Therefore in chariot fighting, when ten or more chariots have been taken, those should be rewarded who took the first.

故车战,得车十乘已上,赏其先得者

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Our own flags should be substituted for those of the enemy, and the chariots mingled and used in conjunction with ours.

而更其旌旗,车杂而乘之

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The captured soldiers should be kindly treated and kept. This is called, using the conquered foe to augment one’s own strength.

卒善而养之,是谓胜敌而益强。

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In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.

故兵贵胜,不贵久。

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20. Thus it may be known that the leader of armies is the arbiter of the people’s fate, the man on whom it depends whether the nation shall be in peace or in peril.

故知兵之将,民之司命,国家安危之主也。

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Sun Tzu said: In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy’s country whole and intact;to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

孙子曰:凡用兵之法,全国为上,破国次之﹔

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So, too, it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it,to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them.

全军为上,破军次之﹔全旅为上,破旅次之,﹔全卒为上,破卒次之﹔全伍为上,破伍次之。

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Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.

是故百战百胜,非善之善也﹔不战而屈人之兵,善之善者也。

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Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy’s plans; the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy’s forces; the next in order is to attack the enemy’s army in the field

故上兵伐谋,其次伐交,其次伐兵

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And the worst policy of all is to besiege walled cities. The rule is, not to besiege walled cities if it can possibly be avoided.

其下攻城。攻城之法为不得已。

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The preparation of mantlets,movable shelters, and various implements of war, will take up three whole months

修橹轒辒、具器械、三月而后成

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And the piling up of mounds over against the walls will take three months more.

距闉,又三月而后已。

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The general, unable to control his irritation,will launch his men to the assault like swarming ants, with the result that one-third of his men are slain,while the town still remains untaken. Such are the disastrous effects of a siege.

将不胜其忿,而蚁附之,杀士三分之一,而城不拔者,此攻之灾也。

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Therefore the skillful leader subdues the enemy’s troops without any fighting

故善用兵者,屈人之兵而非战也。

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He captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.

拔人之城而非攻也,破人之国而非久也,必以全争于天下

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With his forces intact he will dispute the mastery of the Empire, and thus, without losing a man, his triumph will be complete. This is the method of attacking by stratagem.

故兵不顿,而利可全,此谋攻之法也。

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It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy’s one, to surround him; if five to one,to attack him; if twice as numerous, to divide our army into two.

故用兵之法,十则围之,五则攻之,倍则分之

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If equally matched, we can offer battle;if slightly inferior in numbers, we can avoid the enemy;if quite unequal in every way, we can flee from him.

敌则能战之,少则能逃之,不若则能避之。

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Hence, though an obstinate fight may be made by a small force, in the end it must be captured by the larger force.

故小敌之坚,大敌之擒也。

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Now the general is the bulwark of the State; if the bulwark is complete at all points; the State will be strong; if the bulwark is defective, the State will be weak.

夫将者,国之辅也。辅周则国必强,辅隙则国必弱。

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