Lol, no. Ousen's responsibility is head and shoulders above Shin's and Akou's. Ouki wasn't responsible for Bayou because he SPECIFICALLY TOLD Moubu not to pursue beyond the view of Qin's HQ. Moubu disobeyed his orders and did it anyway.
Ousen was perfectly fine with Akou pursuing Riboku, saying Riboku was underestimating Akou's caliber. If he wanted to stop Akou he could have sent a messenger and told him to stay put, but he didn't. Shin followed Akou's orders and pursued RBK, Ousen took no action there either. Shin disobeyed no orders. Again, Ousen could have sent a messenger or given orders at the start of the battle for Shin to stay put, but he didn't.
This defeat rests squarely on Ousen's shoulders. You don't get to enjoy the credit for Shin and Ouhon's awakening and winning Shukai for you and then shifting the blame towards others when you fuck up.
- Confused as to why you brought up Moubu. Moubu isn't the reason Qin lost, he's the reason Ouki got a guaranteed death. Qin was going to lose whether Moubu charged in or not the moment Riboku's fully healthy army showed up. Difference just being Ouki would've lived and a good portion of Qin army could've retreated. My mentioning of Bayou had absolutely nothing to do with Moubu. It had to do with not having information. Ouki lost because Qin didn't have information on Riboku and his army, a complete unknown factor.
- The moment we first see Akou looking at Riboku and about to go charge at Riboku... Hara literally draws a whole page with giant panels of Ousen saying "Don't fall for it Akou... it's a bait." Unless Ousen had a horse with instant teleportation he wouldn't have been able to prevent that. Then when Akou does fall for the trap, Ousen thinks highly of his own guy. Did you expect Ousen not to have faith in Akou?? But in order to help Akou's mistake he would've either had to fuck up his army formations or have faith in Akou. So no clue how you rationally blame this on Ousen. It's very clear Ousen saw through the trap and disagreed with it.
- Shin's function/role is that of an independent army, authority granted to him by SHK. He has the power to disobey orders as he sees fit according to the battlefield's demands, he isn't a subordinate general like Akou. Shin's responsibility is greater than Akou and so is his role. Ousen specifically positioned the right wing in a manner that would allow them to join forces if need be. Why? Because the HSU is his biggest piece and factor to turn tides. Akou on his own gave orders to Shin to chase Riboku. Shin then went through with it. Then when Shin sees a mud castle in the middle of nowhere he chose to continue with a siege. This had nothing to do with Ousen as it was out of his control.
In order to counter all of that Ousen would've needed men or horses with superspeed that would've reached them on time to prevent them from making those mistakes....so no clue how you would put any of that Ousen.
- Why are you bringing in statements or things said by other people to me? I've multiple times stated Shukai was not an Ousen win, and he cannot be given credit for Mouten stepping up, partial credit for Ouhon's awakening and credit for Shin's awakening as he predicted it and his plan relied on it. Then at the end with Ouhon and Mouten coming in clutch to save him... If you have beef with people giving Ousen the full credit for Shukai, you should address them, not me. And if you yourself wish to participate in dumb logic like that go ahead, but you can't really use that as an argument against people who don't believe in it.
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Ousen incompetence alone is to blame.
If Qin army were to be left on their own decisions, SHK could've directed them at start and let the Qin army be. Because Ousen took not a single decision/command during the battle.
This is completely false, he attempted to neutralize the unknown force of Shibashou with his strategy of isolating him, but it didnt work. Ousen realistically did the best he could with the tools he had. Except at the end when he delayed his retreat due to his faith in Akou and Sou'ou. Outside of that Ousen was fine and was of the same caliber he was at Shukai.