ATTACKS AND VICTORY
1. You must calculate many advantages, many advantages add up to victory; how can you know your advantages without analyzing them?
2. Avoid battle and make the enemy's men surrender, this is the right goal for a superior leader.
A. You can do this fighting only minor battles, you can draw their men out of their cities, you can do it with small attacks; you must keep your campaign short.
B. You must use total war, fighting with everything you have, never stop fighting when at war, you can gain complete advantage, to do this you must plan your strategy of attack.
C. The rules for making war are:
If you outnumber the enemy forces ten to one, surround them.
If you outnumber them five to one, attack them.
If you outnumber them two to one, divide them.
If you are equal, then find an advantageous battle.
If you are weaker, evade them.
3. Your first actions should deny victory to the enemy, you pay attention to your enemy to find the way to win, only your enemy can allow you to win, you can prevent the enemy's victory; you see opportunity for victory, you don't create it.
4. VICTORY COMES FROM FINDING OPPORTUNITIES IN PROBLEMS.
5. OUTMANEUVER THE ENEMY BEFORE THE FIRST BATTLE AND THEN FIGHT TO WIN.
6. You only need the right position and communication, you may meet a large enemy army, you must be able to sustain an enemy attack without being defeated, you must correctly use both surprise and direct action, your army's position must increase your strength, troops flanking an enemy can smash them like eggs; you must correctly use both strength and weakness.
7. YOU MUST FORCE THE ENEMY TO MOVE TO YOUR ADVANTAGE.
8. POSITION YOURSELF WHERE YOU CANNOT LOSE.
9. ADVANCE WHERE HE CAN'T DEFEND.
10. MAKE HIS OR HER MEN PREPARE THEMSELVES AGAINST YOU.
11. RELY ONLY ON YOUR ABILITY TO PICK A PLACE THAT THE ENEMY CAN'T ATTACK.
12. YOU MUST CONTINUALLY ADJUST YOUR POSITION TO HIS OR HER POSITION.
13. You must adapt to your opportunities and weaknesses, you can use a variety of approaches and still have a consistent result; you must adjust to a variety of problems and consistently solve them.
14. You use surprise to win, you must use surprise for a successful invasion, surprise is as infinite as the weather and land, surprise is as inexhaustible as the flow of a river, you can be stopped and yet recover the initiative, there are only a few basic colors, yet you can always mix them, you can never see all the shades of victory.
15. Hurry to where you are unexpected, to do so travel through areas that are deserted, you must take whatever you attack, defend where it is impossible to attack, give the enemy no idea where to defend; give the enemy no idea where to attack.
16. Arrive without any clear formation, ghostly!ghostly! Arrive without a sound, advance where he can't defend, withdraw where the enemy cannot chase you, always pick your own battles; instead, attack a place that he or she must recapture.
2. Avoid battle and make the enemy's men surrender, this is the right goal for a superior leader.
A. You can do this fighting only minor battles, you can draw their men out of their cities, you can do it with small attacks; you must keep your campaign short.
B. You must use total war, fighting with everything you have, never stop fighting when at war, you can gain complete advantage, to do this you must plan your strategy of attack.
C. The rules for making war are:
If you outnumber the enemy forces ten to one, surround them.
If you outnumber them five to one, attack them.
If you outnumber them two to one, divide them.
If you are equal, then find an advantageous battle.
If you are weaker, evade them.
3. Your first actions should deny victory to the enemy, you pay attention to your enemy to find the way to win, only your enemy can allow you to win, you can prevent the enemy's victory; you see opportunity for victory, you don't create it.
4. VICTORY COMES FROM FINDING OPPORTUNITIES IN PROBLEMS.
5. OUTMANEUVER THE ENEMY BEFORE THE FIRST BATTLE AND THEN FIGHT TO WIN.
6. You only need the right position and communication, you may meet a large enemy army, you must be able to sustain an enemy attack without being defeated, you must correctly use both surprise and direct action, your army's position must increase your strength, troops flanking an enemy can smash them like eggs; you must correctly use both strength and weakness.
7. YOU MUST FORCE THE ENEMY TO MOVE TO YOUR ADVANTAGE.
8. POSITION YOURSELF WHERE YOU CANNOT LOSE.
9. ADVANCE WHERE HE CAN'T DEFEND.
10. MAKE HIS OR HER MEN PREPARE THEMSELVES AGAINST YOU.
11. RELY ONLY ON YOUR ABILITY TO PICK A PLACE THAT THE ENEMY CAN'T ATTACK.
12. YOU MUST CONTINUALLY ADJUST YOUR POSITION TO HIS OR HER POSITION.
13. You must adapt to your opportunities and weaknesses, you can use a variety of approaches and still have a consistent result; you must adjust to a variety of problems and consistently solve them.
14. You use surprise to win, you must use surprise for a successful invasion, surprise is as infinite as the weather and land, surprise is as inexhaustible as the flow of a river, you can be stopped and yet recover the initiative, there are only a few basic colors, yet you can always mix them, you can never see all the shades of victory.
15. Hurry to where you are unexpected, to do so travel through areas that are deserted, you must take whatever you attack, defend where it is impossible to attack, give the enemy no idea where to defend; give the enemy no idea where to attack.
16. Arrive without any clear formation, ghostly!ghostly! Arrive without a sound, advance where he can't defend, withdraw where the enemy cannot chase you, always pick your own battles; instead, attack a place that he or she must recapture.
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