For me, I view Kanki's weakness as something actually straightforward: He doesn't want to, and won't, abandon his lieutenants, regardless of how much of his strategy he has to modify to save them or how close he was to accomplishing that strategy.
So, in essence, to use Kanki's weakness against him, you need to target his lieutenants, BUT, you must not kill them. You have to keep them alive, forcing Kanki to either:
1) Sacrifice them for his strategy.
2) Abandon/change his strategy.
This is a fairly straightforward weakness that is displayed by nearly every single general. But, the reason why it's such a massive deal when talking about Kanki, is the same reason why he's such a terrifying general to face:
On the battlefield, he continuously treats himself as an infantry rather than a general. He always puts himself at the forefront of his strategies, allowing him to freely roam the battlefield as the leader of a detachment unit, rather than be stationary at HQ but being well protected. This basically makes its so that the enemy generals attention is always on Kanki, rather then focused on his lieutenants.
Thus, they are never really a top priority for the enemy, giving them a chance to survive no matter how insane the odds against them might seem. Kanki also realizes when some of them might take his reckless orders too seriously, and sends a trusted messanger to tell them to retreat before it becomes too dangerous/late.
Kanki is terrifying because he doesn't care about
himself or other people, enemies and allies alike.
His weakness is that despite all of this, he doesn't
want to lose any of his lieutenants, no matter what.
To use this against him, you must focus on them,
attempting to capture, and then, use them as bait.
Killing his lieutenants, sure, it will make his army weaker, because he lost one of trusted top tiers, but it will also reduce his weakness, because that is one less lieutenant he has to worry about not wanting to lose.
Well, that's my opinion of it at least. That's why I was a bit disappointed by how Hara framed the scenes in this chapter. His 3 lieutenants are shocked because they themselves don't do too much torturing, sure, but at least have one of them point out or recognize that they got what they deserved. And, it should've been made clear that Kanki was not asking Maron how many because he's in his feelings about Raido, but simply because he knows that the prisoners are a logistical problem that needs to be quickly addressed.
But, alas, it now seems as if Kanki and his army are all talk no bark, pretending to play grown ups... "I can do it, but you cant"
So, in essence, to use Kanki's weakness against him, you need to target his lieutenants, BUT, you must not kill them. You have to keep them alive, forcing Kanki to either:
1) Sacrifice them for his strategy.
2) Abandon/change his strategy.
This is a fairly straightforward weakness that is displayed by nearly every single general. But, the reason why it's such a massive deal when talking about Kanki, is the same reason why he's such a terrifying general to face:
On the battlefield, he continuously treats himself as an infantry rather than a general. He always puts himself at the forefront of his strategies, allowing him to freely roam the battlefield as the leader of a detachment unit, rather than be stationary at HQ but being well protected. This basically makes its so that the enemy generals attention is always on Kanki, rather then focused on his lieutenants.
Thus, they are never really a top priority for the enemy, giving them a chance to survive no matter how insane the odds against them might seem. Kanki also realizes when some of them might take his reckless orders too seriously, and sends a trusted messanger to tell them to retreat before it becomes too dangerous/late.
Kanki is terrifying because he doesn't care about
himself or other people, enemies and allies alike.
His weakness is that despite all of this, he doesn't
want to lose any of his lieutenants, no matter what.
To use this against him, you must focus on them,
attempting to capture, and then, use them as bait.
Killing his lieutenants, sure, it will make his army weaker, because he lost one of trusted top tiers, but it will also reduce his weakness, because that is one less lieutenant he has to worry about not wanting to lose.
Well, that's my opinion of it at least. That's why I was a bit disappointed by how Hara framed the scenes in this chapter. His 3 lieutenants are shocked because they themselves don't do too much torturing, sure, but at least have one of them point out or recognize that they got what they deserved. And, it should've been made clear that Kanki was not asking Maron how many because he's in his feelings about Raido, but simply because he knows that the prisoners are a logistical problem that needs to be quickly addressed.
But, alas, it now seems as if Kanki and his army are all talk no bark, pretending to play grown ups... "I can do it, but you cant"
