 When one of his commanders died because that commander's lieutenant, Lu Huili (路暉禮), was unable to save him, Emperor Wenxuan ordered that Lu's internal organs be cut out of his body and that the soldiers consume them.Many traditional historians, including Li Yanshou (李延壽), the author of the "History of Northern Dynasties", and Sima Guang, the author of the "Zizhi Tongjian", saw this battle as the turning point of Emperor Wenxuan's rule—that thereafter, he began to act violently and capriciously.For example, in spring 554, when Rouran rebelled and he personally led troops to defeat Yujiulü Anluochen, he felt that warhorses offered by the general Heba Ren (賀拔仁) the Prince of Anding were not of sufficient quality—and he punished Heba by plucking out Heba's hair and demoting to commoner status, and further ordering Heba to serve as a worker in a coal processing facility.