General He quickly wrote a letter, a thick stack, in which he emphasized how formidable the hurricane was, destroying two ships that were anchored at the safe harbor and blowing down trees all around, houses were blown away, and then how he and several other generals tried their best to dissuade Yan Heng from deploying troops, but Yan Heng insisted on his own way, ordering the Feiyan Army to engage in battle, with General Wen and General Zhao forcing their soldiers to join the fight.
As a result, the entire army of twenty thousand perished at sea, twenty warships sank, and the bodies of twenty thousand elite soldiers couldn't even be found.
