Thick smoke billowed into the sky. The entire port lay in ruins, with buried corpses beneath the burning rubble, while large numbers of people had been captured.
With Konoha's large-scale landings, the navy of the Land of Lightning was destroyed at around five in the afternoon. The subsequent land advance launched a major offensive into the interior of the Land of Lightning, and under the rapid assault, city after city fell.
Along the front line at the border between the Land of Iron and the Land of Lightning, the main forces of the Land of Lightning were cut off from support and supplies.
The Land of Iron also lost its important foreign aid from the Land of Lightning, leaving it completely exposed before Konoha.
The Military Affairs Division on land launched a massive offensive straight into the interior of the Land of Iron. As cities and strongholds were taken, occupation was completed one after another, and the offensive advanced toward the front-line defenses of the Land of Lightning.
This formed a pincer offensive with the forces in the rear, completely encircling the mixed forces of the Land of Lightning.
With the development of industry, the Land of Lightning possessed a large number of mechanized troops, established with funding from the daimyō and nobles. In reality, they did not belong to the same system as the Cloud Ninja and were mutually wary of one another. Moreover, because the Cloud Ninja had the nature of a gangster family, lacking a legitimate leader to command them, their entire interior was mired in chaos as they fought for power and profit.
Although they had received the news and reacted by then, it was already too late.
Large numbers of Cloud Ninja were in the village at their home base and could not link up