While the ninja on the front lines fought bloody battles, the medical ninja in River Country Castle hurried back and forth under mounting pressure. At this crucial battlefield, even the medical camp had been forced to send over more personnel. The people Tsunade had brought with her earlier simply could not handle so many wounded.
Tsunade directed the medical work while listening to intelligence personnel report on the battle. Before the troops marched out that day, she had already known that victory or defeat would be decided today. When to bring in the Surprise Attack Unit depended entirely on her judgment.
"Lady Tsunade, Lord Kagami has encountered the Kazekage. They're fighting now." The intelligence officer delivered the latest news. With earlier reports of Hatake Sakumo engaging Chiyo and the others, both sides' strongest ninja had now fully committed to the battlefield.
"They must be close to giving it everything they have." Tsunade wiped the sweat from her forehead and caught her breath, silently weighing the situation. She strode outside and gazed out over the battlefield.
The Sunagakure ninja and Konoha ninja resembled the black and white halves of a yin-yang symbol, distinctly separate yet locked tightly together. At that moment, the portion belonging to Sunagakure was slowly encroaching on the other half. Overall, Konoha was at a slight disadvantage, but the two sides were so evenly matched that Sunagakure could not finish things quickly either.
To support the battlefield, Tsunade had already summoned a giant Katsuyu and used Slug Great Division to send countless smaller Katsuyu to every position, rapidly healing ninja with lighter injuries. The tremendous chakra she possessed as a Senju descendant flowed through Katsuyu into each wounded ninja.
There was no time on the battlefield to treat wounds slowly. Apart from injuries that required surgery, everything else