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I don’t think we’re reading the same manga. Genpo straight up tells Kanki that what he did can’t be considered strategy, to which Kanki himself agrees, saying that he doesn’t give a shit about strategy or tactics. He just does shit to piss people off. He reiterates this sentiment again in Kokuyou Hills when he gives up the central hill and everyone loses their minds at what should be a major decision-making failure. He doesn’t care about strategy. Never has, never does. Other characters try to define his style through their own personal biases, ideologies and experiences, but these don’t accurately represent Kanki or his style of warfare at all. The story doesn’t and never has portrayed Kanki into the neat paradigm of military strategists and tacticians such as Shouheikun, Ten and even Riboku. For better or worse, no one else can do what he does because they follow regular logic. Kanki does not.
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You didn't counter a single thing I stated in that very quote. The fact you mentioned what Genpo said it being not considered a strategy is proving my point, and is literally supporting the overarching point I am making when talking about Kanki's character and Hara's fumbling with it within Kingdom-verse. So I would really suggest rereading what I stated in that quote to which you're replying. My post has nothing to do with what Kanki cares about or what kanki believes or anything from Kanki's personal point of view on strategy as a character, majority of your post is going off on a tangent.
Another reading comprehension fail. Kanki made an unusual formation and proceeded to troll Riboku and even his own men by sending them out and withdrawing them, seemingly haphazardly. Even after his momentary shock, Riboku quickly deduced that the tips of the X formation were its weak point, so how is this a top tier formation? Kanki was trolling and stalling for time, not trying to execute an actual military strategy. And it worked.
There is no low tier or high tier strategy with Kanki. He makes insane, conventional logic-defying all-or-nothing plays in which he gambles his own life against the life of the enemy commander.
Oh I had a reading comprehension fail huh... I see appreciate you telling me. But sadly your reply is not countering what I stated. And you also seem to be in a weird misunderstanding of what happened in that engagement with Riboku-Kanki, because it was far from "trolling", rather I'd consider that a disingenuous and an insulting term to describe what Kanki did there, considering it's his best feat as a proper great general. So if you'd allow me, with my bad reading comprehension, to break down what happened in Kanki-Riboku. Also, before the breakdown.. just so you know, simply because Riboku figures out the formation and it's weak points after seeing it, doesn't mean it's not top tier lol. Riboku is not the minimum standard for "top tier strategy" that mf is virtually the maximum bar if anything.
Riboku in the chapter 480s: "We know of Kanki's weakness"
Riboku in chapter 724:
Chapter 725: Kanki makes an actual battle formation.
The background scenario: Kanki army is surrounded in an overwhelming fashion, and he needs to escape with his army. His opponent, Riboku (stupidly) believes Kanki has 0 knowledge of fundamental tactics aka battle formations, which is why he'd never done a straight face to face matchup against any general he's faced. Because of this belief Riboku had in Kanki not knowing how to utilize actual battle formations, he believed Kanki would sit there helplessly.
But what does Kanki do to prove Riboku wrong? He showcases he has a perfectly great understanding of battle formations
Kanki sends a message to all of his chiefs and effectively changes his army into a cross formation, with a square formation in the center, and a smaller square formation inside it with Kanki at the very center of this formation.
Riboku is initially stunned by this, but then deduces it's all a simple bluff.
Going with the belief that Kanki's formation that he had never seen before was nothing more than a bluff that would be incapable of doing anything to them, and was only put out by Kanki to make the Zhao make unnecessary changes to their own formation which could give Kanki a chance to escape. Riboku then deduces that if they just attack the legs the battle formation would fall with minimal effort. And thus he gives out that order, fully confident that they would break down the formation. Because to Riboku the formation does not accomplish anything.
Riboku after sending out the units and attacking the legs was confident that Kanki was simply wasting time and soldiers because the formation wasn't gone do jackshit. And that his chances of winning aka escaping were 0%.
^^ After the above, with Riboku intently watching, Kanki gives the order for Koku'ou to set out from the middle.
