In this ranking battle, it can be said that personal strength has been reduced to the minimum. Only by guarding the big flag and obtaining more small flags from other Genin can it be possible to win the second Chunin Exams victory in the team mode.
Judging from the current situation, Konoha and Cloud are undoubtedly the top two. For no other reason than the two camps have the largest number of Genin.
But if you look at the terrain, Konoha Genin's camp is much less safe than Cloud.
——Konoha is at the center of the entire Training Ground.
At this time, some careful Genin discovered that the thirteen camps divided into Ninja Villages were actually similar to the distribution of the entire Shinobi World country.
To put it more clearly, this is not the second Chunin Exams at all, but a simulation of Ninja World War.
It's just that the strength of each village is compressed to the Genin level.
I don't know how many other Genin students who took the exam discovered this, but since Minato discovered this, soon all Konoha Genin knew it.
Most of the ninjas present have participated in Second Great Ninja War, but only a few, such as Kushina and Dai, have not participated.
But no matter what, one thing must be made clear. This is a team competition, not a group competition, so information must be shared unconditionally.
After losing Uchiha Chen, the best of this generation, and Shikaku, the one with the highest IQ, Minato deservedly became the commander.
Of course, some people would be dissatisfied with this, but with the support of big family ninjas like Nawaki and Mikoto, the objections were quickly suppressed.
When one day had passed, Minato was still busy collecting information, that is, exploring the map of Training Ground, when Aburame Shibi came over.
Hearing the footsteps, Minato raised his head and asked, "How is the situation now?"
As Aburame Clan with excellent investigative capabilities, Shibi was naturally entrusted with the important responsibility of investigation. It was also because of his existence that he was able to detect the specific conditions of several other camps in such a short period of time.
"The camp locations of two villages, Grass Ninja and Ame Shinobi, Genin, have been detected. The movements of other small villages are temporarily unknown."
Minato nodded.
This time, since it is distributed according to the location of Shinobi World countries, that is to say, the camps of each small village are distributed among the big countries.
The final victory is based on the number of small flags collected. If you only stay in your own camp, you will definitely fail, so no matter which village you have, you must take the initiative.
But attack also requires strategy. It is undoubtedly unwise to attack the big village as soon as possible.
You know, once a battle breaks out, the loss of personnel and even casualties are foreseeable.
Five Great Nations's Genin is so powerful that if they attack rashly, they will suffer huge losses. At this time, it is the inevitable choice to attack Genin from the small village as much as possible.
"Where are Sunagakure's movements?" Minato thought for a while and then asked.
Before the exam, they had specially collected information on Genin from each village... Rasa who mastered Magnet Release was undoubtedly the most troublesome existence this time.
"The Sand Ninjas are also actively exploring the specific locations of other camps. However, it may be due to the lack of reconnaissance ninjas that the progress is not very smooth, and due to the relatively small number of people, they are divided into two teams."
"What about the personnel configuration?"
"Rasa formed a team of his own and went north alone. Another group of six Genin formed a group and went east. All the remaining ninjas stayed in the main camp."
"It's really prudent. With this configuration, there is basically no possibility of stealing."
Minato pondered for a moment, and then asked Nawaki standing next to him to summon all Genin.
About half an hour later, Nawaki came back with everyone.
Minato coughed and said, "Thanks to Shibi's efforts, we have now figured out the camps and defense conditions of the two small ninja villages, and also know the movements of the Suna ninja."
With that said, he distributed the compiled information.
"We have more Konoha Genin. I plan to divide into two groups. The first group will be led by Mikoto and Nawaki to tentatively attack the Ame Shinobi camp. The second group will be led by me to attack the Grass Ninja camp. Inoichi will be in charge of the remaining ninjas stationed in the camp."
"Okay." Basically no one objected, so Minato's proposal was quickly passed.
Now that the next route has been decided, Minato gave Training Ground's map to Mikoto. He had already memorized everything marked on the map in his mind, so even if he didn't have a map, it wouldn't be a big problem.
Then at the gate of the camp, the two teams of ninjas said hello and dispersed.
This place Training Ground is not as big as the famous Forest of Death, so at the speed of Minato and the six of them, they quickly reached their destination.
"It's... so tragic."
When they arrived at Kusagakure's camp, the flames all around showed that a big battle had occurred here not long ago.
Not only that, there were limbs crushed and broken by Earth Style on the ground, as well as a few barely visible Grass Ninja Forehead Protector.
