Seventy-five, tunnel warfare
.There is one advantage, and there must be another disadvantage. The greater the advantage, the greater the disadvantage, and vice versa.
Amanata placed the Kingdom of God on the main material plane, which certainly restricted himself, but also avoided the direct challenges of his peers to the greatest extent. He even put the elves and their allies into an unsolvable prisoner's dilemma (Note 1:).
In fact, the situation at this time was already very clear. As long as the Temple of Time fell, the Incas will collapse; as long as the Incas give up resistance, the rule of the Elf Kingdom in the Mazka colony can be stabilized; as long as the Mazka colony is stabilized, the Elf clan will have time and manpower to eliminate internal and external hidden dangers and realize the rejuvenation of the country and race.
However, the elves that besieged the Temple of Time are insufficient and the support is weak, so it is difficult to decide the winner for the moment. Among the elves who came to the scene, although anyone can easily achieve this goal and push the dominoes in a direction that is beneficial to the country, the one who destroyed them has to pay the price of both body and spirit being destroyed.
This creates a typical prisoner's dilemma in game theory, that is, in the absence of mutual trust, the best choice for individuals is often not the best choice for groups, and vice versa.
For the elves as a whole, conquering the Temple of Time as soon as possible and destroying the Inca resistance can bring the greatest benefits to the whole. In comparison, the price of the fall of a certain god is still affordable. But for each god and even the church and believers under his jurisdiction, the situation has completely changed - why do you want me to sacrifice and enjoy the ready-made one?
All the guys who can successfully become gods are basically absolutely selfish. What kind of righteousness and collective interests are meaningless to them. Only real interests can touch their hearts. But what other interests are more important than their own survival?
Without a strong leader who can force others to sacrifice himself, even though he is only one step away from complete victory, the elf gods can only stare at a stalemate, and no one wants to be the sacrificed activist.
As for Ms. Ye and several other allied gods, it is even more impossible for them to sacrifice their lives for the fate of the Elf Kingdom - if it is reversed and contributed to them with the fate of the Elf Kingdom, then there is still some possibility!
So, in the end, the gods of the noble god Angris had to choose to delay* as the land elves, wait first and then talk about it---- and persist for a while, the besieged elves may be able to win. And the noble gods did not choose sacrifices and how to make sacrifices sacrifices.
To be honest, this idea is a bit taken for granted. Basically, some bureaucratic organizations are similar to the "ostrich magic" that put their heads into the sand. In the past, when the Chevrolet Church gradually expanded its power, these old land elves gods were also pretending to be deaf and blind. Every time they had to make things uncontrollable, they barely deal with it. This kind of disorganized sand that is unsuppressed and persecuted is unreasonable!
Fortunately, in terms of understanding people, the Elf Army is at least superior to the church of the Sun Goddess Yingti.
Therefore, after the Dragon Knight fell and the failure of a new round of attacks, Lieutenant General Daniel seized another chance to win...
Under the sunshine, all sins are gone!
The goddess of dark night Shaer made a very high evaluation of her old opponent three thousand years ago.
To be honest, although I don’t know what Ms. Ye said this, if she really had such a view on the management level of Amanata, she would really look up to the Lord of the Glory of the Past and the Goddess of the Sun, Ying, the current Goddess of the Sun. If Amanata was just the God of the Sun, it might be possible that this would become a fact.
The problem is that she also holds a clergy in a bureaucratic organization.
Therefore, while mastering all the positive skills of establishing a state power, the church of Amanata also inherited all the negative characteristics that bureaucratic organizations may have. For example, officials protect each other, deceive superiors and subordinates, embezzlement and bribery, blackmail, retaliation, frame-up, image engineering, etc., a series of mixed problems.
What's even more terrible is that her church has always had the habit of cruel party struggles. In this organization, talent and credit are not important. The key is whether you will cater to the intentions of your superiors. Once the factional struggle becomes fierce, the clergy will even oppose it wholeheartedly and destroy it for the struggle. They will not take the life and death of the gods and the church seriously. Even if they die together in the future, it doesn't matter. Anyway, it's better to be with outsiders than to colleagues.
No matter how Armanata lowered the divine punishment, he could not eliminate these shortcomings deeply embedded in the bureaucratic system. Therefore, when the elf army came to the city, her senior pastor would decisively abandon her gods and escape, leaving only a stubborn old man with a group of unlucky ghosts to the jar. On the basis of not doing things and not allowing others to do things, how to accurately seek profit and avoid harm is the basic quality of bureaucratic organizations.
In addition, taking oneself and fence-bearing, knowing the current situation is a great success, and it is also an important survival philosophy for members of bureaucratic organizations.
"...Dear sir, look, the passage here connects the vault, and the office of the high priest on the other side is connected to the office of the high priest, and there is a magic barrier for anti-reconnaissance. There is no need to worry that the people above will find it... Among these tunnels, the latest one was completed for at least two hundred years, but even now it is still so solid, and there is no landslide... It is not a simple matter to dig pipes from the rock formations. The tunnel we are walking on now, more than a thousand slaves died in order to dig it... Below the escape tunnel, there is a separate sewage discharge system, and even stockpiling clean water and dry food..."
