Skanderbeg continued to shadow the Ottoman army as it headed back home in the hopes of dealing some serious damage, but his forces were not strong enough to risk provoking them.[23] In October of the same year, Murad managed to inflict a serious a defeat on John Hunyadi's forces in Kosovo.[24] Skanderbeg had planned to join Hunyadi's offensive with 20,000 men, but he was not able to get there in time due to Đurađ Branković blocking the roads to Kosovo.[25]