At the end of 300, why did the Spartans break their highly defensive formation?

Josiah

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When Xerxes asks again for surrender, the remaining Spartans, save Leonidas, are in a tight turtle formation protected on all sides by shields. Why did they break this formation, only to be slaughtered by mass volleys of arrows?
 
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