From orsha they fled on along the road to vilna , still playing the same game of blindman with the pursuing army 他们又从奥尔沙沿着通往维尔纳的大路继续向前逃跑，还是那样，和追击的军队又玩起了捉迷藏的游戏。
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Yet , after a halt of four days , the crowds of them ran back ; again not to right or to left , but , with no manuvres or plans , along their old roadthe worst oneby krasnoe and orsha , along their beaten track 可是在停留了四天之后，这一群乌合之众，没有新战略，没有新措施，既不从左边走，也不从右边走，又沿着最坏的老路沿着那条他们熟悉的大路，向克拉斯诺耶和奥尔沙逃跑。
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Then we have descriptions of the greatness of some of the marshals , especially of neya greatness of soul that culminated in his taking a circuitous route by the forests across the dnieper , and fleeing without his flags , his artillery , and nine - tenths of his men into orsha 后来，人们向我们描述了元帅们灵魂的伟大，特别是内伊，他的灵魂之伟大就在于，他在夜间绕道穿过森林，偷偷地渡过了德聂伯河，他扔掉了军旗和九千名将士，狼狈向奥尔沙逃命。
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Ney was the last , because in spite , or perhaps in consequence , of their miserable position , with a childs impulse to beat the floor that has bruised it , he lingered to demolish the walls of smolensk , which had done nobody any harm . ney , who was the last to pass with his corps of ten thousand , reached napoleon at orsha with only a thousand men , having abandoned all the rest , and all his cannons , and made his way by stealth at night , under cover of the woods , across the dnieper 走在最后面的是内伊，这是因为他要执行炸毁对任何人都不会构成威胁的斯摩棱斯克城墙的任务虽然他们的处境已很不幸，或者正因为这种不幸，他们才捶打那块跌伤了他们的地板，内伊率领的那个军团本来有一万人，他跑到奥尔沙拿破仑那里的时候，就只剩下一千人了。
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The retreat from maley yaroslavets , when nothing hindered napoleon from passing through a country abundantly furnished with supplies , and the parallel road was open to him , along which kutuzov afterwards pursued himthis wholly unnecessary return by a road through devastated country is explained to us as due to various sagacious considerations . similar reasons are given us for napoleons retreat from smolensk to orsha 从小雅罗斯拉维茨退却的时候，他可以通过一个物产丰富足以补充给养的地区，另外还有一条与此平行的道路可供选择，后来库图佐夫就是沿着这条道路追击他的，而他却完全没有必要走那条已经被破坏了的道路。
