Based on the information relayed to him by the snake, Yasu knew that a three-man squad was scouting about 40 meters away.
So, he stealthily approached and located the three-man squad.
One of them, a sensory ninja, was closing his eyes to sense the surroundings, while the other two were guarding him.
"Eiji, how is it? Have you sensed anything?"
"Yes, but something's not right."
"Not right? What's wrong?"
"I roughly sensed over two hundred Konoha ninjas, but something feels very strange about more than a hundred of them."
"Hiss! Over two hundred people? How many reinforcements did Konoha send to the Land of Hot Water?"
"It seems Konoha plans to counterattack; after all, even Orochimaru, one of the other Sannin, has come to the Land of Hot Water."
"Should we retreat and report immediately?"
"Wait a little longer. Let me sense it again; something is really strange about those hundred-plus people."
Suddenly, the sensory ninja named Eiji shouted: "Careful! Someone is approaching us!"
"You only sensed me when I got this close? Your sensory ninja skills aren't very good," Yasu who appeared like a ghost said.
He appeared behind the three Cloud ninjas, rapidly forming hand seals.
"Hidden Shadow Snake Hands!"
Several snakes shot out from his sleeves, ambushing the three Cloud ninjas. Their sharp fangs bit into the ninjas' necks, injecting venom.
The poison took effect, causing the three Cloud ninjas' bodies to become paralyzed.
Yasu held a kunai in his backhand, swiftly and cleanly slitting the throats of the three Cloud ninjas.
...
The group of Konoha ninjas continued to advance.
They encountered some attacks along the way.
However, Orochimaru and Jiraiya's summoned creatures acted in time to kill them.
Even if any escaped, they would personally deal with them before the Cloud ninjas discovered anything unusual.
Yasu constantly moved around the team, reporting the information he obtained to his teacher through his summoned snakes.
Orochimaru intentionally let a few Cloud ninjas go, wanting them to return and report the news.
As the battle line advanced further and further, the Cloud ninjas' reconnaissance and harassment became more and more frequent.
However, as previously estimated, the Cloud ninjas' actions this time were only to investigate the situation of the Konoha ninjas, and there was no direct frontal conflict.
After all, more than two hundred Konoha ninjas were advancing the battle line in a high-profile manner.
If the Cloud ninjas wanted to start a war, they would have to gather at least three hundred ninjas to fight.
And if a war broke out, hundreds of ninjas fighting each other would be like a small battle.
Now that the Cloud ninjas were not ready to start a full-scale war with Konoha, it was naturally impossible to gather a large number of ninjas.
Therefore, the Cloud ninjas were acting quite conservatively, mainly focusing on reconnaissance and supplemented by harassment, wanting to find out the current situation of the Konoha ninjas.
As for the battle line advanced by Konoha, the Cloud ninjas didn't care.
Before, they were able to beat the approximately 150 ninjas brought by Jiraiya to only being able to retreat to the border, and they were confident that they could beat these two hundred ninjas to retreat to the border again.
And because they were sure that after the Konoha ninjas finished advancing the battle line, they would definitely dispatch ninjas to act separately, and it was impossible to keep gathering together like this.
And when the Konoha ninjas acted separately, it would be their chance.
...
The Konoha ninjas were advancing the battle line very smoothly. Although the further they went, the slower the advancement speed became, they were at least moving forward.
At this time, the sky had already darkened.
Just after Yasu assassinated a Cloud ninja squad, a Ryuchi Cave snake found him.
"Lord Yasssu, Lord Orochimaru wants you to join the main force."
"I understand."
After conveying the message to Yasu, the snake turned into smoke and returned to Ryuchi Cave.
Yasu wiped his ninja sword on the clean clothes of the corpse under his feet, wiped the blood off it, and sheathed it.
Since Orochimaru asked him to join the main force, it meant that the battle line had been successfully advanced to ten kilometers.
So, he immediately rushed back to join the main force.
After he returned to the main force, Orochimaru nodded to him.
Yasu had made a great contribution to the smooth advancement of the battle line.
Because he constantly transmitted the information ahead to him, Orochimaru could directly avoid places with many Cloud ninjas and advance by detours.
Orochimaru looked at the 'two hundred +' ninjas in front of him and said, "Half of the ninjas continue to maintain shadow clones and clones, and the remaining half of the ninjas dismiss shadow clones and clones, rest to recover physical strength and chakra, and exchange after two hours."
"And the ninjas who dismiss shadow clones and clones, each receive a ninjutsu scroll from me or Jiraiya, which contains steel wire and explosive tags, and set up traps around!"
Half of the ninjas dismissed shadow clones and clones, received scrolls from Orochimaru and Jiraiya, and began to set up traps around.
Yasu also went to receive a scroll, but did not go to set up traps, but sat by the tree to rest.
After all, he had accepted a separate mission, and had been fighting all the way from the advancement of the battle line to now, so this kind of thing was not what he should do.
The purpose of receiving the scroll was that he did not have many explosive tags on his body, so he wanted to replenish some before receiving the scroll.
Orochimaru also directly gave him special treatment, directly giving him three scrolls containing explosive tags.
In each scroll, there were one hundred explosive tags, and three scrolls were three hundred.
After Orochimaru finished assigning the task, he walked to Yasu and said, "You've worked hard."
Yasu looked at Orochimaru and replied: "Mm, it was not that hard anyways. The ninjas who came to investigate were not strong. It's great that the plan can be implemented so smoothly."
Orochimaru nodded: "It should be much easier next. Although the Cloud ninjas will find something wrong here sooner or later, they will definitely gather a team to attack us, but they dare not directly contact us and fight us without determining our true situation."
"After that, we will mainly use the set traps, fight and retreat, and join the main force that Konoha is coming to support. You will follow the main force and rest for a while."
Yasu nodded: "I understand, Teacher Orochimaru."
"Rest well, you may have to stay here for several days."
After saying that, Orochimaru turned and left to find Jiraiya to discuss the next deployment.
After setting up the traps around, many tents were set up around.
After all, they have to do a full set of dramas. More than 200 ninjas can't just live in a few tents.
Now, the later the Cloud ninjas find something wrong, the more beneficial it will be for them.
After the tents were set up, Yasu chose a random tent and went straight in, sat on the ground, leaned on the stand, rested, and waited for the next day to come.
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