Land of Lightning Hidden Cloud Village's counterattack ended. Because it broke out so suddenly, many forces didn't finally understand what happened until a few days later.
I thought this would be a lose-lose offensive and defensive battle, but the result surprised everyone.
Hidden Cloud Village's main force of Land of Lightning suffered another loss at the hands of Land of Night.
First, he was defeated by Land of Night on the sea.
Then they fought a guerrilla war in their own homeland for a year until the defense line shrank.
In the end, the counterattack turned into a battle of escape, which made many countries think, if this continues, Hidden Cloud Village will not turn into Land of Lightning, right?
Of course, this is just a backhanded joke from some small countries.
Although the main force of Land of Lightning's native Hidden Cloud Village was retreating steadily, the main battlefield with Konoha on the other side maintained a huge advantage.
Now anyone with a discerning eye can see that Hidden Cloud Village is facing a serious problem.
That is the main force of Land of Frost, whether to continue firing with Konoha or return to Land of Lightning to defend.
The current situation is no longer comparable to before.
Although the main force of Land of Lightning's defense line has shrunk before, at least it still has the power to defend.
But now the main force is half disabled, Land of Night only needs a little force to crush this main force, and then drive straight into Kumogakure.
What lies before Land of Frost Hidden Cloud Village's main force is such an agonizing and difficult choice.
Should we continue the advantages on this battlefield, or should we give up our advantages and return to Land of Lightning's homeland to prepare for Land of Night's main assault?
If Land of Night launches an assault, the target will no longer be the small fight before, but will attack Kumogakure at the position of Cloud-Thunder Gorge!
With such a scene, many countries and ninja villages began to get excited.
Especially Hidden Mist Village, who united with Hidden Cloud Village, after the counterattack of Land of Lightning Hidden Cloud Village came to an end, its attitude towards supporting the main force of Land of Frost Hidden Cloud Village became strange.
Land of Lightning Hidden Cloud Village One month after the counterattack, letters from many countries and ninja villages were placed in front of Yayoi's desk.
Some supported his attack, while others advised him to think carefully.
Among them, Hidden Mist Village's attitude is the most interesting. On the surface, it threatens him not to push further, but between the lines it seems to be hinting to him to continue to increase the intensity and not stop.
Tobirama also wrote him a letter. The content of the letter was very simple. The two families outflanked Land of Frost's Cloud-Mist Allied Forces in one go, and then attacked Land of Lightning unimpeded.
Just like Hidden Mist Village, Tobirama's letter also contains a hidden secret. On the surface, it is for his ally, but there is no discussion of the division of interests afterwards.
Without Tobirama's letter, Yayoi can clearly see that Konoha's position is the same as Hidden Mist Village's attitude towards Hidden Cloud Village. He may jump back at any time and attack his allies.
Therefore, Yayoi only read half of these letters, threw them all aside, and let Irori burn them all.
Among these letters, only Second Raikage really wanted to have peace talks with him.
However, Second Raikage also expressed a tough attitude. Compensation is acceptable, but it cannot be excessive.
He neither threatened Land of Night nor showed weakness. He just wanted to end the dispute with Land of Night as soon as possible. It is conceivable that Second Raikage essentially wanted the war to end as soon as possible.
Yayoi was not surprised by this. What he was thinking was that Second Raikage did not want to continue to escalate the situation. In addition, the morale of the main force on Land of Lightning's side had dropped sharply. If the fight continued, it would really become Battle for Cloud-Thunder Gorge.
Not only does Land of Night not want to do this, Hidden Cloud Village is even less likely to let Land of Night push it to that point, and the conflict will definitely become more intense.
Land of Night will bear the brunt and become a sharp knife for other countries to attack Hidden Cloud Village, which is a thankless task.
Therefore, after the counter-offensive, Yayoi just let a small group of troops carry out guerrilla patrols as usual. While putting pressure on Hidden Cloud Village, it also gave Hidden Cloud Village a certain amount of buffer time and space, not wanting to make things worse.
After confirming the tone of the peace talks with Second Raikage, Yayoi immediately asked Hidden Cloud Village to send personnel to negotiate and thoroughly promote the armistice agreement.
Not to mention the huge number of prisoners captured by Land of Night on the Land of Lightning battlefield, just the prisoner 'Ai' was enough to make most of the senior officials within Hidden Cloud Village not want to continue the war.
In addition, Land of Night took the initiative to start peace talks, and Second Raikage pushed it with all his strength, which can be regarded as giving Hidden Cloud Village's senior leaders a step down, so that the loss will not be too ugly.
So, another half month passed, and the time came to February. (Land of Night 27, Konoha 18)
Heavy snow covered most of the country of Land of Lightning. Inside a dilapidated and abandoned temple, the wind was freezing and snowflakes were flying. The ninjas of Land of Night, Samurai and Hidden Cloud Village surrounded the place.
