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Wang Hsi thinks that this means, not using the same stratagem twice. He says: ????????????????.
he keeps the enemy without definite knowledge.
At the critical moment, the leader of an army acts like one who has climbed up a height and then kicks away the ladder behind him.
I must candidly confess that I do not understand the syntax of ????, though the meaning is fairly plain. The difficulty has evidently been felt, for Tu Mu tells us that one text omits ??. It is more likely, however, that a couple of characters have dropped out.
He carries his men deep into hostile territory before he shows his hand.
??? literally, "releases the spring" , that is, takes some decisive step which makes it impossible for the army to return--like ?? Hsiang Y?, who sunk his ships after crossing a river. Ch'?n Hao, followed by Chia Lin, understands the words less well as ???? "puts forth every artifice at his command." But ? in this derived sense occurs nowhere else in Sun Tz?.
He burns his boats and breaks his cooking-pots;
like a shepherd driving a flock of sheep, he drives his men this way and that, and none knows whither he is going.
To muster his host and bring it into danger:--this may be termed the business of the general.
The different measures suited to the nine varieties of ground;
Chang Y? says: ???????? "One must not be hide-bound in interpreting the rules for the nine varieties of ground.
the expediency of aggressive or defensive tactics;
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