After receiving intelligence from his scouts and hearing that his master's defeated opponent—the "Universe in the Sleeve," Du Fuwei—had suddenly sent his Jianghuai Army to surround Jingling, Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling had waited more than ten days before finally finishing their discussions with Song Shidao, the young lord of the Song Clan, and Song Zhi, its second-in-command, who had received a definite reply from the "Heavenly Saber," Song Que. They had settled the alliance and marriage arrangements, discussed certain details, and reached a consensus. At last, they could no longer sit still.
After seeing off the Song Clan party, Kou Zhong had no choice but to lead troops north along the river with Xu Ziling. While ordering his subordinates to prepare an expedition against Jiujiang, he also wanted to see how the battle for Jingling was going.
And Kou Zhong's claim that he wanted to see the situation in Jingling naturally meant that he intended to cause trouble for Du Fuwei's Jianghuai Army!
He wanted to see whether they could help Jingling at all—perhaps find a way to hold the city, or simply think of a way to tie down the Jianghuai Army. If they could delay them for a year or half a year, that would be even better.
In short!
Kou Zhong hoped Jingling would keep Du Fuwei's Jianghuai Army occupied for as long as possible. In any case, he didn't want the Jianghuai Army to devote more energy to Jiangnan or to the Twin Dragons Army, which was actively developing and expanding in Yuhang Commandery.
Thus, while their more than twenty thousand elite Twin Dragons troops were launching an offensive east of Jiujiang, preparing to take advantage of the chaos and seize the city, Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling had already reached a town only several