That kind of vigilance and guarding attitude all indicate that an extremely important meeting is taking place inside the dilapidated temple.
In addition to these accompanying Jonin, Chunin, and Yayoi's escorts, there are only two people, Irori and Kicho.
Over there, Hidden Cloud Village, was still an old acquaintance, Yotsuki Kōmon. Next to him were Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, Tazbi, and an old man with white hair whom Yayoi didn't recognize.
This white-haired old man is almost seventy years old. He has dark skin, a black upper lip, and a powerful Chakra hidden in his old body. All of them indicate that this old man comes from the same family as First Raikage, Eight-Tails Jinchuriki Tazbi, and 'Ai'.
Judging from his age and strength, he is probably a retired elder.
When Yayoi was sizing up the old man, the old man was also sizing him up seriously.
After a few glances, Yayoi no longer paid attention to the other party. In the final analysis, he was just a veteran of the old era.
In a few years, even if nothing is done, these remnants of the old era will lie down in the coffin board by themselves, and they will not need to pay too much attention.
"These are all the compensation conditions proposed by us Land of Night. If they are acceptable, we will immediately evacuate Land of Lightning, exchange prisoners, and end this war."
Yayoi neither acted arrogantly towards the loser, nor did he deliberately express his eagerness for quick peace talks. He just followed a pre-established process calmly, making it difficult for people to understand his thoughts.
Yotsuki Kōmon is neither humble nor arrogant, as if the previous failures did not concern him at all.
Just the slight tightening of his palms made people realize that he was extremely uneasy inside.
After all, under his command, Hidden Cloud Village was successfully beaten into Battle for the Land of Lightning. If he had not been required to sign an armistice agreement on behalf of Raikage, he would have been suspended from office by now.
No matter what the original reason was, his fault of poor command as a coach cannot be easily dismissed.
Now that he saw Yayoi himself, he felt even more uncomfortable.
It's just that no matter how much pain he suffers, as a negotiator, he can't show it.
He scanned the document handed over by Yayoi. There was not much content on it, it was concise and pointed to the essentials without any nonsense.
Generally speaking, the compensation required by Land of Night is actually not complicated, and most of it has already been agreed upon in the letters exchanged between Yayoi and Second Raikage.
The first is monetary and material compensation.
Second, Hidden Cloud Village needs to deliver Ninjutsu, which is Heavenly Transfer Technique, for transporting materials.
Third, Hidden Cloud Village needs to do one thing for Land of Night - get rid of Daimyo of Land of Fields and some nobles who are not conducive to unity.
Prisoners also need to be exchanged.
There were as many as 500 Hidden Cloud Village prisoners in Land of Night's custody, which was also an important reason why Hidden Cloud Village readily agreed to the peace talks.
At first Hidden Cloud Village thought that the prisoners captured by Land of Night were no more than a hundred years old at most. However, he did not expect that many of the people listed as dead in the report survived and were not dealt with by Land of Night.
Nearly half of the prisoners can continue to work as ninjas. These are Hidden Cloud Village elites who have experienced the flames of war and must not give up.
In comparison, the Land of Night prisoners they captured on the battlefield here were pitifully few, only a few of them.
The main force on Land of Frost's side captured more Land of Night ninjas and Samurai, but their total number was only forty or fifty.
"Okay, that's it."
Kōmon took a look and after confirming that there was no problem, nodded to Yayoi, indicating that the armistice agreement could be signed.
After all, at this critical moment, neither of them had time to argue with each other.
Yayoi wants to end the war as soon as possible. The strategic goal has been achieved, and he does not want to continue fighting a meaningless war.
Hidden Cloud Village also wanted to end the war as soon as possible and always let Land of Night's main force stay at Land of Lightning. They always felt uneasy, and at the same time, Konoha was under a lot of pressure.
Kinkaku Ginkaku killed Konoha High Command's consultant Sasuke Sarutobi, which led to Konoha's recent counterattack being extremely fierce.
Hidden Mist Village's gaze towards Hidden Cloud Village gradually became a little bit wrong. If Land of Lightning drags on, an accident that neither party wants to see may happen.
So, Yayoi and Kōmon signed the agreement document happily.
"By the way, General, do you want to make another deal?"
Just when Yayoi stood up and was about to leave, Kōmon suddenly called out to him.
"What deal?"
Yayoi paused and looked at Kōmon with interest.
Kōmon took a deep breath and spoke to Yayoi solemnly, with an unprecedented sincerity in his eyes:
"We would like to purchase your means of becoming Perfect Jinchūriki."
Hearing this, Yayoi's mind went blank and he opened his mouth:
"Ah?"