Time drifted by, and in the blink of an eye, another half month had passed.
The battlefield here was as "calm" as ever, until—
The first batch of Konoha reinforcements arrived!
That was right. After more than twenty days of redeployment, the first batch of reinforcements Konoha had transferred from the Rain Country Battlefield finally arrived at this front.
And the village also issued its latest orders.
Black Stone Outpost.
Inside the conference room.
Sano Nobuhisa looked at everyone with a solemn expression and said, "The latest order from headquarters."
Hearing this, everyone immediately sat up straight and pricked up their ears to listen.
Sano Nobuhisa continued, "From this moment on, all outposts are to switch from defense to offense. You must drive the Mist Ninja out of the Land of Fire in the shortest possible time and retake our territory."
"A counterattack?"
When everyone heard this, their faces showed both excitement and worry.
They were excited because the village had finally begun its counterattack. Their primary purpose in being gathered at this outpost in the first place had been to retake Flying Fish Town.
However, because Kirigakure had unreasonably and suddenly increased its troops, that plan had completely fallen through, and they had even become the defending side.
And now, they could finally hold their heads high.
However, this was also the point that worried them, because a counterattack meant breaking the stalemate.
And the reason this battlefield had been able to maintain such an eerie "calm" over the past period was mainly that they had not made any extreme moves.
But once they decided to retake Flying Fish Town, it would inevitably provoke the Mist Ninja.
At that point, it was hard to say what would happen.
If Kirigakure remained in its current state and was gradually eaten