抱孩赴城 The Children Borne to the City
行者道：「他若扯你，你兩個就與他打將這裡來。這裡有戰場寬闊，我在此等候打他。」沙僧道：「正是，正是，大哥說得有理，我們去來。」他兩個才倚仗威風，將孩子拿去。行者道：「他若扯你，你两个就与他打将这里来。这里有战场宽阔，我在此等候打他。」沙僧道：「正是，正是，大哥说得有理，我们去来。」他两个才倚仗威风，将孩子拿去。
逐句解 Line by line
Pilgrim said, "If he lays hold of you, the two of you have only to fight him and draw him back here.
扯, chě, to seize, to lay hold of. 打將這裡來, dǎ jiāng zhè lǐ lái, to fight your way back here — the answer to the complaint is simply to share the danger.
Here the field of battle is broad, and I shall wait in this place to give him combat."
戰場, zhàn chǎng, a field of battle; 寬闊, kuān kuò, broad, with room to swing.
Sha Seng said, "Just so, just so; the eldest brother speaks with reason. Let us be off."
說得有理, shuō de yǒu lǐ, to speak with good sense. Sha Seng, characteristically, is the one who agrees and moves things along.
The two of them then, trusting to their own bravado, took the children off.
倚仗威風, yǐ zhàng wēi fēng, trusting to their own bold bearing — a phrase with a faint edge to it, given that both of them have already been beaten by the fiend they are off to bait.
Wukong's answer settles the complaint with a tactician's reassurance: if it comes to blows the fight will be drawn back to open ground where he is waiting, so the risk is shared after all and the plan holds. Sha Seng's ready agreement and the brothers' departure restore the band's forward motion.
The narrator's dry phrase — that they went "trusting to their own bold bearing" — carries a faint irony, since both have lately been thoroughly bested by the very fiend they are going to provoke. The passage closes the council on the crag and launches the provocation at the Baoxiang court, turning the chapter toward its central deception.