Not only did White Zetsu have no idea how to command an army, Madara probably did not either.
Madara had lived during the Warring States Period, when there had been no need to command armies in battle. Shinobi combat had still consisted mainly of small-scale clashes.
Even during the great battles between the Uchiha and the Senju, he had not been the commander. His job had been to fight Hashirama.
Seeing this, Nagato controlled Deva Path Pain and said, "Very well. I'll give you the information shortly."
Chiba Shun nodded.
Soon, he received detailed information on the Akatsuki's members.
This had probably been delivered by a White Zetsu Clone again.
The information even included full members such as Kakuzu, Sasori, and himself.
Well, the Akatsuki had more than just the three of them as full members at this point.
There were four others whose names Chiba Shun had never heard.
Those four were probably only elite jonin, so Chiba Shun paid them little attention.
He did not intend to command these core members either. They could simply fight alongside the Six Paths of Pain.
He would command the peripheral members.
The Akatsuki had seventeen hundred peripheral members, slightly more than Konoha's forces.
He carefully reviewed the circumstances of every peripheral member.
Then he divided them into simple groups, putting close-range fighters together and long-range fighters together.
As for shinobi who could use ninjutsu, he tried to group them in ways that would allow them to perform combination techniques.
What Nagato did not know was that this was actually Chiba Shun's first time commanding an army in battle as well.
Chiba Shun wanted to test whether he had a talent for command, but he could not test that ability during a war between Kumogakure shinobi and another shinobi village.
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