[Cao Cao said: If you want to fight, you must first calculate the cost, and you must pay for the enemy. 〕Grandson said:
All the methods of military use: driving thousands of chariots, leather chariots thousands of times, carrying one hundred thousand armors.
〔Cao Cao said: To drive a car, a light car, and a horse; a leather car, a heavy car, is the most important thing to ride. He drives four horses, leads 30,000 troops, raises two people to cook the family, one person keeps the clothes and clothes, two stables keep horses, and five people. There are ten infantrymen, and they use carts to drive oxen. Raise two people to cook the family, one person to guard the clothes, and there are three of them. With one hundred thousand armor, the number of soldiers is also. 〕 Thousands of miles to feed food, [Cao Cao said: Cross the border for thousands of miles. 〕
The cost of the outside and the inside, the use of the guests, the fortune of the glue paint, the reward of the car armor: the expense of a thousand dollars, and then a hundred thousand teachers.
〔Cao Cao said: He said that buying rewards is still outside. 〕
Its use of warfare: defeat for a long time, the blunt force will be frustrated, the siege will yield strength, and the long violent division will be insufficient for the country.
〔Cao Cao said: bluntness, badness; quandation, exhaustion. 〕
The princes took advantage of their shortcomings to take advantage of the frustration, strength, and destruction of the husband's blunt soldiers. Although the wise, they could not deal with the future.
Therefore, the soldiers heard the clumsy speed and did not see it for a long time.
[Cao Cao said: Although clumsy, there is a quick victory. Those who haven't seen it have nothing to say. 〕The husband and the soldier will benefit the country for a long time.
Therefore, if you don't fully understand the harm of using soldiers, you can't get the benefits of using soldiers.
Therefore, those who make good use of soldiers will no longer be registered for service and no longer carry food;
[Cao Cao said: Ji, you are also Fu. At the beginning of the words, if you give the people, you will win, and you will no longer return to the country and send troops. Grain was first used, and then because of food from the enemy, the soldiers returned to the country, no longer welcoming them with food. 〕Used for the country, because the food is from the enemy: so military food is sufficient.
〔Cao Cao said: Armored combat equipment is used in the middle of the country, and grain is also used by the enemy. 〕The country’s poorer than the teacher: those who are far away lose, the people will be poor; those who are close to the teacher will sell more expensively, and if you sell more expensively, the people will be exhausted.
[Cao Cao said: The military has gone out of bounds. Those who are close to the teacher are greedy for money, and they are all expensive to sell, but the people are exhausted. ] Cai exhausted is eager for Qiu. In the Central Plains of Quli, there is a emptiness in the home, and the cost of the people is to go to the sixth.
[Cao Cao said: Qiu, Sixteen Wells. When the people have run out of wealth and the soldiers are puzzled, they will try their best to transport the food in the wilderness. Ten to go to the seventh, the cost is also. 〕For the public house: broken carts and tired horses, armored crossbows, halberds and spear sculls, cattle carts, seven out of ten.
〔Cao Cao said: Qiu Niu is the ox of Qiu Yi; the cart is also a long-hub cart. 〕So the wisdom will serve the enemy, eat the enemy for one thing, and be my twenty stones; for one stone, I will be my twenty stones.
〔Cao Cao said: Beans; stalks, Hechao. Stone is also a hundred and twenty catties. The method of transfer is one stone for a fee of twenty stones. ] Therefore, those who kill the enemy are also angry; [Cao Cao said: Wrath can cause the enemy. 〕
Those who take the enemy are the goods.
[Cao Cao said: The army has no money, and the soldiers will not come; the army has no rewards, and the soldiers will not go. 〕Car battle: If you get more than ten rides in a car, you will be rewarded first. [Cao Cao said: You can get ten rides in a car battle, and you will be rewarded. Not to mention that those who have won ten rides in a car battle will be rewarded. In terms of the rewards, what is the reward? Yan wants to show the reward of the car he got. The method of Chen Che: Five cars are the team, one servant shoots one; the tenth army is an officer, one soldier is commanded; the car is full ten rides, two officers. So use it, so don't give it away. If you want to make it, it will be graceful. Or it can be said that the ten rides of the company's own car have already been used to fight the enemy, but the one who takes the merits will reward it, and the ten rides have been removed. Although one ride is unique, the remaining nine rides are rewarded, so the rate is to enter the encouragement. ] And even its banner; [Cao Cao said: Same with me. 〕
The car is mixed,
[Cao Cao said: Not alone. 〕
Raising the soldiers together is to win the enemy and gain the strength.
〔Cao Cao said: Self-help is strong. 〕
Therefore, soldiers are expensive but not long.
[Cao Cao said: Long time is not good. The soldiers are still fierce, and they will burn themselves if they don't. 〕Therefore, the generals who know the soldiers, the commanders of the people, and the masters of national security.
[Cao Cao said: Jiang Xian is also the country's security. 〕
[Translation]
Sun Tzu said: Once a war is launched, countless chariots, heavy vehicles, and a large number of troops will be dispatched, and food must be transported from far away. It costs nearly a thousand dollars in military expenses every day, including the front and rear expenses, the expenses of diplomatic envoys, the supply of military supplies, and the maintenance of weapons and equipment. Only in this way can a 100,000 army be dispatched.
If such a huge army is used to fight, it must be done quickly. If the war is delayed, the soldiers will be overworked, their confidence to fight will also be frustrated, and the siege will consume a lot of power. If the army is fighting abroad for a long time, the country's finances will start to increase. If such a situation occurs, it is easy for other princes to take advantage of the opportunity to attack, so that even those who are capable will not be able to save the situation. In this way, no matter what method is used, a quick battle must be adopted, and the war must not be delayed for the sake of opportunism. I have never heard of the fact that the army has been dragged out to fight for a long time and the country has benefited. Therefore, it is impossible for people who do not have a deep understanding of the benefits of using troops to squeeze the power out of the box to understand the advantages of quick battles. A wise commander knows that one cannot keep conscripting troops and continuously delivering food; weapons and equipment are taken from the country, and the supply of food must be settled on the spot in the enemy country to provide sufficient supplies. Replenishing food from remote places is an important reason why the country has caused poverty because of the use of troops abroad; long-distance transportation will increase the burden on the people and even make them poor. Prices in places close to the army will soar, and soaring prices will deplete the people's property; this will lead to additional conscriptions. The people are not living, the financial resources are exhausted, and the national treasury is in deficit. The people's property was also consumed with little left. As the tanks were worn out, the horses were exhausted, the weapons were worn out, and the heavy vehicles were damaged, six tenths of the country's property was also consumed. Therefore, the commander who can fight with soldiers knows that the food problem must be solved in the place of the war. Obtaining one minute of grain on the spot is equivalent to transporting twenty minutes of grain from one's own country; collecting one stone of forage grass on the spot is equivalent to transporting twenty shi from one's own country. If you want soldiers to fight bravely and well, you must make them hate the enemy; if you want to seize the enemy’s property, you must reward the soldiers with a large amount of material; if you have captured a lot of tanks, then anyone who has captured more than ten tanks , We will reward the soldiers who won the chariot first, and then plant our flags and put them in our own convoy to treat and raise the prisoners preferentially, which makes us stronger and stronger in the war.
Therefore, quick battles and quick decisions are the best choice for fighting with soldiers, and wartime must not be delayed. The masters of the fate of the people and the masters of national security are these generals who know how to use soldiers.