After the Uchiha Dark Guard summoned by Uchiha Tokimitsu, the second ninja army unit to arrive was the Eastern Border Defense Force, notorious for its feeble combat strength.
Even the Uchiha Dark Guard stationed far away in Konoha had arrived before the border force right next door. That only proved that Konoha's eastern border truly was as vulnerable as its reputation suggested.
After this great chaos, even if some surviving Uzumaki Clan members might still be hiding within the Land of Whirlpools, the combined ninja armies of the three great nations—Lightning, Earth, and Water—had looted and slaughtered their way through the land. Following its crushing defeat and collapse, neither local governance nor the ninja village system remained. Under the Uzumaki Clan Head's leadership, the surviving members of Uzushiogakure left the former site of Uzushiogakure, now reduced to ruins. Even if the name Land of Whirlpools remained in the future, it would exist in name only.
Tokimitsu did not know whether the Eastern Border Defense Force would have a chance to be reinforced afterward. Otherwise, with its current condition and combat strength, the Land of Fire's eastern coastal border would be practically undefended after losing the Land of Whirlpools as a buffer.
Of the more than two hundred members of the Eastern Border Defense Force, the only one Uchiha Tokimitsu paid even slight attention to was an elderly genin dressed like an old farmer, carrying a ridiculous iron wok on his back. He did not spare the rest a glance.
The Commander of the Eastern Border Defense Force, who arrived late, was a jonin from the Sarutobi Clan. He appeared to be around forty. Though he had played no role whatsoever in the Land of Whirlpools War, he now chatted merrily with the Uzumaki Clan Head as though they were old