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Ender put his hand across his own mouth, to tell them to be silent. With the door open, of course the enemycould hear every word they said. Ender pointed all around the door, to tell them that Salamander Army wasundoubtedly deployed against the wall all around the door, where they couldn't be seen but could easily flashanyone who came out.Ender motioned for them all to back away from the door. Then he pulled forward a few of the taller boys,including Crazy Tom, and made them kneel, not squatting back to sit on their heels, but fully upright, so theyformed an L with their bodies. He flashed them. In silence the army watched him. He selected tne smallest boy,Bean, handed him Tom's gun, and made Bean kneel on Tom's frozen legs. Then pulled Bean's hands, eachholding a gun, through Tom's armpits.Now the boys understood. Tom was a shield, an armored spacecraft, and Bean was hiding inside. He wascertainly not invulnerable, but he would have time.Ender assigned two more boys to throw Tom and Bean through the door and signalled them to wait. He went onthrough the army quickly assigning groups of four -- a shield, a shooter, and two throwers. Then, when all werefrozen or armed or ready to throw, he signalled the throwers to pick up their burdens, throw them through thedoor, and then jump through themselves."Move!" shouted Ender.They moved. Two at a time the shield-pairs went through the door, backwards so that the shield would bebetween the shooter and the enemy. The enemy opened fire at once, but they mostly hit the frozen boy in front.In the meantime, with two guns to work with and their targets neatly lined up and spread flat along the wall, theDragons had an easy time of it. It was almost impossible to miss. And as thc throwers also jumped through thedoor, they got handholds on the same wall with the enemy, shooting at a deadly angle so that the Salamanderscouldn't figure out whether to shoot at the shield-pairs slaughtering them from above or the throwers shooting atthem from their own level. By the time Ender himself came through the door, the battle was over. It hadn't takena full minute from the time the first Dragon passed through the door until the shooting stopped. Dragon had losttwenty frozen or disabled, and only twelve boys were undamaged. It was their worst score yet, but they had won.When Major Anderson came out and gave Ender the hook, Ender could not contain his anger. "I thought you第 203 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网