“Therefore, after the Third Great Ninja War, the Uchiha suffered heavy casualties. And before they could recuperate and rebuild their strength, they were met with the night of their extermination.”
Chen Yue drew a deduction from the information he had gathered about the Uchiha's current state and their future extermination.
During the first two Great Ninja Wars, the high-ranking officials of Konoha, whether it was the Second Hokage, Senju Tobirama, or the current Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, had adopted a strategy of keeping the Police Force's combat strength in the rear, using this method to weaken and suppress the Uchiha clan's strength, reputation, and achievements from all aspects.
While this may seem illogical at first glance, how can it be considered suppression to not have the Uchiha on the front lines?
But the truth is, for the Uchiha, this was indeed a form of suppression. Konoha's high-ranking officials’ actions did have a certain effect.
However, as time went on, the Konoha high-ranking officials discovered that this slow-burning approach was not effective enough to curb the Uchiha clan's growth.
Therefore, when the Third Great Ninja War broke out, the Konoha high-ranking officials decisively changed their approach, and their suppression of the Uchiha became even more blatant and direct.
As a result, the conflict between the two sides escalated, eventually leading to the Uchiha clan's extermination, a tragic event that occurred due to their weakened state, the rebellion of an internal traitor, and the incompetence of their clan leader.
Could a single Great Ninja War truly inflict such devastating damage on the Uchiha clan?
After all, even the disbanded Senju clan had managed to survive two Great Ninja Wars.
On this point, Chen Yue, not having experienced the brutality of the Great Ninja Wars himself, could only rely on hearsay and speculate that it was highly probable.
From the information he had gathered from his past life, the Uchiha clan had been assigned to the battlefield of the Mist Village during the Third Great Ninja War.
Heh, to send the Uchiha, who are known for their Fire Release, to fight against the Mist Village ninjas, who specialize in Water Release, he didn’t believe the Konoha high-ranking officials had no ulterior motives in this decision.
However, compared to external factors, Chen Yue believed that the Uchiha's own shortcomings were the primary reason for their eventual demise.
It's a simple matter of logic. What happens when a police force accustomed to city patrols is suddenly thrown into the brutal reality of war? The outcome is obvious, isn’t it?
As a thousand-year-old noble family, a bloodline limit clan, the Uchiha clan members, even before awakening the Sharingan, were undoubtedly strong in terms of potential. But that was only on paper.
To transform those theoretical strengths into actual combat power, one needs extensive battle experience, and not just ordinary sparring; they need real, intense combat.
However, it was clear that most of the Uchiha, bound to the Police Force, lacked this kind of experience.
In contrast to the Uchiha, who lacked experience in actual combat, the Mist Village ninjas, survivors of the cruel Blood Mist policy, had no shortage of such experience.
So one can imagine how much damage the Uchiha would have sustained when the two forces clashed.
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“Alright, the final match of the practical exam: Chen Yue versus Obito. Both of you, take your positions!”
Chen Yue, lost in thought, reflecting on the vast amount of information he had gathered since arriving in the Uchiha clan, was pulled back to reality by the voice.
It was now March 31st. Nearly a month had passed since Chen Yue and Uchiha Hiken’s conversation on the Shadow Stage. He had come to the Uchiha clan and started pre-school training with the clan's children, now approaching its conclusion.
Chen Yue was currently in the clan school's training ground.
Since the clan school hadn't officially opened yet, it was used as a pre-school training facility for the clan children.
It wasn't entirely temporary either. For a month before the opening of the school, the clan school teachers would conduct a month-long pre-school training program for all the children of the appropriate age, which had become a tradition.
Today was the penultimate event of this month-long pre-school training - the practical exam.
Through a lottery draw, students were paired into groups of two. Then, they would be assessed through combat practice to gauge their training progress over the past month. It was similar to the practice matches he had with his great-grandfather.
Even though these participants in the practical exam were the children of a noble clan like the Uchiha, they were still four-five years old, five-six years old, and the sight of their combat was hardly thrilling.
Compared to the training he received with his great-grandfather, the clan school's training program for this batch of children was a heavily watered-down version. It only included two elements: the twenty-four basic Taijutsu techniques and chakra refinement.
There were no lessons on throwing kunai or shuriken, let alone ninjutsu.
Imagine the level of dullness in a practical exam conducted under such circumstances.
Therefore, Chen Yue had been in a daze almost the entire time, lost in thought about the information he had collected recently, until it was his turn to participate in the exam.
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