束裝迎敵 The Great Sage Arms for Battle
這大聖卻教沙僧整頓早齋，吃了走路。忽聽得風聲，走出門看，乃是一夥妖兵，自西南上來。行者大驚，急抽身，忙呼八戒道：「兄弟，妖精又請救兵來也。」三藏聞言，驚恐失色道：「徒弟，似此如何？」行者笑道：「放心，放心。把他這寶貝都拿來與我。」大聖將葫蘆、淨瓶繫在腰間，金繩籠於袖內，芭蕉扇插在肩後，雙手掄著鐵棒。教沙僧保守師父，穩坐洞中。著八戒執釘鈀，同出洞外迎敵。这大圣却教沙僧整顿早斋，吃了走路。忽听得风声，走出门看，乃是一伙妖兵，自西南上来。行者大惊，急抽身，忙呼八戒道：「兄弟，妖精又请救兵来也。」三藏闻言，惊恐失色道：「徒弟，似此如何？」行者笑道：「放心，放心。把他这宝贝都拿来与我。」大圣将葫芦、净瓶系在腰间，金绳笼于袖内，芭蕉扇插在肩后，双手抡着铁棒。教沙僧保守师父，稳坐洞中。着八戒执钉钯，同出洞外迎敌。
逐句解 Line by line
The Great Sage, meanwhile, bade Sha Monk get an early meal ready, so they might eat and take the road.
卻教沙僧 — "bade Sha Monk," 教 in the "bid, make someone do" sense (jiào). The pilgrims mean to eat and move on, which is when trouble always arrives.
Of a sudden he heard the sound of wind, went out the door to look, and saw it was a band of demon-soldiers, coming up from the south-west.
聽得風聲 is "heard the sound of wind," 得 the complement de. In this novel a rising wind is never weather; it is the standard announcement that demons are inbound, and every reader knows it before Wukong opens the door.
Pilgrim was startled, and hastily drawing back, quickly called to Bajie: "Brother, the fiends have sent for rescue-troops again!"
請救兵 is "sent for reinforcements." He reads the wind correctly and at once.
Tripitaka, hearing this, went pale with fright: "Disciple, what is to be done, at such a pass as this?"
三藏 (Sānzàng) is Tripitaka, 藏 read zàng in the name — the word means the "three baskets" of the Buddhist canon he has been sent to fetch. 似此如何 is "what is to be done in a case like this," 似 read sì.
Pilgrim said with a laugh: "Set your mind at ease, set your mind at ease.
放心 — "rest assured," said twice. The master panics and the disciple laughs, which is the settled division of labour between them.
Bring me all these treasures of his."
都拿來 is "bring them all," 都 read dōu.
The Great Sage lashed the gourd and Pure Vase at his waist, sleeved the Golden Cord away, thrust the Plantain Fan behind his shoulder, and with both hands whirled up his iron cudgel.
The arming is worth reading slowly, because he is putting on the entire captured arsenal at once — gourd and vase at the waist, cord up the sleeve, fan behind the shoulder, cudgel in both hands. 繫在腰間 is "tied at the waist," 繫 read jì, to fasten, and 間 read jiān; 掄著 is "whirled," with 著 marking the action in progress (zhe).
He bade Sha Monk keep the master safe and sit firm in the cave,
教沙僧保守 — "bade Sha Monk guard," 教 again jiào; 洞中 has 中 read zhōng.
and had Bajie take up his nine-tooth rake and go out with him beyond the cave to meet the foe.
著八戒執釘鈀 — "had Bajie take up the rake." This 著 is an old command verb, "to have someone do something," common in Ming fiction and in imperial edicts, where 著即施行 means "let it be carried out at once." It is read zhuó, the character's inherited literary pronunciation from the medieval rhyme books; the familiar zháo and zhāo are later colloquial developments of the same syllable. It works here in exact parallel with the 教 (jiào) of the line before.
Against the master's panic at a returning host, Wukong is all brisk competence. He hears wind, reads it instantly as reinforcements, laughs off Tripitaka's alarm and starts arming — the whole captured arsenal stowed about him, the cudgel whirled up in both hands.
The disposition of forces is deliberate and characteristic: Sha Monk set to guard the master inside, Bajie ordered out to fight at Wukong's side. The two parallel commands — 教 Sha Monk to guard, 著 Bajie to arm — show the Great Sage marshalling his small company with a general's economy, turning a moment of fear into an ordered sortie.