The army under Chiba Shun's command finally had a chance to show its might.
Wave after wave of jutsu rained down on the disorganized Konoha ninja, cutting them down one after another.
The Kumogakure ANBU he had brought were particularly effective. They cast their jutsu extremely quickly and spared no effort in killing Konoha ninja.
The advantages of Lightning Release were on full display at that moment.
Any ninja caught by Lightning Release inevitably slowed down.
And in a rout like this, slowing down meant death.
Then came the Six Paths of Pain and the giant summoned beasts.
The Six Paths of Pain had indeed wanted to stop Danzo from escaping.
But amid such chaos, capturing Danzo was impossible unless Nagato came in person and unleashed the Rinnegan's power, or Deva Path Pain used Ultra-Shinra Tensei outright.
So Nagato began slaughtering the Konoha ninja.
By then, only two of the giant summoned beasts summoned by the Animal Path remained.
The two giant summoned beasts charged ahead of the Konoha army, briefly slowing its advance.
Then the Six Paths of Pain began reaping lives.
A long while later.
The battle ended.
The Six Paths of Pain had originally intended to keep pursuing them for a while longer.
But a White Zetsu Clone informed Nagato that Jiraiya was heading their way, so the Six Paths of Pain did not pursue them too far.
Of Konoha's fifteen hundred troops in this battle, only around one or two hundred escaped.
Konoha lost over thirteen hundred men, with nearly all those losses coming after the Six Paths of Pain disrupted the army's formation.
When the Konoha army remained organized, it was terrifying and suffered almost no casualties.
Chiba Shun's original plan had been to annihilate this Konoha army, but he had completely underestimated its fighting