Everyone thought the Uzumaki clan would stay within the barriers for a long time as they had done previously, and the Daimyo resigned themselves to losing money to maintain an army of trained samurai and ninjas outside the captured cities.
Previously they only assigned new recruits and weak samurai to spend less money, but they only had to look at the second city captured in their countries to decide to spend money.
Their only concern was that the Uzumaki would remain locked away for a long time and the money spent would be astronomical, so they quickly summoned the monks to hurry and use their strange techniques to empower their samurai to destroy the barriers of the Uzumaki clan.
But it wasn't necessary, as the Uzumaki clan didn't take long, and the waiting samurai and ninjas watched in surprise as the barrier in front of them fell and a large number of enemies came rushing out.
The samurai leader reacted quickly and ordered his men to charge forward while the ninjas moved to attack from the sides.
Unlike the new recruits who were previously assigned to face the Uzumaki clan, this time they were true trained samurai, and their number reached 4,000.
Fighting against 2,000 enemy ninjas seemed like an exaggeration considering their own numbers.
But they were facing the Uzumaki clan, and the army's superiors knew they couldn't underestimate the redheads, so they sent 4,000 samurai.
Although none of them reached the Jonin level, half of them could face a Chunin in direct combat before being defeated by the ninja's versatility.
Of course, the goal of these 4,000 samurai was not to defeat the enemy.
Instead, they should consume them and allow the other samurai squads from other cities heading here an easier time dealing with the enemy.
And together, the samurai were a nightmare.
Under the guidance of their leader, the samurai used chakra in their swords and launched countless forward slashes that flew towards the enemy.
Anyone unlucky enough to be caught in the crossfire of these chakra cuts would quickly become mincemeat. And with the countless chakra cuts, there would be no escape.
It was an overwhelming number of chakra cuts, but it quickly demonstrated why the Daimyo were afraid of the ninja villages rebelling.
"Earth Liberation - Giant Earth Wall!"
The Uzumaki clan ninjas screamed before a huge wall of earth appeared on the battlefield and stopped the sword slashes.
And before the samurai leader could order them to surround the earthen wall, the Uzumaki clan ninjas appeared on top of the earthen wall.
"Fire Release - Great Annihilation!"
"Wind Release - Whirlwind!"
The redheads immediately shouted out their jutsus and didn't give the samurai below them a chance to do anything.
"¡AAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
And he unleashed hell.
A huge sea of fire appeared on the battlefield that consumed most of the samurai, and those behind stopped immediately with horror on their faces.
In front of them, their companions screamed in pain as they were cooked alive with no chance of escape.
At the top of the earthen wall, the Uzumaki clan ninjas continued to expel fire from their mouths like flamethrowers with unlimited fuel, and others enhanced the fire with wind jutsus.
It was a massacre.
Along the sides of the samurai army, several samurai could be seen escaping as they ran like human torches, but they quickly fell to the ground and their screams ceased.
The samurai leader saw his men die and immediately ordered the survivors to dodge the sea of fire in front of them and go around the earthen wall to face the enemy.
But it seemed the Uzumaki were already expecting them.
Launching a vast amount of Ninjutsu, like bottomless wells of chakra, they overwhelmed their opponents, passing over them like insects.
The ninjas from the Cloud Village fared no better, as their ambushes failed.
Unlike the samurai, who numbered 4,000, they were only 1,000.
Since they were ninjas, their jobs were not to fight the enemy head-on.
Instead, set traps and carry out ambushes.
But none of his plans worked.
No matter what kind of plans they devised or what kind of trap they set, the Uzumaki were never surprised and always seemed to be waiting for them.
Even when they had made sure not to leave any clues or strange smells that would be noticed, the redheads were never taken by surprise.
'It's as if they had a member of the Hyuga clan,' thought one of the cloud ninjas as he leaned against the bark of the tree inside which he had taken refuge.
The man was older and had participated in the First World War.
During that war, the man was at the front of the Cloud Army in the Land of Fire, which is why he had encountered the Hyuga clan ninjas.
And as had happened previously when they faced the Hyuga clan, the Uzumaki were always aware of their plans.
'It can't be possible,' the man thought.
Since the Leaf Village did not help the Uzumaki clan, it had become known on the continent that the alliance between the two sides had been broken, so it should not be possible for the Hyuga to help the Uzumaki.
And the other reason why the man didn't want to believe that the Uzumaki had the help of the Hyuga clan was that their hiding place definitely wouldn't work in that situation.
But before he could panic and try to escape, a projectile tore through the bark of the tree he had been hiding in and pierced his heart before continuing on and passing through a few more trees.
"Objective eliminated"
Far from the tree where the now-dead cloud ninja had been hiding, a ninja from the Uzumaki clan stared in the direction where he had fired a highly compressed water bullet and only continued on his way when he received a message confirming the death of the hidden enemy.
Thousands of meters in the air, the battlefield was monitored through several screens by numerous members of the Uzumaki clan who warned the ninjas on the ground about the presence of ninjas, traps or ambushes in their paths.
Time and again, the members of the Uzumaki clan were notified of the presence of a trap or ambush, and they acted accordingly.
Whether alone or joining with other Uzumaki present, the Uzumaki clan meticulously eliminated the enemy.
In this way, the battlefield was soon inhabited only by the Uzumaki clan.
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The Uzumaki clan's ninja army marched toward their next objective and encountered several samurai squads traveling rapidly in their direction to fight them, but they were easily dispatched.
In this way, the Uzumaki army marched at a constant speed and soon arrived at the next city, where an army of 5,000 samurai was already waiting for them outside the city.
At the front of the samurai army, a general led the way, his gaze fixed on the invading army of 5,000 ninja.
According to their information, 2,000 enemy ninjas emerged from the neighboring city.
But there were 3,000 more than the report said, and the intelligence officers had obviously made a mistake.
Looking at the enemy, the man hoped the trap would work.
The leader had the power to confront a Jonin from the great villages and had an army of samurai with powers similar to chunin and genin.
He should be confident.
But it wasn't.
Unlike his subordinates, who think that defeating the enemy will end everything, the man knew that there was a formidable enemy behind the enemy.
Gin Uzumaki
It was obvious that if the Uzumaki ninjas were defeated, Gin Uzumaki would appear and they wouldn't stand a chance.
The only reason he was here was because of his loyalty, and because he had been told they had a secret card to play against Gin Uzumaki.
The man was curious about that secret weapon, but since he had no authority to know, he at least hoped that it would actually work.
But since he had other priorities now, he stopped thinking about that and focused his attention on the next battle.
Especially when the enemy approached the range of the booby traps.
As long as the enemy advances far enough, they will detonate the explosive tags they had previously placed in anticipation of this opportunity.
As the enemy marched on, the man had to accept that they had discipline, since they marched like a trained army and not like mere ninjas.
This made him realize that the Uzumaki clan surely had a standing army that trained regularly.
But in the end, it didn't matter.
They would fall into his trap and be defeated.
Unfortunately for the man, they still didn't know that these traps didn't work against the Uzumaki.