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Six Secret Teachings, Dog Teaching — The Martial Horse Warriors六韜 武騎士

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 · 83 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 horse warriors are chosen

武王問太公曰:「選騎士奈何?」太公曰:「選騎士之法,取年四十以下,長七尺五寸以上,壯健捷疾,超絕倫等;能馳騎彀射,前後左右,周旋進退;越溝塹,登丘陵,冒險阻,絕大澤;馳強敵,亂大眾者,名曰武騎之士,不可不厚也。」

King Wu asked Taigong, "How are the horsemen chosen?" Taigong said, "The rule for choosing horsemen is to take men under forty years of age and seven feet five inches tall and more, stout and strong, nimble and quick, standing out above their fellows, who can gallop on horseback and draw the bow and shoot, wheeling to front and rear and to left and right and going forward and back, who can leap ditches and trenches, climb hills, brave broken ground and cross great marshes, and who can charge a strong enemy and throw a great host into confusion. They are called the martial horse warriors (武騎之士), and they must be treated generously."