How many articles are there in The Art of War?

Sun Tzu's Art of War is a monograph with complete content and rigorous structure. In the book, Sun Wu used thirteen articles to discuss the military issues related to the war. Each chapter can be independent, but also closely linked, up and down, back and forth, integrated. There are thirteen articles in The Art of War, which are: planning, fighting, plotting, attacking, shape, potential, reality, military struggle, nine changes, marching, terrain, nine places, fire attack and use.

The plan is about the calculation of the temple, that is, before sending troops to the temple, compare the situation of the enemy and ourselves, estimate the possibility of winning or losing the war, and make a battle plan. This is the procedure of the whole book.

The battle chapter mainly talks about the war mobilization after the temple calculation. The article on planning an attack is about attacking the city with ingenuity, that is, not using special forces, but using various means to make the defensive enemy surrender. Military form and military potential are two basic factors that determine the outcome of a war: "shape" and "potential".

The virtual and real article talks about how to make our enemies strong and weak at the scheduled battle site through scattered assembly and encirclement, and finally win more than less. The article on military contention is about how to "take pedantry as a straight line" and "benefit from suffering" to seize the initiative in the battle.

Sun Tzu's Art of War is the result of Sun Wu's careful study of war on the basis of summing up the experience of war in Shang, Zhou and Spring and Autumn Period. Its practicability and guidance are very strong, in which various situations are specially discussed, and the compilation and response methods are concise and effective, targeted and widely used.

Sun Tzu's Art of War is scientific and rich in military thoughts, with endless changes in strategy and tactics. It is a treasure house of military strategists' strategies, and is known as "the ancestor of military strategists", "the classic of military strategists" and "the sacred book of military science". Its extensive and profound military connotation and logical rigorous demonstration have inspired and drawn lessons from the creation of military theory in later generations.

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