䀛穆無窮，變無形像，復柔委從，如影與響，如厖之守戶，如輪之逐馬，響之應聲，影之像形也。
He was endlessly subtle, could change without showing it, was at ease, and was selfpossessed.
He was as swift as a shadow or an echo, like a dragon guarding a door or a wheel running in a horse’s wake, like an echo following a sound or a shadow aping a form.
閶不及鞈，呼不及吸，足舉不及集，相離若蟬翼，尚在肱北眉睫之微，曾不可以大息小，以小況大，用兵之道，其猶然乎！
Swifter than a drum’s response, or a breath’s intake, or the fall of a foot, his sword work came as close as the wings of a cicada, as enmeshed as elbow and arm, as brow and lash; one could not say that his great movements eclipsed his slight ones or that his light ones negated his great ones.
此善當敵者也，未及夫折衝於未形之前者，揖讓乎廟堂之上，而施惠乎百萬之民。
This is what the art of using weapons is like!
When one is thus skilled at opposing the enemy, the one who can turn back the advance of an enemy force before it has appeared will bow before his ruler in the courtyard of the state temple and dispense favors to the teeming multitudes.
故居則無變動，戰則不血刃，其湯武之兵與！
And so, when at rest he is without movement, and, when doing battle, he does not stain his blade with blood.
This was the military style of Cheng Tang and King Wu of Zhou!