 THE 36 STRATEGIES |
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| Advantageous Strategies
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Strategy 01
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Deceiving the heavens to cross the sea (Man tian guo hai) |
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Strategy 02
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Besieging Wei to save Zhao (Wei wei jiu zhao) |
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Strategy 03
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Killing with a borrowed knife (Jie dao sha ren) |
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Strategy 04
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Conserving energy while the enemy tires himself out (Yi yi dai lao) |
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Strategy 05
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Looting a house on fire (Chen huo da jie) |
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Strategy 06
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Making a feint to east but hitting out in the west (Sheng dong ji xi) |
| Opportunistic Strategies
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Strategy 07
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Creating something out of nothing (Wu zhong sheng you) |
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Strategy 08
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Secret escape through Chen Cang (An du chen cang) |
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Strategy 09
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Observing the fire from the other side of the river (Ge an guan huo) |
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Strategy 10
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A dagger sheathed in a smile (Xiao li cang dao) |
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Strategy 11
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The plum dies in place of the peach (Li dai tao jiang) |
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Strategy 12
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Stealing a goat along the way (Shun shou qian yang) |
| Offensive Strategies
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Strategy 13
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Hitting the grass to startle the snake (Da cao jing she) |
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Strategy 14
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Borrowing a corpse to resurrect a soul (Jie shi huan hun) |
Strategy 15
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Luring a tiger from its lair in the mountain (Diao hu li shan) |
Strategy 16
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Releasing the enemy to recapture him later (Yu qin gu zong) |
Strategy 17
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Tossing out a brick to get a jade (Pao zhuan yin yu) |
Strategy 18
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Disband the bandits by arresting their leader (Qin zei qin wang) |
| Confusion Strategies
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Strategy 19
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Pulling out the firewood from beneath the cauldron (Fu di chou xin) |
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Strategy 20
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Catching a fish in troubled water (Hun shui mo yu) |
Strategy 21
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Making an unnoticed escape like a golden cicada shedding its skin (Jin chan tuo kei) |
Strategy 22
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Shutting the doors to catch the thief (Huan men zhuo zei) |
Strategy 23
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Befriend the far and attack the near (Yuan jiao jin di) |
Strategy 24
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Borrow a passage to attack Guo (Jia tu fa guo) |
| Deception Strategies
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Strategy 25
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Replace superior beams and pillars with inferior ones (Tou liang huan zhu) |
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Strategy 26
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Pointing at the mulberry but scolding the locust tree (Zhi sang ma huai) |
Strategy 27
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Pretending to be insane but remaining smart (Jia chi bu dian) |
Strategy 28
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Remove the ladder after the enemy ascends to the roof (Shang wu chou ti) |
Strategy 29
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Deck the tree with flowers (Shu Shang kai hua) |
Strategy 30
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The guest takes over as host (Fan ke wei zhu) |
| Desperate Strategies
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Strategy 31
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Beauty scheme (Mei ren ji) |
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Strategy 32
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Empty city scheme (Koug cheng ji ) |
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Strategy 33
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Double agent ploy (Fan jian ji) |
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Strategy 34
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Self-injury scheme(Ku rou ji) |
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Strategy 35
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A series of interconnected ploys (Lian huan ji) |
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Strategy 36
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Escape - the best scheme (Zou wei shang ji) |
