The rewards from those missions were nowhere near enough to sustain all of Konoha.
"This battle could only end in victory, never defeat!!"
The Land of Lightning's Daimyo could not help recalling the smug look on the Land of Fire's Daimyo's face before. Back then, he had thought, If your Land of Fire ever went to war with our Land of Lightning, I wonder if you could still keep looking so pleased with yourself.
They were all of equal standing. Who could stand someone else showing off and flaunting themselves right in front of them?
Having long found the Land of Fire's Daimyo unbearable, he naturally would not cast a vote against it. At this point, no matter what happened, Kumogakure's war against Konoha could not be stopped. The Land of Lightning's Daimyo had only one demand: victory was permitted, defeat was not!!!
Sunagakure, Kirigakure, and Iwagakure had declared war on Konoha one after another, but the Three Great Ninja Villages had all ultimately ended in defeat. Kumogakure, meanwhile, had been preserving its strength. Now that Konoha was weakened after the war, coupled with the Nine-Tails' rampage, although the intelligence they had gathered was not particularly reliable, this was still their best opportunity.
If they missed it, they could only settle down and live peacefully. With the possibility of gaining absolute benefits, no one would choose to object.
In their eyes, Konoha as it was now simply could not sustain the continuation of a major war.
Look at the people Konoha had sent—three thousand drawn from various clans. Did they really think three thousand people could defeat all of Kumogakure? How naive. Kumogakure could deploy over ten thousand ninja. Ten thousand against three thousand—no matter how one looked at it, the ten thousand would win.
Even if Uchiha Ronglin was