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THIRD GENERAL ATTACK 239
dug on the banquette. From these positions the
firing was continued, but no further attempt was
made from either side to drive the enemy out.
The following night the Japanese, finding their
position in the interior of the fort untenable,
withdrew to the moat again.
At Erhlung Fort the fighting was of a still
more ferocious character, and lasted, with few
and brief interruptions, the whole day, and on
until three o’clock in the morning. As will be
seen from the plan, Appendix VI., the interior of
the fort consists of a lower and higher battery,
the lower armed with field pieces, the inner with
15 cm. guns and machine guns. The Japanese
plan was to make their main attack from the
moat over the ramparts of the lower battery, but
at the same time they dispatched a force up
through the deep donga between Erhlung and
Hachimaki-yama to work their way, partly through
saps which had been constructed here, to the
rear of the fort, and attempt another attack from
this side. For a long time this force was kept at
bay by a galling fire from the Chinese wall, and
when, at last, their thinned ranks succeeded in
breaking through and reaching the road which
leads from Sungshuh along the rear of the fort
line, they were met with such a furious fire from
the battery positions on New Panlung, and the so-
called Sungshuh supporting fort, that practically
the whole of the detachment was wiped out.
The attacks delivered in the afternoon across
the ramparts were beaten back, to be resumed
again about ten o’clock the same night. Here,
as elsewhere, most of the fighting was hand-to-
hand, though the rattle of rifles and machine
guns in this direction at times was terrific.
After two hours of the fiercest fighting the
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