虾兵蟹将

shrimp soldiers and crab generals (in mythology or popular fiction, the army of the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea) / useless troops (idiom)

see 蝦蟆|虾蟆[ha2 ma5]

shrimp / prawn

soldiers / a force / an army / weapons / arms / military / warlike / CL:個|个[ge4]

crab

variant of 蟹[xie4]

will / shall / to use / to take / to checkmate / just a short while ago / (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把[ba3])

general / commander-in-chief (military) / king (chess piece) / to command / to lead

to desire / to invite / to request

(bound form) a general / (literary) to command; to lead / (Chinese chess) general (on the black side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)