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"You're good," he said."None better. And you're going to learn how to do it."Petra taught him to hold his arm straight, to aim with the whole arm. "Something most soldiers don't realize isthat the farther away your target is, the longer you have to hold the beam within about a two-centimeter circle.It's the difference between a tenth of a second and a half a second, but in battle that's a long time. A lot ofsoldiers think they missed when they were right on target, but they moved away too fast. So you can't use yourgun like a sword, swish swish slice-em-in-half. You got to aim."She used the ballcaller to bring the targets back, then launched them slowly, one by one. Ender fired at them.He missed every one."Good," she said. "You don't have any bad habits.""I don't have any good ones, either," he pointed out."I give you those."They didn't accomplish much that first morning. Mostly talk. How to think while you were aiming. You've gotto hold your own motion and your enemy's motion in your mind at the same time. You've got to hold your armstraight out and aim with your body, so in case your arm is frozen you can still shoot. Learn where your triggeractually fires and ride the edge, so you don't have to pull so far each time you fire. Relax your body, don't tenseup; it makes you tremble.It was the only practice Ender got that day. During the army's drills in the afternoon, Ender was ordered to bringhis desk and do his schoolwork, sitting in a corner of the room. Bonzo had to have all his soldiers in thebattleroom, but he didn't have to use them.Ender did not do his schoolwork, however. If he couldn't have drill as a soldier, he could study Bonzo as atactician. Salamander Army was divided into the standard four toons of ten soldiers each. Some commanders set第 92 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网