The Prince — Chapter 25: Chapter 25: An Exhortation To Liberate Italy From The Barbarians
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["High Ground," says Mei Yao-ch’en, "is not only more agreeable and salubrious, but more convenient from a military point of view; low ground is not only damp and unhealthy, but also disadvantageous for fighting."]
When, in consequence of heavy rains up-country, a river which you wish to ford is swollen and flecked with foam, you must wait until it subsides.
When you come to a hill or a bank, occupy the sunny side, with the slope on your right rear. Thus you will at once act for the benefit of your soldiers and utilise the natural advantages of the ground.
should be left with all possible speed and not approached.
If in the neighbourhood of your camp there should be any hilly country, ponds surrounded by aquatic grass, hollow basins filled with reeds, or woods with thick undergrowth, they must be carefully routed out and searched; for these are places where men in ambush or insidious spies are likely to be lurking.
[Ts’ao Kung says: "Make for fresh water and pasture, where you can turn out your animals to graze."]
[Chang Yu says: "The dryness of the climate will prevent the outbreak of illness."]
and camp on hard ground, the army will be free from disease of every kind,
[Defined as "natural pens or prisons" or "places surrounded by precipices on three sides—easy to get into, but hard to get out of."]
[Defined as "places covered with such dense undergrowth that spears cannot be used."]
The latter defined as "places enclosed on every side by steep banks, with pools of water at the bottom."]