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    Stratagems 1-6 provide advice for gaining a commanding superiority over an enemy through deception and indirect approaches. They recommend disguising one's intentions, using an enemy's force against them, allowing an enemy to exhaust themselves, and creating uncertainty about where to defend. Stratagems 7-12 are for confrontation situations and include creating the appearance of something from nothing, pretending to take one path while sneaking down another, observing enemies from afar, concealing threats with smiles, and sacrificing less for more. Stratagems 13-18 are for attack scenarios and suggest startling enemies without violence, pretending to raise the dead to scare enemies, luring enemies from strong positions, trapping enemies by releasing them, and using

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    Stratagems 1-6 provide advice for gaining a commanding superiority over an enemy through deception and indirect approaches. They recommend disguising one's intentions, using an enemy's force against them, allowing an enemy to exhaust themselves, and creating uncertainty about where to defend. Stratagems 7-12 are for confrontation situations and include creating the appearance of something from nothing, pretending to take one path while sneaking down another, observing enemies from afar, concealing threats with smiles, and sacrificing less for more. Stratagems 13-18 are for attack scenarios and suggest startling enemies without violence, pretending to raise the dead to scare enemies, luring enemies from strong positions, trapping enemies by releasing them, and using

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    Stratagems 1-6 provide advice for gaining a commanding superiority over an enemy through deception and indirect approaches. They recommend disguising one's intentions, using an enemy's force against them, allowing an enemy to exhaust themselves, and creating uncertainty about where to defend. Stratagems 7-12 are for confrontation situations and include creating the appearance of something from nothing, pretending to take one path while sneaking down another, observing enemies from afar, concealing threats with smiles, and sacrificing less for more. Stratagems 13-18 are for attack scenarios and suggest startling enemies without violence, pretending to raise the dead to scare enemies, luring enemies from strong positions, trapping enemies by releasing them, and using

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    Stratagems 1-6: Commanding Superiority

    MAN TIAN GUO HAI.


    Cross the sea by fooling the sky.
    Prov: A familiar sight provokes not attention.

    WEI WEI JIU ZHAO.


    Besiege the Kingdom of Wei to save the
    Kingdom of Zhao.
    Sun Zi 'The Art of War': The art of the direct and the
    indirect approach. Such is the art of maneuvering. He who
    understands such will be victorious.

    JEI DAO SHA REN.


    Kill with a borrowed knife.
    Chinese military principle: Make your opponent do it for
    you.

    YI YI DAI LAO.
    Relax while the enemy exhausts himself.
    Lao Zi 'The Way of Power': The Female overcomes the
    male with stillness.

    CHEN HUO DA JEI.


    Loot a burning house.
    Sun Zi 'The Art of War': An enemy with troubles at home is
    ripe for conquest.

    SHENG DONG JI XI.


    Make a feint to the East while attacking the
    West.
    Sun Zi 'The Art of War': Make the enemy not know where
    to defend.

    stratagems 7-12: For Confrontation

    WU ZHONG SHENG YOU


    Create something out of nothing.
    AN DU CHEN CHANG
    Pretend to take one path. Sneak down another.

    GE AN GUAN HO
    Watch the fires burning across the water.
    Story: A clam sunbathed with its shell open. A crane came by and pecked at its
    flesh.
    The clam snapped shut on the crane's beak. A fisherman came by and captured
    both

    XIAO LI CANG DAO


    Conceal a dagger with a smile.
    Prov: The man with honey on his lips hides murder in his heart.

    LI DAI TAO JIANG


    Sacrifice the plum for the peach.

    SHUN SHOU QIAN YANG


    Take the oppertunity to pilfer a goat.
    Prov: From one grain of sand a pagoda begins.

    stratagems 13-18: For Attack


    DA CAO JING SHE
    Beat the grass to startle the
    snake.
    Sun Zi 'The Art of War': One can win without
    a fight.

    JIE SHI HUAN HUN


    Raise a corpse from the dead.
    Aides dressed the Generals corpse in
    finest battledress and lashed the body
    to his favouritehorse. Later, his troops
    followed the stead and thier 'invincable'
    leader straight through enemy ranks

    DIAO HU LI SHAN
    Lure the Tiger out of the
    Mountain.
    Mencius: "Good oppertunities are not
    as important as favorable terrain.
    YU QIN GU ZONG
    Snag the enemy by letting him off
    the hook.
    Lao zi 'The Way of Power': To sieze
    something, One must first thoroughly endow
    it.
     
    PAO ZHUAN YIN YU
    Cast a brick to attract a turtle.
    The white army had no road to invade the
    black, so they called for t of reconciliation.
    Blacks made a road to transport the gift
    home. This was whites invasion. plan

    QIN ZEI QUN WANG


    Catch

    stratagems 19-24: In Confused Situations


     

    FU DI CHOU XIN
    Steal the firewood from under the couldron.

    HUN SHUI MO YU
    Fish in troubled waters.
    Prov: Wild times create heros.

    JIN CHAN TUO QIAO


    Slough off the cicada shell.
    Sun Zi 'The Art of War': Mislead the enemy with false
    appearances.

    GUAN MEN ZHUO ZIE


    Shut the door to catch the thief.
    Wu Qi-strategiest: One desperado on the run can scare a
    thousand men.

    YUAN JIAO JIN GONG


    Befriend a distant state, attack a neighbour.
    Prov: People with different dreams can share the same
    bed.
    JIA DAO FA GUO
    Obtain safe passage to conqure.
    Prov: Without lips, the teeth will be cold.

    stratagems 25-30: For Gaining Ground


     

    TOU LIANG HUAN ZHU


    Replace the beams and pillars with rotten
    timber.

    JIA CHI BU DIAN


    Play dumb, remain smart.

    ZHI SANG MA HUAI


    Point at the mulberry and curse the locust.
    Prov: Kill the chicken to scare the monkey.

    SHANG WU CHOU TI
    Pull down the ladder after ascent.
    Cortez burnt his ships on arriving in Mexico to prevent his
    men from returning home. They then had two choices -
    conqure or perish. They conqured.

    SHU SHANG KAI HUA


    Deck the tree with bogus blossom.
    Emperor Yangdi orderd the populus to put false blossom
    on every tree in the land to impress visiting rich merchants.
    Today the media is the main tool of properganda.

    FAN KE WEI ZHU


    Make the guest and host change places.
    In Chinese millitary terms one who leaves his territory to
    fight is the guest.

    stratagems 31-36: In Desperate Straits


     

     
    MEI REN JI
    Use a woman to ensnare a man.
    Prov: No man can break through the Pass of Beauties.
    A woman can trade information for moonlight.

    KONG CHENG JI
    Throw open the gates of the empty city.
    When almost all is lost, show this to the enemy. Avoid total
    destruction and "live to fight another day".

    FAN JIAN JI
    Let the enemys own spy sow discord.
    A dieing General left reward in his Will to high rank
    members of the opposition. When this disloyality was
    discovered the recipients were executed. . The Will - and
    the death of the General was false

    KU ROU JI
    Inflict injury upon oneself to gain trust.
    People tend to feel sympathy toward those who suffer
    'misfortune'.

    LIAN HUAN JI
    Chain togrther the eneys warships.
    Prov: Retreat can cause chaos.

    ZOU WEI SHANG


    If a battle cannot be won, don't fight it.
    Sun Zi 'The Art of War': Tempororily yeild to the mighty

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