Yang Mi 楊密

In Chapter 13 of the Romance, Li Jue and Guo Si grow suspicious of each other and fight a confused battle beneath the walls of Chang'an. Li Jue's nephew Li Xian carries the Son of Heaven and Empress Fu off in carriages to Li Jue's camp, while Guo Si enters the palace, seizes the consorts and palace women, takes them to his camp and sets fire to the palace halls. When Li Jue and Guo Si clash in front of their lines and fight ten bouts without either winning, Yang Biao gallops up and cries that he has invited the officials to come and reconcile the two generals, and the two return to their own camps. Romance, Ch. 13 §14–17 · 21–22

Yang Biao, together with Zhu Jun, gathers more than sixty court officials and goes first to Guo Si's camp to urge reconciliation, but Guo Si locks up all the officials. When Guo Si asks why, if Li Jue can seize the Son of Heaven, he cannot seize the high ministers, Yang Biao demands what they intend by one seizing the Son of Heaven and the other seizing the high ministers, and Guo Si, in a great rage, draws his sword to kill Yang Biao. Romance, Ch. 13 §23

At this point the General of the Household Yang Mi earnestly restrains him, and Guo Si releases only Yang Biao and Zhu Jun, keeping all the other officials locked up in his camp. Lamenting that as ministers of the state they can neither set their sovereign right nor rescue their lord, Yang Biao and Zhu Jun embrace each other and weep until they collapse senseless on the ground, and Zhu Jun returns home, falls ill and dies. This passage is the only place in the Romance where Yang Mi's name appears, and it does not record what words he used to restrain Guo Si. Romance, Ch. 13 §24