At this moment, after listening to the report from the Jonin Daisuke him about the new tactics created by the combination of the Sand Ninja and the Tiger Puppet, Shin'un suddenly felt a strange sense of déjà vu.
"Um..."
"Using the tiger-shaped puppet as a mobile fortress on the battlefield, the ninjas then launch attacks or defenses around this large mobile fortress, thereby reducing casualties and expanding their gains."
Shin'un silently summarized the tactics that the Sand Ninja were using ahead, and the inexplicable sense of déjà vu became even stronger.
Thinking of this, Shin'un could no longer restrain his thoughts. A strange look appeared on his face as he murmured, "Infantry-Tank cooperation?"
"What did you say?" Jonin Daisuke the torrential rain, Daisuke, a Jonin with exceptional ninja hearing, vaguely heard Shin'un's mutterings and asked uncertainly, "Not greedy for the Blood Eyes?"
Upon hearing the Jonin Daisuke's mouth, Shin'un quickly shook his head.
"Well... it's nothing, it's just that the new tactics the Sand Ninja have come up with based on the giant puppet seem a bit strange."
As he spoke, Shin'un found it amusing himself, and turned his gaze back to what was in front of him, pondering silently.
According to Daisuke's description, the tactics used by the Sand Ninja in the front line when cooperating with the Tiger Puppet were similar to a tactic called "tank-infantry coordination" on Earth.
Of course, the emergence of this "ninja puppet coordination" tactic is not surprising or abrupt.
Now that the Sand Ninja has developed a new type of weapon called a giant puppet, which can be considered a fortress on the battlefield, it is only necessary to conduct a few actual battles. This tactic of attacking and defending based on giant puppets will naturally be discovered and summarized by others.
Moreover, there is a precedent in the Sand Ninja for ninjas to fight in cooperation with puppeteers' puppets.
Moreover, Shin'un that the two were only similar, and the details might be completely different.
After all, Shin'un could tell from the description alone that the Sand Ninja had developed such a giant puppet at a good speed, and it could run and move left and right at will like a real creature, making it much more agile than tanks on Earth.
In addition to the thick metal protective layer on the giant puppet mentioned in the intelligence report, its enormous size also brought immense destructive power.
Under these circumstances, Shin'un felt that allowing these giant puppets to roam freely on the battlefield would bring greater results.
Of course, once the giant puppets are allowed to operate freely on the battlefield, the ordinary ninjas of Sunagakure will lose their mobile fortresses of protection, and the rate of casualties will immediately increase dramatically.
It can only be said that both options have their advantages and disadvantages.
Without stopping, Shin'un rapidly closed the distance between himself and the battlefield ahead.
At the same time, as the distance closed, Shin'un saw more clearly the giant tiger-shaped puppet that Jonin Daisuke had described.
Its towering height of over ten meters, coupled with its ferocious, tiger-like appearance, certainly gives it a terrifying aura.
Furthermore, its enormous size also results in its enormous mass.
Each swing of the tiger-shaped puppet's claws seemed to carry immense force; the slaps, accompanied by a piercing sound, would leave a huge crater large enough to accommodate several people lying flat on their backs once they struck the ground.
Shin'un had no doubt that if such a pure force bombardment were to land on a human's fragile body, all that would be left would be a pile of unrecognizable flesh.
At the same time, Shin'un observed that this tiger-shaped puppet was very agile, leaping around as nimbly as a living big cat.
Only when it twists and turns can the faint trembling of the surrounding earth reveal the enormous mass of this colossal puppet.
After a brief visual inspection, Shin'un commented, "It actually looks quite intimidating."
Thinking this, Shin'un saw that there were only about thirty Konoha Ninja left ahead, and his expression became even more serious. He unconsciously increased his speed.
Suddenly, Shin'un narrowed his eyes as a slight change in the tiger-shaped puppet in front of him caught his attention.
What is that?
As Shin'un frowned and gazed into the distance, he noticed the subtle changes on the tiger-shaped puppet a hundred meters away.
As a powerful slam ended, the earth trembled, and the gaping maw beneath the tiger-shaped puppet's tiger eyes silently opened, revealing a hollow metal tube gleaming coldly.
" Lord Hirakawa, that tiger-shaped puppet is gathering Chakra into its head!"
Hyuga Daisuke's voice suddenly rang out from behind, causing Shin'un to turn around.
Judging from the prominent, grotesque veins around Hyuga Daisuke's eyes, he has already awakened the Byakugan within his eye sockets.
Upon seeing this scene, Shin'un Hyuga Daisuke, "What's going on with that tiger-shaped puppet?"
"Report, my Byakugan can clearly see that there are nine Chakra sources within the tiger-shaped puppet, and they are currently converging Chakra towards its head simultaneously. It seems they are preparing some kind of technique."
Hyuga Daisuke pointed to the white pupils in his eye sockets and loudly reported to Shin'un.
"Nine Chakra sources?" Shin'un turned to look at Hyuga Daisuke behind him, a thoughtful expression on his face. "The nine puppeteers who controlled the giant puppets mentioned in the teacher's intelligence report?"
"This, that should be it... wait!" Hyuga Daisuke suddenly stopped mid-sentence, his Byakugan widening as he looked at the tiger-shaped puppet in front of him.
"The gathered Chakra began to mobilize, becoming more concentrated."
"It's almost time..."
"BOOM!!!"
A deafening airburst interrupted Hyuga Daisuke's words.
"Whoosh~"
A gust of wind followed the sound of an air explosion and swept towards Shin'un and his group as they ran. Raindrops in mid-air were also caught in the gust and hit their faces painfully.
"Is this the source of the huge airburst we heard in the distance just now?"
Continuing forward against the wind and waves, Shin'un felt the slight pain of raindrops hitting his cheeks and frowned as he recalled the tiger-shaped puppet's movements.
He had been watching the tiger-shaped puppet's every move, witnessing the entire process of it attacking using the metal pipe in its mouth.
Simply put, the gleaming, hollow metal tube is a cannon barrel.
However, what was fired from that cannon with a caliber of just over a meter was not a gunpowder weapon, but a super-massive condensed wind cloud formed by Chakra.
Shin'un could see it clearly from a distance; this condensed wind cluster resembled Wind Release: Vacuum Great Sphere in its form.
Although the exact strength is not yet clear, the two are completely insignificant in terms of their killing range. Shin'un prefers to call the giant Wind Release cannonball spat out by the tiger-shaped puppet " Wind Release: Vacuum Super Giant Ball".
The storm continued, and as Shin'un and the others approached, the storm became increasingly intense, even interspersed with small, fragmented wind blades. Some inexperienced junior Genin were cut by the sharp wind blades, immediately suffering deep, bone-revealing wounds.
Meanwhile, the fierce winds and waves blew mud and mud all over the ground, causing people to temporarily lose sight of their surroundings.
However, the increasingly fierce winds and waves also indicated that Shin'un and his companions were getting closer and closer to the battlefield ahead.
"If all of Sunagakure's giant puppets could unleash such wide-range Wind Release Ninjutsu, these giant puppets could truly be called mobile fortresses of war..."
Amidst the wind and waves, Shin'un stood alone at the very front of the group, lost in thought.
Suddenly, the surrounding wind and waves abruptly stopped, and the raindrops in the air returned to normal. Shin'un, who was at the front of the group, also stopped.
But strangely, Shin'un couldn't feel the raindrops falling on his head.
Looking up in confusion, Shin'un's pupils narrowed as he met the tiger-shaped puppet's red-glowing eyes.