Ambush: 17 Cloud Ninja Surround a Four-Man Squad!

"Shin, this mission won't be simple. Be careful." Uchiha Miya vigilantly observed their surroundings.

"Understood."

This squad consisted of two chunin, Uchiha Miya and Hyuga Shin, a medical chunin named Nankawa Fuka, and an elite jonin named Aoki Tetsusuke leading them.

Nankawa Fuka and Aoki Tetsusuke had both remained on the battlefield during this rotation of the war rather than returning for rest, and both carried varying injuries.

And both of them were civilians...

Though Aoki Tetsusuke was a jonin, he might not necessarily have been able to defeat Hyuga Shin or Uchiha Miya.

What was even more outrageous was that Aoki Tetsusuke had only been promoted to jonin at the last minute. It was also his first time leading a squad, and he had no experience whatsoever. At the moment, Hyuga Shin and Uchiha Miya were the ones truly directing the team.

Even Nankawa Fuka and Aoki Tetsusuke held the ninja clans of Konoha in awe.

At that moment.

Hyuga Shin activated his Byakugan and carefully sensed the situation around them.

Suddenly, he detected a faint fluctuation of Chakra, and his expression changed slightly. "Miya, there's an ambush ahead. Cloud Village Ninjas—quite a few of them."

"Stop." Uchiha Miya immediately gave the order.

The other three halted as well.

Hyuga Shin continued scouting.

"They're closing in. A battle is about to break out!"

The moment he finished speaking, a group of Cloud Village Ninjas surged out from every direction, surrounding them completely.

The ninja at the head of the group froze for a moment.

Then he sneered.

"Are you looking down on us? We've got an entire battalion stationed here, yet you only sent one squad?"

"Brother Matsumoto, that Byakugan user... could he be Hyuga Shin?!"

"Looks like it..."

"Good!!"

"Hyuga Shin, today is the day you die! We'll avenge Lord A!"

Aoki Tetsusuke had already completely panicked, despite being the squad's nominal leader.

"Why? Why are there so many of them?!"

"The intelligence was completely wrong!"

"A four-man squad against a seventeen-man division?! And that's not even all of them..."

In the ninja world.

One squad equaled one team—for example, the classic team led by Kakashi Hatake, consisting of his three students Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura.

On the battlefield, a squad consisted of four people, with one serving as its leader.

Seventeen people made up a division. The extra person was the Squad Leader, who commanded four squads.

Afterward, four divisions generally formed a battalion, with a Captain and Vice Captain appointed, for a total of seventy people.

Konoha's Anbu used a battalion structure, numbering seventy people. Every one of them was elite, similar to the Imperial Guard.

The number of ninjas in the regular army far exceeded that.

It was also during this Third Shinobi World War that, in the original timeline, Third Raikage A had been surrounded and beaten by tens of thousands of Iwagakure Ninjas. After fighting for three days and three nights, he had died of exhaustion.

Cloud Village and Konoha's military strength was no weaker than Iwagakure's. Konoha was indisputably the number one village, so it naturally had tens of thousands of ninjas as well...

According to the Cloud Ninja's own report, seventy regular army ninjas were stationed at this outpost. Seventeen had been sent to scout, and this encounter battle had broken out here.

The disparity in strength was indeed rather extreme.

Su Nuo sneered within Hyuga Shin's body.

How amusing.

The Konoha High Command was not even bothering to put on an act anymore.

The two civilian ninjas were sacrifices for this mission. Hyuga Shin was the primary target, while Uchiha Miya was the secondary one.

Uchiha Miya was only being killed along with him because the Uchiha Clan was disliked anyway.

Uchiha Miya swiftly entered combat mode, his eyes transforming into the Sharingan.

"If you want to kill Shin, you'll have to get past me first!"

"Fire Style: Great Fireball Jutsu!!"

Uchiha Miya rapidly formed hand seals, and a massive cannonball of fire shot toward the Cloud Village Ninjas.

"Kill them!" Lightning crackled around every Cloud Village Ninja!

They charged straight at them!

And their first target was Nankawa Fuka, the Medical Ninja!

Nankawa Fuka's face was filled with panic.

Hyuga Shin charged straight in, not daring to let his guard down as lightning suddenly wrapped around his hands!

Lightning Release: Liger Bomb!

At the same time, Uchiha Miya unleashed Liger Bomb as well!

However...

It was seventeen against four, and among those seventeen were four Cloud Village Jonin and one Cloud Village Special Jonin.

Nankawa Fuka was quickly killed.

Afterward, Aoki Tetsusuke let out a miserable scream and was beaten to death by multiple attackers.

Uchiha Miya pushed his Three Tomoe Sharingan to its limit, sending shuriken flying in dazzling patterns and unleashing several large-scale Fire Release ninjutsu in succession before barely managing to retreat from the battlefield.

Hyuga Shin was wounded all over, with more than half his stamina depleted.

The situation was almost completely one-sided.

At that moment...

Hyuga Shin despaired. Biting his lip, he said to Uchiha Miya, "Go... With Explosive Tags and Fire Release, you can get away."

"You think you can just leave? You're pretty confident, aren't you?" a Cloud Village Ninja sneered.

"I'm willing to surrender. You can hand me over to the Raikage... How about that? You don't necessarily have to kill Uchiha, do you? Otherwise, all you'll get is my corpse... If the Raikage finds out that you chose to kill us when you could have captured us alive, depriving him of the chance to avenge himself personally... do you think you won't incur his wrath?" Hyuga Shin said.

The Cloud Village Ninja was rendered speechless.

"Shin!" Uchiha Miya panted as he looked at Hyuga Shin, the Three Tomoe Sharingan in his eyes spinning wildly.

"I'll be fine..." Hyuga Shin gave a bitter smile, then showed Uchiha Miya a bright smile. "You have to live well. This is goodbye forever, Miya."

"No! If someone has to die... I'll die first!" The Three Tomoe Sharingan in Uchiha Miya's eyes spun even faster.

"Go back... You need to bring the intelligence back to the village. The intelligence was wrong. A Battalion of ninja is stationed at this stronghold, and they set up a trap, waiting for Konoha's people to come investigate. Uchiha Miya, think of your clan. Don't you still want to follow Brother Fugaku?"

"Hurry up! You aren't planning some kind of trick, are you? If so, we might as well kill both of you here!" The surrounding Cloud Ninja pressed closer step by step.

Uchiha Miya remained silent.

Bloody tears actually streamed from his eyes.

He bit down hard on his lip.

"I'll definitely come save you, Shin! I definitely will!"

Uchiha Miya's reason told him that he had to hurry back and bring reinforcements. Only then would there be a sliver of hope.

"Wait for me, wait for me!"

Uchiha Miya suddenly turned around and sprinted into the distance.

Watching the direction Uchiha Miya had left in, Hyuga Shin also let out a sigh of relief.

Although Uchiha Miya was always arrogant and his words could be hurtful, his heart was not bad.

"Surrender without resistance, Hyuga Shin. Protecting your companion is worthy of praise. I also hope you keep your promise." The Cloud Village Special Jonin stared fixedly at Hyuga Shin.

"Why should I keep a promise to an enemy?"

Hyuga Shin's tone changed, becoming cold and sinister...