Beginning that day, Konoha Ninja Village launched a large-scale counterattack. With the Antidote now available, it no longer had to hold back out of concern for casualties and could bring its numerical advantage fully to bear. Combined with new tactics built around the Explosive Cannons, this caught the Sunagakure Ninja Forces completely off guard in a matter of days.
By the time the Sunagakure command camp in the Land of Grass Territory received detailed intelligence, the situation was already grim. Konoha Ninja Forces poured in from every direction, battering the Sunagakure defensive lines until they teetered on the brink of collapse, piercing and dividing them until they no longer formed a cohesive whole.
Chiyo's son, Liu, and his wife, Chizuru, were in charge here. Liu could no longer sit still. He studied the routes on the map with deeply furrowed brows. The enemy's offensive was exceptionally fierce. Unless their forces banded together, isolated Medical Camps would be easily wiped out. Meanwhile, with the enemy dividing and encircling them, several Medical Camps had lost contact, leaving him without even a clear picture of their circumstances.
"Why is this happening? Even if Konoha Ninja Village developed an Antidote, that shouldn't have made them this powerful." Liu looked deeply agitated. "How do they have so many Explosive Cannons? Where did they get them? Don't they need to defend against Iwagakure Ninja Village?"
Sunagakure Ninja Village knew about new ninja tools such as the Explosive Cannon, but pressure from Iwagakure Ninja Village had prevented the Konoha Ninja Forces from transferring large numbers of them here. Without the cannons' suppressive fire, the Konoha Ninja Forces would lose their advantage.
Previously, Konoha Ninja Village had only used the Explosive Cannons to prevent the Sunagakure Ninja Forces from joining up with Iwagakure Ninja Village's forces. It had