Chapter 136: Sowing Discord
"Counterattack! Counterattack!!!"
Although countless people, including Pakura, were roaring at the top of their lungs, the effect was minimal.
In the end, they could only watch as countless comrades fell before their eyes. Besides a few token ninjutsu, they were almost completely helpless.
It wasn't that Pakura and the others weren't trying. It was that the Uchiha clansmen, with their Sharingan, were already difficult to kill. Not to mention, the Chidori had given them a huge speed boost, making it even more difficult to kill them.
By the time the interception squad's attack was over, the Sand ninja had once again lost nearly a hundred men. Although the number of deaths was slightly less than the first day, this loss was unacceptable to anyone.
"Whew." Pakura took a great deal of effort to suppress her anger, preventing herself from doing anything rash.
After a long while, she finally calmed down. She looked at the camp, which was filled with wailing, and for a moment, she was lost in a deep confusion.
"Can we really get through this cliff...?"
The same question was now in the minds of many Sand ninja.
Finally, someone couldn't hold it in any longer.
"Hey, isn't there any other way? Are we just going to let them slaughter us like this?" a jounin with a scorched arm asked, directing his question at Pakura and the other leaders.
With that, the dissatisfaction and fear of the Sand ninja unit were completely ignited.
One blood-soaked Sand ninja even jumped out and began to curse at Pakura and the others.
"You incompetent fools! Hand over your leadership! Let... let him lead us," the Sand ninja said, suddenly pausing and then pointing at the jounin who had spoken earlier.
The jounin looked at his emotional comrade, somewhat stunned. "Well, I actually didn't..."
Before he could finish, the blood-soaked Sand ninja said again, "And that's not enough! You have to give an explanation for the comrades who died in the past two days because of your poor decisions."
"That's right! Give us an explanation!" Under the instigation of this Sand ninja, more and more people joined the chorus of condemnation.
Seeing this, the Sand ninja's eyes darted around, and then he quietly retreated from everyone's sight.
Two kilometers away, at the base of a rock wall, the members of the interception squad were hiding.
Suddenly, a man dressed as a Sand ninja walked over.
Uchiha Ukyo looked at him, his eyes lighting up. "How's the situation?"
The Sand ninja reached up and wiped his face, and a human skin mask came off.
This person was none other than Uchiha Kyosuke.
He looked at the expectant gazes of the others and nodded slightly. "The plan is going smoothly. The Sand ninja are now in a state of internal conflict. Although they won't fight, a fatal crack has been created. Pakura can't lead this team anymore."
"Well done," Ukyo praised him, then turned to the others and asked, "Can you still fight?"
The Uchiha clansmen silently nodded, their resilient expressions seeming to say, "We can fight another three rounds."
"Very good. Then we'll wait a bit longer, and then we'll make our move."
"Tonight, we swear to kill Pakura!!!"
At this time, in the Sand ninja's camp, the clamor had not subsided but had grown even more intense.
Besides a few calm Sand ninja who were trying to reason with the crowd, the rest had begun to curse at Pakura.
Of course, to have them actually mutiny, these people did not have the courage. But a bit of scolding to vent their recent fear was a good choice.
Even the jounin who had spoken first was now considering whether he could really take over the command.
If he had been in a calm state, he would never have had such a thought. But tonight, after venting his dissatisfaction, and with the instigation of "Kyosuke" and the help of other uninformed ninja, this thought had actually appeared in his mind.
"If I can successfully seize power and then defeat the Konoha ninja, no one will blame me."
"With this opportunity, I can even directly enter the village's high-level power structure. At that time..."
It had to be said that once a person lost their reason, they could really do the most absurd things.
Although his idea seemed reasonable, he hadn't considered which leader would dare to use a subordinate who had committed insubordination.
Even if he did succeed in defeating the interception squad in the end, after the war was over, what awaited him would be a place of eternal damnation.
Unfortunately, Kyosuke and the others had come a bit too quickly. Otherwise, who knows what crazy things this jounin might have done.
Sizzle!
The familiar sound came again, and at the same time, the clamor in the Sand ninja's camp suddenly vanished.
Seeing that everyone's attention had been drawn away, Pakura and the others exchanged a look and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
At this moment, a faint sense of gratitude even rose in Pakura's heart.
But then she extinguished this ridiculous thought and prepared to organize her men for a counterattack.
But just then, Uchiha Ukyo's voice suddenly spread across the battlefield.
"Listen up, Sand ninja! We are here only to kill Pakura! This has nothing to do with the rest of you! Retreat, and we will spare your lives."
"Retreat, and we will spare your lives!"
"Retreat, and we will spare your lives!"
The others also began to shout.
The Sand ninja, who had been somewhat panicked, suddenly showed a strange expression.
They then turned to look at the stunned Pakura.
"No, don't fall for it!" Pakura shouted at her comrades, trying to bring them back to their senses.
Unfortunately, with the events of today, her prestige had dropped to freezing point.
Although a few Sand ninja who had retained their reason tried to persuade the others, their voices were so weak in this silent camp.
In an instant, besides the sound of the flames burning, the only sound was the sizzling of the Chidori in the hands of the many Uchiha.
It was clear that their intention was to put pressure on the Sand ninja and force them to make the wrong choice.
A group of over seventy people was forcing a unit of nearly 700 to hand over their leader's life. Such a ridiculous scene was actually happening on this cliff.
If Kyosuke hadn't seen it with his own eyes, and even participated in it, he would never have believed that such a comical scene could happen in this world of ninja.
It seemed that the ugliness of human weakness was the same in every world, and it had no direct relationship with whether one was strong or not.
Looking at the scene before him, for some reason, Kyosuke suddenly thought of the Uchiha clan in the original story, who had barely agreed to join Konoha under Uchiha Madara's persuasion, but had then betrayed Madara because they were unwilling to leave.
Although the reasons and mentalities of the two were not the same, the ugliness of human nature was so similar.
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