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CHAPTER XXII
COLLAPSE
N
ot only at North Kikuan fort had the
Japanese been busy with underground
work ;
at the other two permanent forts
on the ridge, Sungshuh and Erhlung, the same
kind of mining operations had been carried out
since the general attack in November, but owing
to the harder soil in which they had to work, and
—at Sungshuh—to the countermining of the
Russians, it had taken the Japanese some time
longer before they were ready to explode their
mines. Similar operations were also carried out
against the Chinese wall behind the Panlung
forts, but it it was not in the Japanese plans to
attempt to break through here until the forts had
been taken.
The explosion of the mines under the ramparts
of Erhlung took place on December 28th at ten
o’clock in the morning, without any preliminary
and forewarning bombardment. The arrangement
of the mining galleries, the numbers and the
weight of the charges, was the same as at North
Kikuan ;
the plan of attack likewise ;
but the
Japanese had better luck with their explosions
than at the former place. The debris filled the
moat and the saps leading up to the parapet,
making the way easier for the attacking forces,
but at the same time exposing them to a devas-
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