The front-line battlefield, Uchiha camp.
"Has that kid Kyosuke still not come back?" Uchiha Hiroki sighed.
The two sides had secretly agreed to a one-year truce. Uzumaki Ashina had promised not to break through the Uchiha defenses within that year.
But Ashina wasn't a fool. How could he fail to anticipate the enemy's schemes?
If he really slacked off and held back, Senju Butsuma would definitely settle the score with him afterward.
If the Land of Whirlpools offended both the Senju and the Uchiha, would it even have a reason to keep existing?
Not to mention, the Land of Water had always harbored hostility in the shadows.
If not for the turmoil of the times, the Land of Water's forces behind him would have been Uzumaki Ashina's greatest concern.
Unwilling to offend the Senju Clan, Uzumaki Ashina launched attack after terrifying attack.
If they couldn't break through the Uchiha's positions, then they would simply fight to their hearts' content on the battlefield.
Before long, Uchiha Hiroki and the others discovered that their army's casualty rate had inexplicably risen quite a bit.
At this rate, the army would be crippled by the enemy long before the one-year deadline was up.
Kyosuke's promised reinforcements were still nowhere to be seen, so they had no choice but to ask Uchiha Tajima for aid.
"Bunch of idiots. They can't even handle a mere Uzumaki Ashina." They said Tajima nearly spat blood when he received their request for aid.
He not only publicly berated the army for its inaction, but also seized the opportunity to make an issue of Kyosuke's absence. "As the leader of an army, he actually abandoned his post during wartime. If he can't find reinforcements, he can go guard the camp gate."
If it had been anyone else, Tajima would have