What he has been trained to do, what he knows he needs to do is to fight forward and somehow step over her, step on her, do whatever he has to do to fill this hole.

他所接受的训练,他的知识告诉他,他要做的是向前进攻,设法从她身上跨过,或者踩在她身上,尽力去填补这个缺口

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If you multiply her, then you want to have as much depth to fill in behind to close that hole as you can, so that that would make your phalanx more sturdy, because you could take more casualties without breaking, that seems reasonable to me.

如果再多一些,你就需要在后面增加足够的排数,尽可能地填补缺口,这会使你的方阵固若金汤,即使伤亡惨重也不影响阵容的坚固,这在我看来是合理的

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