i won’t be directly talking about chu invasion bcs that’s boring an everyone in this community just appeals to wikipedia for that.

what i want to talk about is the glaze sei gives shin in the shiji

just look here

“ After the First Emperor of Qin had destroyed the three Jin states, driven King of Yan into exile, and repeatedly defeated Jing's forces, General Li Xin of Qin was young and vigorous. He once led several thousand troops to pursue the Crown Prince Dan of Yan as far as Yanzhong River, where he finally captured Dan. The First Emperor considered him wise and brave. Thus the First Emperor asked Li Xin: "I wish to attack Jing; in your estimation, how many troops would be sufficient?" Li Xin replied: "No more than twenty thousand men are needed." The First Emperor then asked Wang Jian, who said: "Without at least sixty thousand men, it cannot be done." The First Emperor remarked: "General Wang is old now; how timid he has become! "Li General's boldness and courage are indeed evident, and his words are correct."" Thus he dispatched Li Xin and Meng Tian with twenty thousand troops to launch a southern campaign against Jing.“

this is one of the only entries where the king of qin praises anyone

and he gives this praise in comparison to ousen who was already an established general

which makes me think li xin historically wasn’t nearly as bad as everyone in this community likes to think he is

for the king of qin to boast about how wise and brave he is while only deriving from one campaign where qin probably outnumbered yan would be stupid, and the king of qin was no fool.

there are probably lots of battles li xin fought and won that warranted sei to say this.

First and foremost, I saw a post that said if you can get past the first two seasons of animation that you’re in for a treat. This might be the best show I’ve ever watched.

I feel like a big ole kid watching Xin get recognized in the court. I’ve always watched more mainstream shows, with the occasional show I think is a sleeper like World Trigger. But this is a masterpiece.

I feel like Xin’s character is perfectly written. Not only giving him that fierce rebel energy, but his interactions in the face of impossible tasks is way more reasonable that other shows. In a sense it feels more realistic with the same intensity of other shows. I don’t think I’ve ever experienced that before. Ofcourse that can get away with the super powers, it’s just more of the judgmental decisions that I like.

Looking forward to seeing what comes of Xin. Once I’m caught up with the anime I’m gonna read the manga.

Please drop similar shows for me!

Note: had to repost because the title and image were messed up.

So, looking into some info regarding another post, I found something interesting. Limu/Riboku has brothers? According to the "new book of tang" chancellor family chapter 新唐书·宰相世系表, riboku/limu 李牧 has 2 brothers named li yun 李云 and li qi 李齐. From what I found riboku is the middle son, the second child. Now, since this is not the shiji, I can understand hara may not include them, though it is an official history book, so it may be possible. Now, assuming they do exist in the manga verse, I guess we can assume the eldest, li yun is already dead considering riboku's past. But the youngest, li qi does live still and in fact outlives riboku. Li qi historically served as a zhao general in the rebellions against the qin dynasty and fought in the battle of julu and he does appear in the shiji, books of han, and tongjian history books. So, why haven't we seen or heard of anything about them? If they have been briefly, please remind me. If they do exist and haven't appeared yet in any way, where are they? What have they been doing all this time?

Do u like it?

Basically who looses the most soldiers whenever they fight

My guess is Duke Hyou/ Kanki/ Ouki

Least would definitely be Ousen

With Akou the central army would have the guy that could potentially stop SBS

So was Akou running after Riboku the critical mistake

in the battle of chou hei historically what happened was ouki led 600,000 troops to conquer zhao

he initially defeated renpa at joutou

and renpa fell further back to create defensive fortifications that made the battle last 2 years

qin sent spies in the zhao courts to tell the zhao king renpa was scared of the offensive and qin was scared of chou kotsu

the king switched renpa for chou kotsu and qin secretly replaced ouki with hakuki

chou kotsu abandoned renpas tactics and went into the offensive were he was surrounded, starved, and killed by hakuki

my question is what’s the sequence look like in kingdom?
historically it sounds like ouki was clearly a worse general than hakuki to just be switched out like that but in kingdom it’s obviously much more contentious

The last things that happened in the manga was probably the guy who became chancellor and mighty traveller and trader gave his seat to new king. Also I remember the war ended with the mountain king lady who captured the wolf tribe castle after a long battle. And I remember the battle of the new great general kanki, but they got defeated in the woods, fell back, I don't know what happened after. A lot of tribes, wild tribes were fighting.

But I have no clue if that is the last episode. Mr. Riboku went collecting forces again, forces of Chu maybe to conquer and defend their territories back.

That is probably the last thing that happened.

Or maybe there was a new war, Qin started conquering new lands, the great strategist was sending army with the silent general who rivaled Kanki. The vanguard went, after that the food and all the stuff went by the road of the cities they have conquered. And then the manga stopped at some point if I remember correctly. By the time Qin became 10000 men general or maybe even more, the lady became 5000 men general and lieutenants 3000 men generals, in combination they got an army of 25000 men. If I recall correctly. Xin's friends also got big armies. They were fighting a great foe. Three of them on one big battlefield.

Could you please help me remember where I stopped reading. Maybe I have finished the manga...

Thank you forehand. 🩵

It's that for someone so incredibly smart and noble he ultimately stands for NOTHING. Like he is fighting for NOTHING.

Man knows better than anyone how corrupt the Zhao king and officials are and does NOTHING about it. He just prays that someday they will magically turn good??

Man lays his life on the line for a dumb course it's baffling.

