“Throw them into ground with no way out, and they will survive; sink them into deadly ground, and they will live.”
The hint
A general who leaves his army no way back gets an army that cannot turn. The oldest general's shift was three. Walk each letter back.
The cipher
FURVVLQJ
— Sun Tzu · The Art of War, XI · c. 500 BCE
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