Peasants were the pawns in this war of attrition.

农夫们成为这场消耗战的被人利用的棋子。

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During the third and fourth years of the war the middle peasants began to go under.

到了抗战的第三年和第四年，轮到了中农。

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Most resolute of all were the peasants in South China, nearly a thousand miles from the civil war areas.

虽坚决的是华南的农民，而他们离内战地区将近一千英里。

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Peasants were the pawns in this war of attrition.

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Even into the 1990s China had little more than a conscript army of ill-educated peasants using equipment based largely on obsolete Soviet designs of the 1950s and outdated cold-war (or even guerrilla-war) doctrine.

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