whatever situation they are placed, nothing under heaven can withstand them. The army may be called a father and. his children.”
And Wu said:—
“In marching, movements and halts must be properly adjusted, suitable occasions for rationing not missed; the strength of men and horses not exhausted. If these three things be observed, the commands of the superior can be carried out; if the commands of the superior be carried out, order is maintained. If advances and halts be without method, victualling unsuitable, horses and men tired and weary—neither unsaddled or housed — it is because the orders cannot be obeyed; if the orders be set aside, there is disorder in the camp, and in battle—defeat.”
Wu the Master said:—
"On that depository of corpses, the battlefield, if there be certain expectation of death, there is life; if there be happy expectation of life, there is death. The good general is like unto one sitting in