"... There are a lot of traces of Earth Release Ninjutsu." Aburame Shibi released the bugs to investigate for a while, and then said so.
"It should be Iwa-nin. I heard Chen say that during the war, Grass Hidden Village fell to Hidden Cloud Village... This must be the reason why he was targeted." Minato thought for a while and said.
After all, this was just a Chunin Exams. If he didn't have deep hatred, he wouldn't have done such a cruel thing.
"Shibi, can you track the location of Iwa-nin?"
The tracking ability of the Aburame Clan's ninja can be said to be the best among all Konoha, even Byakugan cannot compare with it.
About two minutes later, Shibi nodded and said, "The insect told me that there are ninjas heading southeast."
"Southeast?" Minato squatted down and used his memory to lay out the Genin camp distribution map of each village on the ground.
"That's Cloud Shinobi's camp over there."
"Are they going to attack Cloud Shinobi?" Kushina standing aside asked.
Minato shook his head and said, "I don't think so. The number of Cloud Genin is second only to Konoha. Even if Iwa-nin hates them, they will not choose to attack the Cloud camp now, and they are still fighting continuously.
Therefore, there is only one possibility: Grass Ninja did not die, but fled towards the Cloud camp. "
Aburame Shibi felt it made sense, so he asked, "Then what should we do?"
"Cut the beard!" Minato said concisely and to the point.
"But wouldn't it mean that we would start a fight with Iwa-nin in advance?"
Minato shook his head. "Iwagakure Genin is already small, so they don't have an advantage in terms of numbers. If you were Iwa-nin, would you choose to confront Konoha Genin who suddenly appeared?"
Aburame Shibi almost blurted out. "No! If it were me, I would definitely give up as soon as possible."
Minato chuckled, "Shibi You are indeed cautious, but I hope they will attack us."
Amid everyone's doubts, Minato said confidently, "I don't think the six of us will lose to any team."
At this time, on the other side of the battlefield, three Grass Ninja were hiding in the grass, observing the surrounding situation in a panic.
"There!"
"Catch them!"
When these shouts of killing came, the three people jumped out of the grass in an instant. Since they had been exposed, there was no need to continue to hide and move forward slowly.
Behind the three people, five Iwa-nins were chasing them like vicious dogs, and at the same time, Shuriken Kunais were shooting at them as if they were free of charge.
Sensing the dense sounds of Kunai and Shuriken being nailed to branches, trunks, and stones, the three people rushed forward quickly without looking back.
There was no time to look back at this time, because if the three of them stopped for a moment, they would be surrounded.
However, after Kunai and Shuriken fired for a while, the dense crackling sound of Kunai Shuriken shooting behind the three people surprisingly disappeared.
"Don't look back, the next wave of attacks will come soon." The young man in his twenties said. After releasing any blow, you need to pause for a moment, because only after a period of accumulation can you use a larger and more threatening attack.
As soon as his voice fell, the attacks immediately confirmed the correctness of his words. Not only did Shuriken Kunai's attack sounds sound behind them, but Iwagakure Genins had already used Explosive Tag.
Continuous explosions sounded behind the three of them, and the hot air waves pushed their backs, affecting their forward speed.
"Iwaki, we can't do this. One person must stay to break up the rear, otherwise we will be overtaken sooner or later." Another Genin shouted.
The young man in his twenties, Iwaki, had a cold light in his eyes. As he was running, he turned to look at the panting girl behind him.
"Kana, how about you come and break it off?"
When the girl heard this, she couldn't help but tremble, and a feeling of panic slowly came over her body.
"What's wrong, you don't want to? If it weren't for us, you would have died like those trash just now under Iwa-nin's attack!" Iwaki shouted angrily.
"Yeah, don't forget, we Kusagakure took you and your parents in, otherwise you red-haired ghosts would have died in the war long ago." Another Genin helped.
The girl's voice was like a fly. "I... I... get it."
"Haha, that's right. I'll give you these Explosive Tags. When those Iwa-nins get close, shoot them."
As he spoke, Iwaki threw Explosive Tag on the ground. At the same time, he rolled up the girl's sleeves and took a hard bite.
The Grass Ninja next to it also does the same thing.
After the two companions walked away, the girl collapsed on the ground as if she had lost her soul.
No... I don't want to live anymore...
She hugged her body with both hands and shivered. The air around her was unusually cold. Even though she had been in an extremely cold environment, she had never felt as cold as now.
