By persistently hanging on the enemy’s flank,
I understand the first four words to mean “accompanying the enemy
in one direction.” Ts‘ao Kung says: 幷兵向敵 “unite the soldiers
and make for the enemy.” But such a violent displacement of
characters is quite indefensible. Mei Yao-ch‘ên is the only
commentator who seems to have grasped the meaning: 隨敵一向然後發伏
出奇. The _T‘u Shu_ reads 并力.
we shall succeed in the long run
Literally, “after a thousand _li_.”
in killing the commander-in-chief.
Always a great point with the Chinese.