Four Split Personalities

Amid the few boos from low-quality spectators, Ramorok walked out of battle zone seven with a smile, calmly returning to his chair in the corner. Under countless complex gazes, he lifted his head and looked up at the broadcast screens, watching others’ matches with great interest.

Almost simultaneously, Motan lowered his head slightly, closed his eyes, and fell into a state of focused thinking.

Although he didn’t consider himself smarter or more astute than others, having studied each of Ramorok’s battles, Motan was almost certain at this moment that he had touched the solution, glimpsing the content hidden beneath the surface of the match that had caused so much dissatisfaction earlier.

Even without seeing Ramorok’s direct instructions, for Motan, it only required a quick mental review of the recent simulation confrontation, combined with a simple analysis based on the resources each side held, to roughly deduce most of the commands made by the two players, with an error margin absolutely not exceeding half a percent, or five percent.

On this premise, coupled with Motan’s understanding of Ramorok’s battles from months before, a vague conclusion emerged.

That is, from the entire simulation’s beginning performance by the red team, commands reflecting Ramorok’s style were astonishingly nearly zero!

That’s right, not just a little, but none at all.

Even the mirrored opening of both players was far from the label of Ramorok in Motan’s mind.

Sure, as we mentioned earlier, neither Ramorok nor his opponent named Galavina made any mistakes in the initial command phase and grasped the core points of this matchup perfectly. However, it is worth noting that no mistakes do not mean correctness, and correctness also does not signify uniqueness; even so-called optimal solutions cannot claim to be truly ’optimal.’

This seemingly paradoxical statement is perfectly applicable to operational command. In countless historical battles, we can often find many ’optimal solutions,’ but if we summarize them carefully, we will discover that the so-called ’optimal’ is actually the strategy of the victors of that battle, and these strategies invariably achieve great success, irreproducible success.

Thus, the concept of the optimal solution was put forward, but this way of thinking is actually one-sided.

Not wrong, just one-sided.

Taking a simple example: When Great Mage·Emperor Guangwu·Child of the Plane·Liu Xiu prepared to have a seemingly suicidal passionate showdown against the transcender·Wang Mang with an enemy force at least twenty times his size at Kunyang, he did nothing on a certain night before the great battle, and then watched as meteors crushed Mang’s hundreds of thousands of troops.

After that, he led his good brothers in a textbook small-against-many battle, directly defeating Wang Mang and his already scared subordinates.

And what was the optimal solution in this story?

The answer is simple: On the night the meteor came crashing down—do nothing, hold back the troops.

Yes, do absolutely nothing, just let the meteor deal with Wang Mang’s main force, frightening others and causing a chain reaction, and that’s enough, everything else doesn’t matter.

The crucial point, the core of the core, is that everyone sits around eating hotpot, singing songs, waiting for the big stone to break the enemy, and absolutely don’t launch a night attack which might scare both sides, because they have a numerical advantage, and both sides have similar psychological qualities. Who’s more flustered wins the war.

In summary, for Liu Xiu’s side, this absurdly named [Kunyang Destroys Mang] battle’s optimal solution was—do nothing/eat melons.

So the question arises, does such hindsight optimality really hold significance?

It does, because they won by doing nothing, but its significance is limited because most commanders don’t have the [Child of the Plane] buff, and could find themselves defeated whilst ’eating melons.’

Similarly, like many others, Motan once thought that Ramorok’s strategy then was the optimal solution, largely because he won and achieved significant results. However, using another method might achieve the same, though most can’t do it; otherwise, the value of the phrase ’renowned general’ would be too low.

In conclusion, calling it optimal, but such optimality might indeed be replicable through other methods.

And on this basis, from Motan’s perspective, although Ramorok’s choices were correct at the time, they were definitely not the only solution, and judging by his command style, he probably wouldn’t choose this method.

Yet he did just that.

Looking back now, Motan thinks this is obviously a behavior of ’copying answers.’

He copied the standard answer, he copied the textbook.

Yes, just like reading comprehension questions on a Chinese language test, although the answers are not unique, there is indeed a standard answer.

From Motan’s subjective perspective, the reason Galavina chose this answer is because the girl was originally a top student from a high-level military academy, practiced many times, and naturally internalized it.

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