"There's an ambush! And it's aimed at us." After hearing the Hyuga Ninja's report, Yueguang Han said, his gaze turning fierce. If it wasn't aimed at us, how could there be so many ninjas lying in ambush here, with traps already set?
"It is aimed at us. The enemy already knows that we've come to reinforce Lord Jiraiya," Yueguang Xingye said, his brows tightly furrowed. This meant that reinforcing Lord Jiraiya would not be easy.
"Hmph!" Yueguang Han snorted. "Since they don't want us to join Lord Jiraiya's forces, we'll give them what they want and not join up with Lord Jiraiya."
"That won't do, my lord. If we don't go support him, we'll be disobeying orders!" Kimura Takuya immediately said. He regarded Yueguang Han as his future patron and couldn't let anything go wrong.
"Young Han, supporting Jiraiya is the village's order. Lord Jiraiya's side has already been forced back again and again and is in grave danger," Yueguang Xingye hurriedly added. Yueguang Han had only just reached the ranks of the village's upper echelons, and no one in the Gekko Clan had as much influence as him. They couldn't let a wrong decision ruin everything.
"The situation on the battlefield changes in an instant. A general outside the command should adapt to circumstances, and refusing to follow an order under such conditions isn't necessarily wrong. Victory is what's most important." Yueguang Han shook his head. "Besides, although Lord Jiraiya's side is in danger, they can still hold out for a while longer. The ninjas sent to reinforce Lord Jiraiya can't consist of only the more than five hundred of us. We don't even have enough people to make up for the casualties, while the Stone Ninja have sent considerable reinforcements as well. The village should have dispatched even