At that time, Liu He hurriedly fled Pingyang with the imperial family and courtiers, being chased all the way to Zhongyang County in the West River Country, where he gathered an army of fifty thousand. He then ordered the five Xiongnu tribes to aid the king.
Although the main elite forces had gone with Liu Cong to attack the Jin State, the five tribes could still muster a considerable number of troops by squeezing together, and some followed orders to aid the king.
Coupled with the forces of some subordinate generals commanding troops outside, Liu He eventually gathered an army of one hundred and fifty thousand.
Of course, this number of men was still no match for the large army under Liu Cong's command. Liu Cong, as the Southern Expedition Marshal, embarked on this expedition to destroy the Jin State, so all the troops in the world were at his disposal, directly leading an army of two hundred thousand back then.
