The so-called "three visits to the thatched cottage" meant that someone else originally owned a sprawling mansion, but after a certain person visited three times, the mansion became a thatched hut.
For a major ninja village like Sand Village, failing to repel the enemy beyond the nation's borders was already a complete defeat. Had they not considered why small countries had been left between the great powers when the one-village, one-country system was established? Weren't they meant to serve as buffer zones and battlefields?
Now that two thousand Konoha Ninja had charged right up to Sand Village's doorstep, honestly, even if they didn't surrender, they had to surrender, because there was no way to fight... If having forty or fifty people charge into your home counted as a severe blow, then what about two thousand people charging into it? They definitely wouldn't be able to keep this home.
Because of the raid several days earlier, Sand Village had practically ground to a halt. They were busy treating the wounded, rebuilding the village, and restoring its systems and command structure. They simply weren't in any condition to go to war with a powerful enemy again.
In short, because of a whole chain of domino effects, Sand Village had somehow fallen into a crisis of life and death.
Of course, if Orochimaru truly ordered those two thousand Konoha Ninja to attack Sand Village, it would become a war to annihilate the country. If they did that, all two thousand men would surely die here... A team of fifty could maneuver freely, advancing and retreating as it pleased, but two thousand people couldn't.
But what benefit would Konoha gain from paying such a heavy price to conquer Sand Village? The answer was basically none. Konoha had no interest in the Land of Wind's