The first ship destruction and death after the Ming army's crusade occurred in the Battle of Vallarta.

From the shore fire cannon on the cliff on the coastline, an old antique bronze stone shooter cannon older than Chen Mu bombarded a huge stone projectile of one hundred and fifty catties to two miles away.

Built in Seville 50 years ago, the cannon was fought in three battles in Europe, two of which failed to fire stone projectiles, and the third time was simply left in place by the legion because of the change in the battlefield, and was only pulled back to Seville after the battle.

At that time, people found that in addition to attacking fortresses on the battlefield, this kind of heavy artillery for land warfare was no longer suitable for the increasingly flexible battlefield.

It was later used as a ship's heavy gun, mounted on the bow of a large galen ship bound for Manila, and was of no use except as a deterrent off the coast of Peru, firing a boulder 600 meters off target at the rebellious indigenous army and smashing in front of the phalanx of their own legions.

When Philip sent a batch of cast-iron naval guns weighing eighteen pounds to New Spain from the Netherlands, he placed them in Acapulco on the coast of Mexico to eat ashes, and it was not until the threat of the Ming army caused the legion to erect a harbor water wall at Vallarta, and it was able to see the light of day.

The stone cannon was an early cannon, active in the wars of the 15th century, such as the urban cannon that destroyed Constantinople, and has largely withdrawn from the battlefield today, and all artillery in this era is called canon.

Canon, from Canna in Latin, is actually a tube.

For the first time in the half century since its pouring, this huge catapult accurately hit the enemy.

When the huge stone projectile fell from the coast to the sea, a large shark ship of the Ming army, which was the main force of the artillery battle, dealt a fatal blow to the target with its broadside guns twenty paces away from the armed merchant ship moored in the harbor, and the powerful artillery salvo blasted half of the hull to pieces.

Of course, this is the result of the joint efforts of the big shark ship named 'Red Rabbit' and the two main gunboats of the same class in front of it, and it is clear that their target will soon sink into the sea due to the imbalance of the hull.

The captain of the Red Rabbit ship was a young hundred, named Lin Hu'er, born in Xinhui, Guangzhou, who lost his relatives in the plundering of the coast by Zeng Yi, and coincided with the Nanyangwei commander Chen Mu recruiting the flag army and joining the Ming army with a heart of retribution.

At that time, the young people of Guangdong had the same life trajectory as Lin Huer, and the common people would not take the initiative to become the flag army if they were not forced into a desperate situation, had no great revenge, and were not hooked by the county officials.

Even if they are paid as soldiers, they are more willing to join Yu Dayou or other generals' family troops, the flag army, which is a dog-like character who listens to people's calls and drinks, what is it?

Lin Huer didn't catch up with the big war for several years after joining the army, and went to Nanyang for more than a year of training, and she became a small flag officer in a daze and didn't know what was going on.

Just received two months of Lulu, seven stone rice in January, the joy of carrying a mirrored waist knife has not passed, and because he was idle and had nothing to do, he learned some Luzon dialect from the locals, and was considered by hundreds of households to be a talent that could be created, as a test general flag to help train the Zongfan Banner Army.

After six months of training in the southern guards of Luzon, a large number of officer positions were vacated by the newly established Sanwei in Sulu, and when the troops were trained in the past, they were already really the general flag.

Participating in the battle of Linlai, he didn't even have a chance to let go, so he just followed the third group of troops attacking the island to the beach, and took his headquarters to set up tents on the shore and slept until half the night.

Because there is no reward for cutting ranks, every time he is promoted is because of military training, he does not worry about food and clothing but it is difficult to determine a lifelong event, and finally in the battle of Yi'an, he bombarded a war elephant, and got a reward for the third daughter of a grain merchant in his hometown Xinhui, and he just had a second son when he sailed to Beiyang with Shiqi.

Lin Hu'er is only twenty-two years old this year, riding a horse and riding a horse and wearing a cuirass, it is the time when the spring breeze is proud and has a bright future, otherwise how dare he name the battleship Chitu?

He had already thought about it, and if he could make meritorious service on the battlefield, he would make meritorious service on the battlefield, and it would not matter if he couldn't catch up with the earth-shattering sea battle.

In Asia, the Ming army should also soon set up a clan guard, under the rapid expansion of the middle officer must have a vacancy, in Majiagang he got a Yanian person to learn the local dialect, and recruited another from the Zhengtu tribe on the boundary peninsula, he wanted to strive to be a deputy thousand households.

Twenty-two-year-old deputy Qianhu!

This kind of great creation has befallen a Xinhui fisherman who has not had a nine-grade official in the eighteen generations of his ancestors, and he can wake up with a smile when he dreams!

Now that he has sunk an enemy ship, he can sink more, not only in Vallarta, but also in Acapulco, and perhaps in Mexico City.

Everything is at your fingertips.

It wasn't until the hand-polished, huge, heavy stone projectile fell with a palpitating scream, which froze Lin Hu'er's smile after sinking the enemy ship, and the stone projectile fell, the crane wing sail broke through the big hole, and the debris of the broken mast of the straight cedar was reflected in the pupils.

The next moment, the bow of the ship was raised high, countless exclamations and curses hit the ears, everyone on the deck was swept away, and the huge momentum penetrated the stern from left to right and broke a large hole in the lower deck, and the entire stern of the battleship was visibly burst with the naked eye.

Bang!

When the upturned bow slammed into the sea again, the buoyancy was not enough to support the weight of the ship's fall, so it first sank heavily into the sea, and then was violently lifted up by buoyancy, and then went back and forth three times before floating steadily on the sea again.

The heavy armor fell on Lin Hu'er and slammed it on the ship, her face was like gold paper, and she couldn't even open her mouth to call out a mouthful of blood in her throat, and as soon as she raised her head, a ten-pound Zhenshuo from the upper deck smashed into the deck from in front of her eyes, and half of the gun tube was stuck in the middle.

The strong wind that smashed down hardly shocked Lin Hu'er to wake up, and she couldn't feel pain when her eyes were red, she only felt that she couldn't stand steadily when she knelt, her neck obviously didn't raise the slightest, but her eyes rose from the sea level little by little, and when she turned back to the messy stern, she only saw the flag army holding the mast shouting to herself.

It was then that the sound of cannons, flames, cries of terror, meaningless scolding, all the sounds poured into the ears again.

"Into the damn stone, Lin Baihu - the ship is sinking!"

"Jump, jump, jump! Otherwise, you will be detained below! ”

Lin Hu'er, whose mind was still in chaos, wanted to shout 'The ship is here', but he hesitated, and because of this hesitation, he lost his righteous and awe-inspiring heroic moment.

The sea water poured into the butt of the ship much faster than he expected, and there was no time for him to stand up, and the bow of the Red Rabbit was almost upright.

The sailors were first thrown into the sea, and then the overturned hull slammed into the sea, smashing them to the bottom.