《武經總要》作為中國古代第一部官修軍事百科全書，大量引用了《孫子》原文。這些引文不但可以解決一些校勘問題，還為版本學研究提供了重要依據，為恢復《孫子》原貌提供了珍貴資料，並可用來糾正古今許多相關訛說。同時，這些引文在很大程度上還體現了北宋孫子兵學的發展狀況，並折射出這一時期軍事思想的某些積極變化。因而，《武經總要》在孫子兵學發展中具有很高地位，其中的引文對《孫子》學的研究起到了重大作用。

Wu Jing Zong Yao was the first government official encyclopaedia of military affairs in Archaian china. It quoted many original words of Sun Zi. They did not only work out some questions of collation but provide important references on edition and some rare data on comeback of Sun Zi, and corrected many correlative mistakes in ancient and modern times. At the same time, those citations embodied much development of sunziology in Northern Song dynasty. It also reflected some obvious changes of military ideas in this time. Wu Jing Zong Yao therefore was possessed of supernal status on the development of sunziology in Northern Song dynasty. The quoted passages reacted strongly on Sun Zi and correlative study in Northern Song dynasty.