Everyone knew that Kirigakure could not match Konoha, but by this stage of the Third Shinobi World War, Konoha no longer had any spare troops to contend with Kirigakure.
To reverse this situation, they had no choice but to snatch chestnuts from the fire.
For Konoha's higher-ups, the optimal solution at present was the Kirigakure Collapse Plan—at the cost of sacrificing the ninja from the major clans on the eastern front, they would secretly manipulate Kirigakure's spies within Konoha, feeding the Blood Mist information Konoha wanted them to know. Konoha would then cooperate accordingly, steadily deepening the enemy's reliance on this channel of intelligence and influencing Kirigakure's strategy from the sidelines.
Step by step, they sold out comrades, teammates, and fellow villagers while lulling Kirigakure into complacency, making the enemy reveal openings. They would send their finest infiltration specialists into Kirigakure to gather intelligence, and finally, at the most crucial moment, dispatch a [Kage] capable of turning the entire war around to deliver a fatal blow to Kirigakure.
This was a very ninja-like approach.
To put it more bluntly, it was also a sign that Konoha had been driven into a corner and lacked sufficient strength.
However, the true course of the shinobi world's future was not like this.
Reality was always more absurd than any plan.
In the original history, Kirigakure's landing operation at Grass Wave Coast should have failed. Two variables affected the battlefield situation:
First: Might Duy opened the Eight Inner Gates Formation, defeating the core elite Kirigakure had dispatched for this mission—the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist—at the cost of his own life.
Second: Konoha's Body Flicker, Uchiha Shisui, arrived in time and thwarted a mission that Ao of the Byakugan was carrying out for Kirigakure.
The second point in particular puzzled Hyuga Yu. He