. A staff officer's scrap-book during the Russo-Japanese war. atteries were to thesouth of the road, and six battalions and four batterieswere to the north of it; but the disposition of thetroops (which I got from an artillery colonel) is so wellshown on Map XII. that there is no need to describe itvery elaborately. The Second Division, being intendedmerely as a holding force, furnished at first no thrillingepisodes. At 9 , the four Japanese batteries to thenorth of the road, which were posted just behind aridge, began to search the Russian trenches withshrapnel. Some clumps of wood on the
. A staff officer's scrap-book during the Russo-Japanese war. atteries were to thesouth of the road, and six battalions and four batterieswere to the north of it; but the disposition of thetroops (which I got from an artillery colonel) is so wellshown on Map XII. that there is no need to describe itvery elaborately. The Second Division, being intendedmerely as a holding force, furnished at first no thrillingepisodes. At 9 , the four Japanese batteries to thenorth of the road, which were posted just behind aridge, began to search the Russian trenches withshrapnel. Some clumps of wood on the side of thenorthern ridge of the Towan-Yoshirei valley alsoreceived a good deal of their attention. They thenlengthened their range and fuses, and attacked theRussian battery on the top of the high ridge 2000yards north-west of Yoshirei. At this time theGuards artillery was making one of its furious butspasmodic efforts against the ridge running south-west from Chinchaputsu, and the continuous rumblingroar of these discharges with the beautiful white puffs. > I—) X The Battle of Yoshirei 333 of smoke from the bursting shrapnel were wonderfulto hear and to behold. At , the Russian guns 1500yards south-east of Yoshirei, which had hitherto beenfiring into the Yamorinza valley, suddenly switched onto the four Second Division batteries to the north ofthe Motienling road. They got their range in aninstant; let fly the rafale, and in a couple of minutesevery Japanese gunner, not killed or badly wounded,had cleared fifty yards back under cover of a roadcutting, whilst the twenty-four guns, until now soaggressively noisy, were left standing by themselves,silenced ! As soon as the Russians were satisfied oftheir victory they too ceased fire ; and then, instead oftumult and uproar, there reigned perfect quiet, whichseemed rather accentuated than disturbed by the lowthrobbing murmur telling us that the Guards andRussians were still hard at it with musketry aboutSuitechansa and Ch
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