According to my assessment, even if you have many more troops than others, how can that help you to victory?

When a general, unable to estimate the enemy's strength, allows an inferior force to engage a larger one, or hurls a weak detachment against a powerful one, and neglects to place picked soldiers in the front rank, the result must be rout.

When you do battle, even if you are winning, if you continue for a long time it will dull your forces and blunt you edge...If you keep your armies out in the field for a long time, your supplies will be insufficient. Transportation of provisions itself consumes 20 times the amount transported.

Other conditions being equal, if one force is hurled against another ten times its size, the result will be the flight of the former.

Without subtle ingenuity of mind, one cannot make certain of the truth of their reports.

Thus the skilful general conducts his army just as though he were leading a single man, willy-nilly, by the hand.

To capture an enemies army is better than to destroy it.