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。
All decisions as to when and where to move the cannons , when to send infantry to fire , when to send cavalry to trample down the russian infantryall such decisions were made by the nearest officers in the ranks , without any reference to ney , davoust , and murat , far less to napoleon himself 所有的命令：何时向何地移动大炮，何时派步兵去射击，何时派骑兵去冲杀俄国步兵，所有这些命令都是在队伍里最接近士兵的军官发出的，不仅没有请示拿破仑，甚至没有请示内伊达乌和缪拉。
