THE MAIN FIGHT. 203 of 300* he had succeeded in obtaining reinforce- CHAP. VI nients for his people to the extent of 500.-f- L. 2d Period IX. All this while, the fight at the Sandbag ]jat- Dannen. tery had continued to rage ; and, indeed, after the preparations failure of his last attack on the work. General attack. Dannenberg seems to have determined that his next one should be more resolute, more weighty, and better combined. The path of the assailing infantry was to be, this time, made smooth before them by an unsparing fire of artillery ; the Okhotsk corps, aided by the Sappers battalion, would attack from the north, the Selinghinsk troops from the east, and at intervals when they could be spared from their conflicts with Penne- father's centre, the lakoutsk battalions emerging from the head of the Quarry Eavine were destined to apply a new leverage by turning the left of the Guards. So now from Shell Hill and East Jut artillery- Fire of fire swept slantwise across the higher slopes of artiiie^. the Kitspur, both raking the position of the Guards, and ploughing the unpeopled ground in its rear as though to warn back any succours
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