The extermination of my clan is imminent, but I am not an Uchiha

"Everyone, Zenitsu played a great role in this war and successfully reached the level of a clan leader. Therefore, I decided to make Zenitsu the third elder of the clan. Do you have any objections?" Hagoromo Ryokawa asked symbolically.

Of course, it doesn't matter if anyone disagrees, the patriarch has already made the decision.

"OK!"

"If someone disagrees, I will be the first to argue with them!"

"Yes Yes"

...

All the meeting participants laughed and agreed.

Sitting on the seat, Shigeru was also smiling.

Zenitsu can be considered one of their own. Now that Zenitsu has become an old man, doesn't that mean that one of his trusted men has become an old man?

Beautiful.

Hagoromo Ryokawa nodded and continued "The war is not over yet, so regarding the issue of Zenitsu's position, we will not assign it for the time being. We will arrange it after the war is over. What do you think Zenitsu?"

After finishing speaking, Hagoromo Ryokawa looked at Hagoromo Zenitsu.

The old man is not just a matter of title, the old man also has a lot of power.

For example, Grand Elder Ryōzan, who is still unconscious, was previously in charge of the clan's supplies.

As for the second elder, Kazuo, he is responsible for assigning tasks within the clan and teaching the clan members.

As clan leader, Hagoromo Ryokawa is in charge of the family's finances, ninjutsu management, and ninja deployment.

Furthermore, when the elders are unanimous, they can override the order of the clan leader. (Translator's note: I honestly feel that this is stupid, but I don't want to change it because I don't know if the author uses this resource later in the story)

It can be said that the elderly still have great rights.

However, the current leader of the clan, Hagoromo Ryokawa, is very strong and his strength is that of one of the most important people in the current ninja world.

Without endangering the interests of the family, the two elders would not reject the clan leader's order, lest the clan leader would become angry.

Therefore, until now, Hagoromo Ryokawa and the two elders still get along very harmoniously.

When Hagoromo Zenitsu heard what the clan leader said, he nodded "I will follow the clan leader's arrangements."

Seeing that the Hagoromo Zenitsu topic was complete, Hagoromo Ryokawa moved on to the next topic.

"Have our clan's casualties been calculated?"

The second elder flipped the book with a bitter look on his face. "The statistics have been calculated. The casualties are heavy! So far, our clan has sacrificed three-fifths of its ninjas, and there are even more clansmen injured. They are Countless. Since the founding of the clan, our clan has never suffered such serious losses. In terms of the number of ninjas alone, our clan has now been reduced to the level of a second-rate ninja clan. If Zenitsu had not managed to pull off that performance. so magnificent our clan would have been completely destroyed."

Hearing the second elder's explanation, everyone in the tent fell silent, and the joy of victory completely faded at this moment.

Shigeru was even more surprised as he sat in his seat.

He knew that the Hagoromo clan suffered heavy casualties, but he did not expect the casualties to be so heavy.

Is this... the cruelty of the Warring States Period...

...

Today is the third day after the victory of the great war, but the war between the coalition forces of the three clans and the Hagoromo clan is not over yet. At this time, the allied forces of the three clans returned to their previous state, constantly attacking the Hagoromo clan every day. They seemed to have made up their minds and were determined to completely kill the Hagoromo clan.

End the Hagoromo clan.

In this situation, it was not a surprise that Hagoromo Ryokawa held a meeting again.

"Everyone, although we won the battle three days ago, the situation of the Hagoromo clan is still not optimistic. After this month of war, the overall strength of our clan is far inferior to the coalition of the three clans. Now, the coalition of "The three clans continue to launch a small-scale raid against us, and our clan members suffer casualties every day. If this continues, they will slowly drive us to extinction!"

Hagoromo Ryokawa slammed the table with an ugly face.

He originally thought that the fact that a strong figure at the level of a clan leader would appear in the clan again and would cause the coalition of the three clans to retreat.

Unexpectedly, these three clans have no intention of retreating. Are they determined to destroy the Hagoromo clan?

This is simply unreasonable!

"How about we fight?"

"Yes! Let's fight!"

"Fight? Why fight?"

"It's just that we at the base don't have enough combat power..."

...

They began to argue word by word.

What everyone said is correct. If we fight hard, why should we fight?

The Hagoromo Clan is indeed as good as the three-clan coalition in terms of higher-level combat power, but what about lower-level combat power?

When the time to fight comes, the higher-level combat power will be slowed down, and the lower-level combat power will be directly eliminated by others with more numbers, and slowly eliminated.

How do you fight this? Should you fight with your head?

If you really put all your efforts into fighting with the opponent, the result will only be the death of everyone in the base, and only three powerful clan leaders will be left in the end.

In this way, what is the difference between the Hagoromo clan and an extinct clan?

Listening to the heated discussion between the elite jounin, Shigeru lowered his head and remained silent.

He originally thought that as long as there was another powerful ninja at the level of a clan leader, the genocide crisis would end.

Unexpectedly, a powerful ninja appeared, but the genocide crisis was not over yet.

Looks like we need to think again.

At that moment, Shigeru began to take advantage of his status as a reincarnate and frantically recalled the knowledge he had learned in his previous life.

Now he faces war.

Speaking of war, it can be said that our ancestors played with war.

If we want to solve the crisis we face now, we must learn from the war experience of our ancestors.

What the Hagoromo clan needs most at this time is for the allied forces of the three clans to withdraw and not be able to launch another war against the Hagoromo clan in a short period of time, so that the Hagoromo clan can have a chance to breathe and recuperate.

However, to make the enemy retreat, what example from The Art of War and Sun Tzu's Thirty-Six Strategies can be used as a reference.

Thirty-six strategies, is walking the best strategy.

No, no, no, I'm getting lost, I'm just going, going, I can't go!

etc?

Let the enemy withdraw his troops?

Shigeru suddenly thought of an example that could be used as a reference.

Besiege the Wei Kingdom to save the Zhao Kingdom! ! !

This strategy seems to be very promising!

Thinking of this, Shigeru's mouth suddenly smiled and his brain began to work like crazy.

There are now three enemies, namely Senju, Sarutobi and Shimura.

The bulk of the Senju force is now fighting their former rival, the Uchiha, and the fighting is in full swing.

In the current state of the Hagoromo clan, they do not have the strength to support the Uchiha and put pressure on the Senju clan's front battlefield, which would cause the Senju clan to retreat.

Therefore, the Senju clan is not an option, they should not be thought of.

So, the only ones left are the Sarutobi or Shimura clans.