- military affairs; (attributive) military
- a danger concealed within sth; hidden damage; misfortune not visible from the surface
- prophylactic; preventative; protective
- to dispose; to deploy; deployment
- to miss; to leave out; to omit; to be omitted; to be missing; to slip through; to leak out; to seep away
- for the first time; first (meeting, attempt etc)
- to fight hand to hand
- with one's own hands; personally
- to ignite; to set on fire; aflame
- the flames of war; the ravages of war
- to swallow; to engulf; to gobble up
- victim; fatality
- name; titular; nominal; in name; ostensible purpose
- to die an untimely death (idiom); to be cut off in one's prime
- honor and glory; glorious
- fast; high-speed; rapid
- several times
- to gain first-hand knowledge of sth; to experience for oneself; knowledge; experience; insight
- at once; on the spot
- to get on a horse; to mount
- topography; terrain; landform
- to fight; to engage in combat; struggle; battle; CL:場|场[chang2],次[ci4]
- to broaden
- precipitous
- road as twisty as sheep's intestine (idiom); narrow and winding road; fig. complicated and tricky job
- bypath; trail; bribery as a means of achieving a goal; minor arts (Confucian reference to agriculture, medicine, divination, and other professions unworthy of a gentleman)
- cannon; gun; artillery
- to move; to transport; to use; to apply; fortune; luck; fate
- to look down at (from a high vantage point)
- highland; upland
- to attack; to assault; to go on the offensive; attack; assault; offense (sports)
- to observe and emulate; to study (esp. following sb's example)
- anxious; impatient
- to heave; to lift; to raise up; to uphold
- torch; CL:把[ba3]
- military engineer
- lighting; illumination; to light up; to illuminate
- daybreak; dawn
- laurel (as a symbol of victory or merit)
- sundown; sunset