That was the end of the briefing, and my uncle called a few more jonins over to him and began to give instructions. I followed the kunoichi to the exit, taking my friend with me.
- Nara-dono, Uzumaki-san, the situation is as follows - Kumogakure strongly presses on our eastern section of the front very significant forces, - suddenly soft voice spoke jonin, together with us hurriedly making their way to the gate of the camp, - given the overwhelming advantage in numbers, our forces knocked out of the prepared positions, albeit with significant losses to the enemy, but at the moment involved the second line of defense and it is not a fact that it in its current form will last longer than a few hours.
- Our task? - I asked briefly.
- To hold the current line of defense, to prevent our forces from being squeezed from both sides and to force the enemy forces to retreat, - Yurin answered just as briefly.
Here the conversation had to be interrupted, as we reached a small open space in front of the gate, where several thousand ninjas were now piled up, apparently distributed in several groups, and to one of them went the jonin.
While she was giving orders, organizing the crowd of people, I used my sensor senses to determine who I would have to work with and not to say I was satisfied - about five dozen jonins and about three hundred chunin, although they were a very significant force, but not when the enemy could field a much larger force.
The commander sorted out the organization rather quickly - in six minutes, the squad left the camp and after crossing the open space, disappeared into the forest. The ninjas split into threes and spread out over a fairly large area, so as not to interfere with each other and, in accordance with military doctrine, not to present a convenient target for square ninjutsu.
Naturally, Kushina and I were on Nanase's team, and due to the relatively slow speed of movement - the chunin can't see well enough at night to allow themselves to take risks - our briefing was continued.
- Now we are going to the small camp and upon arrival, after receiving the latest information about the situation, we can make a decision about further actions, - said the jonin, - according to the intelligence, Kumogakure threw in an offensive in our area from seven hundred to a thousand fighters and even taking into account the losses suffered, we will have to make significant efforts to contain their onslaught.
- How many of our forces are in place? - Uzumaki, who had been silent until then, asked.
- Before the offensive began, we had about three and a half hundred, but now we have no more than two and a half, a third of whom are wounded and in formation only because there is no one else," Yurin frowned, "that's why your presence is necessary, Nara-dono.
- It's all understandable with that - iryonin and significant combat I'm support," I agreed with her, "but why else would Kushina be added to the squad.
Throwing a quick glance at the aforementioned, the jonin did not hum cheerfully.
- According to the sensor reports, it was almost a hundred percent guaranteed that there was a jinchuriki in the ranks of the attackers, even if he hadn't used the biju's power until now.
I held back the urge to curse - in addition to the fact that all jinchuriki are pain in the ass and difficult to kill, such units never move without an escort and cover unit, and in some cases - with the support of the elite.
It's clear why Uncle decided to send us to that section of the front - while almost all of the elite Kumogakure can hold off the elite Kumogakure S-rank that have gathered in the main camp, not everyone will be able to deal with the large numerical superiority of the enemy, despite the powerful calls of sannin. Although...
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