Lü Tong 呂通

In Chapter 48 of the Romance, on the night of the 15th day of the 11th month, in the winter of the 13th year of Jian'an (208), Cao Cao sets out a banquet on a great ship and gathers his generals; drunk, he composes a song, and when Liu Fu, Inspector of Yang Province, says that the song is inauspicious, Cao Cao runs him through with his lance and kills him. The next day, sober again, Cao Cao is filled with endless remorse and has Liu Fu buried with the rites due to one of the Three Excellencies. Romance, Ch. 48 §8 · 13–17

The day after that, the Chief Commanders of the Navy Mao Jie and Yu Jin report that they have finished pairing all the ships, large and small, and linking them with iron chains, and ask him to set a date to advance; Cao Cao boards the great warship at the centre of the navy, summons his generals and issues his orders. The naval and land forces are both divided by banners of five colours: in the navy, the centre is Mao Jie and Yu Jin with yellow banners, the front division Zhang He with red banners, the rear division Lü Qian with black banners, the left division Wen Pin with blue banners, and the right division Lü Tong with white banners. Of the cavalry and infantry, the front division is Xu Huang with red banners, the rear division Li Dian with black banners, the left division Yue Jin with blue banners, and the right division Xiahou Yuan with white banners. Romance, Ch. 48 §18

Xiahou Dun and Cao Hong serve as Chief Reinforcement Commanders for the water and land routes, and Xu Chu and Zhang Liao as Battle Supervisors who move back and forth to escort and oversee the fighting. When the orders are finished, the drums in the naval camp sound three times and the warships go out through their separate gates; that day a northwest wind suddenly rises, and although the ships hoist their sails and press forward through the waves, they are as steady as on level ground. Cao Cao watches the drill from the command platform, greatly pleased, and on returning to his tent says that had Heaven's mandate not aided him, how could he have obtained the Fledgling Phoenix's wonderful plan, and that with the ships linked by iron chains, crossing the river is truly like treading on level ground. In the Romance Lü Tong's name appears only in this battle order and never again afterwards. Romance, Ch. 48 §19–21