Chapter 170 Is this also within your calculation?
The day after Kakashi successfully became a jonin, just like in the original story, Namikaze Minato and Nohara Rin both presented him with gifts to congratulate him, but Obito forgot to prepare any due to his carelessness.
Just as Obito was yelling "It's not that I haven't prepared anything, I just haven't decided what to give you," Aburame Shio came over to report.
"Minato, the intelligence personnel of the former Root reported: Kumogakure's containment plan was successful, and the preparations on the front line are also ready. However, there were some minor incidents in the south of the village. I'm afraid that the third phase of support originally promised by Master Jiraiya will not arrive."
Namikaze Minato nodded and said seriously: "Then let's not wait any longer, it's time to act!"
He then placed his hands on Kakashi and Obito's shoulders.
"Kakashi, this time I'm leaving Rin and Obito in your care. You're already a Jonin, so it's time for you to shoulder the responsibility of leading the team."
Obito stood aside with a shocked cat-head expression.
“Wha-what?! Do you mean I have to call this stinking guy captain from now on? No such thing!”
It's a pity that at this time, Minato Namikaze had no intention of comforting his disciple who said one thing and did another. He just smiled faintly, and then immediately used Flying Thunder God to leave.
He has been planning and preparing for so many days, he can't wait any longer!
This time, he will end the war in the North with his own hands!
At about four o'clock in the afternoon of that day, Konoha's all-out attack finally began!
This time, Minato Namikaze almost put all the chips in his hand into the stakes!
Thousands of ninjas launched a full-scale attack on Iwagakure from multiple directions, thus covering the elite team led by him as they marched northward into the high-altitude mountainous areas in the central part of the Land of Grass!
When the information about the impending war was transmitted back to the Iwagakure front-line headquarters, Ōnoki let out a long sigh with a complicated expression.
The voice contained both relief, reluctance, and jealousy that was difficult to conceal.
"Those young people from Akatsuki actually guessed all of this correctly."
Those juniors guessed right again. They always seemed to be able to read the enemy's movements and see how the situation was going to develop!
Ohnoki sighed, suppressed his emotions, and ordered: "Then let's carry out the blocking operation according to the original plan!"
This time, the pressure that Konoha will face in the raid is destined to be several times greater than that in the original world line!
Because this time, Iwagakure came well prepared!
However, in the first few battlefields where the blocking war broke out, even though Iwagakure had been prepared in advance, it was still hit hard!
This time, Konoha's fighting spirit was miraculously exceptionally strong!
Because the first ones to rush to the front line were ninjas from the Sarutobi clan, they had no choice.
Behind them was a joint supervisory team composed of various ninja clans.
Now they have only one way to go, forward! There is no retreat at all!
At that moment, Sarutobi Shinnosuke, who was at the front line of the battlefield, felt his heart bleeding!
After this battle, no matter who wins or who loses, or what the situation is, the accumulation of at least twenty years of the Sarutobi clan is doomed to be destroyed...
I wonder if my father Sarutobi will have a moment of regret when this news reaches back to Konoha Village?
While the full-scale offensive was in full swing, the elite squad led by Minato Namikaze himself was also maneuvering northward at an astonishing speed!
This time, even the head elder of the Hyuga clan, Hyuga Hideki, was forcibly brought out by Namikaze Minato. He accompanied them all the way and used his Byakugan to scout in order to avoid possible enemies.
At this time, Elder Hyuga Hideki recalled that not long ago, he was bullying Minato Namikaze for his kindness. He was complacent and spoke nonsense in front of the other party, and unscrupulously criticized the village's ills. But now, the boomerang has come back to stab him fiercely.
He woke up Minato Namikaze, and thus, his own good days came to an end... He once asked Minato: Why didn't you say the same thing to the Sarutobi clan?
But now, Namikaze Minato has completely turned into Orochimaru, and has directly killed the Sarutobi clan. His words have become sharp arrows, completely blocking Hyuga Hideki's retreat.
Along the way, Hyuga Hideki sighed silently in his heart, lamenting why they had never cherished the warm and sunny smile of Minato Namikaze.
The only thing he was thankful for was that after they set out, it seemed as if someone was helping and guiding them. They miraculously bypassed almost all the Iwagakure defense forces along the way as they headed north!
After more than two hours of setting off, Hyuga Hideki's all-encompassing Byakugan had only warned of approaching enemies twice, and those were both small groups passing by.
This made Hyuga Hideki feel more confident, and he felt that their actions this time might be favored by fate!
However, what he didn't know was that the one who truly favored them was not fate, but the Black Zetsu in the dark!
The situation of Konoha in the current world line is different from that in the original work. The deployment of Iwagakure and Akatsuki organizations has already been launched in advance, so Black Zetsu can only be forced to change from watching the show in secret to personally taking part in it, guiding Konoha's small group of elite troops all the way to the mountains.
Before the event started, this incident even caused Uchiha Madara in the cave to burst into laughter.
"Hahaha! Konoha Village has really regressed! Now it's even struggling to deal with a mere Iwagakure Village, and it needs you to intervene and help. You're such a waste! Hashirama, I really want you to see how embarrassed and ridiculous your descendants are now!"
Black Zetsu had long been accustomed to Madara's style of speaking, which always mentioned Hashirama and mocked Konoha's style of speaking on everything.
At first, Hei Jue didn't take it seriously, thinking that the situation was still under his control. Even though Konoha was currently at a slight disadvantage, with the support of this master of balancing things in the ninja world, they would definitely be able to fight against the Akatsuki and Iwagakure!
It was not until after a night of travel, when Black Zetsu led Namikaze Minato's elite team to the starting point of the mountain road in the early morning, that he realized how wrong he was!
What appeared before the eyes of all the Konoha ninjas on this trip were traps and bunkers all over the mountains, a raging forest fire near the main road that was sweeping down the mountain, and huge rocks and stray arrows that kept falling from the top of the mountain!
Akimichi Choza, who was beside Minato Namikaze, was the first to yell, "Be careful!"
Then he took a pill, and his body suddenly swelled up, instantly turning into a small giant, who smashed a huge rock thrown down from the top of the mountain with one punch.
Then Namikaze Minato stretched out his hands, placed a Ninja Kunai across the palms of his hands, and opened a Flying Thunder God circle formation right in front of his palms.
He used this method to transmit all the broken stones to a distant place, so that the stones thrown from high altitude did not hit the crowd behind him.
Just like in the original work, he used similar means to transfer away the Nine-Tails' Tailed Beast Ball.
But even so, the morale of this elite team was still greatly shaken at this moment.
"How could this happen? Were they well prepared? With such exaggerated defenses, did the enemy know we were coming?"
Someone couldn't help but murmur, his expression full of despair.
Had their most desperate attempt to end the war been completely misguided by the enemy from the outset?
Even Black Zetsu found it unbelievable.
He hadn't paid attention to Akatsuki for a while, and recently he had paid more attention to Uchiha Obito. As a result, when he looked back, he found that Akatsuki had already prepared for war to this extent here!
Shiba Kiyokawa, is this also in your calculations? Black Zetsu thought angrily.
(End of this chapter)
