cut off the head and tail ❍ 由于我军执行了上述方针，华北敌人即被我军～，一截一截地被各个击破。(叶剑英《伟大的战略决战》)owing to the fact that our army carried forward the above men-tioned principles,the head and tail of the enemy forces in north China were cut off by our army and defeated section by section.