And so the military values victory

Critical Text

Yinqueshan Text

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Shiyijia zhu Text

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Translation

And so the military values victory. It does not value prolonging.

Annotations

While the extant texts invariably sustain this reading, the Ten Man Notes all annotate this line as if it read "The military values speed." See Yang Bing'an, p. 32.