One night, Chen Deng from Xu Zhou came to Xiao Pei City. Liu Bei was not around that night as he was patrolling toward the Xia Pi City area and will be back to Xiao Pei City the next day. Chen Deng however forward the message to Guan Yu and Zhang Fei that Prime Minister ordered General Che Zhou to attack Xiao Pei City.

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were very angry. Thus, they decided to attack Che Zhou without Liu Bei’s consent. Chen Deng came out with a trick that use Cao Cao’s banners and pose as Cao Cao’s men to ask General Che Zhou to open the gates. The raid in that night was successful and General Che Zhou was killed by Guan Yu.

When Liu Bei back from patrolling, he was very disappointed to see such a decision because they attacked the city without his permission. He was afraid that by attacking Che Zhou, they will make Cao Cao their enemy. They are in a weak position to fight with Cao Cao and do not have the strength to repel Cao Cao if he come back to revenge.

Chen Deng then, came out with a plan to join Yuan Shao. Because of Liu Bei’s friendship with Zheng Xuan, Yuan Shao is coming to help Liu Bei with 100,000 men to face Cao Cao. Meanwhile, Cao Cao was aware of the situation. He Immediately led his 200,000 men to Hua Bei. At the same time, the Prime Minister ordered Liu Dai and Wang Zhong attack Liu Bei.

Cao Cao asked Liu Dai and Wang Zhong bear his Prime Minister’s flags. When Liu Bei knows it’s Cao Cao’s flags and banner, he won’t attack them because Liu Bei knows Cao Cao’s strength. At the same time, Cao Cao will deal with Yuan Shao and he thought he can finish Liu Bei if everything done smoothly. However, Yuan Shao’s army managed to confuse Cao Cao’s plan. Thus, Cao Cao was forced to return to Xu Chang.

Liu Dai and Wang Zhong indeed don’t dare to fight with Liu Bei, because Liu Bei’s General is stronger than them. After 3 months of inspections, Liu Bei felt like being cheated because Liu Dai and Wang Zhong only put up Cao Cao’s flags without further actions. Finally, Liu Bei decided to order Guan Yu attack their enemy immediately. During this raid, Wang Zhong was captured by Guan Yu.

After Wang Zhong being captured, Liu Bei learnt from him that was actually Cao Cao’s trick and in fact, Cao Cao’s troops were not nearby. By knowing this news, Liu Bei decided again to capture Liu Dai. Without these two General, the enemy can’t fight at all. This time Zhang Fei insisted to take this task to capture Liu Dai. Liu Bei afraid that Zhang Fei might mess up everything as he can easily get provoked. After a few times Zhang Fei persuade Liu Bei and promised he won’t kill Liu Dai, Liu Bei finally agreed Zhang Fei to take this task.

When Zhang Fei and his team march towards Liu Dai, Liu Dai is like a coward, he dare not challenge Zhang Fei instead he only defense his enemy. Thus, Zhang Fei decided to scold Liu Dai and ask his team member to shout “Liu Dai coward” by hoping that Liu Dai will come out to fight. However, there was not response after a while of shouting.