Hello everyone,
Today I wanted to examine Northern Zhao in a larger post because quite frankly, Riboku’s complete and utter defeat of the Qin here was just shocking. Imo this is Riboku showing us why he is considered the strongest general in China and the most dangerous living figure of the era. Ousen vs Riboku for the Gyou Campaign was a great showing for Ousen, but imo it’s clear now that the Gyou campaign was very situation specific and that Riboku is still the strongest strategist in all of China (that we’ve met) in spite of Ousen’s victory over Gyou.
Let us count the sheer amount of strategic victories that Riboku gained against Qin here:
1. Riboku using the Great Wall of Zhao to route the Qin away from Kantan was a victory into itself, because Riboku used the wall to send the Qin in the exact direction he wanted them to go, specifically towards Atsuyo and eventually to Gi’An.
2. Riboku stalled Ousen’s army at Atsuyo via Shunsuiju’s suicide siege defense strategy which effectively cut the strength of the Qin army in half. Sure this strategy was Shunsuiju’s plan but ultimately it is Riboku who must decide which strategies will actually be utilized in war, and this strategy proved brutally effective against Ousen.
3. Riboku trained up the city of Romou to defeat the army of 200K reinforcements sent by Shouheikun. Riboku had done this so far in advance that Choupagang (who seemed to be an experienced general himself) was effectively checkmated and defeated months before he even raised an army.
This is an aspect of Riboku this arc that truly terrified me. The man effectively defeated two veteran Qin generals with nothing more than simply planning their actions literal months in advanced before anything actually happened. Like imagine being a veteran General with all your years of experience and training, and your defeat comes from the simple forethought of your enemy and not even their actions or commands during the battle itself. More on the second General later.
4. Riboku very nearly checkmated Kanki and the 150k~ man Qin army in the north as soon as he revealed his army of 300K+ that he had kept invisible from the Qin’s view. Sure Kanki/Shin/Mouten/Heki escaped this ambush but they lost the vast majority of their actual armies and lost the ability to actually fight Riboku without ambush/surprise strategies.
5. Onto the second General that Riboku’s simple forethought defeated, Heki. Now Heki isn’t an amazing general, but Heki is competent and experienced. Heki is a general who can be relied upon to make competent calls and not bite off more than he can chew. Heki rallying Kanki’s troops was supposed to be a hype moment that shows Heki’s experience and leadership in action, and Heki got casually annihilated by Riboku’s plan that he made 6 months ago.
It is not accurate to say that Riboku “negged” Choupagang and Heki, it is more accurate to say Choupagang and Heki were defeated simply by the casual autopilot of Riboku’s battle plan, and this is not something we’ve ever seen from Great Generals before. We’ve seen Great Generals “neg or one shot” certain generals, but we’ve never seen generals just get completely auto-pilot diffed by a battle plan contrived months ago. Riboku truly is scary man.
6. And finally, we saw Riboku survive Kanki’s brutal ambush on his HQ. It isn’t enough that Riboku strategically checked Ousen, defeated Shouheikun by defeating the reinforcement army and conceiling his own troops, autopilot diffed two experienced generals, defeated and killed Kanki, and basically consistently mollywhopped a Qin army lead by multiple 6GGs and supported by Shouheikun, but Riboku also got virtually checkmated by Kanki and was still able to ultimately survive.
Put some respect on the Godboku man. Literally the Qin are going to need to send multiple of the Qin 6GG at him at once to stop him.
@Owl Ki @Blackbeard @MarineHQ @God Buggy @Seth @TheKnightOfTheSea @Shanks @FutureWarrior123
Today I wanted to examine Northern Zhao in a larger post because quite frankly, Riboku’s complete and utter defeat of the Qin here was just shocking. Imo this is Riboku showing us why he is considered the strongest general in China and the most dangerous living figure of the era. Ousen vs Riboku for the Gyou Campaign was a great showing for Ousen, but imo it’s clear now that the Gyou campaign was very situation specific and that Riboku is still the strongest strategist in all of China (that we’ve met) in spite of Ousen’s victory over Gyou.
Let us count the sheer amount of strategic victories that Riboku gained against Qin here:
1. Riboku using the Great Wall of Zhao to route the Qin away from Kantan was a victory into itself, because Riboku used the wall to send the Qin in the exact direction he wanted them to go, specifically towards Atsuyo and eventually to Gi’An.
2. Riboku stalled Ousen’s army at Atsuyo via Shunsuiju’s suicide siege defense strategy which effectively cut the strength of the Qin army in half. Sure this strategy was Shunsuiju’s plan but ultimately it is Riboku who must decide which strategies will actually be utilized in war, and this strategy proved brutally effective against Ousen.
3. Riboku trained up the city of Romou to defeat the army of 200K reinforcements sent by Shouheikun. Riboku had done this so far in advance that Choupagang (who seemed to be an experienced general himself) was effectively checkmated and defeated months before he even raised an army.
This is an aspect of Riboku this arc that truly terrified me. The man effectively defeated two veteran Qin generals with nothing more than simply planning their actions literal months in advanced before anything actually happened. Like imagine being a veteran General with all your years of experience and training, and your defeat comes from the simple forethought of your enemy and not even their actions or commands during the battle itself. More on the second General later.
4. Riboku very nearly checkmated Kanki and the 150k~ man Qin army in the north as soon as he revealed his army of 300K+ that he had kept invisible from the Qin’s view. Sure Kanki/Shin/Mouten/Heki escaped this ambush but they lost the vast majority of their actual armies and lost the ability to actually fight Riboku without ambush/surprise strategies.
5. Onto the second General that Riboku’s simple forethought defeated, Heki. Now Heki isn’t an amazing general, but Heki is competent and experienced. Heki is a general who can be relied upon to make competent calls and not bite off more than he can chew. Heki rallying Kanki’s troops was supposed to be a hype moment that shows Heki’s experience and leadership in action, and Heki got casually annihilated by Riboku’s plan that he made 6 months ago.
It is not accurate to say that Riboku “negged” Choupagang and Heki, it is more accurate to say Choupagang and Heki were defeated simply by the casual autopilot of Riboku’s battle plan, and this is not something we’ve ever seen from Great Generals before. We’ve seen Great Generals “neg or one shot” certain generals, but we’ve never seen generals just get completely auto-pilot diffed by a battle plan contrived months ago. Riboku truly is scary man.
6. And finally, we saw Riboku survive Kanki’s brutal ambush on his HQ. It isn’t enough that Riboku strategically checked Ousen, defeated Shouheikun by defeating the reinforcement army and conceiling his own troops, autopilot diffed two experienced generals, defeated and killed Kanki, and basically consistently mollywhopped a Qin army lead by multiple 6GGs and supported by Shouheikun, but Riboku also got virtually checkmated by Kanki and was still able to ultimately survive.
Put some respect on the Godboku man. Literally the Qin are going to need to send multiple of the Qin 6GG at him at once to stop him.
@Owl Ki @Blackbeard @MarineHQ @God Buggy @Seth @TheKnightOfTheSea @Shanks @FutureWarrior123
