Houken would single-handedly defeat the entire Kanki army. Yes you read that correctly. Assuming Houken has the food and water required to survive a drawn out battle, he is defeating the Kanki army.
Now that’s not to say Houken would single-handedly slay all eighty thousand of Kanki’s bandits single handedly, although given enough time he probably could,
But that is to say that if all 80,000 of Kanki’s bandits gang up on Houken alone at the same time, Houken would systematically dominate them so severely that Kanki’s untrained army of disloyal hooligans would retreat by the tens of thousands until not enough of them remain to protect Kanki from Houken. So let’s take a look at this situation.
So how would Kanki actually attempt to slay Houken?
Attempt #1: Throwing dozens of men at Houken all at once
You would think this would be an easy task right? Just continuously overwhelm him with numbers. However, Houken is the one character in this manga who is undoubtedly the best at engaging huge numbers of enemies, especially when he’s on foot. When Kyou and Kanou bombarded Houken with dozens of archers at the same time, he repelled every single arrow and killed all of his attackers. When Gekishin’s monstrous Quanrong cavalry all charged him at once, he killed all of them with complete ease. When the Hi Shin Unit at Shukai Plains all charged him, again, he killed them all without taking an injury.
The likes of Ouki or Moubu can’t come out unscathed from a dozen arrows flying at them at once, but Houken can. He is the Bushin, he is the best at the manga when it comes to fighting multiple foes at once and not being injured while doing so. And as the Bushin, he possesses not only an enormous amount of stamina but also Kyoukai’s bullshit breathing technique but an infinite version of that.
Now let’s look at the reverse side of things: how will Kanki’s men react to seeing such an overwhelming display of martial dominance by Houken?
They will shit their fucking pants and run. Kanki’s army is more famous for doing this than any other army in Kingdom.
Attempt #1:
Failure
Attempt #2: Overwhelming Houken through sheer martial might
Let us now go through an extensive list of the individuals within Kanki’s army that can hope to pose a martial threat to Houken:
1. Zenou
2. Shuma
3. Kanki(?)
These three represent probably the martial pinnacle of the Kanki army. So let’s explain why all three of them lose to Houken:
1. Zenou
Zenou is the very definition of a mindless brute that someone like Houken is destined to defeat with ease. In fact the very same immediate realization of superiority that Houken had over Bayou Moubu, I’m pretty sure he would have that over Zenou as well.
You see while I’m sure Zenou has greater brute strength than Houken, Houken should have every other conceivable advantage over Zenou including speed, agility, technique, infinite Shiyuu bullshit, etc..
And while I’m not opposed to Zenou being able to kill Houken via raw power, the fact of the matter is that unless Houken chooses to engage with Zenou’s brute power in a contest of strength, the myriad of options Houken has to slay someone like Zenou means this should be a pretty clear victory for Houken.
2. Shuma
No
3. Kanki
So the only reason I’m bringing Kanki up is that it’s very likely that Kanki had developed his own weight and people like to use weight against Houken.
And while weight can allow inferior fighters to overcome superior fighters who have no weight, Kanki ain’t that guy. Duke Hyou and Kyou, both superior fighters to Kanki, both had weight and still effectively got mid diffed by Houken. In fact I would probably say either of these two mid diff Kanki 1v1 and Houken rolled them both.
Attempt #2:
Failure
Attempt #3: Guerilla warfare
So Kanki’s trademark style of warfare that allows him to heavily upset more traditional commanders like Kochou or Riboku would be less than useless against Houken. I mean what is Kanki going to do?
Kill or maim fodder and hope Houken gets demoralized? Okay, good luck, I’m pretty sure Houken could give less of a shit if Kanki starts killing fodder.
Retreat into the forests and attempt to disappear from Houken utilizing terrain? Yeah, here’s the thing about that: Kanki merely adopted the forests. Houken was born in them. Molded by them. Houken didn’t see the plains until he was already a man and by then it was too late. If Kanki attempts to disappear into the forests in an attempt to outplay Houken, Houken will literally break Kanki’s back and stick him in an Albanian prison while he captures Gotham City.
What was I talking about…oh yeah,
Impersonate enemy officers and use them to communicate with Houken? Mkay, Houken will kill them too lmfao.
Not a single guerilla tactic Kanki has shown would allow him to defeat Houken with one possible exception but we’ll get to that later.
Attempt #3:
Failure
So how would Kanki actually beat Houken? I can see only two possible options:
1. Surround the forest Houken is currently inside and burn the entire thing to the ground, praying that Houken dies in the process
2. Have your men play dead as Houken is slaughtering them, and then have the men who are playing dead attack Houken while he is distracted like Kozen did at Shukai Plains.
Other than these two strategies, Houken is about to mangle Kanki singlehandedly!
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