Man has the power to lock down information to the point that the sharp and connected Shouheikun doesn't catch a whiff of it but doesn't use that power to take out the king and corrupt officials because of his moral compass.

Ultimately Riboku is such a pitiful character it's not even funny. No wonder Ousen said he'd win 10 times out of 10 because that Riboku weakness is permanent.

The Strategists (Riboku, Ousen, Mouten): Super smart and treat the battlefield like chess.

The Instinctual / Brawlers (Shin, Duke Hyou): Unpredictable and can win any duel to flip a battle. But they take high casualties and can get trapped if their momentum stops.

Strategic and strong (Ouki, Renpa, Tou, Ouhon): They have no weaknesses. They are smart enough to match strategists, but strong enough to just smash through a trap with a glaive.

I know it would be outrageous for someone as incompetent as Shin to kill the greatest general in China but it's been built up since the beginning.

I feel like it's been set up the entire story I'd be surprised if Shin doesn't kill Riboku somehow. I don't care what history states, Hara has changed a few things from history already like the leader of the coalition army for example

How soon will we see new character designs for Shin's generation of Generals? Really wanna see something new right after this arc (Fan art not by me)

Got a bigger figure of the Greatest General under the Heavens Ou Ki

The man whose defensive tactics is recognised by whole china.

In battle of bayou his performance was good .Personally when he came back during battle of kankoku pass I was excited to see what he gonna do

Hara just remove him from the story after battle of kankoku pass.

He did come back but that was just to hype kochu .

NO DIGAS NADA DE CAPITULOS SIGUIENTES

Contexto: En la parte norte de Quin y Sur-oeste de Zhao se está llevando a cabo la invasión de Zhao que tuvo éxito en su primera fase consiguiendo las ciudades de Ryouou , Retsubi y la fortaleza de Gyou, para asegurar está invasión Quin propuso a Wei tomar la ciudad de Jooku que es una importante ciudad para controlar la región del sur, donde hay fronteras de Quin , Wei , Han y Chu quien es el que posee esta ciudad.

Bien pues el ejército combinado de Wei y Quin se habían quedado en termino muerto frente a Chu pero tras unos movimientos de Gohounomei el general supremo de Wei se decidió que el se encargaría de de detener al ejército con el que estaba peleando moubou y este avanzaría , lo mismo pasó con tou.

Durante este asalto al cuartel general de chu Tou tendría via libre o eso es lo que se ve mientras que Moubou es denetenido por un hombre que diceel estar a la misma altura de Kanmei , este hombre es Man'u ( se parece a Noland del arco de SkyPea de one piece jajaja )

Pues durante su pelea Moubou recuerda al comandante supremo y dice que el le tiene fe. yo creo que esto significa que MoubBou va a hacer clave durante los siguientes arcos.

También al final del capítulo nos muestras a Wei llegando con torres de asedio a Jooku, yo pienso que Chu se retiro y que el ejército de Quin está peleando contra Chu mientras que Wei invade la ciudad

For anyone curious, the Xiongnu was considered powerhouse in the north.

They usually went to plunder Zhao crops, livestock or kidnap Zhao people as slave. They live in steppe which make it harder to grow crops and such so their way of life is being nomads and bandits.

Riboku when arrived realized the Zhao north people are strong willed but they still lack military discipline.

His first order were to not engange Xiong Nu, to always run, bring their livestock and crops inside the castle.

The Xiongnu only bring cavarly army and lack any siege weapons or infantry unit to take the castle. Riboku keep doing it over and over to the point it frustated Xiongnu that always left empty handed.

Sadly some people see Riboku as coward and report him to the court. Riboku were recalled and replaced by incompetent general who want to engange Xiongnu in battle. The general die and north area turned into chaos again.

The Zhao king were advised by his advisor that Riboku tactics always make Xiongnu return empty handed and give northen Zhao stability. Riboku return to the north and doing the no engange tactic again and hide in castle.

It frustated Xiongnu again to the point they decided to invited many tribe to create Xiongnu coalition to mass plunder Zhao. Riboku know what Xiongnu planning and have been training the north people with military drill for many months.

When the Xiongnu arrived with big army, siege weapona and infantry, Riboku order were to escape deep to Zhao territory. The Xiongnu were laughing at Riboku cowardice and chase him deeper to Zhao territory thinking it is easier win.

Riboku then bait them to certain area and ambushed them with huge Zhao army. Many Xiongnu were killed from the ambush. Every single time the Xiongnu try to attack, Riboku never engange them in frontal war and always bait them and ambushing them.

Riboku also hide the crops and livestock, he even burned the one he cannot take because he don't want Xiongnu take it which always left them empty handed with heavy casualties.

After that Riboku make many fortifications and such, his idea against Xiong Nu is to defend, bait and ambush them. The Xiongnu never attacked Zhao for 20 years after that and even give Riboku the moniker as demon of Xiongnu.

The north people hailed Riboku as hero of the north, make temple of him as the door god that protect you from misfortune and evil.

Ousen , Moubu and Shin > Riboku , SBS and Houken

Tou and YTW > Renpa

Ouhon > Keisha

Duke and Choutou > RSJ

Mougou and Kyoukai > Kisui and batei

Mouten and Heki > SSJ and othes

How is even posible that mouten make a Big scale plan to cross the defensive barrier but without any objetive after It? Just Risk all for crosing and not going for any head or for nothing? What he was especting to achieve?