Sun Bin is the descendant of Sun Wu, probably more than 100 years later than Sun Wu, of course, he is also a native of Qi, born in the area of Yanggu County, Shandong today. Once with Pang Juan, he followed Guiguzi to learn Xi art of war, and Sun Bin is familiar with the story of encircling Wei to save Zhao and Tian Ji to race horses.
Pang Juan thought that his ability was inferior to Sun Bin from the beginning, so when Pang Juan was a general of Wei, he deceived Sun Bin to Wei, framed Sun Bin and cut off Sun Bin's feet, and executed Sun Bin with ink. The ink punishment is the same as the black punishment, that is, the words are engraved on the face of the prisoner, so that people can know that it is a prisoner when they see it, Pang Juan wants to use this method to make Sun Bin buried in the world for the rest of his life, and he will never have the opportunity to compete with himself.
After Sun Bin was cut off his feet, Pang Juan abandoned him in Daliang of Wei, and the envoy of Qi happened to be sent to Daliang, so Sun Bin found a way to secretly meet the envoy of Qi. Sun Bin talked a lot with the envoy and finally moved the envoy, and the envoy felt that this person was definitely not an ordinary mortal, so he secretly took Sun Bin back to Qi in a car and recommended it to Tian Ji, the general of Qi.
Tian Ji is also a talented person, and he doesn't think that Sun Bin has no feet, and he still has the words of a prisoner tattooed on his face, and respects Sun Bin as a guest. Tian Ji likes to race horses with the princes of Qi and bet heavily on the outcome of the game. Sun Bin paid attention to the observation for a period of time and found that the horses in their races were all comparable in running ability, and they were all divided into upper, middle and lower grades. After figuring out the rules of the game, Sun Bin said to Tian Ji, the general only needs to make a big bet, and the subordinates guarantee that you can win, Tian Ji believed Sun Bin and promised him to make a big bargaining chip.
Before the race, Sun Bin said, please race with your inferior horses and their superior horses, race with your superior horses with their medium horses, and race with your medium horses with their inferior horses. After all the games were over, Tian Ji lost one game and won two, and the final score was Tian Ji's highest and won the gold prize. Tian Ji saw that Sun Bin was a talent who understood the overall situation and strategy, and he was a bit condescending under his own hands, and he needed a bigger stage, so he recommended Sun Bin to King Qi Wei. After King Qi Wei talked with Sun Bin several times about the art of war, he decided to appoint Sun Bin as the military advisor of Qi State.
Later, Wei attacked Zhao, and Zhao asked Qi for help. King Qi Wei wanted to appoint Sun Bin as a general, but Sun Bin refused, saying that a person who had been tortured was not suitable to be a general. As a result, King Qi Wei appointed Tian Ji as a general and Sun Bin as a military advisor. Tian Ji planned to directly lead his troops to Zhao State, but Sun Bin stopped him and said, we can't use fists and feet to persuade other people's disputes, and we can't go up to fight ourselves to quell the fighting, but we must use the situation to contain the enemy, so that we can get twice the result with half the effort.
Sun Bin went on to say that now Wei was at war with Zhao, and most of Wei's elite troops were abroad, and those who remained at home were old, weak, sick and disabled. If we go directly to Wei to attack Daliang at this time, then Wei will definitely come back to the rescue. The withdrawal of the Wei State has already lost in terms of momentum, and besides, we have traveled back from a long distance, and we can definitely take advantage of the war. Tian Ji listened to Sun Bin's words, and sure enough, he easily defeated the Wei army and solved the crisis of Zhao State. This is the famous story of Wei Wei saving Zhao in history.
Later, Wei and Zhao attacked Korea together, and Korea appealed to Qi. Tian Ji still led his troops to approach Wei Daliang, and after hearing the news, Wei General Pang Juan temporarily put down Korea and led the army back to rescue Daliang. Sun Bin said to Tian Ji that their army of the Three Jin Dynasty has always looked down on the army of our Qi State, and thinks that our army is cowardly and vulnerable, so we will plan and use this to make a game for Pang Juan.
According to Sun Bin's strategy, Tian Ji ordered the Qi army to set up 100,000 stoves to cook on the first day of entering the Wei state, 50,000 stoves for cooking on the second day, and 30,000 stoves for cooking on the third day.
After Pang Juan marched for three days, he saw the traces of the stove left by the Qi army, and said very happily, I knew that the Qi army was cowardly, and it was only three days after entering our border, and more than half of the people fled. In order to speed up the march, Pang Juan abandoned the infantry and led only the elite light soldiers to chase after the Qi army.
Sun Bin estimated the speed of the Wei State, and he should arrive at Maling when it was dark. The road in Maling is narrow and the terrain is dangerous, so a large number of people can be ambushed, so someone was sent to peel off the bark of a large tree, which read: "Pang Juan will die under this tree." Then ambush the Qi State crossbowmen with 10,000 crossbowmen on both sides of the road, and agreed to release arrows together when they saw the fire after dark.
Pang Juan really came to the big tree not long after dark, and vaguely saw the words written on the tree, so he asked people to drill into the wood to make a fire to check what words were written on the tree. As soon as the torches were lit, the crossbowmen of the Qi army fired thousands of arrows, the Wei army was in chaos, losing its formation, and the Qi army took advantage of the situation to rush and kill the remnants of the Wei army. Pang Juan knew that he was powerless to return to the sky, so he had to draw his sword and kill himself. The state of Qi took advantage of the victory to annihilate the Wei army and captured the Wei prince Shen and returned to China. Sun Bin became famous all over the world, and the world began to pass on his art of war Xi.