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were doing. Even with less than four weeks together, the way they fought already seemed like the onlyintelligent way, the only possible way. Ender was almost surprised that Rabbit Army didn't know already thatthey were hopelessly out of date.C toon slipped along the wall, coasting with their bent knees facing the enemy. Crazy Tom, the leader of Ctoon, had apparently ordered his men to flash their own legs already. It was a pretty good idea in this dim light,since the lighted flash suits went dark wherever they were frozen. It made them less easily visible. Ender wouldcommend him for that.Rabbit Army was able to drive back C toon's attack, but not until Crazy Tom and his boys had carved them up,freezing a dozen Rabbits before they retreated to the safety of a star. But it was a star behind the Rabbitformation, which meant they were going to be easy pickings now.Han Tzu, commonly called Hot Soup, was the leader of D toon. He slid quickly along the lip of the star towhere Ender knelt. "How about flipping off the north wall and kneeling on their faces?""Do it." Ender said. "I'll take B south to get behind them." Then he shouted, "A and E slow on the rvalls!" Heslid footward along the star, hooked his feet on the lip, and flipped himself up to the top wall, then reboundeddown to E toon's star. In a moment he was leading them down against the south wall. They rebounded in nearperfect unison and came up behind the two stars that Carn Carby's soldiers were defending. It was like cuttingbutter with a hot knife. Rabbit Army was gone, just a little cleanup left to do. Ender broke his toons up into halftoonsto scour the corners for any enemy soldiers who were whole or merely damaged. In three minutes his toonleaders reported the room clean. Only one of Ender's boys was completely frozen -- one of C toon, which hadborne the brunt of the assault -- and only five were disabled. Most were damaged, but those were leg shots andmany of them were self-inflicted. All in all, it had gone even better than Ender expected.Ender had his toon leaders do the honors at the gate -- four helmets at the corners, and Crazy Tom to passthrough the gate. Most eommanders took whoever was left alive to pass the gate; Ender could have pickedpractically anyone. A good battle.The lights went full, and Major Anderson himself came through the teachergate at the south end of thebattleroom. He looked very solemn as he offered Ender the teacher hook that was ritually given to the victor inthe game. Ender used it to thaw his own army's flash suits, of course, and he assembled them in toons beforethawing the enemy. Crisp, military appearance, that's what he wanted when Carby and Rabbit Army got their第 189 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网