It was the seventeenth day of the sixth lunar month in the twenty-eighth year of Emperor Chongzhen, shortly after five in the afternoon. Outside the walls of Fort Zeelandia, Zheng Chenggong accepted the surrender of Coyett, the Governor-General of the Dutch East India Company stationed in Taiwan.
After the ceremony, Coyett walked toward Zheng Chenggong with unsteady legs. "General Zheng," he said, "I crossed swords with your father years ago. Back then, his warships were small, his cannons few, and he favored boarding maneuvers! Now, you have switched to using massive ships laden with heavy artillery to trade fire with my fleet."
"After all these years, why has the Zheng Family Army changed its tactics?"
Chapter 1332