10. Terrain

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If you are situated at a great distance from the enemy, and the strength of the two armies is equal, it is not easy to provoke a battle,

The point is that we must not think of undertaking a long and wearisome march, at the end of which, as Tu Yu says, "we should be exhausted and our adversary fresh and keen."

and fighting will be to your disadvantage.

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