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Six Secret Teachings, Dog Teaching — The Martial Chariot Warriors六韜 武車士

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 · 81 Chinese characters · reading time 0.3 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 the martial chariot warriors are chosen

武王問太公曰:「選車士奈何?」太公曰:「選車士之法,取年四十以下,長七尺五寸以上,走能逐奔馬,及馳而乘之,前後左右,上下週旋,能束縛旌旂;力能彀八石弩,射前後左右,皆便習者,名曰武車之士,不可不厚也。」

King Wu asked Taigong, "How are the chariot warriors chosen?" Taigong said, "The rule for choosing chariot warriors is to take men under forty years of age and seven feet five inches tall and more, who can run down a bolting horse and leap onto a galloping horse, who can go up and down and wheel about to front and rear and to left and right, who can bind up the flags, and who have the strength to draw a crossbow of eight piculs (八石) and are practiced in shooting to front and rear and to left and right. They are called the martial chariot warriors (武車之士), and they must be treated generously."