捨死忘生 Both Risk Death For A King
逐句解 Line by line
Back and forth, the moves came thick; over and over, gold light poured out.
解 is xiè here. 康熙 角部六畫 runs to great length, and the band that fits is the last one — 尸賣切, 蟹去聲, glossed 接中也 and 支節也, a joint or segment, with 師古's note 解，支節也. 解數 is a martial form broken into its joints, a sequence of moves.
Together they brought their skills to bear; each staked his magic powers on it.
賭 is to gamble, and it is the right word — each is wagering everything he has on the outcome. 將 is jiāng, the disposal marker.
This one means to take the Queen back to the imperial capital; that one is glad to keep the consort with him in his mountain fastness.
都 is dū, a capital city — and the very next line uses the same character as dōu, meaning all. 塢 is a walled hollow in the hills, a stronghold.
This whole business is without cause; they cast off life and forget death for the sake of a king.
場 is cháng again, the event measure, and 都 is dōu, all — the same character as 帝都 one line back, doing an entirely different job. 沒 is méi, the everyday negative.
The rhapsody ends by telling you the fight is pointless. 這場都是沒來由 — the whole business is without cause — is the narrator's own verdict, dropped into the last couplet of a set-piece he has just spent seven couplets celebrating. Then the reason: 因國主, because of a king. Neither of them is fighting for himself.
The pairing in the third couplet is exact and it is the chapter in miniature. One wants to take the queen back to the capital; the other is happy to keep her in a mountain stronghold. Nobody has asked her, and the verse does not think to either.
One character appears in both of the last two couplets doing entirely different work. 帝都 is the imperial capital and takes one reading; 都是 means all and takes another. Fourteen characters apart, and the automatic reading engine gets both of them right — which is worth recording, because it usually does not.