Napoleon nodded, "You and I are on the same page. Corsica needs not a sergeant, but a real officer. So what do you think I should study?"
Anning said firmly, "Artillery! With your excellent math skills, it would be a waste not to study artillery."
"As I thought you'd say," Napoleon responded with a smug expression, "I knew you'd make that suggestion! What about you then, will you also join the military academy?"
Anning replied, "Of course I'll join, and I will also study artillery."
Anning had this plan not just to cozy up to Napoleon, he had another consideration: the safety of the artillery. In this era, the main target of artillery wasn't the enemy's cannons, because back then the accuracy of the cannons was too poor to effectively target the enemy artillery with any reliable hit rate.