There was a thunderous crash, and bricks fell like dandruff from the wall.
Horn's Count Castle, this castle surrounded by water on three sides, once withstood an army ten times larger without falling.
Its red roofs and white walls have become famous landmarks nearby.
But at this moment, the once picturesque garden has become a wreck, petals and expensive trees scattered everywhere.
The previously flat green lawn is now pitted with craters and crisscrossed with trenches.
With the successive firing of twelve-pound, twenty-four-pound, and forty-eight-pound cannons, the fragile walls are gradually collapsing.
The outer layer of white bricks is crumbling, revealing the inner packed earth wall just over a meter wide.
In fact, several breaches have already been made in the castle walls, only blocked by the defenders with wooden barricades.
As for the tall tower, it was bombed along with the white flag days ago.
