On the battlefield between Konoha and Amegakure, the situation underwent a drastic change as well.
Due to a shortage of supplies, Konoha's advance slowed to an extreme crawl and even came to a complete standstill. They could no longer push forward, and the progress of the war was thoroughly stalled.
Amegakure, meanwhile, began launching an all-out counteroffensive against Konoha. The gap in strength between the two sides had been erased, leaving Konoha in the same situation as Sunagakure—locked in an evenly matched battle against Amegakure.
Sunagakure and Amegakure battlefield.
After Ebizo, stationed in Sunagakure's rear, received intelligence from the Konoha-Amegakure battlefield, he thought that now was the time to set the plan in motion!
He immediately summoned several Sunagakure shinobi, wrote a letter, and had them deliver it to the Sunagakure commander fighting Konoha.
Since Sunagakure had failed to gain an advantage on either battlefield, Ebizo had thought long and hard before devising a plan—and the inspiration for it came from Hanzo.
That's right, Ebizo intended to have the Sunagakure forces fighting Konoha use poison!
After all, his sister Chiyo was also an expert poison user.
His plan was to wait until something went wrong on the Konoha-Amegakure battlefield.
Based on his assessment of Konoha's advance, Ebizo had long foreseen what might happen next. As Konoha advanced rapidly, its supply lines would inevitably be stretched farther and farther.
Having once matched wits with Hanzo, Ebizo vaguely sensed that this was most likely another trap Hanzo had laid.
Although Amegakure had been at a disadvantage in battle and was being heavily suppressed by Konoha, their casualties were few. It did not look like they were truly incapable of fighting back.
Now that the intelligence reported Amegakure had successfully cut off Konoha's supplies multiple times, Ebizo became even more certain that this