After Christina left to harass the enemy, An Ning directed his artillery and threw the cannon and ammunition carts in front of the ambush area, just blocking the road.
After moving into position, An Ning personally loaded the last gun in the queue and pointed the muzzle at the road.
After firing in this way, the cannonballs will roll all the way along the road, breaking everything they encounter.
The reason why it is not loaded with shotgun shells is because the shotshell particles are relatively small and have low kinetic energy. They can penetrate a few people and then stop.
Although ordinary solid projectiles loaded with ordinary projectiles cannot kill a few people when they first come out of the muzzle, they will immediately cause a lot of casualties as they roll along the road.
The most important thing is that shotgun shells can only damage the first few rows of the enemy team, while solid shells can pass through most of the team in one roll.
The person far in front of the team dies and the person next to him is beaten into two pieces, which has a huge impact on morale.
If An Ning wants to win, it must demoralize the enemy.
Only by causing enough damage to the enemy in a short period of time and destroying the opponent's morale can the battle be won.
After all, the number of enemies is four times that of An Ning.
After loading the cannon, An Ning said to the artillerymen: "I will need a warrior later to hide in the ammunition truck. When the enemy approaches, he will get off the ammunition truck and fire."
Cannons of this era needed to use a torch to light the fuse, unlike later cannons that only needed to pull the rope of the breech block.
As for the torch to light the cannon, An Ning lit a baggage truck on fire, pretending to be on the run and wanted to burn the baggage truck, but he didn't have time to burn the baggage truck.
The torches inserted into the burning baggage train were completely invisible.
After arranging everything, An Ning began to recruit warriors who could fire cannons.
"I need a warrior to hide here now," An Ning pointed to the hiding position on the artillery car and said to the artillerymen. "When the enemy approaches, you jump up and pick up the burning baggage car behind.
Torch, light the loaded cannon! Whoever completes this feat will receive one livre of gold coins!"
As she spoke, An Ning took out a gold coin, raised her hand high, and let the gold coin fall in the sun.
The flashing golden light immediately caused several artillerymen to raise their hands.
An Ning relied on his memory and chose the one who was usually the boldest. He first put a one-krona silver coin into his hand: "This is a deposit. If you complete the task, you will get gold coins."
The artilleryman did not take the silver coins immediately, but said worriedly: "What if the enemy rides up to check first? The convoy parked on the road is so obvious..."
"Don't worry," An Ning comforted, "I have ordered the cavalry to harass the enemy. Even if they have riders, they will not risk being intercepted by our cavalry and come forward to check. Take your silver coins and be bold!"
"Don't worry, Captain!" the artilleryman who took the silver coin vowed, "I will put the enemy as close as possible before firing! Look at me!"
An Ning nodded, then he jumped on the horse, dragged a large branch cut from the bush with one hand, and ran along the road in front of the artillery, erasing all the footprints.
While wiping his footprints, he ordered loudly: "Listen for some movement later. Get up when you hear the sound of the cannon. Move forward through the bushes and shoot at the enemy closest to the muzzle of the gun!"
An Ning almost wanted to say a crosshair, but she realized halfway that flintlock guns these days do not have a crosshair component, because the hit rate of flintlock guns is so impressive that there is no need to aim at all.
According to the standard flintlock firing procedure, you should close your eyes when firing at the end to prevent burning sparks from the medicine pool from jumping into your eyes.
After doing all this, An Ning rode a little way around the front and tied the horse behind another fence.
Then he returned to his army on foot, walked to the middle of the team, and drew his long sword.
He glanced at the soldiers lying in the haystacks on both sides.
The soldiers looked directly at him, looking very nervous.
An Ning: "Don't worry, follow my arrangements, we will come back with a great victory!"
After saying that, An Ning took a step forward and hid next to the bush, almost blending in with the tree trunk.
**
At this time, Christina was performing the task of harassing the enemy - using her sight.
Her cavalry remained within the enemy's sight, maintaining a distance that allowed the enemy to see clearly, but did not continue to approach.
At this distance, Christina carefully identified several horses in the enemy's queue and confirmed that they were not Clarice's horses.
——That’s strange, where did Clarice and the others go?
Just as he was talking, the flag bearer of the team shouted: "Tina, look over there!"
Christina looked in the direction of the flag's finger and saw a small group of cavalry appearing behind the enemy.
Look at the flag it's Clarice.
Christina muttered: "Damn it, this guy, did he get lost after setting off in the morning?"
The fields around here are full of hedges, and it's really easy to get lost if you take wrong turns.
Christina desperately waved to Clarice, trying to get her to come closer, and the two of them joined forces to continue completing the tasks assigned by An Ning.
But for some reason, Clarice just couldn't come over and kept following the enemy's column.
Even though Christina ordered the trumpeter to blow the cavalry rallying horn, Clarice did not come to join them.
**
On Clarice's side, she saw Christina waving to her from a distance.
"The boss seems to be waving." The female knight in the team said, "Should we bypass the enemy's team and join them?"
Clarice was speechless: "No, she will definitely read it. After all, we are lost. We will stay here and keep a distance from the enemy. We are ensuring that the enemy marches according to the captain's intention! This is a very important task.
!”
Female Knight: "Ah...this..."
"It's a very important task!"
"But the rally call has already been blown over there."
"...Can I pretend that I didn't hear it?"
"Obviously not."
"As expected...Okay, everyone is here, let's go meet Christina, and no one will mention the fact that we got lost! No one is allowed to mention it!"
**
On Colonel Donald's side, his adjutant suddenly shouted: "The cavalry behind us has begun to speed up! Do you want the troops to form a square formation?"
Donald said angrily: "Asshole! Just a few cavalry and a fart formation! If these women dare to charge at our formation, drag them down and give them to the brothers to have fun! Don't worry about it, move forward!"
Although he said so, the colonel still paid close attention to the enemy cavalry that was speeding up to catch up.
However, his worries were in vain. The cavalry behind them accelerated just to get past the black-clad army and join the cavalry in front.
After the two cavalry groups joined together, they formed a small force of fifty horsemen.
"It's strange, the enemy's cavalry shouldn't be so few." Donald muttered.
Adjutant: "Maybe they were sent to various directions for reconnaissance."
"Well, it's possible." Donald nodded, "The enemy's cavalry is staring at us so closely. It must be close to the enemy's group. Move forward! We will have a celebration banquet tonight if we defeat the enemy!"
Under the urging of the colonel, the soldiers in black accelerated their march.
About forty minutes later, the colonel saw carriages and cannons parked on the road ahead, and one carriage was ignited with flames reaching into the sky.
Donald was overjoyed: "The enemy gave up their baggage trains and cannons in order to escape lightly! Move forward quickly, go up to put out the fire, and rescue the cannons and baggage bags!"