There they halted, and their long lines of tents began to rise.
"They are going to try another point," the rajah exclaimed.

"Truly they are brave men, but they will be repulsed, as they were before." "I fancy they will begin in another way, Rajah, and will make regular approaches, so that they will not have to pass across the open ground swept by your guns." This indeed turned out to be the case.

The trenches were at once opened and, ere long, two batteries were established at a distance of four hundred yards from the wall.

Two days later another, still nearer, opened fire and, by the 20th of February, the trenches had been pressed forward to the edge of the ditch; and a mine sunk, with the intention of blowing up the counterscarp, and so partially filling the ditch.

The troops intended for the assault took their places in the trenches at an early hour, so as to be ready to attack as soon as the repairs made by the garrison in the breach during the night could be destroyed by the batteries.
The Jats, however, had been rendered so confident by their previous successes that, during the night, they made a sally, crept into the advanced trench--from which the workmen had been withdrawn--and started to demolish the mine and carry off the tools.