Sun Bin's The Art of War is one of the most famous military works in ancient Central Plains of China. It is also another masterpiece of the "Sun Tzu School" after the Art of War, and it is also one of the masterpieces reflecting the Taoist and military thoughts of the ancient Han nationality.
The earliest clear record of Sun Bin's art of war was Historical Records, which was juxtaposed with Wu Sunzi's Art of War in literary and artistic annals, and recorded 89 articles and four volumes of Qi Sunzi. According to textual research, Sun Bin's The Art of War was probably lost before the Tang Dynasty. Because it has not been recorded since Sui Shu Jing Ji Zhi. 1972 In February, the bamboo slips Sun Bin's Art of War was unearthed from the No.1 Han Tomb in Yinxingshan, Linyi, Shandong Province, and this long-lost ancient book was rediscovered. After careful sorting, Sun Bin's The Art of War on bamboo slips is divided into two parts. The first part can be identified as fifteen pieces of Sun Tzu's The Art of War, and the second part has not yet been identified as one piece of Sun Tzu's The Art of War. The number of bamboo slips is much less than that recorded in Yiwenzhi, and it is not a perfect version.
In 354 BC, Wei took Pang Juan as the general and led an army to attack Zhao and surround Handan. The following year? At Zhao's request, Qi took Tian Ji as the general and Sun Bin as the strategist, and led the army to attack Wei and save Zhao. When Wei Huiwang saw that the Qi army was advancing, he urged Pang Juan to help himself. Pang Juan, who had just captured Handan, heard that the girder was in an emergency and rushed to rescue the exhausted division. When he arrived in Guiling, he was bashed head-on by the Qi army, and Pang Juan was almost completely annihilated. This is the famous "Guiling Battle" in history. 12 years later, after the national strength was restored, Wei went to war again, pointing directly at another neighboring country, South Korea. South Korea could not resist the powerful Wei Jun, so it sent messengers to Qi for help. Qi Weiwang adopted Sun Bin's suggestion that it was too late to inherit the disadvantages of Wei. When Wei fought fiercely with North Korea and Han Wei was exhausted, he once again took Tian Ji as the general and Sun Bin as the strategist to send troops to save South Korea. In view of the lessons of the Battle of Guiling, Wei withdrew from the encirclement of South Korea and deployed 65,438+10,000 troops, with Prince Shen as the upper general and Pang Juan as the deputy, preparing for a strategic decisive battle with the Qi army. Sun Bin used the furnace cutter to create the illusion that a large number of Qi troops fled, so as to lure the enemy deeper. Pang Juan led the elite Qingqi, and came all the way. When he arrived at Maling, he was ambushed by the main force of the Qi army. Pang Juanzhi was exhausted and committed suicide with anger. The Qi army then wiped out Wei Jun, captured Prince Shen alive, and won a great victory in the Battle of Maling.
After the Battle of Maling, Tian Ji was framed by Zou Ji, the Prime Minister, and forced to go into exile in Chu. Sun Bin resigned from the army and devoted himself to the study of military theory. Finally, I wrote Sun Bin's The Art of War, a military masterpiece that has been passed down through the ages.