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.