"According to the latest intel from the Main Camp, Sunagakure seems to have temporarily slowed its offensive against Iwagakure because of logistical problems."
"Iwagakure made a move?"
Someone asked.
Nara Sishui shook his head.
Seeing this, everyone looked puzzled. "Aside from Iwagakure, who else would be interested in Iwagakure's logistics system?"
"No one made a move."
Nara Sishui replied.
"What do you mean?"
Everyone was confused.
Nara Sishui explained patiently, "I mean exactly that. No one attacked Iwagakure's logistics system. They're the ones who can't hold on anymore.
Never mind their attacks against Iwagakure—even along the Western Defense Line, where they had been fighting us fiercely for some time, Sunagakure has slowed its offensive these past few days.
I'm afraid...
Sunagakure really can't keep this war going anymore."
"What?"
When everyone heard this, they were all shocked, disbelief rising from the depths of their hearts.
They found it hard to imagine that one of the mighty Five Great Shinobi Villages would actually lose this war because of logistics.
It was true that wars were fought on logistics, but unlike wars between ordinary people, the main deciding factor in wars between shinobi was still whether they had enough troops.
As for logistics...
Though it was just as important, it was only the final straw that broke the camel's back.
If they had enough troops, then even if their logistics were cut off, they could still sustain themselves through war by plundering supplies from enemy territory.
Only when their own forces were insufficient did logistics become a real problem.
But the problem was that Sunagakure currently had no small number of reserve troops.
Although Sunagakure had the fewest troops among the Five Great Shinobi Villages, because its average combat strength was relatively high and it had Puppet Masters, Sunagakure had also suffered