chinese story - 5

　Yang Hu maintained GREat simplicity, wearing the lightest of garments and no armor. His personal escort and servants numbered only about ten.
　　One day his officers came to his tent and said, “the spies reported GREat laxity in the enemy's camp. It is time to make an attack！”
　　But Yang Hu replied, “You must not despise Lu Kang, for he is able and crafty. Formerly his master sent him to attack Xiling, and he slew Bu Chan and many of his generals, before I could save that city. So long as Lu Kang remains in command, I shall remain on the defensive. I shall not attack till there be trouble and confusion among our enemies. To be rash and not await the proper moment to attack is to invite defeat.”
　　they found him wise and said no more. They only kept the boundaries.
　　One day Yang Hu and his officers went out to hunt, and it happened that Lu Kang had chosen the same day to hunt. Yang Hu gave strict orders not to cross the boundary, and so each hunted only on his own side.
　　Lu Kang was astonished at the enemy's scrupulous propriety.
　　He sighed, “the soldiers of Yang Hu have so high a discipline that I may not make any invasion now.”
　　In the evening, after both parties had returned, Yang Hu ordered an inspection of the slaughtered game and sent over to the other side any that seemed to have been first struck by the soldiers of Wu.
　　Lu Kang was GREatly pleased and sent for the bearers of the game.