(a)

You met Xu Zaitian on the sickbed, the two sides had a secret conversation, and after hitting it off, the next night, Sun Zhanming accepted your invitation, carefully disguised, disguised himself as an old woman, sneaked out of Yantang Pass, and came to Linshui to meet you.

Although your body is weak and your spirit is exhausted, you still try your best to get up and take a soft sedan car to the entrance of the town to greet you.

Seeing that Sun Zhanming came from afar with a few entourage, you asked people to help you get off the sedan chair, and with the support of the left and right, you insisted on standing in person to greet him in the light rain. At the end of the ceremony, you were drenched in sweat, your legs were weak, and you couldn't stand firmly.

Sun Zhanming didn't expect to get such good treatment from you, and was moved to tears by you, and didn't know what to say.

You said to Sun Zhanming: "The last time I went to Yantang Pass to recruit soldiers, I was only alone and had an edict, my strength was not full, and my military achievements were not established, so I could only express my admiration, but I didn't dare to persuade Uncle Sun to come over and help me level the world together." The current situation is not what it used to be, and I would like to thank Uncle Sun for his trust in me. Uncle Sun is in trouble, how can I sit idly by. The New Han Army was originally my uncle's old department, and it was connected with my uncle's Flying Tiger Army by flesh and blood, and it was really one, and the danger of the Flying Tiger Army was the danger of the New Han Army. I am willing to respond to my uncle's military advice, and share success or failure with my uncle, and advance and retreat together. The position of the general soldier of Yantang Pass, more than 10 years ago, after Qin'er's father was martyred, he should have been his uncle. King Han has always had no eyes and pearls for so many years. Today, I'm here to get justice for my uncle. From now on, there will be nothing that can bury and suppress my uncle's talent. ”

Because of his civilian background and humble status, although Sun Zhanming has served Liu Yan for 20 years, no dignitary in the Southern Han Dynasty has ever valued him so much and treated him so sincerely. Your words made Sun Zhanming's heart fluctuate, and his whole body was full of warm currents.

Sun Zhanming has been impressed from the bottom of his heart since then and has become your loyal subordinate.

In Linshui Town, you cheered yourself up and had a meeting with Sun Zhanming for about an hour. During the talks, you and Sun Zhanming had a high degree of agreement on the war on the northern front, the strategy for administering the army, and many other aspects, and the two sides were like-minded and sympathetic to each other. You decided to join forces to take Yantang Pass in the name of being dissatisfied with Yan Fangcheng's greed and risking major military exploits and mistreating his subordinates.

Subsequently, Sun Zhanming, Fu Tianliang and others had been friends for a long time, and they were excited to greet each other. The principal generals of the two sides held a military meeting under the chairmanship of Ding Youren and jointly agreed on a plan of action for the mutiny.

At the end of the talks, Sun Zhanming reluctantly bid farewell to his old ministry with excitement in his heart and prepared to return to Linshui.

Once again, you insist on taking him to the entrance of town. Sun Zhanming refused in any case, insisting that at present, your hussar general's military rank is higher than his deputy commander-in-chief, and when we meet in the future, we can't let you deign to each other and treat yourself as a junior or a disciple. He repeatedly begged you to give orders as commanders, and he was willing to obey the orders of his subordinates, and he also prayed that you would not be afraid of the elders and the young, and that the capable in the army should be respected, and I hope that you will not humbly resign from your position.

Sun Zhanming resolutely thanked the merger plan on an equal footing with you, and resolutely volunteered to become your command, saying that all the Flying Tiger Army would obey your orders.

Sun Zhanming said that you are the only candidate for the successor of General Chen Shizhao, and that it is really the will of God that General Chen's life's work has all been gathered under your command and that he will continue to complete his unfinished business with you. Sun Zhanming swore that all the soldiers of the Flying Tiger Army, from now on, seeing you will be like seeing General Chen. Your order is General Chen's order. The Flying Tiger Army will definitely obey the order, go to the soup and fire, and never give up.

