Chapter 246 Restart
"Calling all the jonin to a meeting, is this related to the Iwagakure?"

Looking at the disappearing figure of the Konoha Chunin outside the door, Qingming murmured.

As for why I guess it is related to Rock Ninja.
It's very simple. Given the current situation, unless it was a major event related to the Iwagakure ninja, it would be impossible for Omura Yuito to call all the jonin together for a meeting.

Moreover, there have been reports in the past few days that the Iwagakure ninjas seem to be intending to restart the war.

Qing Ming also discovered from daily patrols and reports from his subordinates that the Iwagakure infiltration team has indeed become much more active these days.

All of this indicates that the Iwagakure Village is very likely preparing to launch a new attack.

At this time, Omura Yuito suddenly called a meeting of all the jonin. Aoki could not think of any other reason except that it was related to this.

This is definitely not good news for Qingming, because war means chaos, and the stable environment will be disrupted, and his practice will definitely be affected.

Closing his eyes, Qing Ming felt it carefully and estimated that it would take about three or four days for his body to complete the accumulation of foundation and thus undergo transformation.

“What a shame! What a shame!”

With a silent sigh, Qingming stopped thinking about it.

He raised his hands and formed seals, then skillfully performed the 'Palm Immortal Technique'. Pure Yang Release Chakra was generated and then flowed through his body.

After several times, Qingming felt that the time was about up, so he went out to find Shan Zhongju, told him some things, and then went down the mountain to the meeting place.

We arrived at the Fengliu Town base and walked into the meeting room. The time was just right and before long, Omura Yuito came over.

The meeting started soon, and the content of the meeting was similar to what Qingming had expected. It was indeed related to the latest unusual movements of the Rock Ninja.

However, what surprised him was that the opposing Iwa Ninja did not intend to make them the main target of attack next.

Instead, he planned to disperse his forces and launch an attack on several nearby adjacent strongholds.

"Is this news accurate?"

After listening to Omura Yuito's narration, a senior ninja expressed his doubts, and the others also looked at Omura Yuito.

Seeing this, Omura Yuito nodded affirmatively and said in a deep voice: "This news is absolutely reliable!"

Although he did not mention the source of the news, all those present were senior ninjas, and no one was stupid. They immediately realized that the Iwagakure had their own people acting as spies.

Moreover, this person is very trusted by Omura Yuito or the village’s top leaders, so Omura Yuito can say such affirmative words.

In other words, it is almost inevitable that the Iwagakure will split up their forces.

'Then why would they do that?'

Everyone was confused.

Qing Ming thought of the answer at the first moment. It was not because he was quick to react or something, but because this scene was too familiar.

Originally, the reason they withdrew from the front-line stronghold was that the surrounding strongholds were taken down, causing them to be isolated and forced to retreat.

This scene now is so similar!

Obviously, the Rock Ninja is planning to use the same old trick again. First, eliminate the strongholds near Fengliu Town, causing Fengliu Town to be isolated, and then exert pressure.

If they were allowed to succeed, given the current situation in Fengliu Town, they might really have to retreat.

Qingming even began to suspect that the commander who forced them to retreat was the same person who was currently commanding the Iwagakure.

Otherwise, how could he be so skilled?
However, none of this matters. What matters is what to do next?
Although the other jonin may not have thought of this before Qingming, they were able to guess the Rock Ninja's plan after a little thought.

Therefore, everyone is thinking about countermeasures.

To be honest, the main reason why they were so passive was due to insufficient military forces.

Konoha suffered heavy losses in the wars of the past two years, and is now short of manpower on all fronts.

If not, if each stronghold was given hundreds or thousands of men, then no matter how many troops the Rock Ninjas divided, it would be useless.

Unfortunately, Konoha doesn't have that many people.

In fact, over the past month, in order to support the Fengliu Town stronghold, a lot of manpower has been transferred to several surrounding strongholds, and now they are in a stage of defensive emptiness.

Therefore, in the end, everyone could only come up with a temporary solution, which was to divide the troops and try to protect the surrounding strongholds. Only in this way could Fengliu Town not be isolated and helpless.

After the meeting, Qingming returned to the Xishan stronghold, where he selected some familiar personnel, and then brought some of the personnel assigned to him by Omura Yuito.

A total of nearly one hundred people rushed to a stronghold about twenty kilometers southeast of Fengliu Town.

That’s right, Qingming was assigned a task to support other strongholds.

Not only him, but several other relatively powerful jonin also received similar tasks.

Obviously, Omura Yuito wanted to use the power of these people to balance the numerical disadvantage of Konoha ninjas.

Qingming did not comment on this.

He led the support team, made a long detour, and finally arrived at the target base secretly under the cover of night.

This stronghold is called Odani Village Stronghold. As the name suggests, it is built in a village called Odani Village.

Xiaogu Village is a medium-sized village that can accommodate up to seven or eight hundred people.

However, with the outbreak of the Ninja World War, there were no villagers left here, only more than one hundred but less than two hundred Konoha ninjas stationed here.

Now, with Qing Ming’s hundred men, it would be a stronghold of three hundred people.

If the Iwagakure didn't get the news in time, they would be caught off guard after they divided their forces and launched an attack.

This is the benefit of knowing the intelligence in advance.

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Soon, the time came to the next day.

Qing Ming and other ninjas from the support forces did not show up, so the patrolling, garrisoning and other tasks were still handled by the ninjas in the original stronghold.

From the outside, nothing has changed here.

Now it depends on whether the Iwa Ninja will be fooled.

Time passed by minute by minute, the sun rose and set, and in the blink of an eye, a whole day had passed, and the Rock Ninja still did not appear.

However, Qingming was not in a hurry.

According to Omura Yuito's information, the Iwagakure ninja will launch the attack no later than three days, so he just needs to wait patiently.

At the same time, he can also take advantage of this last peaceful time to continue strengthening his body and increasing his foundation.

In the blink of an eye, another day passed.

Just when everyone thought they would have to wait in vain for another day, a sudden explosion occurred that night, surprising everyone.

Suddenly, the whole village became noisy.

However, because everyone was mentally prepared, no one panicked too much.

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at the same time.

Outside the village, a special Jonin from Iwagakure looked at the body of a Konoha Chunin in front of him, whose face was blown beyond recognition by an explosive tag, with a gloomy look in his eyes.

His task was to deal with the secret sentry, and he thought it was a sure thing, but unexpectedly, something went wrong in the end.

The opponent's alertness was too high and he actually failed to react at the critical moment, preventing him from completing a fatal blow.

In the end, he even ignited a detonating talisman, trying to die together with him.

It was only because of his quick reaction that the other party failed to succeed.

However, once the explosion occurred, their actions were exposed.

Fortunately, they were well prepared this time and had twice as many people as the other side, so they could completely defeat the other side with their hard power.

As soon as he thought of this, the Iwagakure special jonin immediately ordered all the team members to move forward at full speed.

After hearing the explosion, the other Iwagakure teams realized that their actions had been exposed, so without hesitation, they immediately began to move forward at full speed towards Odani Village.

(End of this chapter)