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People's Liberation Army (PLA), the unified armed forces of the People's Republic of China
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(bound form) army / military
Israeli soldiers
to join the army / (official title in imperial China) military adviser; aide-de-camp
HSK 7-9
Scout (youth organization) / see also 童子軍|童子军
(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
champion
HSK 5
Mahdi army, Iraqi Shia armed militia led by Moqtada Sadr
the (communist) party and the army together (idiom)
navy
HSK 6
army / ground forces
HSK 6
to march / to advance
army / main forces
allied forces
rearguard
important general / generalissimo
fresh troops / (fig.) lifeblood / new force
volunteer army
second place (in a sports contest) / runner-up
HSK 5
People's Liberation Army
to withdraw troops / to retreat
air force / (slang) to fail to catch anything (on a fishing trip); to get skunked
HSK 6
regular army / standing army
New Fourth army of Republic of China, set up in 1937 and controlled by the communists
People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF)
Scout (youth organization)
child soldiers / juvenile militia
Eight-Nation Alliance, involved in a military intervention in northern China in 1900
US army / US armed forces
third in a race / bronze medalist
Russian army
to join up / to enlist (e.g. in the military)
army, navy, air force
National Revolutionary Army
armament / to expand armed forces
Red Army (1928-1937), predecessor of the PLA / (Soviet) Red Army (1917-1946)
group championship
Japanese army / Japanese troops
main force (military) / (fig.) the group or element with the most impact / mainstay / main cohort
invading army
Mongol army / army of Yuan dynasty
Rocket Force, branch of the PLA responsible for tactical and strategic missiles
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)
to beat the gong to recall troops (idiom); to order a retreat
volunteer army
defenders
imperial army (esp. Japanese)
Eighth Route Army, the larger of the two major Chinese communist forces fighting the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
Japanese army (derog.) (old)
the Chinese People's Volunteer Army deployed by China to aid North Korea in 1950
nickname of Han dynasty general Li Guang 李廣|李广
Japanese Kwantung army (or Kantō army), notorious for numerous atrocities in China during WWII
army, navy and air force
Red Detachment of Women, revolutionary opera that premiered in 1964
"Internet Navy"; paid Internet posters; astroturfers
allied armies
National Protection Army of 1915 (in rebellion against Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯)
top general / commander-in-chief
rebel army
Ever Victorious Army (1860-1864), Qing dynasty army equipped and trained jointly with Europeans and used esp. against the Taiping rebels
navy and army / military force
crusaders / army of crusaders / the Crusades
to enlist / to serve in the army
army grouping / collective army
provincial military governor during the early Republic of China era (1911-1949 AD)
(common place name)
general / high-ranking military officer / to check or checkmate / fig. to embarrass / to challenge / to put sb on the spot
HSK 6
puppet army
enemy troops / hostile forces / CL:
Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN)
French army
miscellaneous troops; irregular troops; troops of varied allegiances / uncertified staff
whole army
rapid advance / forced march
the Red Turbans, peasant rebellion at the end of the Yuan dynasty
(old) government troops
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
volunteer army
Royal Canadian Navy
White Guard or White Movement, anti-communist troops fighting against the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War (1917-1922)
to lead troups / (fig.) to lead / leading
HSK 7-9
ally / allied forces
imperial guard
government army
disarmament
allied forces; friendly troops
Royal Navy (UK)
the Qin army (model for the terracotta warriors)
Irish Republican Army (IRA)
Salvation Army (protestant philanthropic organization founded in London in 1865)
People's Liberation Army (PRC armed forces)
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
total annihilation
(archaic) navy / person employed to post messages on the Internet (abbr. for 網絡水軍|网络水军)
expeditionary force / army on a distant expedition
running of armed forces / military management / to govern armed forces / to direct troops
British army
north China army (esp. during the warlords period)

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