Chang Fanqi felt more and more that Hu Xiaotian was sinister to the extreme. The way he spoke made it sound as though they had plotted together long ago. But Chang Fanqi also knew that arguing now would be useless. His mother was in Hu Xiaotian's hands, and he was pinned firmly beneath the man's thumb. There was nothing he could do.
Hu Xiaotian approached Qin Yangming and regarded him with a broad smile. "So this is the great General Qin!"
Qin Yangming snapped, "You despicable scoundrel! All you know are underhanded tricks. If you're a man, why don't you dare face me honorably, army against army, and settle victory or defeat on the battlefield?"
Hu Xiaotian chuckled. "Honorably? You, the great General Qin, gathered seventy thousand troops to deal with me, and you still dare talk about honor?"
Qin Yangming said, "Hu Xiaotian, you dared invade the borders of Great Yong and violate the peace agreement between our two nations. Do you even know what good faith means? After betraying your word like this, how can you have the face to stand before the people of the world?"
Hu Xiaotian smiled. "General Qin, your tongue is far more formidable than your command of troops. I wasn't the one who betrayed the agreement. It was your Great Yong. Tang Boxi led thirty thousand naval troops into our territory first, intending to seize Eastern Liang Commandery, steal our land, and brutalize our people. As the city lord of Eastern Liang Commandery, what was wrong with leading my troops to repel him? You keep prattling about good faith. If you understood good faith or had any sense of shame, why did you assemble an army to attack our territory? You exchanged prisoners with me while secretly gathering troops to wash my city