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THIRD GENERAL ATTACK 235
read and heard of the feats of the other divisions
while they had remained inactive, eating their
hearts out. But at last relief had come. The
Emperor had entrusted to them the glorious task
of taking Port Arthur, the only place where their
comrades had been baulked. At last their oppor-
tunity had arrived.
The troops were not taken at once to the front
but were kept back at Shuangtaikou until actually
needed. They were not allowed to have any
communication with the other troops, who might
fill them with tales of the formidable fortress, the
terrible fights, the hardships, the sufferings, the
cruel sights—with unbiassed minds and full of
eagerness and enthusiasm should they come to
the front, and their young, long pent-up force
should run like a warm current through the whole
battle-worn army and fill it with fresh energy.
With these reinforcements the besieging army
had been brought up to nearly 100,000 men all
told, and included twenty-four regiments of in-
fantry, and with this formidable body the Japanese
renewed their attacks on the fortress.
The Japanese plan was, as already stated, to
make simultaneous attacks on the uncaptured
positions along the northern enceinte of the eastern
section, namely, the Sungshuh, Erhlung, North
Kikuan, “ Q,” and East Kikuan forts, and also
against certain portions of the covered way. The
area of operations on November 6th was, then,
exactly the same as during the second general
attack in October. The regiments which went
to assault the different positions were, with one
exception, the same, and the whole fighting, from
beginning to end, proceeded in much the same
way, developing into a series of separate, inde
pendent assaults.
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