Orochimaru and Jiraiya have already taken action.
The two were rapidly rushing towards the Hot Spring Village.
As Sannin with rich combat experience and a reputation throughout the ninja world, breaking through the Cloud ninjas' defenses silently was not difficult for them at all. They easily entered the Village.
According to the information reported by the sensory ninjas, Orochimaru and Jiraiya arrived at the location with the largest number of Cloud ninjas.
At this time, they were standing on the roof.
Jiraiya, full of fighting spirit, said to Orochimaru: "Orochimaru, let's go!"
Jiraiya bit his finger, smeared blood on his palm, and formed the hand seals for the Summoning Technique.
Orochimaru followed closely behind, also beginning to form the hand seals for the Summoning Technique.
They simultaneously pressed their palms on the ground.
"Summoning Technique!"
'Boom' 'Boom'
Two huge clouds of smoke enveloped Jiraiya and Orochimaru.
When the smoke dissipated, the houses beneath them had collapsed, replaced by two giant summoned beasts.
Manda of Ryūchi Cave, Gamabunta of Mount Myōboku.
Gamabunta took a puff of his pipe, exhaled a large cloud of smoke, and looked at Manda beside him with displeasure: "Jiraiya, how many times have I told you? Don't summon me when this damn snake is around!"
Jiraiya said with a smile: "Don't be like that. This battle is very important, so don't worry about such things for now."
Manda also found Gamabunta very unpleasant: "Orochimaru, you summoned me to have me eat this stinky toad? If that's the case, I'll waive the sacrifice this time!"
Orochimaru said coldly: "Manda, everyone here is your sacrifice."
"Tch!"
Manda also knew that it was impossible for him to eat Gamabunta; he just wanted to enjoy the verbal sparring.
The commotion here had long alerted the Cloud and Hot Spring ninjas, and a large number of ninjas had gathered around Orochimaru and Jiraiya.
"Orochimaru, one of the Sannin? Why is he also in the Land of Hot Water?!"
"They are attacking us!"
"All ninjas! Prepare for battle!"
...
The Cloud and Hot Spring ninjas began to attack Orochimaru and Jiraiya.
Gamabunta drew the huge short sword from his waist and directly unleashed a horizontal slash.
A large number of ninjas were directly cut in half by his short sword.
And Manda also refused to be outdone, unleashing a tail whip. Similarly, a large number of ninjas were directly sent flying by this tail whip.
The giant Gamabunta and Manda were like meat grinders on the battlefield, reaping the lives of ninjas.
With the protection of scales, ordinary ninjutsu could not even penetrate Manda's scales.
And Gamabunta, despite his large size, was exceptionally agile.
After jumping high, most ninjutsu could not hit him.
Orochimaru and Jiraiya took the initiative to land on the ground, allowing Manda and Gamabunta to unleash their full potential.
Orochimaru quickly formed hand seals and then lay on the ground, opening his mouth.
"Formation of Ten Thousand Snakes!"
Orochimaru spat out a large number of snakes from his mouth, and these snakes each found Cloud and Hot Spring ninjas to bite.
Jiraiya also completed his hand seals.
"Ninja Art: Needle Jizō!"
Jiraiya hardened his silver hair, covering his entire body.
"Needle Hell!"
Jiraiya's hardened silver hair, like senbon needles, shot out in all directions, instantly injuring a large number of ninjas.
Orochimaru and Jiraiya's surprise attack plan had a very good start, instantly killing a large number of Cloud and Hot Spring ninjas.
However, the Cloud and Hot Spring ninjas, gradually reacting, also began to develop countermeasures.
They first sought cover, avoiding the area-of-effect attacks of Orochimaru and Jiraiya and the two summoned beasts, and began to direct the ninjas to fight.
After reacting, Orochimaru and Jiraiya could no longer inflict as many casualties on the enemy as they had at the beginning.
...
Outside the Hot Spring Village.
A group of Konoha ninjas, after discovering that the Cloud ninjas guarding the edge of the village had entered back to provide support, immediately began to take action.
Yasu and Minato took the lead, rushing into the village at great speed.
The remaining ninjas followed closely behind.
After successfully entering the Hot Spring Village, ninjas skilled in using Earth Release ninjutsu began to act according to the plan.
"Earth Release: Earth-Style Wall!"
After all the Earth Release ninjas completed their hand seals, they pressed their hands on the ground.
Walls of earth were erected in the battlefield, dividing the battlefield and preventing the Cloud and Hot Spring ninjas from gathering together.
Immediately afterward, Water Release ninjas also began to form hand seals.
"Water Release: Water Bullet Technique!"
The Water Release ninjas spat water from their mouths, and the gathered water flow rushed towards the enemy ninjas.
Earth Release ninjas cooperated with Water Release ninjas' ninjutsu.
"Earth Release: Rock Shelter!"
The Earth Release ninjas injected chakra into the ground, causing the rocks to collapse and combine with the water to form mudslides.
In the mudslides, many Cloud and Hot Spring ninjas found it difficult to move.
Fire Release and Wind Release ninjas were also ready to release ninjutsu.
"Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!"
"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"
The combination of wind and fire directly formed a flame wind.
The flame wind swept away, burning to death the ninjas who remained in the mudslides and could not escape in time.
On the front of the Hot Spring Village, all the Fire Release ninjas used the Great Fireball Technique to bombard everywhere, steadily advancing.
The Earth Release and Water Release ninjas, who had already completed their tasks, also joined the frontal battle.
The Lightning Release ninjas naturally had the advantage of speed, supporting their companions who were in decline while killing some isolated ninjas.
Orochimaru's deployment was a complete success.
In a short period of time, the Whole Village was in chaos.
The plan had been almost half successful since its implementation, but the situation was still not optimistic for the Konoha side.
This was because the enemy ninjas had too large a population base.
Under the command of the various commanders among the Cloud and Hot Spring ninjas, they began to direct their actions in an orderly manner and fought with the Konoha ninjas.
And at this time.
Yasu and Minato's mission also began.
Their mission target was those commanders.
Yasu's method of identifying commanders was particularly simple and crude, which was through the Sharingan.
The Sharingan's extremely strong dynamic vision allowed him to clearly see the facial expressions of ninjas even in the distance.
He observed the mouths of those ninjas.
Anyone who opened their mouths the most was judged by him to be an enemy commander.
"Thunder Breathing, First Form: Thunderclap and Flash, Sixfold!"
Yasu transformed into a roaring lightning bolt, using the surrounding terrain to change his direction of attack multiple times. Wherever he passed, the enemy ninjas blocking his path were either paralyzed by the electricity or knocked away by his impact, directly suffering serious injuries.
After reaching the target, Yasu's ninja sword was instantly unsheathed.
The opponent didn't even have time to react before their head was cut off.
At the same time, he used the Body Flicker Technique to immediately disengage.
This was because Yasu had attached several explosive tags to the corpse of the commander whose head he had cut off.
The explosive tags exploded, injuring or killing the ninjas around the corpse.
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