Machine guns shoot a lot of bullets in a row, threaded together in a line that is fed through the gun.

To this soldier in training, an extra shell of armor seems superfluous. OR Prince Superfluous is sent off as a soldier and dies in a shelling.

This carcass was made incomplete by a machine gun.

This tank ran over a turkey and lopped off its head.

War stories can get stretched. This persona tells of the time he fell a tree with his rifle.

This soldier lacks funds to take his bride to the altar.

Burglars are in it for the shells, especially in wartime. This one is padding the guns he is selling to the enemy (贼 zéi also means “traitor”).

This ceremonial soldier’s collar is turned upward like wings.

tie a lucky thread around your finger

This soldier was lucky to tie the knot during leave.

Other machinery is invented based on the tank. This tank-like tractor smooths the ground before trees are sown.

Uncle Schubert does a cannonball jump into the pool to the delight of his younger kin. OR The justification of the cannon is it is protecting kin, flies above the small people.

a teenage mutant ninja turtle OR With his turtle-like armor, this soldier looks quite robust.

levy's purpose is to collect shells to pay for the military

To vary the work, watering/sprinkling the flowers was assigned to this ceremonial guard.

right hand frolics with the trigger of the rifle

The might of a cannon blows one woman away.

It takes one woman to show her might by standing up to the cannon

The fortune tellers of the day predicted the number of rifles would determine the outcome of the war.

broad soldiers, feet at attention

They found this cannon half-buried in the jungle, now lush with flowers.

This is the sound made by a POW who is being tortured to extract information. He is being hung by his nose from the ceiling with a rifle pointed at him.

The drummer boy uses a branch for a drumstick.

When it is a rifle versus a sword, a sword can only scratch a rifle.

This body part of drummer boy Peng is getting puffy.

 A ceremonial guard named Yao: he could almost be a statue, his human legs are so still.

Picture a tank loaded with the vehicle it is pushing out of the way.

This formal document between two parties of a duel listed the terms of the duel, including the shells that could be paid to settle the dispute rather than a pistol.

This ceremonial soldier was spared from mess hall duty.

Picture machine gun-toting soldiers moving through shallow water.

Lucky water get things spotlessly clean.

This ceremonial guard has a fever but he has to ignore the burning.

tread on the machine gun of a fallen comrade

These soldiers are hungry, but they jab at the wings of the fallen bird with their rifle to make sure it isn’t an enemy trap.

To take precautions against someone shooting you, the universal signal is to put your two hands up in the air.

The hand of this ceremonial soldier felt chafed and itchy, but he resisted scratching it.

Picture this military salute: one stamp of the foot followed by a flash of the pistol.

Civilians back home tailoring uniforms for soldiers are inspired by the tank to create new ways of tailoring: a machine rolls over a bolt of fabric like a tank to cut out the pattern.

Soldiers who aspire to serve their country can be awarded a purple heart if they pay the ultimate price by being wounded or killed.

This soldier put his mess hall experience to use as a professional kettle keeper for the crown.

Hidden enemy: in the flowers, behind slats, behind the cannon, or hiding from his fear in the loft bed in the barracks.

The tank is still the backbone of land combat today, rolling over the soil.

part of the weapon series of components (derived from ancient weapons): 弋yì pistol, 戈gē rifle, 戋jiān machine gun, 戊wù cannon, 𢦏zái tank

tanks roll together over the field, battalion members all have on a helmet

Flower children despise war. Picture them throwing a net over a cannon or stuffing it with something to prevent it from firing.

You need padding 10 layers thick to protect yourself from a rifle.

This drummer boy is commended for his performance and money is added to his wages.

This small cup holds the bullets from a machine gun that were removed from his side.

This lucky soldier got a kiss on his way to war.

As the sun rises at dawn, this ceremonial guard’s watch ends.

“Put your mouth on the floor or I’ll shoot my rifle!”

This drummer boy, named Peng, adds a bird tail to his cap.

part of a series of weapon components: 弋 *pistol, 戈 *rifle, 戋 *machine gun, 戊 *cannon, 𢦏 *tank; a pistol is a handgun used in duels

cheap plastic machine guns that only cost a few shells

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part of the weapon series of components (derived from ancient weapons): 弋yì pistol, 戈gē rifle, 戋jiān machine gun, 戊wù cannon, 𢦏zái tank‍

the next step up in guns, used in the Revolutionary War

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A boy soldier who plays the drum and is also the camp cook. *Notice the bottom of 士 overlaps with the top of 豆.

“I've got a right to my rifle!"

alternatively: a picture of a hand pointing to its other hand

Make a joyful noise with drum and mouth!

a thousand flowers droop to honor a fallen soldier

part of the weapon series of components derived from ancient weapons: 弋yì pistol, 戈gē rifle, 戋jiān machine gun, 戊wù cannon, 𢦏zái tank; This weapon has to be dragged to and from the battlefields.

Adding more ammunition and power to rifles, the machine gun changed warfare.

part of the weapon series of components derived from ancient weapons: 弋yì pistol, 戈gē rifle, 戋jiān machine gun, 戊wù cannon, 𢦏zái tank

look for the hand that the rifle shot off

Ammunition is expensive. A machine gun might as well be shooting metal coins.

one taste of something too salty and you spit it out like a cannon

When does a knife fight turn into a cannon fight? When a bully becomes president.

The stylish English dueling pistol was prized for its accuracy and its work-manship.

An important persona in a duel is the “second”, someone sent as a substitute for offended parties, whose primary role was to settle the dispute without violence.

In a civil war, soldiers‘ voices are split against each other.

They walked with the cannon in order to surpass the enemy during the night; it got caught on something (hook stroke).