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皮洛士是古希腊伊庇鲁斯国王,杰出的军事家和野心勃勃的冒险家。他梦想成为第二个亚历山大,在西方建立一个大帝国。公元前280年初春,他应希腊城市他林敦的邀请,率2万名步兵,3000名骑兵,2000名弓箭手,500名投枪手和20头战象,在意大利登陆。同年初夏,皮洛士率军迎战急忙进攻他林敦的罗马军队。双方在赫拉克列亚进行了第一场战斗。这是希腊雇佣兵和罗马公民兵的首次交锋。论兵力,双方旗鼓相当,但皮洛士采用了这样的战术:以长枪方阵的密集队形制服罗马步兵,以战象和帖撒利亚骑兵打破敌军两翼和阻止对方包抄。
Pyrrhot is the ancient Greek Epirus, the outstanding military strategist and ambitious adventurer. He dreamed to be the second Alexander and establish a great empire in the West. In the spring of 280 BC, at the invitation of his Greek city Lindarin, he landed in Italy at the rate of 20,000 infantry troops, 3,000 cavalry troops, 2,000 archers, 500 gunmen and 20 war elephants. In the early summer of the same year, Pyrrhus led the army against the Roman army who attacked him in a hurry. The two sides conducted their first battle in Heraclia. This is the first clash between Greek mercenaries and Roman militiamen. On the strength of troops, both sides held the line, but Pyrrhus adopted the tactic of subduing the Roman infantry in a dense formation of long rifles, striking the elephants and blocking the enemy’s wings with cavalry and war knights.