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) · 2 passages · 172 Chinese characters · reading time 0.7 min
Wujing Qishu (The Seven Military Classics) — the six besides the Sunzi Weiliaozi 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.
To guard is not to lose the strong ground. The rule for guarding is this: for every ten feet of wall, ten men guard it, and the craftsmen and the cooks are not counted in. Those who go out do not guard; those who guard do not go out. One withstands ten, ten withstand a hundred, a hundred withstand a thousand, a thousand withstand ten thousand. So in raising the inner and the outer walls, it is not that the people are put to the cost of heaping up earth for nothing; it is truly for the sake of guarding.
2Only where an army is sure to come is there a city sure to hold
Those who attack come down to no fewer than a hundred thousand and more. Where there is an army sure to come to the rescue, there is a city sure to be held; where there is no army sure to come to the rescue, there is no city sure to be held. If the city is firm and the rescue is in earnest, then even foolish men and dull women, every one of them, will screen the city and spend all they have to hold it with their blood. In a city that lasts out the year, those who guard have more than enough against those who attack, and those who come to the rescue have more than enough against those who guard. If the city is firm but the rescue is not in earnest, then even foolish men and dull women, every one of them, will guard the parapet and weep, and this is the common feeling of men. Though the pits and the granaries are then opened to relieve and comfort them, even so it cannot be stopped.