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Chang Yu tells the followinganecdote of P`ei Hsing-chien (A.
If the banners and
flags are shifted about,sedition is afoot.
, and may well causeus to blush for
the Christian armies that entered Peking in 1900A. He who exercises no
forethought but makes light of hisopponents is sure to be captured by them.
This would connect thesentence with what went before about rewards and
punishments.
If the officers are angry, it means that themen are weary.
There
are twointerpretations available here.
Now is the time to strike, before Hsiao
Hsieneven knows that we have got an army together.
But it hardly needs a Sun
Tzu to draw such anobvious inference.
When the soldiers stand leaning on their
spears, theyare faint from want of food.
T`ien Tan knew then that his soldiers
were ready forany enterprise.
These are: (1) Flight; (2)insubordination; (3)
collapse; (4) ruin; (5) disorganization; (6)rout.
The answer was, that they
were contendingwith one another in putting the weight and long-jumping.
Ho
Shihsuggested: ground on which intercommunication is easy. Ts`ao Kungthinks it
is some strategical advantage on which the enemy isdepending.
Theother is
indicated in Ts`ao Kungs brief note: Draw closertogether--i.
Somebody asked
her, saying: Why do you cry? But it hardly needs a Sun Tzu to draw such
anobvious inference.
There are twointerpretations available here.
Ts`ao Kung
says it means groundcovered with a network of roads, like a chessboard.
There
are twointerpretations available here. , and may well causeus to blush for the
Christian armies that entered Peking in 1900A. He had invadedthe Ch`u State,
where a universal levy was made to oppose him.
619-682), who was sent on
apunitive expedition against the Turkic tribes. Forthwith the besiegers dug up
all the graves and burned thecorpses lying in them.
The latter pressed for
hastymeasures, but Sung turned a deaf ear to his counsel. At last therebels
were utterly worn out, and began to throw down theirweapons of their own
accord. But it hardly needs a Sun Tzu to draw such anobvious inference.
Onthe
whole, the weight of the commentators certainly inclines tothe rendering
defile.
When the enemys men were united, they managed to keepthem in
disorder.
But this is only one of the lures which might induce usto quit our
position. Advancing, we can nowhere take a breathing-space; retreating, wehave
no haven of refuge. Movement amongst the trees of a forest shows that theenemy
is advancing.
A fortnight later, Hsin-ch`eng had fallen and Meng Ta had lost
his head.
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