Chapter 671 Sand Hidden Air Force
The Konoha Ninja Army's early invasion of the Wind Kingdom was very smooth. It easily occupied the first city as planned without any resistance, and used this as the time to radiate to the surrounding areas.
However, although Roseki's strategy is very stable, it takes a long time, and the hatred of the local people of the Wind Country is also a major hidden danger. The Konoha Ninja Army also has to face the harassment of the Sagi-hidden guerrillas, so there are many difficulties.
Konoha's 150,000 troops look a lot, but if we want to ensure the stability and safety of the defense zone, we can only occupy at most three cities-centered areas at one time.
If this area passes, the Konoha Ninja Army will lose its absolute advantage in military strength and will be at risk of being defeated by the Sagi-Invisible Guerrillas.
But even if Rosaki is so cautious, Konoha's ninja army will inevitably be often attacked and harassed by the Sagiri guerrillas, and even the towns stationed in the military camp will be attacked by the Sagiri Air Force at night.
Speaking of this, we must introduce the Air Force that Sand Village spent more than ten years and a lot of money to build.
Since Konoha and ordinary people are very strict in technology blockade, and there is no scientific and technological talents or industrial foundation in Sand Village, it is impossible to imitate Konoha to create flight tools through chakra technology in a short period of time.
As the saying goes, you will think of change when you are poor. Since you don’t have the conditions to play with technology, then the senior leaders of Sandun naturally change their thinking and use ninjutsu to solve problems.
And in the entire Sakai Ninju system, the one that can best match the machinery is of course the puppet technique!
Under the leadership of two Sandian consultants, all the puppet masters of Sandian gathered together. After years of repeated exploration and experimentation, they finally created a special puppet that can be flew by manned people!
This puppet completely abandons the traditional human-shaped structure, but instead imitates the bird structure and uses biplane flights. In order to reduce weight, the entire puppet was initially made of wood. The puppet's flying power was transformed by the wind-like chakra provided by the puppet master through the puppet mechanism.
The puppet originally created looks exactly like a bird, relying on vibrating two wings to fly, while the puppet master stands directly on the back of the puppet to control it with a chakra line puppet.
However, after the experiment, the Puppet Master of Sana Hidden showed that this structure has many shortcomings, which are not stable enough first. Once it gets too fast, the Puppet Master Silver is easily blown away by the airflow. Secondly, due to its large size, its flexibility is not as good as the Konoha Air Force. Finally, there are also great defects in defense and attack.
So after some targeted improvements, they changed the head of the puppet to hollow and made the "eyes" transparent, so that the puppet masters can sit in the "cockpit" to freely control the flying puppet, stability, flexibility, and defense. In addition, other parts of the puppet have also been installed with complex long-range weapons, which can shoot hidden weapons to attack, and the abdomen are filled with shells, which can bomb the ground. The principle of shells is the same as the detonating talisman, but they have changed to a rougher material, which is lower in cost and greater power, and is not convenient for single-person carrying, but it is very suitable for flying puppets. Konoha's airship also uses the same tools.
In this way, the flying puppet of Sha Yin was completely finalized, and they called it Flying Eagle One.
After Rose Tree obtained the Flying Eagle One drawing through the dark station, his first reaction was: Isn’t this a plane? He really didn’t expect that Saguchi actually created a ninjutsu version of the plane with puppet technique. Although some details are different, the overall structure is similar.
However, this design is not of great value to the rope tree, because the aircraft is far inferior to the combination of aircraft and airships.
The degree of the aircraft is comparable to that of the aircraft and airships, and the flexibility of the aircraft is far less than that of the Konoha Ninja who uses the moon step to fight with the aircraft. In air combat, it is not only difficult to hit the Konoha Air Force, which is fighting alone, but also easily destroys it. It is far less than that of the larger airship in defense and attack.
Moreover, the cost of an aircraft is five or six times that of an aircraft. Three aircraft can build an airship, which is far less cost-effective, so Roseki abandoned the design of the aircraft from the beginning. Instead of investing funds on the aircraft, it is better to design a steel suit for individual combat, or even a larger mecha "Gundam". These two designs are the future development direction of the Konoha Air Force.
The Flying Eagle One designed by Satsuki is not only more expensive, but also has high requirements for the pilot. It must be an elite puppet master at the Chunin level or above to control such huge flying puppets. Controlling a Flying Eagle One is equivalent to ruling and controlling three puppets, with high requirements for both technology and chakra volume. Therefore, the entire Satsuki has only 2,000 air forces so far.
Logically speaking, the strength of the Satsuki Air Force cannot be an opponent of the Konoha Air Force. The Rose Tree has the Tianxing Fortress as a base, and the 2,000 Anbu and the Star Ninja under Xia Rixing are both elite air forces, and the ordinary air force led by Mazo also has tens of thousands. With this advantage of force, it is absolutely possible to protect the airspace of the defense zone. It is a blessing that it has not bombed the Wind Kingdom. Why are you still bullied by Satsuki?
The reason is that the Sagitsu Air Force adopted the night attack bombing tactic very despicable! On the dark night, it was difficult for the Air Force to see the targets in the distance and could not see the opponent in time. Konoha's Air Force could not complete the air blockade.
So how did the Sakai Air Force finish the dark air strike to determine the target East Air raid?
The reason is that civilians from various towns in the defense zone had already discussed with the guerrillas in Saiyin. They would turn on the lights at night and even quietly light a bonfire near the military camp to provide coordinates for the archway air force!
In this way, the Sakai Air Force, which flew into the Konoha defense zone, could easily determine the bombing target through the fire on the ground. Although Konoha explicitly prohibited civilians from turning on the lights and lighting bonfires in the wild, they often confuse the Sakai Air Force, but the effect was not very good and would always be destroyed by the ground guerrillas, and the battle between the two sides became more and more intense.
So a full month after Konoha attacked the Wind Kingdom, except for the three areas occupied in the early stage, all the time was spent maintaining public order and appeaseing civilians. The 150,000 Konoha army was in a state of resistance against a mere 50,000 Sand Hidden Guerrillas and was completely unable to exert their military strength advantage.
Konoha's senior management has become impatient due to the anxiety of the battle situation. Many people have proposed the three-light policy to directly destroy the towns of the Wind Kingdom.
Chapter completed!