place
Yue
also: the state of Yue, 越
Coastal state south of Wu and its mortal enemy through the late Spring and Autumn period; it finally destroyed Wu in 473 BC. The treatise's standing example of the numerous foe who can still be beaten.
Reading notes
- The Art of War §6.5 troops of Yue
Yue, the coastal state south of Wu and its mortal enemy — the natural adversary in a treatise tradition places at the court of Wu. Its greater numbers are dismissed as no path to victory.