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This was the man who, in spite of earnest protests from his own

mother and the veteran statesman Lin Hsiang-ju, was now sent to

succeed Lien P'o. Needless to say, he proved no match for the

redoubtable Po Ch'i and the great military power of Ch'in. He

fell into a trap by which his army was divided into two and his

communications cut; and after a desperate resistance lasting 46

days, during which the famished soldiers devoured one another, he

was himself killed by an arrow, and his whole force, amounting,

it is said, to 400,000 men, ruthlessly put to the sword.]

12. Having doomed spies, doing certain things openly for purposes

of deception, and allowing our own spies to know of them and

report them to the enemy.