The screams could be heard far away in the silent night, but to the south was a small fishing village, and ten miles away was the city of Geranza, and they still had time. Without any hesitation, everyone rushed over before the people in the fortress could react, climbed up the fortress with a rope hook, and rushed inward to kill.

And luck is also on Zheng Sen's side, Taiwan has been peaceful for a long time, and the Dutch soldiers are very lax, except for these two sentinels, everyone else is sleeping. Hearing the screams of his companions, they were all dazed, and they didn't hurry to get dressed and take their weapons until the officer on duty blew the whistle.

What's even worse is that they still use arquebuses, not to mention the time it takes to load, that is, to prepare the arquebus, it also takes time to light the arquebus. Therefore, some soldiers were still fiddling with their muskets in a panic, while others were picking up their waist knives and fighting the intruding pirates.

Although Zheng Sen and the others were numerous, the space in the fortress was limited after all, and even if there were crossbows, they were still blocked by the brave Dutch soldiers. However, as the swords squeezed into the front row, the Dutch soldiers were not brave.

Since the popularity of muskets, Europe has not only eliminated heavy armor, but also thrown away chain armor. The tragic death of a comrade did not inspire his comrades to fight, but caused the Dutch soldiers in front to flee in a hurry.

At this time, the seven or eight soldiers behind finally prepared their muskets, and after their companions fled to get out of the way, they immediately opened fire, and then hurriedly continued to reload. The sound of "pop" and "pop" guns echoed in the fortress, and the white smoke immediately filled the air, making it difficult for both sides of the melee to see.

Zheng Sen's men suffered six or seven casualties, and the advancing crowd was also stagnant. Zheng Sen yelled hurriedly in the back, causing his subordinates to rush and kill: "Rush up!" Don't stop! A fire gun without a projectile is better than a burning stick! ”

The sound of ping-pong iron striking rang out again, and occasionally there were one or two gunshots. In a few moments, the men in front shouted for joy, and they had killed all the Dutchmen who resisted.

Zheng Sen's nervous mood relaxed, although there were muskets firing, but the cannon did not go off, and Gelansha City should not be aware of it. Under Chen Ze's assignment, his subordinates began to search in the castle, while Gan Hui arranged the defense and arranged sentinels. And soon, a merchant ship will go west on the wind and report to Zheng Zhilong in Quanzhou.

After a while, Chen Ze led his men to pull out a Dutch soldier from the cellar. The soldier was sent to the cellar to fetch gunpowder in order to signal the city of Geranza, but before the gunpowder could be collected, Zheng Sen and others attacked. The soldier was found with a lead ready, apparently intending to ignite the gunpowder in the cellar, but in the end he did not have the courage to die with the enemy, so he had to be captured.

Zheng Sen asked about the firepower of the city of Relanza and Chikan, but the Dutch soldier still wanted to resist and refused to say anything except his name. Gan Hui got Zheng Sen's signal and cut the blood vessels in the wrist of this named Sneijder with a dagger. Now the Dutch soldier Sneijder was not hypocritical, and quickly explained it 1510, there was no way, he had to hurry up, otherwise the blood would run dry, and even Christ God would not be able to save him.

Sneijder's confession was similar to what they had heard, that there were two hundred and twenty Dutch troops in the city of Geranza, thirty men in the southern dune fortress, eighty men in the garrison of Chikan City, one hundred and sixty men in Keelung in the north, and one hundred and twenty soldiers on the three ships in the harbor. In other words, the total number of enemies they had to face in a short period of time did not exceed six hundred, which made Zheng Sen and the others more confident in persevering.

Early the next morning, the city of Geranza sent a force of forty men to the end of the northern line to find out. Originally, the sound of gunfire was not enough to alarm the city, but the fishermen near the fort rushed to the city of Geranza overnight to report, thinking that pirates had attacked the end of the northern line. These fishermen are all Chinese, and they are friendly to the Dutch, after all, the taxes here are much lower than those of the Daming, and the Dutch are much friendlier to the hard-working Chinese than to the local tribes.

Leading the team is the second lieutenant of the Devil Boy. This name is what the Chinese call him, because he has served in Taiwan for ten years and has been promoted from corporal to second lieutenant, so the Chinese give him a affectionate name.

However, the ghost boy was a little overexcited at this time, and he finally had a chance to fight. Most of the tribes on the island of Formosa (Taiwan) have surrendered and signed an agreement, so they can no longer kill at will, and of course they will not be meritorious. And today, there are pirates who dare to come to the territory of the Netherlands to spread wilderness, which just gives him the opportunity to make meritorious contributions. Although Governor Oward gave him the task of spying on the enemy, he wanted to directly defeat and annihilate these pirates.

He had that faith. Not only was his team armed with muskets, but two small boats followed along the sandbar to the east, and a battleship to the west to provide artillery support. More importantly, his invincible record in Taiwan made him full of confidence. Neither the murderous local tribes nor the brave sea bandits were no match for the muskets and cannons of the Dutch army.

However, as soon as they landed, they were discovered by Zheng Sentinel's sentry lurking in the fishing village. The people of the fishing village had fled to the town of Gerancha, which was empty and served as an outpost. When Zheng Sen knew that it was only a small group of Dutchmen, he immediately sent thirty people to hide in the fishing village, and after a while, he could attack the front and back and annihilate all the Dutchmen.

And the ghost boy was also very cooperative, he did not send sharp soldiers, let alone search the fishing village that looked empty. His ranks were neatly dressed and neatly lined up, and the soldiers, armed with muskets lit with arquebuses in their mouths, with lead bullets in their mouths and rationed gunpowder jugs hanging diagonally from their chests, marched majestically towards the fortress occupied by pirates. He paid no heed to the lowering and raising of the flag in the city of Geranza, which was a signal for them to return.

Oward, who was watching the battle at the castle of Geranza, scolded that he had seen pirates infiltrating the fishing village, but the damned Devil Boy ignored his signal to retreat. Unaware of the enemy's strength, he had to send an additional team of sixty men to rescue the team that had entered the pirate encirclement. As the governor of Taiwan, he could not watch the Dutch be wiped out by pirates, or he would be impeached and punished.

Before he could reach the fort, he heard the sound of cannons. He wasn't worried at all, knowing that these were armed ships destroying pirates, and those pirate ships were Chinese sailing ships that could easily be sunk. Although he also heard the sound of shelling in the direction of the fortress, he did not think that the pirates had excellent gunnery and could pose a threat to their armed ships.

But on the surface of the sea, which he could not see, it was a different scene. Zheng Sen's four four-inch Hongyi cannons opened fire in turn, sending sawdust flying across the Dutch warships that were intending to approach their fleet. The Dutch ships did not dare to fight, and quickly turned around and fled into the distance, and none of the shells they fired could hit the fortress at the tail of the northern line.