soldier / CL: 個｜个

soldiers / a force / an army / weapons / arms / military / warlike / CL: 個｜个

large military unit / formation / corps / army

troops appearing suddenly (in a raid or ambush)

(military) officers and soldiers / officers and men / (old) government troops

commando / special forces soldier

new (army) recruit

to review troops / military parade

infantry / foot / infantryman / foot soldier

parade guards (usually spaced out along parade routes) / example / model / pacesetter

weaponry / weapons / arms

cavalry

mercenary / hired gun

(military) branch of the armed forces

veteran

mercenary / hired gun

art of war / military strategy and tactics

lit. frontline troops / leader / trailblazer / pacesetter

lit. military tactics on paper (idiom) / fig. theoretical discussion that is worse than useless in practice / armchair strategist / idle theorizing / cf Zhao Kuo 趙括｜赵括 leading an army of 400,000 to total annihilation at battle of Changping 長平之戰｜长平之战 in 260 BC

guard / bodyguard

to levy troops / recruitment

military camp / barracks

“Art of War”, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書｜武经七书, written by Sun Tzu 孫子｜孙子

to lead troops

military parade

troops and horses / military forces

artillery soldier / gunner

figurines of warriors and horses buried with the dead / Terracotta Army (historic site)

munitions factory

to serve in the army / to be a soldier

the School of the Military, one of the Hundred Schools of Thought 諸子百家｜诸子百家 of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)

military strategist in ancient China / military commander / soldier

sentinel

Hyōgo prefecture in the midwest of Japan's main island Honshū 本州

paratrooper

to drill troops / army training

Hyōgo prefecture in the midwest of Japan's main island Honshū 本州

people's militia / militia / militiaman

military strength / armed forces / troops

individual soldier / (literary) isolated military unit, cut off from reinforcements

military service

army deserter

military police

Sun Bin's "The Art of War"

private (army)

having given away a bride, to lose one's army on top of it (idiom) / to suffer a double loss after trying to trick the enemy

to recruit soldiers and buy horses (idiom); to raise a large army / fig. to expand business / to recruit new staff

a scout / spy

there can never be too much deception in war / in war nothing is too deceitful / all's fair in war

to deploy troops / to mass troops

to muster troops / (fig.) to gather forces

to send troops

delaying tactics / stalling / measures to stave off an attack / stratagem to win a respite

paratroopers

to move an army and send a general (idiom); to deploy an army / to send a team on a task

soldiers at the city walls (idiom); fig. at a critical juncture

lit. speed is a crucial asset in war (idiom) / fig. swift and resolute (in doing sth)

elite troops

army riffraff / army ruffian / soldier of fortune

weapons / arms / fighting / war

the Kempeitai or Japanese Military Police 1881-1945 (Japanese counterpart of the Gestapo during WWII)

workers, peasants, and soldiers / the proletariat

to recruit soldiers

lit. straggling and disbanded soldiers (idiom); fig. disorganized uncoordinated action

manpower resources (for military service) / sources of troops

military leadership / military power

loose and disorganized soldiers / stragglers / fig. a loner

enlisted sailor in navy

celestial soldier / (old) imperial troops / (Tw, jocular) clumsy army recruit / (more generally) bungler / screw-up

Ministry of War (in imperial China)

strong soldiers / make the military powerful (political slogan)

in a state of war

a book on the art of war

mutiny / (Tw) to be dumped by one's girlfriend while serving in the army

lit. every tree or bush an enemy soldier (idiom); fig. to panic and treat everyone as an enemy / to feel beleaguered

lit. strong soldiers and sturdy horses (idiom) / fig. a well-trained and powerful army

Mt Diaobingshan in Tieling / Diaobingshan district of Tieling city 鐵嶺市｜铁岭市, Liaoning

peaceful measures before using force (idiom); diplomacy before violence / jaw-jaw is better than war-war

Qing troops / Manchu soldiers

an army burning with righteous indignation is bound to win (idiom)

to meet on the battlefield (idiom)

man-of-war / naval vessel / warship

to hold back one's troops without moving (idiom); to bide one's time

soldiers munity and troops rebel (idiom); turmoil and chaos of war

the military revolt of 960 that led Zhao Kuangyin 趙匡胤｜赵匡胤 to found the Song dynasty

PLA military personnel who specialize in literary or artistic pursuits

volunteer soldier / CL: 名

The Good Soldier Švejk (Schweik), satirical novel by Czech author Jaroslav Hašek (1883-1923)

reinforcement

child soldier

to reinforce / to increase troop numbers / reinforcements / extra troops

arms / weapons

(bladed) weapons

see 虎符

military engineer

to dispatch troops

soldiers / troops

Red Guards (Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976)

soldier ant / dinergate

to dispatch an army / to send troops