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champion
HSK 5
second place (in a sports contest) / runner-up
HSK 5
air force / (slang) to fail to catch anything (on a fishing trip); to get skunked
HSK 6
general / high-ranking military officer / to check or checkmate / fig. to embarrass / to challenge / to put sb on the spot
HSK 6
navy
HSK 6
army / ground forces
HSK 6
to join the army / (official title in imperial China) military adviser; aide-de-camp
HSK 7-9
to lead troups / (fig.) to lead / leading
HSK 7-9
(common place name)
New Armies (modernized Qing armies, trained and equipped according to Western standards, founded after Japan's victory in the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895)
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(bound form) army / military
Red Army (1928-1937), predecessor of the PLA / (Soviet) Red Army (1917-1946)
provincial military governor during the early Republic of China era (1911-1949 AD)
fresh troops / (fig.) lifeblood / new force
to march / to advance
to withdraw troops / to retreat
invincible army
Russian army
to enlist / to serve in the army
(of troops) to march
rebel army
Dianjun district of Yichang city 宜昌市, Hubei
army / main forces
third in a race / bronze medalist
US army / US armed forces
New Fourth army of Republic of China, set up in 1937 and controlled by the communists
allied forces; friendly troops
the Qing army
allied forces
whole army
volunteer army
Japanese army / Japanese troops
to station or garrison troops / garrison
(military) reinforcements
Hunan army, irregular force formed in 1850s to fight the Taiping heavenly kingdom rebellion
allied armies
defenders
puppet army
(in former times) upper, middle and lower army / army of right, center and left / (in modern times) the three armed services: Army, Navy and Air Force
(old) government troops
imperial guard
enemy troops / hostile forces / CL:
running of armed forces / military management / to govern armed forces / to direct troops
British army
to banish (to an army post, as a punishment)
disarmament
(of troops) to be utterly routed and dispersed
armament / to expand armed forces
imperial army (esp. Japanese)
total annihilation
Nian Army, leading a peasant rebellion against the Qing dynasty in Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu and Anhui 1851-1868, at the same time as the Taiping Rebellion further south
(archaic) navy / person employed to post messages on the Internet (abbr. for 網絡水軍|网络水军)
army of Zhao 趙國|赵国 during the Warring States
Red Detachment of Women, revolutionary opera that premiered in 1964
the Qin army (model for the terracotta warriors)
(Tw) professional soldier
routed troops
volunteer army
Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA)
Scout (youth organization)
child soldiers / juvenile militia
National Revolutionary Army
Eight-Nation Alliance, involved in a military intervention in northern China in 1900
"Internet Navy"; paid Internet posters; astroturfers
nuclear disarmament
Mongol army / army of Yuan dynasty
ally / allied forces
the Chinese People's Volunteer Army deployed by China to aid North Korea in 1950
Salvation Army (protestant philanthropic organization founded in London in 1865)
regular army / standing army
People's Liberation Army
rapid advance / forced march
French army
Scout (youth organization) / see also 童子軍|童子军
Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN)
to join up / to enlist (e.g. in the military)
Royal Navy (UK)
miscellaneous troops; irregular troops; troops of varied allegiances / uncertified staff
nickname of Han dynasty general Li Guang 李廣|李广
imperial guard
to usurp the military
the Red Turbans, peasant rebellion at the end of the Yuan dynasty
the Ma clique of warlords in Gansu and Ningxia during the 1930s and 1940s
top general / commander-in-chief
People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF)
north China army, a modernizing Western-style army set up during late Qing, and a breeding ground for the Northern Warlords after the Qinghai revolution
important general / generalissimo
lit. to form an army / to set up (team, group, band, organization etc) / to found / opening (ceremony) / to commission (arms system, naval vessel) / to graduate from an apprenticeship
volunteer army
Red Guards
border guard / frontier army
main force (military) / (fig.) the group or element with the most impact / mainstay / main cohort
Israeli soldiers
invading army
Japanese army (derog.) (old)
the (communist) party and the army together (idiom)
Eighth Route Army, the larger of the two major Chinese communist forces fighting the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
Royal Canadian Navy
the Northern Expeditionary Army

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