If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they
will not prove submissive; and, unless submissive, they will be
practically useless. If, when the soldiers have become attached to
you, punishments are not enforced, they will still be useless.
This is wrongly translated by Capt. Calthrop: “If the troops know
the general, but are not affected by his punishments, they are
useless.”