As you can see from the above the formation could allowe Koku'ou to pincer the Zhao armies that were attacking the legs. And knowing that, Kanki had Koku'ou hold herself there. This served as a potential threat to the Zhao forces that were attacking, who were now afraid of being hit from the rear.
He then calls back Koku'ou and proceeds to repeat it with Ringyoku, the exact same scenario. To which the Zhao army that was attacking the legs, reacted the same way with lessening their assault on the legs and being partially distracted. Riboku the very man who said it was nothing more than a bluff, that it wouldn't do shit except just waste time for the inevitable death of Kanki. That Riboku was now starting to realize something.
With Riboku still intently watching, Kanki proceeds to do the same with Shuuma after calling Ringyoku back. To which Maron, a good strategist, tells Kanki to cut it off and that it was useless. And Maron is about to say something starting off with "we're all gonna..."
Kanki then finishes off what Maron was about to say... that yea he's wasting their time. The same Riboku who said the formation ain't shit and confidently sent out his armies to attack the legs... is now realizing.. oh wait a minute..
Riboku realizes that the purpose of the formation by Kanki was to throw them off and buy him time for the sunset so he could escape. Then he makes the deduction that Kanki would try to pierce through his right. And Kanki of course then orders the right side of his army to start attacking.
The Zhao commanders who were about to be hit by the right side kanki army start to mock the Kanki army calling the formation pitiful and etc. Riboku however, also realizes that Kanki's formation had more purpose than just buying time. Kanki also used that formation to probe the Zhao armies. Tactically trying to figure out which parts of the Zhao armies would take longer to respond.
And guess what happened? He succeeded in breaking out through his right. How? Thanks to his battle formation.
Battle formations are used for different purposes. Kanki utilized a battle formation that'd allow him to effectively escape from a cage set up by Riboku, of which Riboku was certain Kanki could not. Kanki did not do so by mere "trolling", he did so by utilizing proper battle tactics. What were those tactics? He set up his army in a cross formation which made Riboku attack the legs in fear that if he attacked the middle the legs would collapse on the attacking Zhao army from the sides.
Kanki seeing that utilized the centers of his formation to serve as potential threats to the attacking Zhao armies with fear of a pincer, which served as buying them more time (in case you didn't know feints have been used in this series to buy time or taunt people). While using that feint as also a way of probing the Zhao armies.
^^^ None of that is possible without having knowledge of formations and military tactics. And to imply he simply came up with an absurd formation to troll Riboku is just insanely disingenuous bruhz. No random ass bum general in this series is pulling off such a formation and utilizing it in such a manner. Now that was a formation Kanki pulled out to escape an impossible encirclement
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Kanki has also utilized top tier defensive formations. Rinko here tried to attack Kanki's HQ to slice and dice some commanders and weaken his army. The moment he got to his HQ, he saw this formation.
The formation was strange to a point, that Rinko who could see clear openings within it, knew that he'd be wiped out if he tried attacking it.
^^^ Hara used that very defensive formation Kanki had set up, which forced Rinko back, without him even trying to infiltrate it... to point out Kanki being Qin 6 level.
The same hype that was given to Kanki by Hara, when he utilized this recent formation.
To say he doesn't care about strategy in general is just flat out wrong, since those tricks and such are all part of strategy. Now I assume you mean he doesn't care about battle tactics/formations/etc, which is also just flat out wrong, because he does. And not only does he care about them, he has a high understanding of tactics/formations/etc. As displayed with the above two examples, particularly in his peak utilization of the cross formation. Hara however, simply never writes scenarios/situations for him with those, and those are the two scenarios he has written. The man spent YEARS as a Vice-General under Mougou, the Fundamental tactical god, and being alongside Ousen. He greatly respected Mougou as well, you're deluding yourself if you think this man made it to where he is now a Qin 6 member with 0 understanding/care about actual military tactics. It's simply not realistic or possible, this isn't One Piece or Naruto my guy.
