. A staff officer's scrap-book during the Russo-Japanese war. in, six miles south of Yushuling, to block anotheralternative road to Amping, via Huchatsu {see MapXV.). The nature of the Yushuling-Penlin terrainmust be described more carefully hereafter. It willbe seen that the front, covered by the two armies,extended from Yushuling in the north to beyondHanchaputsu in the south, a distance of over twentymiles of very broken country. The fighting falls naturally into four distinct cate-gories : (1) The attempt of the Guards to turn theenemys right flank and capture Yoshirei, whichfailed. (2) Th
. A staff officer's scrap-book during the Russo-Japanese war. in, six miles south of Yushuling, to block anotheralternative road to Amping, via Huchatsu {see MapXV.). The nature of the Yushuling-Penlin terrainmust be described more carefully hereafter. It willbe seen that the front, covered by the two armies,extended from Yushuling in the north to beyondHanchaputsu in the south, a distance of over twentymiles of very broken country. The fighting falls naturally into four distinct cate-gories : (1) The attempt of the Guards to turn theenemys right flank and capture Yoshirei, whichfailed. (2) The frontal attack made upon Towan, verylate in the day, by a brigade of the Second Divi-sion which was not seriously resisted. (3) The complete destruction of the Russianbrigade at Penlin, as the results of a strategic-tactical concentration made against it by Sasakisbrigade, detached from the Twelfth Division, andby Okasakis four battalions detached from theSecond Division. (4) The attack by Inouye on Turcheffsky atYushuling, which was partially z < ?? oH «<wz KHH pq H z H< The Battle of Yoshirei 319 Before I begin the fighting I will quote someremarks dictated to me two days ago by GeneralFujii. They throw light on the strategical considera-tions of the moment. When Haicheng and its neighbourhood becamedenuded of Russian troops, and when, after the lapse ofa suitable interval, the general staff became aware thatthe left flank of the enemy was receiving considerableaccessions of force, it seemed clear to Marshal Kurokithat Kuropatkin was laying his plans to crush theTwelfth Division on our right. The probability of hismaking such an attempt had always been foreseen, asthe great difficulty of communicating through thepathless mountains which separated the centre from theright flank of our army rendered the operation speci-ally tempting to an enemy who could bring troops tobear upon the Twelfth Division, not only from thedirection of Tokayen and Amping, but
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