Why was this happening?!
Sunagakure had more than twice Konoha's fighting strength on the field!
With the elite Puppet Corps brought in from Sunagakure, the plan should have been foolproof!
Why was this happening?!
Rasa's mind screamed the question over and over.
And it wasn't just Rasa. Every Sand Ninja was asking the same question, unable to understand why things had turned out this way.
In truth, Rasa and the others had brought it on themselves.
If they hadn't rushed their entire army forward and revealed every card they held, Tsunade and Kushina might never have shown their own. Uchiha Yin might not have intervened, either.
Tsunade's Wood Release and Kushina's Chakra Shape Transformation—War God—were both trump cards. Without Sunagakure's full-scale advance and Uchiha Yin's intervention, neither woman would likely have used them.
The fewer trump cards an enemy knew about, the better.
But Uchiha Yin's intervention made Tsunade and Kushina realize it was time to unleash their strength.
Before Uchiha Yin arrived, even if they fought at full power and turned the battle around, they still couldn't crush Sunagakure in one blow.
There would be little point in that. It would only give Sunagakure intelligence and time to devise a counterstrategy.
Now that Sunagakure had sent out its finest forces, though, couldn't Konoha take them all down at once?
Chapter 390: A Costly Victory
Tsunade and Kushina revealed their true strength because they had worked all this out.
"Retreat! Sunagakure, retreat!"
Ebizo had far more experience than Rasa. He already knew their defeat was certain.
At this point, retreat was the only way to keep their losses to a minimum.
That was where Ebizo's greater experience showed.
Rasa could see that they had lost, but he had given no order to retreat.
Was it because he couldn't recognize a