After the capture of the town of Geranza, a catapult was set up behind the houses in the town, over the roofs, and fired fire canisters at the stranded Dutch ship. The Dutch tried to fight back, but there were four or five houses in between, and their artillery did nothing.

The Dutch, seeing that the place of the fire pot was getting closer and closer to their ship, did not dare to hold on, and all of them hurried into the sea, and made a distant detour to the city of Geranza. Fortunately, they left in time, and if they had been an hour late, they would not have been able to enter the city of Geranza.

The girder watched the Dutch escape from the ship, so he sent a dozen men to receive the ship. Although there is nothing special about this merchant ship, it is good to be able to capture one. After the soldiers got on the ship, they searched carefully, one to see if there was any hidden enemy, and the other was to find the powder store, in case the enemy came to counterattack in a big way, they had to blow up the ship before retreating, so that the enemy could not take the ship back again. After all, there were only a dozen of them here, and the others had already begun to dig trenches on the east, west, and south sides of the city of Geranza, in order to completely trap the Dutch in the fortress.

It was this mission that allowed them to escape the catastrophe. The Dutch lit the fuse of the powder magazine as they left, intending to blow up all the girder soldiers on board, but the lead they left was too long and was extinguished by the girder soldiers in time.

In fact, the Dutch have always wanted to use this method of detonating explosives to kill and injure the army of Daliang, but unfortunately they have not succeeded. The fort at the end of the northern line was due to the fact that the soldiers did not have the determination to die together, and the Utrecht fort on the high hill south of the city of Geranza was also discovered by the officers and soldiers of the girder before the explosion because the lead was too long. This also increased the vigilance of the officers and soldiers of the Great Liang, who would first search the powder magazines wherever they went, and later began to raise military dogs to help find hidden enemies and dangers.

It was not easy to dig a trench on the side of the girder, and in order to reduce the damage of the Dutch grenades and flowering shells, they began to dig a zigzag trench three hundred paces from the castle, and then dug the siege trench after advancing to a distance of two hundred paces. Because the arrow-shaped fortresses of the Dutch were angled, they could not be bombarded directly from the front, but only from the side, so that they needed to be closer to the castle.

And this also entered the range of the Dutch artillery, whether it was a grenade fired by a cannon or a flowering shell thrown by a mortar cannon, it could kill them. Therefore, the trenches of the girder should be strong, the ramparts should be thick, and they should be guarded against side blows and sneak attacks. On both sides of the waterway, ships blocked the entrances and exits, ensuring that the Dutch could not escape, communicate with the outside world, and even obtain provisions. The Dutch were completely trapped in the city of Geranza.

Three days later, Wei Cheng arrived in Taiwan with more than 200 soldiers and provisions. Subsequent transportation could only rely on the pulp ships of the sailors, so the transportation volume was limited, and there were not many troops and supplies to come. At the same time, a part of the high-ranking Dutch captives and captured weapons were brought back for interrogation and research by the Great Liang.

After Wei Cheng took over the command, he also used the existing forces in a step-by-step manner to continue the operation of digging trenches. Although artillery emplacements had already been set up in some places, they did not have enough solid ammunition, and in order to be able to break through the enemy's castle in one go, they did not blindly start the attack, but asked for follow-up transportation of more ammunition and rockets.

As for the island of Taiwan, it only stuck to Chihkan City and did not explore other places. Even the Dutch scattered in the countryside were beheaded by the local students to show their goodwill, and they only gave some money and goods, and did not have in-depth exchanges. Therefore, on the island of Taiwan at this time, all the tribes of Shengfan generally carried out the carnival of hunting heads, and the prey was the previous colonizers, the Dutch.

After more than a month of transportation, Taiwan finally has 2,500 soldiers, plus enough ammunition and supplies. Just as Wei Cheng was about to start attacking, the sailor suddenly noticed that a Dutch ship was coming. At this time, they only had two warships in Taiwan, one cruising outside Dayuan Bay and the other in Dayuan Bay, and the others were small boats, equipped with small Franky cannons and stone throwers, which could only block the Dutch boats.

Fortunately, there were three Dutch ships that came, although they were armed ships, but after all, they were merchant ships, and there were not so many guns. Moreover, under the blows of the two pulp warships, these ships could not get close to the city of Geranza, so they had to ride the wind and go south to their stronghold of Batavia.

It was later learned from the captives that the three ships had come from Japan. The Dutch, who had fled before, actually crossed the north and south of Taiwan and arrived at the port of Keelung in the north, sending the news of China's attack on Taiwan to Japan. Unfortunately, the Dutch in Japan were also limited in their power to rescue their compatriots.

During the period when the soldiers of Daliang dug the siege trenches, the Dutch also launched several counterattacks to drive the soldiers of Daliang farther away. However, for sneak attacks and night attacks, Daliang's troops have rich experience in defense. Even officers and men who did not have such actual combat experience had long been taught the lessons of other units, and even if they were a little flustered at the beginning, they were quickly able to repel the enemy with the right methods.

On November 16, the attack officially began. Although the city of Geranza is not large. However, Wei Cheng used a lot of artillery troops, six five-inch cannons were specially used to deal with the two arrow forts on the south side, and the other six four-inch cannons were used to deal with the two arrow forts in the lower city to the west. There were also twelve three-inch cannons used against the battlements in the city walls, making it difficult for the Dutch to aim and return fire.

Because the Dutch spared no expense in the construction of the fortress, and the outer wall was made of very hard stones, even with five-inch cannons, it took three days to bombard the fortress before the arrow fort collapsed. The five-inch guns then shifted their positions and were used to bombard the southern walls of the city of Geranza, while the three-inch guns were responsible for sweeping away the fallen Arrow Fort. Because the Dutch were tenacious, they did not want to be tied down, and constantly tried to rebuild bunkers and gun emplacements on top of the collapsed fortress.

Before the breaches in the southern wall were blown open, the Taiwanese governor of the city of Geranza, Oward Oward, decided to surrender. Although there was no shortage of food, weapons and ammunition in the city, the city of Geranza, which was the last barrier, was about to be breached, and they did not have the courage to hold on. Moreover, it would take at least two months for the Batavian rescue team to arrive, and even if all the more than 1,000 Dutch in the city were involved in the battle, they would not be able to hold out for that long. So at this time, they had no choice but to surrender in battle.

Oward was very self-aware and did not put forward any conditions for surrender, and his only request was to hope that the soldiers of Daliang would treat the women and children in the city well. The Dutch, after receiving an affirmative answer, changed into decent clothes and walked out of the city in an orderly manner at the appointed time. The army even lined up in a neat queue, beating drums, and under the leadership of the commander, carried out a surrender ceremony with great care.

Wei Cheng certainly didn't let his guard down. Not only did he search all the Dutch, but even the Dutch women were also searched by hired Han women. And the first thing he did was to have Oward and his officers and officers, under the supervision of the soldiers, inspect all the gunpowder warehouses in the castle. And borrowed a few dogs from the Han people, and led the soldiers to conduct a thorough search of the entire castle, not to miss a single enemy, nor to let the enemy's tricks succeed.