भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)

(One should court death for the sake of religion (But) while dying, one
should kill (the enemies) and by thus killing them, one should win back
one’s kingdom.)
1025. The most important weapon of this aggressive war policy of the
Marathas was at least, till that time a new one to the Hindus. It was not used
so far by any before them. That weapon is
Guerrilla Warfare
1026. This type of war is called in Sanskrit’ Vrikayuddha’ (वृकयुद्ध).
This Vrikayuddha (वृकयुद्ध) of the Marathas humbled the vast armies of
the Muslims. According to the peculiar mode of this guerrilla warfare, the
Marathas never faced the highly well-equipped fourfold armies of the
enemy. Whenever the Maratha force were small in number, they attacked
the enemy from the right or the left flanks or from behind.
1027. Yet, it should be borne in mind that while thus harassing and cutting
off the huge armies of the Moghals with their meagre numbers and
inadequate arms, they never hesitated to offer pitched battles standing face-
to-face at the most unexpected moments, if they found that their own
military strength had grown sufficiently strong to do this. As even when the
Maratha forces went on increasing in number and quality, and their
responsibility about the various states, smaller or greater in size, about the
forts and territories that fell in their hands, began to assume enormous
dimensions, they did not lie idly in their different capitals, guarding their
own positions. Everyone of them had always a keen eye on the
neighbouring or the distant Moghal territories and pushed on into those
territories as soon as the monsoons were over, even before the enemy had
time to come aggressively against the smaller Maratha feudal lords and
Jagirdars or their forts. The Maratha forces attacked even the Muslim
Nawabs and Nizams, who never gave them offence under some pretext or
another. Moreover, they were hardly to be found in their usually known
capitals, great or small, or in their forts or caves known to be their usual
resorts. On the contrary, they seemed to carry their so-called capitals on
horse-back while they started on their campaigns against the Muslims. The
de facto address of the various Maratha warlords and their brave followers
was not their homes or fortresses; it was invariably their ever shifting
camps or bivouacs in the Moghal territories.