So if you're fighting a non-hoplite infantry crowd, you're in great shape.

所以如果你和非方阵的步兵群战斗,你就能保持队形

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The Persian infantry did not have heavy armor, they did not have that kind of a shield, they had wicker shields; fortunately, we have vase paintings that show us Persians.

波斯步兵没有重装甲,他们没有那种盾,他们只有藤条盾,很幸运,我们找到了展示波斯人图景的花瓶

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And following the last plague, Pharaoh finally allows the Israelites to go into the desert to worship their God but he quickly changes his mind, and he sends his infantry and his chariots in hot pursuit of the Israelites and they soon find themselves trapped between the Egyptians and something referred to as Yam Suph, meaning Reed Sea.

最后一次瘟疫，法老终于允许,犹太人进入沙漠中去崇拜上帝,但是他很快改变了主意,他派他的步兵和骑兵去追赶犹太人,但不久便发现他们被困在埃及和,和Yam，Suph之间。

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So, you could blow through that infantry like butter.

所以跟他们战斗就跟狂风扫落叶一般

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Basically, the Greeks couldn't pursue very hotly with infantry.

希腊步兵没有办法紧追敌人

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You know, one famous tactic is--if you have an infantry force coming forward, you send tanks in it to break up the line of the infantry, so that you can defeat the infantry in that way.

最有名的战术是,如果有敌方步兵逼近,你把坦克派过去,破坏他们的步兵阵型,以这种策略对付步兵

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The classical hoplite formation then was not the long lived military institution of scholarly tradition, but merely one phase in a history of almost four centuries of slow change towards ever denser and more cohesive heavy infantry formations."

这种方阵的形成,并不是经过长期传承的传统军事制度,只是步兵阵型演变的一个阶段,战阵逐渐向更加紧密坚固的步兵阵型转化,而这个变化持续了约有四个世纪"

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