Under Sun Zhanming's resolute thanks, you had to ask Uncle Ding Youren to send Sun Zhanming to the fork in the road back to Yantang Pass for you.

(b)

On the morning of the third day, Sun Zhanming learned from the secret report from the inside that Yan Fangcheng had completed the deployment, and was preparing to falsely pass on the king's decree the next morning, set up a trap to deceive Sun Zhanming to the Jiedu envoy's residence, and assassinated him in one fell swoop.

After Sun Zhanming figured out their plan of action, he immediately sent a siege signal to Linshui.

After nightfall, Sun Haocheng led part of the elite cavalry to arrive at Yantang Pass and launched a strong attack, and countless rockets pierced the silence of the night sky.

According to your orders, Sun Haocheng ordered the crossbowmen to concentrate a large number of rockets and fire at the Xiguan City Gate in a dense row. All of a sudden, the Xiguan City Gate was shot like a hedgehog, and the entire city gate fell into a burst of fire and began to disappear in the flames.

Sun Zhanming immediately planned to act, attacking the Xiguan defenders from behind, obstructing the defense, the two sides should be combined inside and outside, and within half an hour, they were devastated, and captured the West City Gate in one fell swoop. And Sun Zhanming guarded the occupied Xiguan City Gate, so that your troops and the troops of Linshui Town continued to enter the pass.

You and Sun Zhanming met in the square in the center of the city, and then joined forces to attack Yan Fangcheng's General Soldier's Mansion, and the guards of Yan Fangcheng's General Soldier's Mansion fell into the water and fled in all directions.

When the battle went on until 5 o'clock in the morning, Yan Fangcheng's subordinates were basically annihilated or controlled.

Yan Fangcheng saw that the general trend had gone, decisively abandoned his family, led his own guards, fled from Dongguan to Huaizhou Mansion, and was ambushed outside the gate of the East City to guard the rabbit Fu Tianliang intercepted and caught up, after the battle between the two sides, Yan Fangcheng was hacked to death with a knife, and the guards were completely annihilated.

At dawn, the four gates of Yantang Pass and the General Military Mansion were occupied by you, and then, you closed the city gates and carried out a city-wide purge of Yan Fangcheng's remnants.

By 9 o'clock in the morning of the next day, Yantang Pass was completely owned by you.

You rode into the city at noon and took over Yantang Pass. All the defenders of Yantang Pass were concentrated in the Daxiao field, and Wu Shun announced the decision to fully merge the Linshui, Cuijiaji garrisons, the New Han Army and the Yantang Pass garrison under the banner of the New Han Army. Everyone is free to choose or steam or join.

After more than two hours, everyone made their decisions in turn, and Fu Tianliang and Wu Shun commanded the scene to dismiss the captured officers and soldiers who were unwilling to follow you, and each of them was given 1 tael of silver for the journey, escorted and sent out of the customs, and let them flee for their lives. Next, Fu Tianliang and Wu Shun were responsible for presiding over the incorporation of the Han army units in Yantang Pass that were willing to follow you, regrouping, and appointing new generals.

In the afternoon of the same day, you asked Xu Zaitian to write a letter to Liu Yan.

You said that the reason for taking Yantang Pass this time was that Yan Fangcheng sought self-protection in the early stage of the war, and did not defend the city, neither rescued the towns in Lingnan, nor did he respond to the grassland operations, and repeatedly took advantage of military merits, framed his subordinates, and caused internal strife.

You said that you only took Yantang to defend against the enemy on the northern front, and that you did not covet other fiefdoms of the Southern Han Dynasty, and that if the king of the Southern Han could tolerate your self-reliance, you would defend him against threats from the Beji and Rong ancestors. You are still willing to be a courtier of the Southern Han Dynasty in name, but you will act independently from now on. You said that if Liu Yan can't tolerate your self-reliance, then there is no choice but to let the horse attack, and the two sides will fight each other.