[Naruto] Survival Records of the Warring States Period

"Xiaoxue, where is Mr. Qingshui?"

Before you can figure out why your boss suddenly became so weird, Kentaro from the printing factory comes to deliver the tiles.

"Just went out."

You are a little confused.

Tile plates are newspapers. Qingshui Bookstore does not do this kind of business. Usually the printing factory hires people to sell them on the street. But Boss A Cong has the habit of reading the tile plates, so every time a new tile plate is released, the small trade unions directly send it to him. Knowing why Kentaro came to send it off in person: "Is it urgent?"

Kentaro hesitated to speak, his brows furrowed and unclenched repeatedly, and finally pointed at the tile board: "It doesn't count. But remember to let the boss see it when he comes back later. I still have something to send to Mr. Quan's house."

You remember Izumi-sama Kentaro said.

He seems to be related to the current daimyo. His residence is located in a town near the castle. He likes singing and writing poems. He sends people to send his works to be printed every now and then. He is a long-term meal ticket for Qingmizu House. .

You nodded to note it down, and registered that a tile plate was sent from the printing factory today, and signed the receipt with Kentaro.

Before Kentaro left, he repeatedly told you to remember to tell your boss, so you had no choice but to agree and send him away in a good voice.

After returning to the counter, you were thinking about what happened, and after Kentaro repeatedly warned you, you heard the voice of the tile seller shouting key information from far away on the street——

"The front line was defeated. The Kingdom of Sichuan formed an alliance with the Kingdom of Wind. The Kingdom of Wind occupied two cities in a row and sent envoys——"

You were startled, your face turned pale for a moment, you grabbed the tile plate on the counter with trembling hands and looked at it, your heart filled with thoughts of impossibility.

Before you heard what the two brothers Hashirama and Tobirama said, the Fire Nation clearly hired Senju and Uchiha at the same time.

Those are Senju and Uchiha!

Could the Senju and Uchiha team up and lose? Even though Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara are not yet adults, how could they lose!

and……

On the other side of the battlefield, there is a cheap dad who is still unclear about his whereabouts and is still uncertain about his life or death.

You take a deep breath.

……

——At the same time, inside the Daimyo Castle.

"Kawakuni! He actually concealed the whereabouts of the ninjas from Wind Country!"

The daimyo was now very old. He propped up his old body and stood behind the imperial curtain. He angrily threw the scroll with the battle report out, causing the imperial curtain to rattle. He then cursed at the waiter who was presenting the battle report below. : "How dare he even rely on our tiny territory for food! Doesn't he care about Shuichi's life?"

Shuichi is the heir of the Daimyo of the Kingdom of Sichuan. He has been sent to the Kingdom of Fire as a hostage since he was five years old. He is engaged to be married to the princess of the Kingdom of Fire. He is sixteen years old this year.

The daimyo stared at the scroll that rolled down the steps and lay quietly on the ground. He gradually calmed down and sat back in his seat. His voice was hoarse with exhaustion: "Are the Uchiha and Senju people here?"

"Your Highness, we have arrived." the attendant replied.

He nodded slightly behind the curtain, and someone understood and invited the two major ninja clans to enter the temple.

Two young men came in, said to be the next clan leaders of the two clans.

After losing the war, the Kingdom of Wind sent envoys with the intention of establishing a new alliance with the Kingdom of Fire, and the war on the front line slowed down a bit. The patriarchs of the two clans sent their heirs back from the battlefield based on the consideration of pleading guilty and monitoring the envoys of the Kingdom of Wind.

He listened to the young man below explaining the situation of the battle ahead, and also heard the other party saying that the name of the Kawa Country was being coerced by the Country of Wind.

As he listened, he looked at his withered hands, filled with impatience.

He is no longer young.

He wanted to leave a legacy in the history of the Fire Country that no one could cover up before the end of his life. Therefore, he did not hesitate to hire these two famous ninja clans.

The envoys from the Kingdom of Wind have not arrived yet, but they are already being closely monitored.

You don't need to think about the peace negotiation conditions brought by the other party. They are clichés about ceding territory and offering gold and silver. Before the war, he also prepared such an alliance for the Kingdom of Wind.

There was absolutely no way he could accept such a shameful ending.

The daimyo held the bat fan in his hand tightly, with veins sprouting in his hand. His cold eyes fell on the ninja heir whose appearance was hidden by the imperial curtain.

