Emperor Hui of Jin personally enlisted Sima Ying and was lonely, but was left by Sima Ying in Yecheng (邺城, in present-day Western Linzhang County, Handan, Hebei).
Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu, wanted to borrow the hand of Emperor Hui of Jin to get rid of a person, the General Wang Jun of Anbei.
Wang Jun (王浚), courtesy name Pengzu, was a native of Jinyang, Taiyuan (present-day Taiyuan, Shanxi), and the son of Wang Shen of the former Shangshu Ling. Wang Shen was one of the eleven founding heroes of Emperor Wu of Jin's first batch to be knighted as a duke. Wang Jun was a genuine red second generation, all the way to the Qingzhou Assassin History and The General of Anbei. During the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, Wang Jun had been terrorizing and appeasing the northern barbarians in northern Hebei and Liaoning.
Wang Jun and Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu, were never in the same trench: when Sima Ying, Sima Qi, and Sima Yan were fighting with Sima Lun, Wang Jun supported Sima Lun; Sima Ying and Sima Yan killed Sima Qi, and Wang Jun was very dissatisfied.
Wang Jun
Sima Ying wanted to fight against Wang Jun, but he could not spare his hand, so he appointed Sima He as the Assassin of Youzhou, causing him to find a way to get rid of Wang Jun. He Yan entrusted the matter to Wu Huan Shan Yu Zhen Deng. Soon, Wang Jun asked Zhen Deng to go out on a trip, and Zhen Deng was ready to take this opportunity to kill Wang Jun. As a result, heavy rain suddenly fell on the way to play, the weapons were wet and slippery, and the trial could not find the best time. Zhen Deng was very superstitious, believing that Wang Junji had his own heavenly blessings, but instead informed Wang Jun of the plan of the peace performance. Therefore, Wang Jun joined forces with Heyan to attack Youzhou, killed Heyan, and annexed Youzhou's soldiers and horses.
Sima Ying was very angry, and just took the opportunity of Emperor Hui of Jin's presence in Yecheng to order Wang Jun to come to Yecheng to meet Emperor Hui of Jin. Of course, Wang Jun would not throw himself into the net and prepare to attack Sima Ying. Wang Jun was worried about his lack of strength, so he borrowed troops from the Wuhuan and Xianbei tribes. Zhen Deng sent the general Zhu Xian to lead troops to assist Wang Jun. Wang Jun's fourth daughter was the wife of Duan WuBeichen, the chief of Duanbu Xianbei, who also sent Xianbei soldiers to assist Wang Jun.
Ma Teng, the company of Shi Dongying, was the younger brother of Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea. After Sima Yue fled back to his fiefdom, he wrote a letter to Sima Teng, asking him to find an opportunity to contact Wang Jun to discuss Sima Ying, which coincided with Wang Jun's ideas.
As a result, Wang Jun, with the soldiers and horses of the two prefectures of Youhe and the Wuhuan and Xianbei cavalry totaling 100,000 people, slaughtered the city of Yecheng with great momentum. Wuhuan and Xianbei have the same root and origin, they are all branches of the original Donghu, and the combat effectiveness of the Wuhuan cavalry is extremely strong.
Wang Jun and Sima Yue lured wolves into the house, and the Rebellion of the Eight Kings evolved from the original imperial infighting to a civil war involving barbarians, and the bad luck of the Western Jin Dynasty came.
Sima Ying learned that Wang Jun was coming to attack and sent Zhonglang to fight Wang Bin and Shi Beyond the City.
Wang Jun was menacing, and Sima Ying discussed countermeasures with hundreds of officials. Wang Rong and other ministers thought that Hu Bing was strong and it was better to negotiate peace with him, while Sima Ying wanted to return to Luoyang with Emperor Hui of Jin to avoid the enemy's front, and the two sides were deadlocked. Suddenly, a tall general broke in, saluted the ministers, and talked about his views in a loud voice.
This person was the general Ning Shuo and the Xiongnu Liu Yuan.
Liu Yuan talked about it, the core meaning was: Wang Jun's troops were strong, and the defenders of Yecheng could not resist, so I went to recruit five Xiongnu to come to Qinwang. You can't give up Yecheng, otherwise it will be regarded as a sign of weakness, you are waiting here, and I will soon bring troops to rescue you.
Sima Ying was overjoyed, and Liu Yuan should go out of the city to move his troops.
Not long after, Wang Bin and Shi Chaochao returned from defeat, and Wang Jun drove straight in and approached Yecheng. The hundred officers were horrified, the army was discouraged, a large number of soldiers deserted, and only about fifteen thousand soldiers remained in the city.
Sima Ying saw that the general situation was gone, and hurriedly ordered Lu Zhi, the superintendent of zhongshu, to prepare for evacuation overnight. There was chaos in Yecheng, and Lu Zhi took people to be busy for one night before they were ready. Early the next morning, the crowd anxiously awaited Sima Ying's order to leave, but there was still no news after noon. The crowd was agitated, and when they inquired that Sima Ying's mother, Princess Cheng, did not want to leave, the crowd was very angry. Suddenly, news came that the city gate had been lost, and the crowd immediately dispersed, leaving Sima Ying with only a dozen of his cronies. Sima Ying was also panicked and quickly fled outside the city with a group of people surrounding Emperor Hui of Jin.
Emperor Hui of Jin fled to Luoyang in an ox cart, and because of the rush, there was neither food nor money. A eunuch hid three thousand pieces of money in his backpack, and Emperor Hui of Jin made a verbal white note and asked people to buy food from the side of the road and distribute it to everyone. Staying in the hotel at night, the palace people carried a tile pot of coarse rice, and the Jin Hui Emperor could not care about the image, and devoured a jingguang. The next day, an old man offered a steamed chicken, and Emperor Hui of Jin, ashamed of himself for not being able to reciprocate, exempted the old man from paying taxes for one year. Traveling to Wen County, Emperor Hui of Jin went to visit the mausoleum of Emperor Wu of Jin, and could not help but burst into tears. One of Emperor Huidi's shoes was lost at some point, and his entourage took off his shoes and gave them to Emperor Huidi of Jin. Near Luoyang, Zhang Fang led three thousand cavalry to meet him, and Emperor Hui of Jin was slightly relieved and then entered luoyang city.
Yecheng has long since become a hell on earth. Wang Jun and the Hu cavalry invaded Yecheng and plundered it on a large scale, and the city was ten rooms and nine empty. The Xianbei cavalry robbed eight thousand young women, and Wang Jun did not allow them to take them away, and the Xianbei soldiers, in a fit of rage, pushed all these young women into the Yishui River and drowned.