The Cloud Ninja were routed, their defeat snowballing into disaster.
The Cloud Ninja couldn't stop the Snow Ninja's advance.
The Land of Lightning's military stood even less chance of repelling the invasion by the Land of Snow's forces. Once the Cloud Ninja were routed somewhere, the ordinary troops there were easily swept up in the defeat and could only retreat. All along the way, the Land of Snow's Right General simply followed his own shinobi as they pushed forward, feeling as if he were on an outing. He didn't need to do a thing. All he had to do was lead his troops behind the Snow Ninja forces, move into the captured cities, quell any unrest that might break out, and help the administrative officials who arrived later take control of them as quickly as possible.
There really wasn't a hint of difficulty.
But in a world like this, such an outcome was only natural.
Shinobi were the main force.
Shinobi were the key.
Within any nation,
the most important military force was its shinobi village.
Once the shinobi village was defeated,
the nation had even less chance of gaining any advantage.
What could ordinary people possibly use to fight shinobi?
Even the weakest Genin could easily slaughter a unit of a hundred elite soldiers, let alone experienced Chunin and Jonin with stronger techniques and more tricks up their sleeves. When all was said and done, in this world, shinobi were the "army." A nation's ordinary military could only serve as "police."
And so the Cloud Ninja, whose defensive lines were continually breached and who could only retreat all the way back,
could do nothing but surrender their territory.
Facing the relentless advance of the two Snow Ninja armies led by Neji and Utakata,
Dodai had gathered more than ten