Yongjia fifth year, June.
When the locusts covered the sky and flew over the city of Luoyang, the captain who guarded the city knew that the city could not be defended. Not defeated by locusts - locusts just come to eat dead people. In March, Sima Yue, King of the East China Sea, died of illness in Xiangcheng. The 100,000-strong army was leaderless and was chased by Shi Le's Jiehu cavalry. His corpse was spread out for three hundred miles from Xiangcheng to Kuxian. The living people crossed the river on the backs of the dead. Looking back, the river turned red.
On the day when the news reached Luoyang, Grand Tutor Wang Yan was entertaining officials in Jinyong City. During the dinner, someone mentioned the battle report from Ningping City, saying that Taiwei Wang Yan had been captured by Shi Le. All the ministers looked at each other in confusion, put down the wine cup in their hands, picked it up again, picked it up and put it down again, and finally someone said: "The Taiwei's auspicious nature should be fine." So everyone agreed and continued drinking. No one knew that Wang Yan was being held down by Shi Le in front of the earth wall outside Luoyang City, and the Jiehu soldiers stuffed handfuls of earth into his mouth. Shi Le said: "You are a famous scholar. If I don't kill you, I will let you die in the dirt." When Wang Yan died, his mouth was full of mud and he could not say the simple words that made him famous all over the world.
The city of Luoyang was broken on June 11th. Liu Yao's Huns cavalry poured in from Xuanyang Gate and killed everyone they saw. There was chaos in the palace. The maids ran from Yeting to Yunlong Gate, and then from Yunlong Gate back to Yeting. They didn't know where to escape. Some people jumped into the moat, and more people were trampled to pulp by horses' hooves. The ancestral tablets in the Ancestral Temple were taken out by the Huns and chopped up to be used as firewood. After burning them, it was not strong enough, so they threw in the bamboo slips from the arsenal.
