Scouting cavalry rode out in all directions from Luoyang, and scouts continually reported their findings to Shen Jin, General Who Spreads Might:
-Chen Caozhi, the Qin envoy Xi Bao, and their party of more than three hundred had been discovered by the Yan army in the western valley of Yanshi. There had been no fighting, and Chen Caozhi and the others had gone to Yanshi City;
-Chen Caozhi's party had been sent to Gong County;
-The main body of the Yan army had withdrawn from Yanshi, joined the Yan troops in Gong County, and begun crossing the river northward. Chen Caozhi and Xi Bao had been swept along with them-
Shen Jin stood on a high terrace in Luoyang's Jinyong City, looking east across an unbroken plain. The siege that June had been lifted, and the households in the fortified manors outside the city had begun coming out to till their fields again. The soldiers and civilians who had guarded the city day and night could finally set their anxious hearts at ease. For the moment, Luoyang had been saved-
Shen Jin silently told himself, Chen Caozhi is a man of godlike powers. Everything happened as he predicted; the Yan army really did lift the siege and leave. Such ingenuity is truly astonishing and admirable. Now all that remains is to wait for him to return safely from Ye City. He will certainly come back.
Luoyang now had more than six hundred warhorses. Three hundred were those Chen Caozhi had borrowed in advance from Fu Jian in Chang'an; the other three hundred had been left on the banks of the Yi River by the Di Qin soldiers that night, then collected and brought into the city by the Jin troops. Naturally, these horses would not be returned to the Qin