Faced with the Feudal Lords of various nations attempting to weaken the power of the ninja villages and suppress rebellions by forming a coalition army, the Kage of the major ninja villages all adopted a perfunctory attitude. Every Kage understood that the Feudal Lords' actions were an attempt to fundamentally undermine the power structure of the ninja villages.
Although the Kage of the ninja villages outwardly expressed support for the Feudal Lords' plan to form a coalition army, they offered no substantive assistance in reality.
During the coalition army's formation, every major ninja village provided only token support. They ostensibly sent a small number of ninjas to assist with training or provide guidance, but deliberately restricted the direct aid those ninjas gave the Feudal Lords.
In truth, the ninjas of the villages devoted little effort to these coalition armies, nor did they provide the Feudal Lords with sufficient resources to make them genuinely combat-capable.
Uchiha Ying Yue secretly observed the preparations of the Five Nations Coalition Army through the Shadow Curtain Organization and the Dawn Organization.
He knew that the ninja villages' core interests could not be weakened, so Ying Yue did not invest many resources while the Feudal Lords formed their coalition army.
His strategy was to let the Feudal Lords build the coalition army themselves, displaying cooperation on the surface while ensuring that the ninja villages' core interests remained unharmed.
A, the Fourth Raikage of the Land of Lightning; Ōnoki, the Third Tsuchikage of Iwagakure; and Yagura, the Fourth Mizukage of Kirigakure, adopted similar attitudes.
They were all merely going through the motions. On one hand, they did not wish to openly oppose the Feudal Lords; on the other, they would not allow the Feudal Lords to truly gain military independence.
Although the ninja villages did not genuinely