In a dark and narrow space filled with damp and decay, a fence-topped grass just turned upside down, no, was an old priest who had just been captured carrying oil lamps and sheepskin drawings. While taking the lead in groping in front, Lieutenant General Daniel was walking half a step away from the side and showing off his charm.
"Don't say that there are so many, I don't want you to be a tour guide!" Lieutenant General Daniel pulled out his dagger and stabbed the old priest gently with a scabbard. "Tell me quickly, where is the exit to the main temple?"
"Yes, yes, the villain is talking too much." Feeling the coldness coming from behind, the old priest nodded and bowed, and said in a trembling voice. "No one has dug up the escape tunnel under the main temple. However, there was a sewer, and I had just entered the church ground to repair it. But... Later, when I was renovating the main temple ground, the high priest Sumekshi found a group of inexperienced rookies construction teams in order to deduct funds. As a result, the drain was accidentally sealed..."
Seeing that Lieutenant General Daniel looked unhappy, he hurriedly added. "But...but the sewer itself is still there. Look, it's this... Just chisel the floor tiles as thick as the two fingers of the head, and you can drill out..."
"I understand!" Lieutenant General Daniel waved his hand and interrupted him, cast a ball of light with the scroll, and shone the hole at the hole indicated by the old priest's hand, and asked, "Behind this hole is the sewer leading to the main temple?"
"Yes, just walk about four hundred steps from here. Turn two turns in the middle. It is directly opposite the steps of the main temple ground. The statue of the Sun Goddess, the war magic weapon and the turret are all around. Go to the left, there is a treasure house and arsenal. But now it has been changed to a field hospital, with nothing but the wounded and the corpse. Go to the right, there is a relatively small granary, and there is a larger one on the mountainside... The Manuel, who is ignorant of the current affairs, usually stays in the small square in front of the main temple..."
Out of fear of death and longing for the future, the old priest said everything he knew like a bamboo tube of beans, but he said it in a mess, incoherent, and his voice was vague, which made the elves around him very difficult to hear.
Lieutenant General Daniel, who was closest to him, couldn't help but smile bitterly. The prisoner was very cooperative. The information provided was very useful. The tactics that could match him were also very consistent with his past name "Breaking City Hammer"... For him, this old coward is good in everything, but it's really too long-winded...
It was a complete surprise to be able to catch such a very practical treasure this time. More than ten hours ago, he finally waited for the Dragon Knight, but was tortured by the Dragon Kuang Mi Lock and was killed and injured, and basically lost his combat effectiveness. After that, he took the lead in the full-line general attack, but did not achieve any decent results. Although the Incas' fortifications were much damaged by the dragon, the morale blow caused to his soldiers by the destruction of the Dragon Knight was even more serious.
After retreating again, Daniel was strolling in a ruined town in depression. He accidentally walked into a relatively complete yard, but was surprised to find a dirty figure in the well in the yard. The Elf Army had been controlling the town for a week, and this guy could hide for so long!
Originally, if he was an ordinary patrolman, he would probably have shot and killed him on the spot. But since the unlucky guy was the commander himself, he would have to interrogate him to show his clear vision. Moreover, Daniel was very depressed and was about to find something to change his mood, so he put it in a military court with great fanfare and even served as the presiding officer himself... Of course, it was a playful nature.
As a result, before he could even get the punishment, the old man confessed everything, and what he had confessed made Daniel, who was dejected a moment ago, jumped three feet high with excitement.
ps: The following does not count the number of words
Note 1: Prisoner Dilemma: Two prisoners do bad things together, but they are arrested by the police and locked up in two cells that cannot communicate information for interrogation. In this case, they must make a choice: either give up his accomplice (i.e., cooperate with the police and thus betray the accomplice), or remain silent (i.e., cooperate with the accomplice, not with the police). Both prisoners know that if they can remain silent, they will be released because as long as they refuse to admit it, the police cannot give it to them.
They were convicted. But the police also understood this, so they gave the two prisoners a little excitement: if one of them betrays and sued his accomplices, he could be acquitted and also received a bonus. His accomplices would be sentenced to the heaviest crime, and to aggravate the punishment, he would be fined as a reward for the sued. Of course, if the two prisoners betray each other, both would be sentenced to the heaviest crime and neither would be rewarded.
So, what should prisoners do? Should they cooperate with each other or betray each other? On the surface, they should cooperate with each other and remain silent, because they both get the best result: freedom. But they have to think carefully about what choices the other party might take. A prisoner is not a fool, and he immediately realizes that he can't believe that his accomplices will not provide evidence against him to the police, and then leave him out of prison with a generous reward and leave him alone. The temptation of this idea is too great. But he also realizes that
Chapter completed!