Murong Li, Great Commander of Campaigns of the Yan Kingdom, had stationed his troops around Junyi and Huangxu. When he learned that Murong Zhong at Peixian had been captured alive by the Jin army, that all three thousand defenders had been lost, and that the Jin army also possessed fully armored heavy cavalry, he was greatly astonished. Although he had established that the Jin army had only three thousand heavy cavalry, nothing compared with Great Yan's thirty thousand armored horsemen, in Henan only Murong Chen at Luyang and Fu Yan at Xuchang had heavy cavalry, two thousand each. Meanwhile, Yuan Zhen of Shouzhou had led ten thousand men under Huan Wen's orders to capture Qiao Commandery and was advancing toward Liang Commandery, intending to open Shimen to grain transport by water. Huan Wen himself led an elite army, splitting bamboo as he advanced; he had already taken Wanchiu and was closing on Xuchang. Murong Chen and Fu Yan were too hard-pressed to look after themselves, let alone rush to Huangxu's aid. Murong Li, having crossed the river in haste, had brought only ten thousand infantry and ten thousand light cavalry, plainly no match for sixty thousand Jin troops with heavy cavalry. Thus, after learning that Peixian had fallen, Murong Li sent another urgent dispatch to the Ye Capital requesting reinforcements-
Murong Zang, Grand Marshal of Yan, received Murong Li's two appeals for reinforcements and urgently reported them to Lord of Yan Murong Wei. The ruler summoned Grand Tutor Murong Ping, Yang Wu, Chancellor of the Department of State Affairs, Palace Attendant Huangfu Zhen, Attendant Gentleman of the Central Secretariat Le Song, and others to deliberate. Le Song proposed seeking Qin's aid: if Fu Jian would send troops through Tong Pass, Huan Wen would face enemies before and behind him, and