communications with Yang Guangyuan, surrendered Bo to Liao forces, and encouraged them to cross the Yellow River at Majiakou (馬家口, in modern Liaocheng), to join forces with Yang. Jing was convinced by Yan Kan (顏衎) the acting military governor of Tianping that if Liao forces were able to cross the river, disaster would ensue, so the Later Jin imperial forces concentrated on battling Liao forces at Majiakou to prevent them from successfully crossing, and were able to do so. In anger, Liao forces slaughtered Han civilians that they had captured, which led to fiercer resistance from the populace. Later in spring 944, the armies commanded by the two emperors confronted each other near Yedu, but did not engage each other. Eventually, the Liao forces withdrew, pillaging as it went along over Later Jin's territory north of the Yellow River. Yang led his own troops west from Pinglu's capital Qing Prefecture (青州), and tried to meet the Liao forces at the Yellow River, but by the time he reached there, Liao forces had already left. The Later Jin forces were able to repel the Liao aid force, and Yang was eventually defeated by the Later Jin general Li Shouzhen. Yang's son Yang Chengxun () put his own father under arrest, and then surrendered, ending Yang Guangyuan's rebellion. (Under imperial orders, Li Shouzhen had Yang Guangyuan secretly executed.) However, this campaign would be Jing's downfall as well, as during the resistance against Liao, Jing had issued an order that generals were to defend their positions and not to aid each other. As a result, Liao forces put three key Later Jin generals, Gao Xingzhou, Fu Yanqing, and Shi Gongba (), under siege at Qicheng (戚城, in modern Puyang, Henan), and the city nearly fell. Despite the seriousness of the situation, Jing did not report this to the emperor quickly. When Shi Chonggui realized this, he himself led an army to lift the siege on Qicheng. The three generals accused Jing of not taking the situation seriously. With other generals all resenting Jing's power, and Shi himself apprehensive of Jing, Sang suggested that Shi use the Qicheng incident as a reason to remove Jing. In summer 944, Shi commissioned Jing as the defender of Luoyang and sent him away from Daliang, although Shi gave him the greater chancellor title Shizhong () as an honorary title. He was replaced by Gao as the commander