not to follow the others and stop halfway
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B ù Su í y ǐ zh ǐ, which means to stop halfway without following others. It's from a journey to baochan mountain.
The source of the idiom is Wang Anshi's travel to baochan mountain in Song Dynasty: "if you have a will, you can't follow it, but if you don't have enough strength, you can't reach it."
not to follow the others and stop halfway
initiate the dispatch of contingents of armed men and the mobilization of the masses - xīng shī dòng zhòng