6 THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SONSHI.
fighting tower, used and gone; so that 6/10ths of the Government’s income is spent.
Therefore the intelligent general, taking thought, feeds on the enemy: one bale of the enemy’s rice
counts as twenty from our own wagons; one bundle of the enemy’s forage is better than twenty of our own.
Wantonly to kill and destroy the enemy must be forbidden.
They who take the enemy at a disadvantage should be rewarded.
They who are the first to lay their hands on more than ten of the enemy’s chariots, should be encouraged; the enemy’s standard on the chariots exchanged for our own; the captured chariots mixed with our own chariots, and taken into use.
The accompanying warriors must not be abused, but treated well; so that while the enemy is beaten, our side increases in strength.
Now the object of war is victory; not lengthy operations even skilfully conducted.
The good general is the Lord of the peoples lives; the Guardian of the country’s welfare.
"Horo,” which was ta peculiar device for protecting the back, was a long piece of loose cloth hung from the shoulders and smothered the arrow or sword thrust, like the Western swordsman’s cloak. Latterly, the cloth was stretched on a frame work of bamboo, and reached enormous propertions.
