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PREPARATIONS 51
to locate. If the Japanese had taken great pains
in selecting their positions on previous occasions,
the inducement to do so now, before Port Arthur,
was infinitely stronger, in face of the much more
powerful Russian guns, with the possibility of a
long siege before them, and with the great prize
at stake.
With the Panlung and Wantai forts for
principal tactical objects, the Fenghoangshan
range was the natural position to choose for the
bulk of the siege park, situated as it is right
opposite and at a most favourable distance from
the Russian positions on the eastern fort-ridge,
which is partly dominated. Practically all the
Japanese siege and naval batteries were therefore
brought into position here, extending along the
southern ridge of the range, the naval batteries
forming the right wing, the siege gun batteries
the left, a chevaL across the railway. The
howitzers and mortars and most of the field and
mountain batteries were placed more forward, in
amongst the foot-hills and out to the west amongst
the isolated hills which the Japanese had
captured ;
several of these batteries were also
placed in the before-mentioned dip in the ground
at the centre of Shuishi valley. With the excep-
tion of the naval batteries, where gunners were
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