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188 THE SIEGE OF PORT ARTHUR
them with their last parallel by a double line of
approaches. Between eighty and a hundred yards
of saps were dug within less than an hour and
under the enemy’s fire—a splendid piece of work.
The trenches on the glacis of Sungshuh Fort
had also been captured in the first rush, the total
losses of the Japanese in both places not exceeding
250 men, killed and wounded. Early next morn-
ing, between three and five o’clock, several most
determined counter-attacks were made on the
captured trenches in front of Erhlung, but after
two hours of nearly continuous fighting at close
range the Russians were finally driven back,
leaving sixty dead on the ground, the Japanese
casualties amounting to over 300. Against the
trenches in front of Sungshuh four different sorties
were made between 9.30 p.m. and 2.50 a.m., in
which the guns of Antzeshan and Itzeshan sup-
ported the Russians, but all were repulsed after
fierce hand-to-hand fighting. The Russians left
twenty dead here; the Japanese losses amounted
to 124. When the morning of the 27th dawned,
the Japanese were in safe possession of the
trenches, and they were now for the first time face
to face with the real forts of Port Arthur.
During the next three days the bombardment
steadily increased in force and vehemence. On
the 29th and the whole of the following night it
was particularly heavy, the furious thundering of
the big guns never stopping for a moment. The
Russians made several very determined counter-
attacks on the captured trenches at the foot of the
glacis in front of Sungshuh fort. On the night of
the 29th they even succeeded in driving out the
Japanese after a fierce tussle, and though they
were able to hold it but for a few hours the
Russians attained their object, preventing the
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