"Either win, or the whole family leaves the Country of Fire."

He gave him an ultimatum.

He didn't care at all why he failed or how much he lost.

He just wants to win.

Senju Hashirama wanted to speak again, but the old nobleman behind the curtain coughed and stood up and left without giving him any time to speak.

Uchiha Madara, standing next to Hashirama, cast a complicated glance.

"..." Hashirama's state was quite lost and depressed.

"What innocent things are you thinking about again, Hashirama?" Uchiha Madara crossed his arms, "Do you still have time to think about all this?"

"I just want to ask, is this war of fire..." Senju Hashirama just started to say, then closed his mouth.

——Why is there a war?

——How can the war be stopped?

When facing the daimyo who hired him for the first time on behalf of his clan, Senju Hashirama remembered the scene when several brothers gathered by the river to think about "war" when Itama was still alive.

He wanted to ask the other party why they started this war.

The Daimyo of the Country of Fire walked out of the wide room and came to the corridor. He squinted his eyes slightly when he looked at the green mountains covered by mist outside the corridor. He suddenly thought of the heir of the Kingdom of Kawakawa who seemed to be as old as the two ninjas just now. He slowly He stood slowly.

"Keep an eye on Shuichi. If he escapes -" he called the attendants around him and ordered. When he said this, the face of his youngest daughter Jingzi flashed in his mind, but this only made him pause for a moment, and his tone did not waver at all. , "Kill on the spot."

Then, he thought of the two ninjas he saw today. Those two teenagers always made him feel a little uneasy.

"Am I getting old?" Thinking like this, he frowned and stopped thinking about it, and walked towards his residence - Xiu Yi needed to talk to Jingzi's mother about it.

——As for the ninja, there’s no need to worry, it’s just a sword. When it's not easy to use, just polish it properly. This has been the case for hundreds of years.

"Your Highness."

He walked outside the side room and heard the laughter of his daughter Jingzi in the distance. His tense mood due to the war couldn't help but relax a little. He ignored the young maid who was bending down in the corridor and quickened his pace. He didn't feel guilty at all because he had given the order to escape and kill his daughter's fiancé a few minutes ago.

He didn't notice that behind him, the maid who bowed down slowly raised her head, and the face she revealed did not belong to any of the maids in the side room.

……

The front line, the country of Sichuan.

The Country of Sichuan has a lot of rain and is covered with swampy mountains and forests. It faces the sea in the south, the Country of Rain in the north, and borders the Country of Fire and the Country of Wind in the east and west respectively. And because of its long and narrow territory, it is very difficult to defend the border between the East and the West, not to mention that these two countries are among the largest powers in the world.

This allowed the daimyo of Kawa no Kuni to form extremely flexible policies.

——The heir can be sent to the Country of Fire to be engaged to the Princess of the Country of Fire, and the most beloved princess can also be sent to the Country of Wind as a pledge.

——If the Kingdom of Fire wants to take the road, that’s fine; if the Kingdom of Wind wants to pass by, that’s fine too. If the two countries want to go to war, he can even provide a venue for them.

He knew very well that the reason why a small country like his could survive between such two big countries was that the two countries needed an unlucky man to act as a buffer zone, so he never cared about being looked down upon by the two countries.

Small countries have the survival wisdom of small countries.

This is also the reason why the Daimyo of Kawa no Kuni could still smile at the Senju and Uchiha ninjas after his mansion was tightly surrounded by ninjas, without any aristocratic gestures.

The Daimyo of Kawakuni can laugh, but Senju Buddhama and Uchiha Tajima cannot laugh at all.

Although the ninjas from the Country of Wind made a surprise attack on the Castle of the Country of Fire through the hidden movements of the Daimyo of the Country of Wind, firstly, the Country of Wind and the Country of Fire were related by marriage, and secondly, the status of the ninja nobles was very different, so they could not do anything to him. What.

This breath can only be swallowed in a muffled voice.

Of course, this failure is also related to the reluctant cooperation between the two communities at the request of the employer.

Playing away from home is already at a disadvantage.

Since a month ago, it has been raining continuously in Sawa Country. The Kingdom of Fire used the Kingdom of Daochuan to attack the Kingdom of Wind, and the supplies from the rear had to pass through the swampy mountains and forests of the Kingdom of Sichuan before they could reach the front line. The manpower of the transport team hired by the ninjas in the Land of Fire before setting off was severely depleted on the road due to the onset of the rainy season.

