Advance toward Liao-yang--Enemy Abandon Mou-tien-ling Pass--Evidences of Confused Retreat--Heaven-reaching Pass--Rain for Three Nights and Days--Splendid Defences Deserted--Effect of a Flanking Movement--The Northern Road Open--A Surprise--Russian Assault on our Outposts--A Hand-to-hand Encounter--An Attack Badly Planned and Badly Executed. CHAPTER XXII Attack on Mou-tien-ling--The Japanese “Mother” us--“You must wait”--To-wan--Engagements at Dawn--The Guns Speak--Reinforcements Hurried Up--Inexplicable Retirement of the Enemy--Vigorous Pursuit--A Deadlock--The Need for Horse Artillery--Sharp Fighting on our Right--Why these repeated efforts to capture positions already abandoned? CHAPTER XXIII Assault on Chaotoa--Important Strategic Position--Its Strength and Entrenchments--A Day of Desultory Fighting--Under Cover of Darkness--Attack at Dawn--Weak Point in the Russian Position--The Signal--A Timely Arrival--Rush into the River--Brilliant Capture of Chaotoa. CHAPTER XXIV The Advance on Liao-yang--A General Action--We Leave Mou-tien-lien--Axioms of War put to the Test--Kuroki and Kuropatkin Face to Face--The Ramparts of Manchuria--We Hold the Enemy’s Front--A Race for a Pass--Check on our Left Flank--Prolonged Artillery Duel--A Torrid Afternoon--Drinking amid a Hail of Bullets--Shrapnel fails again--The Centre Relieves the Left--All the Objectives in our Hands--Kuropatkin’s Failure to Deliver Counter Attack. CHAPTER XXV Attack on Yu-shu-ling--A Dramatic Encounter--An Isolated Engagement essential to the General Movement--Four o’Clock in the Morning--“The Enemy is upon us”--Russian Headlong Flight--Makura-yama--Diversion on the Enemy’s Right--A Gauntlet of Fire--Russian Retreat on Am-ping. CHAPTER XXVI The Battle of Liao-yang--Preparing the Way--Increased Russian Activity--How Kuroki Drove Kuropatkin to his Last Defences about Liao-yang--Two Hundred Thousand Men and Three Defensive Lines--Detailed Action and Skilled Co-operation--A Wedge of Steel in the Heart of the Enemy. CHAPTER XXVII The Russian Army Retires on Liao-yang--“To-day the Russians are very Obstinate”--A Dense Fog--Russians Retire on their Second Line--Five Months in the Mountains--The Freedom of the Plains--Leisurely Russian Retirement--The Moral of Long Range Artillery--Startling Flight on the Last Defences--Within Fifteen Hundred Yards of the Enemy’s Trenches--Deficiency of Japanese Field Signalling--In Prosperous Am-ping. CHAPTER XXVIII