Jelandia (Zeelandia) was formerly named "Oranje". In September 1627, the Taiwanese chief was ordered by the Amsterdam Corporation. The city was renamed "Zeelandia", which is called Taiwan City by Chinese people. Its town is named Dayuan Town, located in the southeast, covering an area of 2.5 hectares (180 meters long and 170 meters wide), and about 2,500 people live there. Jelanzha City and Dayuan Town are collectively called Dayuan, which is the political, economic and military center of the East India Company in Taiwan. Dayuan is sometimes used as a synonym for Taiwan.
This city is a typical modern European bastion . The trench surrounds the surroundings, and the sloped earth embankment is the base. The wall is made of red bricks, and it is made of sugar water, glutinous rice, oyster shell ash, sand and sticks it. The inner city is square, with two floors. Both length and width are 115 meters, the city wall is about nine meters high, one or two meters thick, and the four-angle ridge is 115 meters thick. The basement is a warehouse for storing ammunition, grain and debris. The upper floor is equipped with the Chief Office, the church, the lookout platform, the soldier barracks and other facilities. The outer city (four corners attached city) is rectangular, 160 meters long and 77 meters wide, slightly lower than the inner city, and has dormitories, offices, conference halls, hospitals, warehouses and other public buildings.
In defense, there are two bastions in the outer city, one and a half moon fort, the northwest corner is called the Hollandia Fort, and the southwest corner is called the Gelderland Fort. There are four prisms in the inner city and three and a half moon castles. The four prisms are called Vlissingen (northeast corner), Arnemuyden (northwest corner), Middelburch (southwest corner) and Camperveer (southeast corner). There are 3 large cannons each in the brink of the brink of the brink of the wall and the face of the wall.
5 On May 5, the surname ( Zheng Chenggong ) was given to surrender Kuiyi. His "Records of Views and Experiences on the Sea" said, "The surname is given to Chikan Zhaoyi, the chief Kuiyi, and others come to surrender, but they will not obey." Zheng army prepared to attack the city. At noon, only 5 to 600 Zheng's army stayed in Chikan, and a large number of soldiers took a boat to the senior officials. The Dutch shelled the Zheng army's ships, but the effect was not good, so the Zheng army landed on the east side of Dayuan Town. The Dutch sent people to set fire in the city, but failed. On the 6th, Li Yingsan sent 250 soldiers to ambush the town. Because of the large number of enemy soldiers, he had to retreat. The town was set on fire again, but was extinguished by the Zheng army. Zheng Jun began to install cannon-building baskets (a bamboo basket that can be filled with sand and soil, similar to modern sandbags) in the open spaces in the streets and towns, and set up siege artillery.
On May 10, the secretary of Pucheng successfully sent Kuiyi to surrender, but Kuiyi refused to obey. On the 17th, Zheng Chenggong ordered Ma Xin to write a letter and persuade Kuiyi to surrender, but Kuiyi still refused. Since then, Zheng Chenggong has made up his mind to attack Relanzha City.
25, at 3 a.m., the Zheng army began the attack and the offensive and defensive battle in Recheng began. The Dutch army fought against the Zheng army's 10,000 siege troops with 905 soldiers (870 soldiers, 35 gunners, and 1,733 family and slaves). Zheng Fang had 3 to 4,000 people in Dayuan Town to the east, deployed 28 large cannons to attack the city, suppressing the enemy's firepower, and hoping to create a gap in the city wall. There were about 7 to 8,000 people in the south, commanded by Kang Bangyan, Renwu Town. After the big cannons opened the gap, they rushed into the city.
Zheng Jun fired about 800 shells in 2 hours. Kuiichi's chief officer's office alone hit 53 rounds, with several large iron bullets of 18 pounds or 24 pounds. Kuiyi went to various bastions to supervise the battle, encouraged his soldiers, adjusted his artillery positions, and shot the enemy with cross fire.
personal army general Ma Xin was the commander of the Dayuan Town troops. He personally supervised the battle on the front line and sent two reserve teams to replace the dead and injured soldiers, continuing to engage in artillery battles with Recheng. The Dutch people were condescending, and guns and cannons were fired at the fortress and Banyue Fort. The Zheng army suffered heavy casualties and wounded many fort baskets and forts. The Zheng army in Dayuan Town was first forced to retreat, discarded all the cannons, and hid in the alleys. The army in the Sheep Stable in the south failed to attack the main force, so they had to give up the attack and hide behind the sand dunes to avoid artillery fire.
5 points, the Dutch recruited volunteers to destroy Zheng Fang's cannon and promised a large sum of 200 lills (Spanish coins, 1 Dutch shield = 4 lills, the salary of Dutch soldiers is 3.46 lills per month).A total of 40 soldiers, 10 gunmen and several sailors went there voluntarily. They rushed to the fort basket, and the sailors rode on big cannons and nailed the cannon doors with iron nails. Many bows and arrows shot from the rear crossing streets and roofs. The arrows were like hail, and the gunmen fired to cover them. The mission was completed, and the retreat bell rang in Recheng. The Dutch retreated to the city, and 3 to 4 Dutchmen died and several were injured.
