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Around the time, Quan Ji (全寄), a son of the general [[Quan Cong]] and [[Sun Quan]]'s daughter [[Sun Luban]], was a close aide of [[Sun Ba]]. Gu Tan did not get along well with Quan Ji because of the latter's behaviour, which he deemed immoral.<ref>(時長公主壻衞將軍全琮子寄為霸賔客，寄素傾邪，譚所不納。) ''Sanguozhi'' vol. 52.</ref>
Earlier in the summer of 241, Quan Cong had led Wu forces into battle at Quebei (芍陂; south of present-day [[Shou County]], [[Anhui]]) against [[Cao Wei|Wei]] forces led by [[Wang Ling (Three Kingdoms)|Wang Ling]]. The battle did not go well for the Wu side initially, and they lost five units to the Wei forces. Gu Tan's friend [[Zhang Xiu (Eastern Wu)|Zhang Xiu]] and brother [[Gu Cheng (Three Kingdoms)|Gu Cheng]], who were serving in the Wu army at the time, led their units to resist the Wei forces and managed to halt their advance. After the battle, when Sun Quan was giving rewards to his officers, he deemed Zhang Xiu and Gu Cheng's contributions greater than those of the Quan brothers because he believed that it was more difficult to halt the enemy advance than to drive back the enemy. As a result, he promoted Zhang Xiu and Gu Cheng to the rank of General, while the Quan brothers were respectively promoted to Lieutenant-General and Major-General only. Due to this incident, Quan Cong and his ==Exile and death==
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