Secondly -

The feud between the two clans left them with a lack of trust and an inability to fight side by side.

Rather than saying that the Uchiha and Senju clans joined forces to attack the Kingdom of Wind, it is better to say that the two clans are attacking the Kingdom of Wind independently, with only basic exchange of information.

Regarding the attitude of the ninja's potential client, the Daimyo of Kawanoguni, the two clans were wary of each other taking the opportunity to be courteous and restrained each other. And because the Kingdom of Sichuan was not uninterested in assisting in this battle, and the daimyo's mansion was close to the Kingdom of Fire and at the rear of the battlefield, only a few people from the two tribes stayed behind. Unexpectedly, they were picked up by the Kingdom of Wind in the end.

A small group of ninjas hired by the Kingdom of Wind took a long way to the Kingdom of Rain and sneaked into the rear of the Kingdom of Sichuan from the Kingdom of Rain. They happened to meet a losing team from the Land of Fire. After defeating the enemy, the ninjas from the Land of Wind disguised themselves as members of the transport team, successfully sneaked into the Daiming's mansion and took control of the Daimyo of the Kingdom of Kawa.

At the front of the battlefield, the two tribes invaded the Kingdom of Wind with great fanfare, but it was only when supplies had not arrived that they realized that there was a problem at the rear.

Until this time, there were even voices from the two tribes that the other side was obstructing the transfer of information and materials. When the young chiefs of the two tribes connected, they realized that contact had been lost for a long time.

At this moment, the ninjas of the Kingdom of Wind, who control the center of the Kingdom of Sichuan, hold hostages. They can advance, attack, retreat, or defend. They have also cut off the two clans' rear supply and intelligence sources.

They didn't even attack the two tribes. Instead, they went straight to the Fire Country, tearing apart the almost defenseless border at the rear, capturing the castle, capturing the Fire Country nobles, and directly proposing peace talks.

The two tribes are surrounded by enemies from both sides, are deep in the enemy's country, lack trust in their teammates, and the opponent has hostages in hand. If they want to reverse the situation of the war, I am afraid it will take the reincarnation of the Sage of Six Paths to do it.

As long as there was only one clan carrying out this mission, Senju and Uchiha would not have realized the problems on the rear so late. No one expected that forcibly hiring two tribes to perform tasks together would actually have the ultimate pulling effect of 1+1 less than 1. This even strengthened the opposition of the heads of the two tribes to the alliance and reconciliation remarks that their sons had made.

The leaders of the two clans finally sat together because of this humiliating defeat. After taking back the Daimyo's mansion in the Kingdom of Kawa as a stronghold, they discussed what to do about the next battle.

Since the other party has occupied the castle of the Kingdom of Fire, there will naturally be no shortage of supplies in the short term, and it is possible to defend it for several months.

A forceful attack won't work, as the opponent already has hostages in hand. If you want to break the situation, you have to think carefully.

——If the Fire Nation does not intend to negotiate peace.

……

After you read the report, the tile board did not write down the details of the battle, but it roughly stated that the Kingdom of Sichuan and the Kingdom of Wind were colluding, and that the Kingdom of Fire had joined forces to create a conflict.

You also know that detailed information will only appear on the desks of nobles in the city.

And I don’t know how much false news there is in this short space on the tile board.

You have been uneasy since you heard the news of the defeat on the front line, and you can't read the book anymore. My hands were shaking when I was writing, and I wasted a lot of paper.

When the boss came back, you relayed Kentaro's words and stopped mid-sentence. You saw that he already had a tile version in his hand, which he obviously bought on the way.

You told Kentaro's whereabouts.

Boss Acong nodded and handed Nyanosuke to you again: "Thank you for your hard work. Come off work today and take care of Nyanosuke for me. I still have some things to do now."

Without waiting for your answer, Boss A Cong hurried out the door.

You couldn't tell whether your landlord would allow cats or not, and you were stuck in your throat. In the end, you could only look down at Nyanosuke in your arms and smile bitterly.

Nyanosuke seemed to sense that you were in a bad mood, he meowed in a sticky voice and deigned to nuzzle you.

you:……

Forget it, don't think about whether you will be fired tomorrow for putting your left foot first in the store.

Forget it, sleep in the store tonight.