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Wei Liaozi — The Order on Divided Ground尉繚子 分塞令

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 · 157 Chinese characters · reading time 0.6 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.

1The way of walling off the divided ground

中軍、左、右、前、後軍，皆有分地，方之以行垣，而無通其交往。將有分地，帥有分地，伯有分地，皆營其溝洫，而明其塞令，使非百人無得通。非其百人而入者，伯誅之；伯不誅，與之同罪。軍中縱横之道，百有二十步而立一府柱，量人與地，柱道相望，禁行淸道，非將吏之符節，不得通行。采薪芻牧者，皆成行伍；不成行伍者，不得通行。吏屬無節，士無伍者，横門誅之。踰分于地者，誅之。故内無干令犯禁，則外無不獲之奸。

The central army and the left, right, front, and rear armies all have their divided ground, squared off with a running wall, so that there is no passing back and forth between them. The general has his divided ground, the commander has his divided ground, and the leader of a hundred has his divided ground, and each of them lays out his own ditches and makes clear the order that bars the way, so that none but his own hundred may pass through. Whoever is not of that hundred and enters is put to death by the leader of a hundred, and if the leader of a hundred does not put him to death he bears the same guilt. On the roads that run lengthwise and crosswise through the camp, a marker post (府柱) is set up every hundred and twenty paces; the men and the ground are measured out so that post and road face one another, movement is forbidden and the roads are kept clear, and without the tally and token of a general or an officer none may pass. Those who gather firewood, cut fodder, and pasture the animals must all form up in ranks and files, and those who do not form up in ranks and files may not pass. An officer or an attendant without a token, and a soldier without his file, are put to death at the crossway gate. Whoever goes beyond his divided ground is put to death. So when within there is no one who defies the orders and breaks the prohibitions, then without there is no treachery that is not caught.

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