The defeat of the army is like a mountain, and the momentum has been achieved.

At this time, even if there were only a few cavalry on the Song army's side to catch up with the Liao army, it was already difficult to recover the rout of the Liao army.

The great rout of the Liao army began, the Liao army was all cavalry, desperately fled, except for the first time by the Song army infantry phalanx with spears and bows and arrows shot a lot, soon only the cavalry could catch up with the Liao army.

At the beginning, only about 7,000 of the 10,000 Song cavalry were able to chase the enemy on horseback, plus the more than 2,000 cavalry brought by Zhang Bin, it was worth 10,000 people chasing the Liao army of more than 15,000 and ran for more than 40 miles, until it was dark, and the Liao army fled into a nearby camp in one of the eight military villages they had occupied before.

Xiao Tianxiong, who had calmed down, organized two thousand cavalry and successfully stopped the Song army's pursuers for a while.

The Song army first fought for a long time, and then chased for most of the day, at this time nearly 10,000 horses were too tired to work. What's more, now the Liao army is no less than the number they have caught up, and the Liao army has gradually recovered from the rout, the Song army did not dare to go any deeper, and retreated for rest.

In this battle, 50,000 Song troops fought against 20,000 Liao troops, because Zhang Bin led more than 2,000 cavalry to suddenly kill from the rear of the Liao army, and frightened most of the Liao cavalry's horses with a bag of explosives, resulting in the latter crushing defeat, and only more than 12,000 people in the Liao army fled back to the camp.

Of the more than 8,000 people lost, more than 2,000 became prisoners of the Song army, and more than 6,000 Liao soldiers were killed.

This battle, which was named the Great Victory of Zhendingfu, became the first classic battle in the history of the war with the Liao State in a frontal field battle since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty.

In the capital, the emperor of Liao was shocked when he heard the letter, and he didn't care to figure out why Xiao Tianxiong was so defeated, so he hurriedly mobilized 30,000 leather room troops and 50,000 tribal armies from various provinces and states to Datong Mansion to support Xiao Tianxiong.

At the same time, the Song army mobilized 100,000 troops from the Daimyo Mansion and Hebei Prefecture, and also gathered in the Zhending Mansion to confront the Liao army.

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After Zhang Bin met Guo Kui and Han Jiang, he learned that something had happened to Zhu Niang, and he immediately went crazy.

With Zhang Bin's current importance and the prestige he has played these days, he went crazy, even Han Jiang and Guo Kui had to fully cooperate.

It directly caused all the soldiers and catchers in Zhending Mansion to move, adding up to more than 30,000 people scattered in the streets and alleys of the town and Murata Road, paying attention to all suspicious characters.

In the area of Zhending Mansion, large and small, more than a dozen gangs, and even green forest bandits, whether they took other people's money, or rushed for rich rewards, or directly received orders from the forces behind them, they also began to go crazy looking for Zhiyuan Monk and Zhu Niang.

Zhang Bin took a hundred soldiers and launched thousands of spies to pacify the division, and they were also looking for people like crazy.

And in view of the fact that the area of Zhending Mansion has been laid a net of heaven and earth, Zhang Bin ignored the strong dissuasion of Han Jiang and Li Shunju, the envoy sent by the Son of Heaven, and even directly resisted the decree and did not return to the capital as soon as possible, but rushed to the Daimyo's Mansion with people on fast horses day and night.

Because if the monk Zhiyuan and Zhu Niang escaped from Tokyo City, they had to return from Zhending Mansion or from the Daimyo Mansion if they fled to Liao.

Of course, you can also go around to the northwest and return to China from Taiyuan Mansion in Hedong, but then it will go around a big circle, and the possibility is too small, but Zhang Bin still sent a fast horse for 800 miles to send a letter to Liu Changzuo and Chong Ge, asking the two to send a large army to block the border pass.

And the people of the Western Xia Secret Spy Division also got the news and knew that one of the main reasons for the Liao army's recent successive defeats to the Song army was the kind of divine object that could explode, and the woman named Zhu Niang, who was kidnapped by the Zhiyuan monk, was able to create this kind of divine object.

Therefore, at the beginning of the year, the Xixia people who were defeated by the Song army one after another, hurt their vitality, and had a very bad life, also had an idea, and the Queen Mother and the Minister of State Liang brothers and sisters who presided over the government of the Western Xia reached a consensus with several major families and clans of the party, and the secret spy division poured into the nest and also flocked to the area of the Daimyo's Mansion.

An enemy spy can be mixed into the top Taoist monk of the Great Song Dynasty, and even the robe on his body is given by the first emperor, and the high-ranking officials and ministers in the court all respect him, such people's mental means are already the top in the world, not to mention that Zhiyuan is still a martial arts master, and there are people from the Dark Eagle Hall of Liao State who fully cooperate and help.

However, in the face of so many forces in the Great Song Dynasty, such as the military, the government, the people, the rivers and lakes, etc., they blocked the road from Tokyo to Liao, and did everything possible to find clues and traces of Zhiyuan and Zhu Niang.

Under such circumstances, can Monk Zhiyuan bring Zhu Niang back to Liao smoothly? No one knew about this, including the frightened and desperate Zhu Niang.

Zhu Niang was left unconscious by the monk Zhiyuan and escaped from Tokyo City, and when she woke up, she found herself lying in a carriage, and she wanted to make a sound and found that she couldn't speak, and when she wanted to get up, she found that she couldn't help it, and the only thing she could do was tilt her head and drool.

What Zhu Niang didn't know was that she was now a sickly woman with a sallow and sickly face, looking to be in her thirties.

It's been five days, and every time she goes to an inn, a scholar in her forties carries her into her room.

This scholar is naturally not bald, and even has long and neatly combed hair and wears a cloth tiara.

From the title and pitiful look of the inn junior who was about the same age as herself, Zhu Niang deduced that her appearance should have changed a lot, and this scholar who "took care" of herself all the way acted as her husband.

In fact, Zhu Niang's current appearance looks no different from that of a person who has had a stroke.

The whole body was paralyzed, his head tilted, his mouth was disgusting, and he couldn't speak.

Along the way, she has undergone more than a dozen checkpoints, including those from the government, those from the vanguard, and those from the local heroes. But at the first glance of her appearance, no one would think of the fifteen-year-old girl Zhu Niang who was looking for all day long.

As for the scholar, not to mention that his appearance is different from that of the Zhiyuan thief, just that long black hair will not be suspected by anyone.

After Zhu Niang was kidnapped by Zhiyuan, in just a few days, the portraits of Zhu Niang and Zhiyuan have been posted all over the street, except for some remote ravine villages, almost all the people of the Great Song Dynasty know what Zhu Niang and Zhiyuan thief look like.

Zhu Niang even saw her portrait on the wall at the entrance of the inn several times in the past five days, and she once sighed in her heart that the painting really looked like herself.

"But what can I do, the way I am now, no one will recognize me, and the person who escorted me is not a monk, who can save him." Zhu Niang's heart became more and more desperate, and she burst into tears every time.

She also intended to cry when she met outsiders, showing a look of horror and despair, but her actions and expressions were very consistent with her serious illness and dying, and the scholar dressed as a thief of wisdom took very good care of her, so no one would think that she was kidnapped.

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