Liu Cong led his army all the way to the outskirts of Jinyang City, where the people outside Jinyang had fled into the city and Liu Kun was defending, refusing to go out. Liu Cong, for the moment, had no way to deal with him.
Liu Kun himself was not skilled in warfare, but he did have capable generals under his command. Linghu Sheng was one such general, and with him, Liu Cong temporarily couldn't breach Jinyang.
However, they didn't have spare troops to assist Liu Xi in Jizhou.
Edicts from Pingyang kept arriving one after another, and Liu Cong learned that Zhao Hanzhang had stationed troops outside Pingyang City. Even though he knew she was moving to encircle Wei to save Zhao, he had no choice but to lead his troops back for defense.
The infuriating thing was that Shangdang's position was evidently more important, yet she bypassed Shangdang, only stationing her troops outside Pingyang City.
As for Shi Le, he was merely watching and would not send troops.
