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[Chang Yu says: "The general has confidence in the men under his

command, and the men are docile, having confidence in him. Thus

the gain is mutual." He quotes a pregnant sentence from Wei Liao

Tzŭ, ch. 4: "The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify

minor blunders and not to be swayed by petty doubts." Vacillation

and fussiness are the surest means of sapping the confidence of

an army.]

[1] "Aids to Scouting," p. 26.

Chapter X. TERRAIN

[Only about a third of the chapter, comprising §§ 1-13, deals

with "terrain," the subject being more fully treated in ch. XI.

The "six calamities" are discussed in §§ 14-20, and the rest of

the chapter is again a mere string of desultory remarks, though

not less interesting, perhaps, on that account.]

1. Sun Tzŭ said: We may distinguish six kinds of terrain, to wit:

(1) Accessible ground;

[Mei Yao-ch'en says: "plentifully provided with roads and means

of communications."]

(2) entangling ground;