Five Loyal Ministers Die Resisting the Han Traitor 討漢賊五臣死節

In Chapter 69 of the Romance, when Guan Lu predicts a fire in Xudu the following spring, Cao Cao has Xiahou Dun patrol Xudu and entrusts the Imperial Guard to his Chief Clerk Wang Bi. In the 1st month, spring, of the 23rd year of Jian'an, the Privy Treasurer Geng Ji, resenting that Cao Cao has become king and uses the Son of Heaven's carriage, consults the Director of Uprightness Wei Huang, and Wei Huang brings in Jin Yi, a descendant of the Han minister Jin Midi and a close associate of Wang Bi. When they sound him out by asking for his help with a usurpation, Jin Yi angrily throws his teacup to the ground and reveals his loyalty. Romance, Ch. 69 §22–29

Jin Yi calls in Ji Miao and Ji Mu, sons of the Imperial Physician Ji Ping, who lost his life in the affair of Dong Cheng, and they agree that during the lantern festival on the full moon of the 1st month they will set fire to Wang Bi's camp, kill Wang Bi, and have the Son of Heaven, installed on the Five Phoenix Tower, order the punishment of the traitor. That night Wang Bi, wounded by an arrow and fleeing, knocks at Jin Yi's door, and when Jin Yi's wife asks through the door, "Have you killed that fellow Wang Bi?", he realizes that Jin Yi too is one of the plotters and informs Cao Xiu. Romance, Ch. 69 §30–36

Xiahou Dun, who has been stationed five li outside the city, surrounds Xudu with 30,000 men; Jin Yi and the two Ji brothers die, and Geng Ji and Wei Huang are captured. Geng Ji dies crying out, "In death I will become a fierce ghost and strike the traitor," and Wei Huang dies grinding his teeth until they are all broken. Cao Cao exterminates the five families, and of the hundred officials brought to Ye he beheads more than three hundred who stand under the red banner, saying they came out to put out the fire. Wang Bi, too, dies of his arrow wound. Romance, Ch. 69 §37–43