He felt a faint sense of unease in his heart.
"Minato, if necessary, don't send out all the troops. I'm worried there's something fishy going on."
In the end, Muzan merely voiced his suspicion to Minato in a low voice. As for whether Minato believed him, that was not something Muzan could decide.
"Don't worry. This battlefield favors the Sand Ninja. I won't recklessly send people over there."
Minato Namikaze took Muzan's warning very seriously. Muzan's intelligence had been tested in war, and Minato himself also sensed that something was off.
The Cloud Ninja vanguard was fighting far too fiercely.
It differed from what they had expected.
At the same time, Orochimaru led a group of troops according to the original plan, intending to intercept Chiyo of the Hidden Sand Village here. Yet he did not care much about the Sand Ninja.
After all, the Sand Ninja were famously fickle. The moment things went wrong, they would immediately surrender and give up.
If not for the desert terrain being well suited to the Hidden Sand Village's combat style, Orochimaru would not have come in person this time.
"Lord Orochimaru, we discovered traces of Sand Ninja ahead, but something is strange."
"They're very lax. It doesn't look like an attack."
Orochimaru, who had been deep in thought, suddenly widened his eyes. He realized something.
"Come with me and take a look."
When Orochimaru arrived nearby and saw the Sand Ninja's condition, he finally understood that he had been fooled.
They were indeed Sand Ninja, but there was only a group of ninjas on the outside. The so-called army was actually puppets controlled by the Hidden Sand Village's puppet masters.
Even Konoha's scouts could not get too close, lest they be discovered. Using this information gap, the enemy had transferred most of