A military strategy proposed by Wang Pu, a senior statesman of the Later Zhou, in his Treatise on the Frontier…
A military strategy proposed by Wang Pu, a senior statesman of the Later Zhou, in his Treatise on the Frontier, He argued for the principle of "attacking south before north, the easy before the difficult." Wang believed that the Wu state (Southern Tang) should be conquered first, followed by the rest of the southern territories, before turning attention northward.