Chapter 163 The Plan Begins
After killing all three Iwagakure jonin, Qingming swept his eyes to other parts of the battlefield, observing the situation.
In the last few battles last night, it seemed that because they had received the order to retreat long ago, the resistance of the upper echelons of the Iwagakure was not very strong.
Without them taking the lead, the middle and lower-level ninjas naturally wouldn't work hard.
As a result, and because their number of people far exceeded that of the enemy, the number of casualties each time was much less than that in the first stronghold battle.
Therefore, even now, they still have over 400 people.
On the contrary, although a lot of people from the Iwagakure Village gathered in this third-line camp, the total number was only around two hundred.
Therefore, the battle on the field was basically a one-sided battle between them and the opponent.
Even on the jonin side, except for him who was one against many, the others were many against one.
Even though the Rock Ninjas have gathered the elite troops from the previous camps, they are still inferior to them.
After all, they were well prepared, and the elite troops they gathered were far beyond the reach of the Iwagakure Village's temporary gathering.
If not for this, the higher-ups would not be confident in letting them carry out the next diversionary mission. After all, it goes without saying that the upcoming support force from the Iwagakure Village will definitely not be weak.
If you are not strong enough, it will not be a containment, but a death.
The command center naturally would not let them die, so the staffing was oversized.
And this is one of the reasons why the death rate was so low last night.
All kinds of thoughts flashed through his mind. Qingming ignored those jonin and finally set his sights on those Iwagakure chunins with outstanding combat capabilities.
Compared to those jonin who are being besieged, these chunins are the trouble because no one can control them.
In just these ten short minutes, many Konoha ninjas have died at their hands, and Qingming must slow down this trend.
It's not that he cares much about these Konoha ninjas, but they still have a tough battle to fight next and the team cannot lose too many members.
After all, no matter how powerful he is, he is only one person. He is also counting on these people to attract firepower after the support team from the Iwagakure Village arrives. He can't let too many of them die!
As soon as he thought of this, Qingming leaped out and ran straight towards a Iwagakure Chunin.
"What?"
Yamaguchi Ishibashi was fighting with a Konoha Chunin when he suddenly felt a dark shadow passing by and instinctively looked over there.
However, the next moment, a feeling of extreme danger came from his side, making him shiver.
Without any hesitation, he immediately dodged to the side, and then a dagger piercing the air appeared in his peripheral vision.
This made him break out in a cold sweat.
Judging from the position of the dagger, if he had not reacted quickly, what was pierced would probably not be the air, but his heart.
"Who is it?"
Yamaguchi Ishibashi was suspicious and turned to look at the tail of the sword, trying to find the person holding the sword.
However, all that was left for him was a piece of clothing, and the man holding the sword had already disappeared.
Yamaguchi Ishibashi was about to continue his search.
The next moment, the familiar sense of crisis came again.
"not good!"
Yamaguchi Ishibashi was horrified and tried to dodge quickly.
Sizzle~
The sword blade scratched his arm, leaving a wound about an inch deep.
"Hmm~"
Yamaguchi Ishibashi groaned, endured the severe pain, and stabbed the kunai in the direction of the sword, while looking in that direction.
However, he saw nothing.
Whoosh~
Another sword stabbed from behind, and even though Yamaguchi Ishibashi tried his best to dodge, he was still injured.
Yamaguchi Ishibashi counterattacked again, but still no one!
Drops of cold sweat slid down Yamaguchi Shiqiao's forehead. He felt that this unknown enemy was like a ghost, he could only see its shadow but not its shape.
This made him terrified and at the same time very aggrieved.
If it was a fair fight, he would accept the defeat, but what was going on now? Was he being played like a monkey?
While he was thinking, Yamaguchi Ishibashi was hit by another sword.
Finally, Yamaguchi Ishibashi exploded. He shouted loudly and quickly formed seals with his hands, as if he was preparing to perform some ninjutsu.
However, before he could complete the seal, a dagger pierced his back and pierced his heart.
Phew~
A mouthful of blood spurted out.
Yamaguchi Ishibashi looked at the sword tip that pierced through his body, his face full of unwillingness and disbelief.
Just now, he was not really intending to form hand seals to perform ninjutsu, but was preparing to use this method to lure the enemy into attacking.
Based on the speed of the previous few swords, he had absolute confidence that he could avoid the next attack, and he could take this opportunity to counterattack the enemy.
But he really didn't expect that the enemy's speed would be so much faster, which caught him off guard and turned the flaw he deliberately left into a death warrant.
"I'm not willing~"
Yamaguchi Ishibashi uttered these words with difficulty.
Then, as Qingming pulled out the dagger, he fell heavily to the ground and completely lost his life.
Until his death, he never saw Qing Ming, who killed him, with his own eyes. No wonder he had such a great resentment!
Qing Ming glanced at the corpse on the ground, said nothing, shook off the blood on the blade, and nodded to the stunned Konoha Chunin beside him.
Then he performed the 'Flash Body Technique' and ran towards another Iwagakure Chunin.
In this way, Qing Ming killed more than 20 powerful Iwagakure Chunins in succession in just over ten minutes, greatly reducing the potential casualties of his own team.
During this period, some Iwagakure jonin tried to stop it, but they were stopped by the Konoha jonin who were fighting against them.
Although according to the unspoken rules on the battlefield, Qingming, as a senior ninja, should not take the initiative to attack low-level ninjas.
but
Who made the Rock Ninjas so disadvantaged? Even if they saw what Qing Ming did, they had no way to retaliate in the same way.
In this way, Qingming naturally cannot be afraid.
The battle is still going on, Qingming is still attacking the Iwagakure Chunins, and anyone who performs outstandingly cannot escape his clutches.
This made many Iwagakure Chunins dare not reveal their strength.
For a moment, the battle between the middle and lower ninjas actually showed a one-sided trend.
However, come to think of it, Konoha already has the advantage in terms of numbers.
Now, all those who dared to show up from the Iwagakure side have been dealt with by Qingming. How could the situation not tilt towards Konoha?
A few minutes later, there were less than a hundred surviving Iwagakure.
Just when Qingming was about to change his target and attack those Iwagakure jonin, a voice suddenly appeared in his mind.
No, not just in his mind, all the living Konoha ninjas in the venue heard this voice.
"Everyone, execute Plan C immediately!"
Qingming recognized the voice; it belonged to a jonin from the Yamanaka clan in the team.
At this time, the other party should be using the "Telepathy Technique" to connect everyone and convey the order of the mission commander Nara Surabaya.
The so-called Plan C was actually to tie down the support forces of the Rock Ninja in order to coordinate the full-scale counterattack launched by other strongholds.
"That means support from the Iwagakure Village is arriving soon."
With this thought in mind, Qing Ming immediately rushed out of the battlefield according to the plan and headed in the direction he came from.
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