The troops did not cower before Dutch artillery, and those unfortunates captured, said a Dutch officer, "preferred to die rather than betray their comrades."
鄭成功的戰士，完全不在荷軍砲火下退縮一步，令荷蘭人驚訝不已，「他們似乎是有另外一條命安放在家裡」，一位荷蘭軍官形容。