Wuji tanbing 戊笈談兵

Wuji tanbing 戊笈談兵 "Whole book of calculating victory at pacificiation" is an encyclopaedic treatise on military arts compiled during the Qing period 清 (1644-1911) by Wang Fu 汪紱 (1692-1759). Its two parts are 10-juan-long and contain 41 maps, 33 illustrations of the starry sky and the hexagrams, and 53 illustrations of battle arrays.

The book is arranged in the very traditional segmentation of Heaven and time, Earth and topography, and Humans and harmony. Astronomy, astrology, weather and geography are dealt with from the military aspect and cover all regions of China, focusing on the Yellow River plain, Beijing, the lower Yangtze region, and Sichuan. The last section of the book is a compilation of quotations from classical writings on the military like Simafa 司馬法, Wuzi 吳子 and Sunzi bingfa 孫子兵法, covering topics like battle formations, weapons, the spirit of troops, and so on. The various battle formations are described in detail, discussing of their advantages and disadvantages.

There is a print from 1894, included in the collected works of Wang Fu, the Wang Shuangchi xiansheng congshu 汪雙池先生叢書. The book has not been included in a larger series and is therefore rarely available.