The Assault on Liao-yang--The Sedan of Manchuria?--First Evidence of Permanent Russian Occupation--Kuroki’s Reasons for Retirement--Shou-shan--Hundreds of Guns Engaged--Our Infantry unable to Advance--Nozu Checked--Stale-mate at Nightfall--Battle begins again at Dawn--Weary, Inconclusive Day. CHAPTER XXIX Capture of Liao-yang--The Supreme Moment at Hand--Truce of the Night--An Apparently Impregnable Position--Reckless Courage of the Japanese--Three Attacks and Three Repulses--An Irresistible Onrush--Liao-yang Won--Unflinching Rearguard at the Railway Station--Kuropatkin’s Main Army on its way to Mukden--Orderly Retirement--No Sedan after all. CHAPTER XXX Kuroki Crosses the Tai-tsu--A Great Achievement--Kuropatkin’s Strategy Frustrated--Kuroki’s New Task--Absence of Favourable Conditions--River Crossed without Opposition--Manjuyama--Kuropatkin’s Eye--Fierce Artillery Struggle--Passing through an Inferno--Fighting all Night--Capture of Manjuyama--Terrible Sacrifice--Unavailing Move against Ponchiho--“Bitter in the mouth.” CHAPTER XXXI Retreat of the Russians--We are too Exhausted to Pursue--Failure of the Field Wire--A Triple Line of Dead--Horrors of a Soldier’s Grave--Fog again--Twelve Days’ Casualties--Why Kuropatkin Escaped. CHAPTER XXXII Battle of Sha-ho--Kuropatkin’s Address to his Army--Reason of the Retreat--Now strong enough to abandon the Defensive and ensure Victory--Stringent Orders from St. Petersburgh--The Move South Begins--Our Right Wing Falls Back--A Gigantic Struggle--Half-a-Million Men Engaged--Russian Plan of Attack--Critical Situation on our Right--Spectacular Cossacks. CHAPTER XXXIII A Gallant Fight--The Weakness of Ponchiho--Umizawa Forced Back--Both Sides Reinforced--Desperate Measures Required--Oyama Orders a General Attack--Inferiority of Japanese Artillery--A Terrible Day of Battle--“Order, Counter-order, Disorder”--Russian Failure all along the Line. CHAPTER XXXIV A Hard-won Victory--The Moment to Strike--An Inspiring Spectacle--How the Japanese Advanced--Assault on Temple Hill--Its Capture--Russians Prepare to Retreat--Ponchiho Surrounded--Prince Kun-in to the Rescue--First Instance of Cavalry Usefulness--We Manage to Hold On. CHAPTER XXXV The Last Struggle--The General Advance--Very Slow Progress--The Famous Okasaki Brigade--Its Exploits--An Assault that Failed--Enemy Withdraw in the Night--We Follow Them Up--Pursuit and Slaughter--Fifty Guns Captured--Ten Thousand Dead Russians. CHAPTER XXXVI