Sun Bin

Pang convinced King Hui to commute the sentence; Sun was branded and crippled by having his kneecaps removed.

Sun declined appointment as a commander since he could not ride a horse, due to his handicap, which would harm troop morale.

The Wei army withdrew from Handan to defend Daliang, and was ambushed and defeated by the Qi the Battle of Guiling.

The pursuing Wei overestimated Qi casualties based on the shrinking number of marks left by the stoves.

When Pang arrived, he lit a torch to examine the carving and was fired upon by the Qi using the light as a target; Peng was hit by multiple arrows and then committed suicide.

The Yinqueshan Han Slips scroll fragments, recovered in 1972 from a tomb in Linyi, Shandong, contained text from the Sun Bin's Art of War.

Sun Bin's Art of War includes sections related to the Battles of Guiling and Maling.

The former advises against it, and the latter - reflecting developments in the later stages of the Warring States period - contains advice for attacking besieged cities.

Sun is one of the 32 historical figures who appear as special characters in the video game Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI by Koei.