Wei Liaozi — Teaching the Soldiers, Second Part尉繚子 兵教下
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) · 4 passages · 164 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.
1The five attainments of soldiering
兵有五致：為將忘家，踰垠忘親，指敵忘身，必死則生，急勝為下。
There are five attainments in soldiering. Becoming a general, a man forgets his household; crossing the border, he forgets his parents; pointing at the enemy, he forgets his own body; resolved to die, he lives; and hurrying to win is the lowest.
King Wu asked Taigong Wang, "I would like, in a little while, to have the whole essential of using men." Wang answered, "Let reward be like a mountain and punishment like a ravine. The highest thing is to have no fault, and the next is to mend a fault. Let no man be able to speak in private. Whoever asks that one who should be punished not be punished is put to death, and whoever asks that one who should be rewarded not be rewarded is put to death."
3To raise an army, examine the weight of things within and without
凡興師，必審內外之權，以計其去。兵有備闕，糧食有餘不足，校所出入之路，然後興師伐亂，必能入之。
Whenever you raise an army, you must examine the weight of things within and without, and so reckon where it is to go. In arms there is what is ready and what is wanting, and in provisions there is what is over and what is short, so compare the roads of going in and coming out, and after that raise the army and strike the disordered state, and you will surely be able to enter it.
4When the land is large and the city small, first gather in the land
When the land is large and the walled city small, you must first gather in the land; when the city is large and the land narrow, you must first attack the city. When the land is broad and the people few, cut off the strategic passes; when the land is narrow and the people many, raise a great mound of earth and look down on them.