(a)

After the Battle of Wangyuan, you sent a small group of men and horses to escort the Khan's two daughters back to Linshui.

Yang Biao kept his promise and let them pass through the territory of the Northern Han Dynasty all the way without hindrance.

According to your instructions, the Linshui defenders gave these two hostages to the Yantang Pass garrison as a gift to thank them for their support in the battle, and asked Yan and Sun to present them to Liu Yan as trophies.

You gave two batches of hostages to the king of the Southern Han and the king of the Northern Han at the same time. You're doing a test so that you can finally decide on the next course of action. The two Han kings and their bureaucracy reacted quite differently to this gift of the same nature.

Yang Biao really didn't take credit for your merits, and faithfully conveyed what you wanted to say to Liu Shen. Liu Shen also noticed you as expected and became interested in you.

The situation on the Southern Han side was very different.

When Yan Fangcheng saw this gift, he immediately had a greedy thought.

In the recital of the previous book, he never mentioned your name, and said that the capture of the two princesses was the credit of the Yantang defenders' surprise attack and defeat of the enemy. He vividly fictionalized the course of the battle, and included his personal retinue on the list of meritorious personnel. Of course, at the top of the list, he listed the various related figures of the current dynasty in Yantang as always.

After Sun Zhanming learned that Yan Fangcheng was greedy for military exploits again, he felt that he couldn't bear it anymore. He went straight to Yan Fangcheng to question about the matter, hugged you for your grievances, and directly told Yan Fangcheng to be greedy for merit and reward, sorry for the soldiers of the New Han Army who fought bloodily in the grassland, sorry for you who went deep into the tiger's den and were born and died, how could you not make the border soldiers chill when you acted like this. Yan Fangcheng insisted that without the Yantang Pass garrison to respond to the water and encircle and annihilate the Lamu Division, you would never be able to attack Wendamu with confidence, and it would be impossible to capture the two princesses in one fell swoop. The two had a heated argument over how to make the report. Both sides slapped the table and rolled up their sleeves. In the end, Yan Fangcheng was at a loss for words, so he had to take out the identity of his boss, forcibly suppressed Sun Zhanming's controversy, and insisted on reporting to the royal court according to the original script.

Sun Zhanming returned to the headquarters camp angrily, feeling that he really couldn't stand Yan Fangcheng's perverse behavior, and felt that for the sake of the loyalty and morale of the border soldiers, he must not sit idly by. So, he decided to go to the royal court to expose these two things.

The recitals of two different versions of the battle were sent out of Yantang Pass one after another. Yan Fangcheng learned that Sun Zhanming actually wrote a book, and hated him so much that he couldn't break his body into pieces.

At this point, the contradictions between the two sides became public, and the soldiers of the two departments also became tense and turned against each other.

(b)

Seeing that the situation between the two sides was incompatible, Yan Fangcheng was afraid.

On the one hand, he sent people to Pegasus to deal with the relatives and nobles in the court, and on the other hand, he accepted the advice of the strategists, and decided not to do anything, first find an opportunity to simply kill Sun Zhanming, and take advantage of the fact that the war was not completely over, and annexed the department, only saying that Sun Zhanming was besieged in the battle with the enemy, and died in a martyrdom, giving the royal court a death without proof, so that the lawsuit would not be extinguished.

Yan Fangcheng summoned his henchmen and generals to hold a meeting all night in the secret room to study the plan of Huo and Sun Bu and kill Sun Zhanming. The master under Yan Fangcheng's account, who admired Sun Zhanming, inadvertently discovered Yan Fangcheng's secret meeting, and quietly lurked at the base of the secret room wall and eavesdropped a few words. If you don't listen, you'll be surprised. After risking his life to overhear Yan Fangcheng's plan and time, he quickly left Yan's mansion and came to Sun Zhanming's Flying Tiger Camp late at night to report the news.

When Master Pegasus arrived, Sun Zhanming had already gone to bed. Hearing that the master Pegasus entered the camp, he knew that something must have changed, so he wore pajamas and came out barefoot to welcome the master. The master ran all the way and was sweating profusely, and he couldn't breathe and planned Yan Fangcheng's fire in the secret room, and told Sun Zhanming all the secrets.

Sun Zhanming's heart was cold after hearing this, and he was also taken aback. Unexpectedly, Yan Fangcheng was so ruthless and despicable. Immediately, he couldn't hold it back, and he got up to shoot the case, and was furious, and wanted to raise troops overnight to besiege the General Soldier's Mansion, capture Yan Fangcheng alive, and then take Yan Fangcheng to confront him and distinguish between right and wrong. After hearing this, the master immediately tried his best to dissuade him. The master said to Sun Zhanming that with the combat ability of the Sun Flying Tiger Army, it may not be difficult to immediately mutiniate and capture Yan Fangcheng, but the difficult thing is how to deal with the aftermath. No matter how the imperial court decides the merits, the great enemy is present, mutinies in battle, arrests the chief official, and commits the following crimes, this great crime cannot be escaped no matter what. Even if Liu Yan agrees with Sun Bu's statement, Yan Fangcheng is just a deception, and he can't erase his merit of allowing the Yantang defenders to participate in the battle in Linshui, the merits and demerits are offset, his punishment is at most to lose his official position and go home, and the most severe punishment is just to send the army, but Sun Zhanming launched a mutiny against the former enemy without the consent of Huaizhou Mansion, which is a big crime of raiding the family and exterminating the clan. If you go to Dongcheng to confront you, it is really unpredictable what the final result of Liu Yan's handling will be. The master reminded Sun Zhanming that since the old Han king, the monarch of the imperial court has always been suspicious and useful of the border army on the northern front, and he has used and guarded against it. The most taboo thing is that the border troops act without authorization and lose control. Now, the New Han Army has just had a series of arbitrary moves, Liu Yan has been very shocked and unhappy in his heart, but because the New Han Army has entered the grassland twice, the military exploits are too outstanding, and he is worried that the people of the world will not be able to punish the New Han Army immediately, if Sun Zhanming launches a mutiny at Yantang Pass at this time, Liu Yan hears it, it is difficult not to think that the border army is obviously rebellious, and it is difficult not to be angry. If Sun Zhanming enters the city, he may become a victim of Liu Yan's anger, and it is uncertain whether he can come back alive. In addition, at the moment of the great enemy, although Dasuo's troops turned around and headed north on the way to attack Linshui for a while, no one knew whether this was the old suspicion of the Beji people, and whether Beji's large number of horses would suddenly make a comeback was also uncertain. If the Beji people suddenly kill a horse gun, and the lord of Yantang Pass will be fired, and the dragons will be leaderless, the consequences will be very serious, once Yantang Pass is lost, Sun Zhanming will have a hundred more valid reasons, and all of them will become no reason.

Master's heartfelt words made Sun Zhanming's anger suddenly cool down. He realized that his situation was indeed difficult. But, as a bloody man, Rong Ma has been half his life, where is he willing to avoid retreating or killing him? All of a sudden, his heart was turbulent and he lost his claim.

Seeing him walking around in the tent, frowning and scratching his head, the master reminded: "Raise soldiers for a thousand days, and use them for a while." At this critical moment, why don't you summon Mr. Xu Zaitian to discuss the plan? ”

Wake up the person in the dream with a sentence, Sun Zhanming patted his head, and suddenly realized: "Look at me, I am confused by this despicable villain, how can I forget Mr. Xu." So, he ordered Congren to urgently summon the doorman Xu Zaitian to come over at night to discuss how to deal with self-preservation.