Six Secret Teachings, Dog Teaching — Dividing and Joining六韜 分合
Wujing Qishu (The Seven Military Classics) — the six besides the Sunzi 武經七書 · Ascribed to Jiang Taigong · ascribed to Huang Shigong · Wei Liao · Wu Qi · Sima Rangju · Li Jing · Warring States to Tang (4th century BC to 7th century AD) · 1 passages · 131 Chinese characters · reading time 0.5 min
Wujing Qishu (The Seven Military Classics) — the six besides the Sunzi Six Secret Teachings The six that remain when the Art of War of Sunzi is taken out of the seven military books the Song set as the texts for examining military officers. The Six Secret Teachings is sixty chapters of questions and answers in which King Wen and King Wu ask Taigong Wang, running from the governing of a state to chariots, cavalry, battle in the open and the crossing of water; the Three Strategies is three short books said to have been given to Zhang Liang by Huang Shigong; the Wei Liaozi is twenty-four chapters setting down in detail the military orders and the squads of five and ten around the time of Qin; the Wuzi is six chapters of Wu Qi's answers to Marquis Wu of Wei; the Methods of the Sima is five chapters handing down the military rites of before the Spring and Autumn period; and Questions and Replies with Li Weigong is three books in which Taizong of Tang and Li Jing go back and forth over the unorthodox and the orthodox, the empty and the full, the frontier peoples and the Han, and attack and defense. "Arms are an instrument of ill omen," "bring the enemy to you and do not be brought to him," and "a thousand chapters and ten thousand phrases do not go beyond that one phrase" all come from here. The remaining six streams of the military school, read after the Art of War, are gathered in one place.
1How to gather troops that have been divided — reward for those who come before the day, beheading for those who come after
King Wu asked Taigong, "The king leads the army, and the three armies are divided among several places. He means to set a day for them to meet and fight, and to bind them with promises and oaths and with rewards and punishments. How is it to be done?" Taigong said, "In the way of using troops, the host of the three armies must have its changes of dividing and joining. The great general first fixes the ground of battle and the day of battle, and then sends out written summons to appoint a time with the generals and officers, so that in attacking a walled town or surrounding a city each gathers at his own place. He tells them the day of battle clearly, and the hour is fixed by the water clock. The great general sets up his camp and draws up his ranks, plants a marker at the gate of the camp, clears the road and waits. As the generals and officers arrive, he weighs who is early and who is late; those who come before the day are rewarded, and those who come after the day are beheaded. Do this, and they run in from far and near, the three armies all arrive, and they join their strength and fight."