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.