Thus, if you order your men to roll up their buff-coats,
卷甲 does not mean “to discard one’s armour,” as Capt. Calthrop
translates, but implies on the contrary that it is to be carried
with you. Chang Yü says: 猶悉甲也 “This means, in full panoply.”
and make forced marches without halting day or night, covering double
the usual distance at a stretch,
The ordinary day’s march, according to Tu Mu, was 30 _li_; but on one
occasion, when pursuing 劉備 Liu Pei, Ts‘ao Ts‘ao is said to have
covered the incredible distance of 300 _li_ within twenty-four hours.
doing a hundred _li_ in order to wrest an advantage, the leaders of
all your three divisions will fall into the hands of the enemy.