She still vaguely remembered some things from her childhood. At that time, she was only five years old. She was hiding here and there all day long to avoid being chased.
Later, her father took her and her mother away from their hometown and traveled a long distance to a small country without war... She thought it was the beginning of happiness, but unexpectedly it was the arrival of bad luck.
Her father passed away when she was seven years old. He did not die in battle, but due to various injuries and illnesses due to years of missions.
You must know that they are Uzumaki Clan, known as a longevity tribe, and their father was only thirty years old when he died.
Later, it was discovered that the mother's chakra and injuries would be restored by just biting her skin. From then on, an even bigger nightmare came.
After that, not long after, my mother died. She saw her mother's body in the hospital... The dense tooth marks on her body made her despair.
So, she began to try to commit suicide, but at the last moment, she would give up out of fear...
But now, none of that matters.
Uzumaki Kana picked up Explosive Tag tremblingly, tears falling from his eyes. She wiped her tears with both hands, but the tears still couldn't stop falling.
"... I'm going to die, so I should be happy."
Just when she was about to detonate Explosive Tag, six ninjas appeared in the distance... not Iwa-nin, but Forehead Protector with Konoha.
The six people also saw the girl sitting on the ground in an instant, and Iwa-nin who was approaching from a distance.
Kushina The moment he saw the girl, his heart seemed to skip a beat, and then his voice trembled. "The hair is the same as mine... she is one of my tribesmen!"
After saying that, she ran forward quickly.
"Don't go!" Minato shouted and found that Kushina didn't stop, so he immediately ordered all five people to press on him.
"Don't come here!" Kana shouted with a cry as the ninja Konoha rushed over.
Kushina seemed to realize something, and stopped quickly. "Don't do anything stupid, come here quickly, Iwa-nin is approaching."
However, when I heard the word Iwa-nin, I saw another cry from Kana, and suddenly Hand Seals, ready to detonate Explosive Tag.
At this moment, a sound bursting through the air suddenly came, and Kunai, like a cannonball, accurately shot Explosive Tag in Kana's hand, and then flew towards the distance with it.
In the next moment, a roar sounded in the air.
Seeing this scene, Minato, who reacted the fastest, immediately jumped up and rushed behind the girl whom Kushina recognized as a clansman. Then he hugged her from behind, and then Body Flicker returned to Konoha Genin.
Seeing that the girl was safe, Kushina breathed a sigh of relief, but when she saw Iwa-nin charging towards her from afar, she felt a surge of anger. In just an instant, a layer of red chakra spread all over her body.
Although they were surprised by the state of Kushina, the remaining five people were still ready to fight.
At this time, on a big tree further away, Uchiha Chen couldn't help but whistled and said with a smile, "I didn't expect that Minato would be a hero and save the beauty."
Sakumo, who was standing aside, said with a black line, "Don't think I didn't see it, this is the second time you have interfered in the game."
Uchiha Chen spread his hands. "How could I interfere? Kunai has been blown up by Explosive Tag. Brother Sakumo, do you have any evidence?"
"You, Master Third Hokage will definitely deduct my salary this time."
"It's okay. If you don't tell me, no one will know if I don't tell you. Besides, it was obviously Minato who saved me." Uchiha Chen chuckled, "By the way, brother Sakumo, don't you think the cross-hug Minato gave you just now is very handsome?"
"It's okay, but you can't save people like that." Sakumo thought for a while and continued, "Hugging people can only restrain the ninja's hands."
"Then how should we save it?"
"Kick it over."
"..."
After a while, Uchiha Chen gave a thumbs up and said, "Brother Sakumo, you are indeed a straight man, but according to your teaching method, be careful that your son will never find a girlfriend in his life."
"It's okay, I'll just give birth to my daughter." Sakumo was confident.
Uchiha Chen couldn't help but complain, "Is it really good to be so confident? Do you think you are Snail Shell?"
Sakumo asked in confusion, "I always hear you mention Snail Shell, who is Snail Shell?"
"A great musician."
"..."
"Okay, the show is almost done. I'm going to find Third Hokage now. I'll leave the affairs here to you."
Sakumo nodded, and then asked, "What about Nine-Tails Jinchuriki? She is not in the right state now, and Nine-Tails Chakra has appeared."
"It's okay. She can still control her current state. Let her get used to it more."
After saying that, Uchiha Chen and Body Flicker left Training Ground.