Wei Liaozi — The Orders for the Soldiers, Second Part尉繚子 兵令下
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.
1A million who do not fight are not worth ten thousand corpses
百萬之眾而不戰,不如萬人之尸;萬人而不死,不如百人之鬼。賞罰如日月、信比四時,令嚴如斧鉞、利如干將,而士卒有不死用者,未嘗之聞也。
A host of a million that does not fight is not worth ten thousand corpses, and ten thousand men who do not die are not worth a hundred ghosts. When reward and punishment are like the sun and the moon and trust is matched with the four seasons, and commands are stern as the axe and sharp as Ganjiang (干將), it has never been heard that there were officers and soldiers who could not be used to the death.