It was perfectly normal for Dianbingwei, who had not been on the battlefield, to have such doubts.
Although he had heard the Cloud Ninja describe the situation on the battlefield, he had not experienced it himself, so naturally he did not understand how dangerous and brutal this war had been.
In his view, although this war had been intense and the enemies they faced had been powerful, it should not have been much different from the previous Shinobi World Wars.
In previous Shinobi World Wars, allied forces of this scale had almost never appeared. Even when multiple nations clashed, their combined numbers had never exceeded twenty thousand.
Most battles had involved only a few thousand or even a few hundred people.
Wars involving more than ten thousand people were extremely rare.
Battles like the one in which Third Raikage A had single-handedly fought ten thousand ninja from Iwagakure were rarer still.
It was precisely because they were so rare that such legendary battles were remembered by the world.
And in those wars, no matter how many ninja each village lost, they had usually been able to recover the bodies of the fallen.
Even when various circumstances sometimes reduced the number of bodies recovered, there had never been a situation where more than half could not be retrieved.
After all, the Five Great Shinobi Villages placed great importance on recovering bodies!
Almost every village had a Corpse Disposal Unit, an organization specifically responsible for recovering bodies.
Of course, winning people's loyalty was not their only reason for doing this.
More importantly, they feared that the bodies of their dead ninja would leak their village's secrets, which was why they went to such lengths to recover them.
But whatever the reason, even if people died in battle, the village would properly care