The Land of Rain was only a small country.
Once the Six Great Ninja Villages had gathered a coalition force of more than twenty thousand troops,
they would be able to encircle the entire Land of Rain.
And taking the terrain and troop deployments into account,
they would only need to block three or four major routes to achieve a true encirclement. This time, all six great villages had mobilized together because they didn't want a single "terrorist" in the Land of Rain to escape.
That's right!
The Land of Rain!
When all the intelligence had been gathered and it all pointed to the Land of Rain and Amegakure,
the Fourth Raikage decided to treat the entire Land of Rain as an enemy.
Including its current Daimyo.
Although, according to the unspoken rules of the Shinobi World,
there was no precedent for ninja handling a Daimyo.
Or, strictly speaking, even a mere Daimyo of a small country held greater international standing than any ninja, including the Kage. But this matter was too important to allow for any carelessness. The Fourth Raikage was also a rather blunt and brash man. The Daimyo might not need to be dealt with, but his movements had to be restricted first.
On this point,
even if the other five great villages hadn't agreed,
they had still chosen to accept the arrangement.
After all,
while these "nobles" looked down on ninja,
had ninja ever truly taken these "Daimyo and aristocrats" seriously?
The latter considered the former "mercenaries."
And the former saw the latter as "moneybags."
When the safety of the Shinobi World was at stake,
and their rule over their villages was threatened,
ninja wouldn't care about any so-called unspoken rules.
The plan was to encircle the country as a whole.
From the Land of Rain's