Ke Shan sighed helplessly and slowly retreated behind the sand dunes. The Dutch don't seem to be short of shells, and soldiers with girder are spotted in the castle observing, firing a flowering shell every now and then.

When he returned, he drew the appearance of the city of Geranza with a lead strip wrapped in a paper tube. On the elevated platform by the waterway is a small square castle with a side length of about sixty steps. Each of the four corners has a protruding arrow-shaped fort, which is a tricky design, and each arrow-shaped fort can form crossfire with the adjacent forts, and can also be supported by the forts on both sides. So wherever they choose to attack, they will be hit in three directions.

Beyond the high platform, closer to the waterway, a wall was built from the northeast to the southwest corner, and the same arrow-shaped fortress was built at all three corners of the wall, except for the southeast corner. And even this outer wall is not very long, the long side is only three hundred steps, the short one is less than a hundred steps, the four arrow-shaped fortresses are all within the range of artillery, and there is no obstacle to mutual support.

Several officers deliberated for a long time, but there was no other good way. If they attack regardless of casualties, they will have no problem breaking through the outer city. However, they only had a thousand men at this time, and they had to guard against Shengfan and guard Luermen and Chihkan City, so they could only give up the strong attack, surround the enemy first, and wait for the arrival of the follow-up troops.

However, the siege should not be too passive, and the enemy should be confined to a smaller area, which will not only give the enemy no room to maneuver, but also allow them to save troops. Therefore, Keshan decided to take down the town of Geranza to the east of the city of Geranza and trap the enemy in the city of Geranza.

Of course, this was not an easy task, as a Dutch ship ran aground close to the town of Geranza, which could provide some fire support to the Dutch in the town. This allowed them to land by sea from the northeast into the town of Geranza, which was also a key point of defense for the Dutch.

In order to be able to successfully ascend the town of Geranza, Keshan decided to adopt the method of night fighting. After nightfall, Dayuan Bay turned dark, but most of the houses near the sea in the town of Geranza were still lit up. The Dutch believed that the squadron would not attack at night, and that they were ready, and that if the Chinese dared to go ashore, they would be mercilessly attacked by their artillery and muskets.

Of course, there were still many Chinese in the town, and they were considered hostages in the hands of the Dutch. The Dutch, old and weak, women and children, were sent to the city of Geranza.

In the darkness of the night, a pulp warship lowered its sails and slowly approached the town of Geranza from the northeast, the captain relying on the town's lights to discern the direction and judge the distance. Nearly four hundred paces from the town of Geranza, the ship stopped, and the five groups of rocket launchers on the deck were ready. The commander of the artillery gave the order, and two rockets flew towards the town of Geranza with red tail flames in tow.

The tail flame of the rocket outside caught the attention of the Dutch sentry on duty at night, and as soon as his warning sounded, the rocket fell and exploded in the town. The explosion woke up all the soldiers and armed poormen, who picked up their muskets and ran to their positions, and the artillerymen also lifted the felt cloth of the cannons and prepared to open fire on the Chinese who rushed up. As for the Chinese who are locked up in several warehouses, no one cares about them.

Unfortunately, they didn't see the Chinese soldiers, but only the flaming rockets flying in the air, and then raining down and exploding. The scene was horrible, with rockets raining down and enveloping half of the town to the northeast in an explosion.

"Half of the town was covered with Chinese bombs, and the bombs raining down like rain were not descriptive, but really, and no soldiers and armed civilians on the streets could hide, not even in the houses." Owald's secretary wrote in his diary: "Everyone fled, and when a green firework suddenly exploded in the air, the Chinese bomb rain finally stopped, and the Chinese soldiers landed on the coast almost simultaneously and entered the town of Geranza." We then tried to fight back and drive the Chinese into the sea, but the Chinese took powerful crossbows and hid in the shadows to release arrows. Our counterattack failed, and after dawn we had completely lost one hundred and sixty-eight men in the town of Geranza, and we retreated so badly that we didn't even have time to set fire. ”

Although the diary is simple, this is a risky attempt by the officers and soldiers of Daliang. A warship was used to launch rockets and bombard the northeast corner of the town of Geranza, while ten small boats carrying a hundred and fifty soldiers set off early and slowly approached the town of Geranza. When they reach the landing site, they will fire green fireworks to stop the rockets. They landed and repelled the enemy in the shortest possible time, taking control of the landing field.

If they succeed in taking control of the landing site, red fireworks are fired. If they fail, there is no follow-up force to reinforce them, so they can only fight on their own or retreat. After all, the number of people who came to Taiwan was limited, and Keshan did not dare to let more soldiers lose under the enemy's firepower. Of course, how to act in the future is still to wait for dawn and make a decision after the situation is clarified.

Although most of the Dutch fled, there were still some soldiers with a sense of honor who remained, and it was possible that the explosion outside was too violent for them to go out. Whatever the reason, these men panicked and fired bullets at the sea, but luckily hit a few of the landed Girder soldiers. Even more fortunate is that one of the soldiers who was hit by the girder fell into the sea with a signaling firework bomb and could not be used. But by this time all the soldiers were hurrying to land, and no one noticed that their flares had fallen into the sea.

However, these remaining Dutch soldiers did not play a role in stopping the landing of the Liang soldiers. By the time the soldiers had organized themselves to clean the house, the Dutch had either fled or been shot. The two cannons that were blown up and the artillery mounts were also put on sandbags by the soldiers, and several layers of sandbags were piled up at the end of the guns to block them, ready to surprise the enemy who counterattacked along the street. Of course, they don't have shotguns, the barrel is filled with gravel, and it's not their own cannon anyway, so you don't have to think about the service life or something.

When they succeeded in occupying the landing ground, they could not find any flares, so they had to send their best swimmers to swim back to report the news. Fortunately, the Dutch couldn't figure out how many people had entered the town, and the subsequent counterattack was more like a temptation, which gave Liang the best chance.

When the Dutch attacked again after dawn, three hundred soldiers had already been transported from the side of the girder, along with three three-inch guns, two stone throwers, six tiger squat guns, and enough ammunition. However, there were no rockets, and last night's cover landing, they fired more than 400 rockets, almost depleting their stockpiles, and the remaining rockets had to be used in case of emergency.

The Dutch sent a force of two hundred men in an attempt to drive the soldiers of Daliang into the sea in one fell swoop. But before their team could get close to the range of the muskets, they were blown up by the tiger squat cannon hidden behind the house. After that, the Liang soldiers rushed out of the nearby hidden houses and ruins, and with their handcuffs, long knives, and spears, they had an absolute advantage in the melee. Most of the Dutch were beheaded, some surrendered, and only a dozen escaped back.

The Dutch lost more than half of their soldiers at once, and never dared to leave the city again. The Dutch soldiers, civil servants, men, women, and children, as well as missionaries of nearly 2,000 men, women, and children, were trapped in the city of Geranza from this point on, and did not come out until they surrendered two months later.