to withdraw troops / to retreat
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(of a warlord etc) to assemble one's personal army, thereby presenting a challenge to the central government
stretcher bearer (military)
to retreat / to withdraw troops / to recall troops / fig. to finish work / to wind up / to call it a day / used with negatives: the task is far from over
foxhole (military)
lit. straggling and disbanded soldiers (idiom) / fig. disorganized uncoordinated action
PLA military personnel who specialize in literary or artistic pursuits
(coll.) (military) raw recruit / rookie
Manchurian soldier
to dismiss military hierarchy using wine cups / cf Song founding Emperor Song Taizu 宋太祖 holds a banquet in 961 and persuades his senior army commanders to go home to their provinces
to rest weapons and loosen armor (idiom) / to relax from fighting
to put down weapon and let soldiers rest (idiom) / to relax from fighting
parade guards (usually spaced out along parade routes) / example / model / pacesetter
ruined army, defeated general (idiom) / scattered remnants
Qing troops / Manchu soldiers
routed troops / defeated and dispersed troops
weapon using gunpowder or explosives (opposite: 冷兵器[])
to lead military operations with extraordinary skill
troops deployed to mislead the enemy
to dispatch an army / to send troops
lit. short-weaponed soldiery fight one another (idiom) / fierce hand-to-hand infantry combat / to fight at close quarters
paratrooper / airborne troops
to engage in wars of aggression at will (idiom) / militaristic / bellicose
delaying tactics / stalling / measures to stave off an attack / stratagem to win a respite
to drill troops / army training
conscript / draftee
to send troops
lit. every tree or bush an enemy soldier (idiom) / fig. to panic and treat everyone as an enemy / to feel beleaguered
to work vaguely then retreat (idiom) / sloppy and half-hearted / half-baked
to work vaguely then retreat (idiom) / sloppy and half-hearted / half-baked
bugler / trumpeter (military)
shrimp soldiers and crab generals (in mythology or popular fiction, the army of the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea) / useless troops (idiom)
to reduce troop numbers / disarmament
to move an army and send a general (idiom) / to deploy an army / to send a team on a task
rebel soldier
lit. having given away a bride, to lose one's army on top of it (idiom) / fig. to suffer a double loss after trying to trick the enemy
to deploy troops (for battle) / to launch an armed uprising or resistance
to retreat / to withdraw troops / to force the enemy to retreat
(military) signaller / signalman
military parade
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27