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And Petra, and Dink; Crazy Tom, Shen, Hot Soup, Fly Molo, all the best students Ender had fought with orfought against, everyone that Ender had trusted in Battle School. "I didn't know you were here," he said, "I didn'tknow you were coming.""They've been flogging us through the simulator for three months now," said Dink."You'll find that I'm by far the best tactician," said Petra. "Dink tries, but he has the mind ot a child."So they began working together, each squadron leader commanding individual pilots, and Ender commandingthe squadron leaders. They learned many ways of working together, as the simulator forced them to try differentsituations. Sometimes the simulator gave them a larger fleet to work with; Ender set them up then in three or fourtoons that consisted of three or four squadrons each. Sometimes the simulator gave them a single starship with itstwelve fighters, and he chose three squadron leaders with four fighters each.It was pleasure; it was play. The computer-controlled enemy was none too bright, and they always won despitetheir mistakes, their miscommunications. But in the three weeks they practiced together, Ender came to knowthem very well. Dink, who deftly carried out instructions but was slow to improvise; Bean, who couldn't controllarge groups of ships effectively but could use only a few like a scalpel, reacting beautifully to anything thecomputer threw at him; Alai, who was almost as good a strategist as Ender and could be entrusted to do wellwith half a fleet and only vague instructions.The better Ender knew them, the faster he could deploy them, the better he could use them. The simulatorwould display the situation on the screen. In that moment Ender learned for the first time what his own fleetwould consist of and how the enemy fleet was deployed. It took him only a few minutes now to call for thesquadron leaders that he needed, assign them to certain ships or groups of ships, and give them their assignments.Then, as the battle progressed, he would skip from one leader's point of view to another's, making suggestionsand, occasionally, giving orders as the need arose. Since the others could only see their own battle perspective,he would sometimes give them orders that made no sense to them; but they, too, learned to trust Ender. If he toldthem to withdraw, they withdrew, knowing that either they were in an exposed position, or their withdrawalmight entice the enemy into a weakened posture. They also knew that Ender trusted them to do as they judgedbest when he gave them no orders. If their style of fighting were not right for the situation they were placed in,Ender would not have chosen them for that assignment.The trust was complete, the working of the fleet quick and responsive. And at the end of three weeks, Mazer第 288 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网