The Daimyo of the Land of Iron looked at everyone present and said furiously, "Are you all going to keep staying silent? Do you realize what time it is? Do any of you have any ideas or plans? Speak up!
"Anyway, let me tell you this: I will never surrender to the Uchiha! And I don't think the Uchiha would accept our surrender either!"
Hearing this, the other daimyo raised their heads, unease flickering in their eyes.
At that moment, the Daimyo of the Land of Iron swept his gaze over everyone and decided to speak first.
"Fine. Since none of you will speak, I'll go first."
He took a deep breath and said slowly, "I already began conscripting as many people as possible throughout my country.
"Aside from the elderly and young children who can't hold weapons, everyone else has been forcibly enlisted.
"After all that effort, my Land of Iron has now assembled an army of 1.8 million!"
The moment he finished speaking, the other daimyo paled in shock.
"Have you gone mad? You actually sent ninety percent of the Land of Iron's population off to war?!"
The Daimyo of the Land of Wind widened the eyes on his fat face and asked incredulously, "How is that possible? How many people does the Land of Iron even have?"
There was a trace of horror in his voice, as though he could not believe what he had heard.
After all, the Land of Iron did not have a large population, yet it could now muster such an enormous army.
The other daimyo also knew that the Land of Iron had not experienced war in recent years and had continued to recuperate and rebuild, but its total population was still only a little over two million.
That figure was not