"Kumogakure strikes quite fiercely."
At Sunagakure's camp in the Land of Rivers, the Third Kazekage could not help but marvel at Kumogakure's ruthlessness upon looking at the newly arrived intelligence report. They had wiped out the Konoha ninja force over there in one fell swoop, destroying the Uchiha's elite completely.
"There's definitely something wrong here. The Uchiha are strong; even if they couldn't stand against all of Kumogakure, it's impossible for them to be completely wiped out so easily."
Rasa had a different view. Among Konoha's four battlefronts, the eastern front was the weakest. That was mainly because Kirigakure had experienced an internal coup before the war, which weakened them significantly and wiped out several top ninja clans. Lacking high-end powerhouses, Konoha naturally wouldn't assign too many strong individuals to oppose them.
Next was their own front, where Konoha had primarily performed limb transplants of bloodline limit ninjas, creating quite a few ninjas who possessed partial Kekkei Genkai, making them very tricky to deal with.
After that came the Land of Grass front and the Land of Hot Water front. The Land of Grass front had the largest number of Konoha ninja forces and the most jonin, yet at the Kage level, there were only five people.
As for the Land of Hot Water front, it was led by the Uchiha. According to the intelligence, before the decisive battle, the Uchiha possessed seven pairs of Mangekyō Sharingan, plus Konoha's White Fang—a full eight Kage-level experts.
Not to mention that two huge summoning snakes had appeared; Orochinaru must have participated.
Even if Kumogakure could eliminate such a lineup, they would certainly have paid a heavy price, and total annihilation would have been unlikely.
Once strength reached that level, if one wanted to flee, it was very difficult to block them unless