9 points, the Dutch decided to attack again, reward 200 lills, and sent 100 soldiers, 16 sailors and slaves to the trip. On the way back, 100 soldiers responded. In addition to destroying the large cannons more thoroughly, we also need to seize the enemy cannons and think they are used for themselves. Zheng Jun fired many small cannons and bows to stop them, while the Du soldiers hid behind the fortress basket and shot back. Recheng also provided support. When Zheng Bing rushed out of the house and approached, he fired a large cannon to expel it. The sailors nailed the wooden bolts into it and confirmed that the cannon could no longer be used. Under the cover of rifle fire, the slave dragged back a 6-pound iron cannon and brought back some armored weapons. The Duke also destroyed some fortress baskets and set fire to the fire. This time, 4 people died and 19 people were injured (6 people died and 29 people were injured when Batavia's diary said).
Dutch attacked again and again, rewarding 200 lils for three. 100 volunteers poured strong acid and alkali into 9 large cannons and several small cannons. One volunteer died in the conflict and three were slightly injured.
Each side fired about 800 shells. During the artillery battle, 4 people were killed in the Dutch side and 11 people were injured. 8 to 11 people were killed in the battle, and more than 22 people were injured. According to the confession of Chinese prisoners, Zheng's army lost about 5 to 600 people, and Lin Fu, the town of Liwu, died of serious injuries. In the "Diary of Batavia", it says that more than 300 people were killed by shelling, and later a total of 6 to 700 people died (but there is no record of loss in Chinese information). "Records of Seen and Experiences on the Sea" says, "On the seventh day of the first day, the army was given the surname of the governor to move Kun, build a plaque to build a cannon to attack Taiwan City. Kuiyi was equal to the city of Attachment and the city of Guns, and the earthen platform collapsed, and the officers and soldiers retreated. The barbarians went out of the city to seize the cannon, and Ma Xin and Liu Guoxuan led the archers to shoot it, and then retreated."
The inner city of Recheng was severely damaged. The walls between Mitte and Gambofir Fort, the walls on the east and the walls on the second floor of the east and the south were severely broken. Some holes were as deep as 62 cm. After counting, there were 250 holes in total, but the outer city (Four Corner Fort) was not damaged. Zheng Fang was blocked from seizing the city, and since then he changed to a siege without attacking. Both sides have temporarily calmed down and used time to make up for it. Zheng's army added a fort basket and dug a trench in front of the street to prevent the Dutch army from digging tunnels for mine blasting. The Dutch side began to repair the damaged parts of the city on June 3 and thicken its defenses. The east wall of the outer city was doubled and turned into 6 feet, and the weak areas of the chest wall of each basin were strengthened with sandbags. Three large cannons were also added to the outer city's Half Moon Fortress. Civil fortifications were built with logs outside the city, and two cannons were installed to protect the Dutch Fortress. A trench of 10 feet deep was also dug between Fort Gambofir and Stone Road to prevent Zheng's army from siegeing the city and prevent them from digging tunnels to attack.
Zheng Jun was seriously hit, and Zheng Chenggong changed his tolerance towards Dutch . In May, the foreigners of Xiaolongshe reported to Zheng Jun that the Dutch spread rumors about the future of Dutch reinforcements next year, resulting in the arrest of the translator Druijvendael and teacher Frans Cleen. Zheng Jun nailed both hands and feet to the cross and showed them to the streets. The two of them wailed all night. Yi Yang Chaodong of the Dutch advised the Dutch not to act rashly and try to help the two, otherwise it would only make Zheng Chenggong angry. The next day, they were transported to villages and communities such as Xingang for public display, and they all died on the road.
Zheng Chenggong not only began to be strict with the Dutch, but also to his own people. "Mei's Diary" and "Batavia City Diary" say that soldiers are beheaded almost every day, and the charges may be just for ineffective combat or other minor crimes. For example, seven soldiers were beheaded for killing cattle and eating meat because cattle are now an official production tool and cannot be slaughtered privately. Even the generals were trembling and shocked; on May 29, Wu Hao was beheaded in the back formation of Xuan Yi, on charges of embezzling hundreds of taels of gold, but everyone knows that it was because of his own murder caused by his opposition to attack Taiwan.
On May 29, the cargo ship Aimenhang came from Japan and brought combat supplies. Due to inadvertent operation, the Aimenhang was stranded on the south waterway, and a small conflict broke out between the Dutch and Zheng army to seize the Aimenhang.The Emenhang was burned down by the Dutch crew themselves. The Sgraflan and the Egret who were guarding the cargo ship were besieged by 45 jongboats and . The jongboats wanted to siege the Egrets many times and were cleverly thrown away. The two sides fought until the night, and the losses were not big. The conflict in May came to an end.
