Cornelius straightened his neck: "Don't worry, God will bless us!"

The soldiers had no choice but to follow orders.

The two sides started artillery battle.

The wall of Fort Zeelandia is three meters high and is made of bricks mixed with mortar and sugar water, which is stronger than stone.

There are dozens of cannons on it, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.

There were about a thousand defenders in the city, and they had eight months' worth of food in addition to a large amount of gunpowder and artillery shells.

How many troops did the Ming army have?

The total force was about 30,000, with hundreds of warships.

These are not a big deal, after all, warships cannot fight on land.

Therefore, in order to attack Fort Zeelandia, the Ming army prepared 150 red cannons.

There are countless matching gunpowder shells.

After the Helan people fired one round of artillery, they no longer fired any shells and were suppressed by the Ming army's artillery throughout the process.

The shelling began in the early morning and continued until the evening.

Every time a shell was fired, the person nearby would record the number.

The final statistics showed that the Ming army fired a total of 16,000 artillery shells that day.

(When Zheng Chenggong recovered Taiwan, he used 40 heavy artillery pieces to fire 2,500 shells in two hours.)

Seeing that the sun was about to set, Zheng Chenggong ordered a stop to the shelling.

When the smoke cleared, Fort Zeelandia reappeared before people's eyes.

The once tall and indestructible city walls have now become ruins.

From time to time, one or two shrill screams could be heard from the ruins, making people feel uncomfortable all over.

Without waiting for Zheng Chenggong to send people into the ruins to search, the Helan soldiers who had been lying on the ground to avoid the artillery shells came out one after another.

Led by Cornelius, the governor of the East India Company in Dongfan, they raised their hands and shouted: "Oh my God! Stop fighting, we surrender."