who wants to suppress the power of Hokage and nationalize the "ninja system".

Moreover, this daimyo is supported by the Senju clan.

If Konoha loses the support of the people again, it is inevitable that it will be at a disadvantage in this game.

However, Konoha really didn't take the Mist Ninja's invasion too seriously. This can be seen from the fact that they appointed Fangzhou, an "outsider", as the commander-in-chief of the defense line.

In addition to a reasonably equipped Jonin team, Konoha has only invested a total of more than 800 people in this defense line.

Among them, there are only more than 70 chunin and one jounin, and the rest are all genin.

Of course, this number only counts the strength of the frontal defense line, not the "secret agents" responsible for intelligence work.

After all, the latter cannot be divided into simple genin, chunin and jounin.

Some ordinary people who don't even have chakra are better at intelligence work than many jounin.

Yakushi Noonoyu, the orphanage director who once trained Yakushi Kabuto, is a good example.

Her strength is not even comparable to that of most chunin, and she only knows a few simple medical ninjutsu, but she has obtained a large amount of important confidential information for "Gen".

But these have nothing to do with Fang Zhou.

Intelligence work is not an issue that Fangzhou needs to consider, and Konoha will not hand over authority in this area to an outsider who only cooperates temporarily.

Even if Fang Zhou is really willing to let Otsutsuki Ichiraku officially join Konoha, he probably won't be able to interfere in this matter.

This has nothing to do with strength, it just depends on whether one's background is "innocent" enough.

Being able to preside over the frontal defense line is already the limit that an outsider can achieve.

Without the full support of Namikaze Minato, and the fact that Konoha cannot find anyone strong enough in prestige and strength, even this would be impossible.

When Fang Zhou and his party arrived, the entire defense line had been almost repaired.

The war in the ninja world does not rely heavily on fixed fortifications. After all, ninja is a highly flexible profession.

Even a wall tens of meters high cannot stop a genin.

The only fixed fortifications are mostly protective "observation points".

Konoha's sentries will be inside the fortifications and observe the outside through the reserved observation holes. Once they find traces of the enemy, they will immediately send out a signal to notify the large troops, and then escape through the secret passage inside the fortifications.

Except for the military camps where large troops are stationed, there are not many traces of war at all elsewhere.

According to the war model of the ninja world, once a war begins, most of the battles will actually be completed in the wilderness.

The person temporarily responsible for the defense here is the only Jonin among the eight hundred ninjas, named Hyuga Kagami. He has not appeared in the original work, but his strength is pretty good.

After all, unlike the ridiculously low opening rate of the Sharingan, as long as the Hyuga clan is a ninja, they can basically open the Byakugan.

As long as you open your eyes, at least at this level below the elite jounin, the combat capabilities of ninjas with blood inheritance limits and those without blood inheritance limits are completely different.

Called Ri Xiangjing to ask a few questions about the deployment situation.

According to the other party, the intention of the second wave of Mist Ninja invasion has not yet been discovered.

However, according to feedback from the intelligence department, a large number of unfamiliar faces from the Kingdom of Water have appeared in Wave Country, and many of them are estimated to be spies from Kirigakure Village.

The intelligence ninjas within the Fire Country also caught many spies trying to sneak into the Fire Country to spy on intelligence.

Judging from these signs, the Mist Ninja clearly planned to launch a second invasion.

And the scale will be bigger than the previous one.

Maybe the team will be led personally by a senior executive who has the right to vote on resolutions.

After coming to this conclusion, Fangzhou turned to look at Hinata Hizashi and asked: "Hizashi-kun, do you think our current military strength is enough to deal with the invasion of the Mist Ninja?"

"As long as it doesn't develop into a full-scale war, 800 people are enough."

Hinata Hizashi said with certainty, thought for a moment, and added: "Our number is indeed small, and the overall strength is mainly weak genin. But among these 800 people, there are me and Kage, and There are more than 30 chuunin and more than a dozen genin from the Hyuga clan who have the Byakugan blood succession limit. According to past records, the Byakugan of the Hyuga clan can have a very obvious restraint effect when facing the Mist ninja. .”

No need to explain in detail, Fang Zhou also understood what Hinata Hizashi meant.

In addition to being good at water escape, Mist Ninja is actually better at the "assassination technique" of using thick fog to block the enemy's sight.

In the original mission to the Land of Waves, the "Silent Assassination Technique" used by Momochi Zabuza was actually the Mist Ninja Assassination Technique.

It is no exaggeration to say that among a hundred Mist Ninjas, there are at least 50 of them, and their special skill is the Mist Ninja assassination technique.

Using the thick fog created by chakra to block the enemy's sight, coupled with the silent assassination that makes almost no sound, is a very big threat to most ninjas.

But he was restrained tightly by Bai Yan.

The advantage of being able to penetrate almost most visual obstacles makes the thick fog created by the "Kirigakure Jutsu" look like nothing in front of Byakugan.

Without the effect of thick fog blocking sight, how can this assassination be played?

There are more than 50 ninjas from the Hyuga clan, which is not a lot.

It may not be enough to ensure that every team is assigned one, but it is enough to ensure that one of every three teams is equipped with a Hyuga ninja with a Byakugan.

With such a configuration, the restraint on the Mist Ninja is very obvious.