古代兵书中篇幅最大、收罗最广、论述最为详尽的综合性军事著作当推晚明茅元仪所撰《武备志》。茅元仪(1594-1640)字止生,号石民,又署东海波臣、梦阁主人、半石址山公等,浙江吴兴人,祖父为著名学者茅坤。自幼博览群书,尤其喜读兵、农之书。明万历年间东北建州女真族崛起,随即建立后金政权,以‘七大恨’为口实兴师攻明,以致辽东战火迭起。茅元仪有感于此,汇集兵家、术数之书二千余种,历时十五年辑成《武备志》,自刊于天启元年(1621)。自此以知兵享誉于时。曾入经略辽东的兵部右侍郎杨镐之幕,后随大学士孙承宗督师辽东,以战功 The ancient military writings in the largest, collecting the most extensive, discusses the most detailed comprehensive military writings pushed the late Ming Mao Yuan-yi, “Weaponry Chi.” Mao Yuan-yi (1594-1640) words only students, the number of stone people, and the Department of the East China Sea Bochen, Dream House owner, half a stone mountain public, Zhejiang Wu Xingren, grandfather as a famous scholar Mao Kun. His childhood reading group book, especially hi reading soldiers, book of agriculture. Ming Wanli Jianzhou Jurchen rise in the northeast, and immediately after the establishment of gold regime, with ’seven hate’ as an excuse to attack and assassinate, so that the Liaodong war after another. Mao Yuan-yi felt this, bringing together soldiers, more than two thousand kinds of books, which lasted fifteen years into a “Weaponry”, since the first edition in the Apocalypse (1621). Since then known to the soldiers in time. Had been slightly Liaodong military assistant minister Yang Hao’s right curtain, followed by undergraduate Sun Chengzong Governor Liaodong to combat power