With Kitsuchi, the local guide, helping them, Sarutobi Toru and his group quickly learned the current situation, as well as the positions of the Iwagakure and Cloud Shinobi forces.
Overall, the situation along the northern border of the Land of Earth could no longer be described as dire. It should be described as utterly ruined.
After the barbarians of the Land of Lightning entered the Land of Earth, there was only one thing they did: "Rob!"
Whether it was minerals, grain, precious metals, money, factories, production lines, goods, or resources like oil and coal, they had basically stripped everything clean. They were worse than a swarm of locusts, practically scraping three feet off the ground.
Although the ninjas of the Land of Lightning mostly adhered to the shinobi treaties and did not harm ordinary people, it was not only ninjas who had entered the Land of Earth.
There were so many goods to transport. How could Kumogakure possibly have enough Sealing Scrolls? In most cases, large numbers of Land of Lightning logistical soldiers worked alongside the ninjas to handle transportation.
The Five Great Nations had relied on ninjas for combat for years, and their military conscription systems had long since fallen into disuse. These so-called soldiers were really just recruited militia. Many were not even full-time soldiers, merely receiving one or two months of military training each year.
Naturally, the quality of such soldiers was obvious. They had no combat strength at all. A single Genin could send dozens or even hundreds of them fleeing in all directions. Whenever war broke out, they never had the chance to take the field.
But this time, transportation required precisely this sort of manpower. That was why they had been brought into the logistics corps.
And it was these soldiers who caused the