In the Cloud Ninja's view, Medical Ninjas were rare—and that was indeed the truth. To achieve the results described in the intelligence, this medical station should have had at least dozens of Medical Ninjas.
Yet when they actually arrived, they discovered there were only three. This was merely a standard frontline deployment.
In the original story, although the medical corps had seemed huge during the Fourth Shinobi War, later developments made it clear that most of those numbers were the medical corps' defensive forces. If there had truly been that many Medical Ninjas, how could Sakura and Shizune have possibly spent day and night healing the wounded? In the end, Medical Ninjas capable of saving lives were simply far too scarce.
Tsunade wanted to reform the system so that every team would have a Medical Ninja. It was not that the village higher-ups were too senile to understand; their strength simply could not support it. Every Medical Ninja was precious. How could they be squandered like ordinary shinobi?
To the Cloud Ninja raiding party that had been driven off, the mission had actually been completed. There were only three targets here, and two of them were clearly weaklings with barely any Chakra left. They had obviously been drained dry after working overtime for too long. The only Medical Ninja with ample Chakra had used the forbidden Eight Gates technique and would, at the very least, be unable to contribute further in this war. Although the latter half of the mission had been something of a nightmare, once they came to their senses, the few of them still felt relieved. Completing a mission was the greatest affirmation for a shinobi.
As for Xing Ran, although he had seemed to go berserk, that was only on the surface. He might have looked