Although Nawaki had failed to capture Yagura as he had hoped, he had successfully driven back Kirigakure's guerrilla units and resolved the trouble they had created.
After that clash, Kirigakure abandoned its plan to concentrate its forces on harassing and attacking a single Konoha Shinobi Army division, and Yagura did not appear again.
Nawaki, who had mastered the Flying Thunder God, could easily break the balance on the battlefield. If they suffered several more such surprise attacks, not only would the Mist Ninja sustain heavy casualties, but even Yagura himself would be at risk of being taken down. It would only be more disadvantageous for the Mist Ninja, so there was no need to continue.
Afterward, Madara finally changed his strategy again. He dispatched large numbers of guerrilla units to multiple regions at once, taking turns harassing and attacking Konoha's various Shinobi Army divisions.
This tactic was much like ordinary guerrilla warfare and was essentially impossible to counter. However, because the gap in troop numbers between the two sides was simply too large, the Mist Ninja could not inflict much damage on Konoha's forces. As a result, the searches in each region were merely slowed, delaying the operation by five days at most.
This pace was still within Nawaki's acceptable range, so he made no adjustments.
Thus, Konoha's Shinobi Army continued its search under the harassment of Kirigakure's guerrilla units. As time passed, Konoha's forces drew closer and closer to the center of the island, while the operating range of Kirigakure's guerrillas grew smaller and smaller. Their former all-direction, rotating harassment gradually turned into fixed harassment aimed only at the Shinobi Army on the western side, and their numbers continued to decrease.
By the fourteenth day of the sweep operation, Konoha had basically finished searching the eastern part of the