When you come across an opportunity for a small advantage, you should act upon it swiftly and turn the carelessness of your enemy to your benefit…
While Liu Bang was secretly using the Chen Chang Passage to re-enter China during his war with Xiang Yu at the end of the Chin Dynasty (208 B.C.), he discovered 3 territories nominally under the control of his enemy.
Liu simply took them for his own use and they proved in the future to be of great strategic value to him.
This story is similar to ‘watching the fire burning across the river’ and of General Wu who invited the North Manchurians into China thus establish the Ching dynasty.
They merely took advantage of an enemy and profited from it’s vulnerability. In this case the unattended sheep was China.
‘The Opportunity for Victory is Provided by the Enemy’. -Sun Tzu Bing-Fa
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