Liu Lüe 留略

According to the record of Zhuge Ke, Sun Quan had built an embankment at Dongxing in the 2nd year of Huanglong (230) to hold back the waters of the lake, but after he used it to bring his boats inside when he was defeated on a later campaign against Huainan, it was abandoned and never repaired. In the 10th month of the 1st year of Jianxing (252), Zhuge Ke gathered his forces at Dongxing and built a great embankment once more, and, resting against the hills on the left and right, built two forts flanking the embankment, left a thousand men in each for Quan Duan and Liu Lüe to guard, and led the army back. The Biographies of the Three Successor Rulers states that the general Quan Duan guarded the western fort and the Commandant Liu Lüe the eastern fort. Records, Wu 19 §28Records, Wu 3 §4

Wei, ashamed at the insult of the Wu army entering its territory, had its senior commanders Hu Zun, Zhuge Dan and others lead 70,000 men to surround the two strongholds and break down the embankment. The Biographies of the Three Successor Rulers states that in the 12th month Wei had 70,000 infantry and cavalry surround Dongxing, while the general Wang Chang (王昶) attacked Nan Commandery and Guanqiu Jian advanced toward Wuchang. Hu Zun and the others built a pontoon bridge to cross, drew up their troops on the embankment and divided them to attack the two forts, but because the forts stood on high, steep ground they could not take them quickly. Records, Wu 19 §28–29Records, Wu 3 §4

Zhuge Ke raised 40,000 troops and hastened day and night to the rescue, sending the generals Liu Zan (留贊), Lü Ju, Tang Zi and Ding Feng (丁奉) ahead as the vanguard. The weather was cold and snow was falling, and the Wei generals, who had gathered to drink, saw that Liu Zan and the others had few troops and had taken off their armor, climbing the embankment bare-bodied with only helmets, swords and shields; they laughed loudly at them and did not put their troops in order. When the Wu soldiers had climbed up, they beat their drums, raised a great shout and hacked about them, and the Wei army, scrambling to cross the pontoon bridge, threw themselves into the water when the bridge broke and trampled one another. The Administrator of Le'an Huan Jia and others all died at once, and Han Zong, a former defector who had become Commander of the Front Army of Wei, was also beheaded. The Biographies of the Three Successor Rulers dates this battle to the wuwu day of the 12th month (early 253 in the Western calendar). Records, Wu 19 §29–30Records, Wu 3 §5

In the 2nd year of Wufeng (255), Wu had the Minister of the Guards Feng Chao build a city at Guangling, and appointed the general Wu Rang Administrator of Guangling and Liu Lüe Administrator of Donghai. In Chen Shou's main text Liu Lüe appears only in his guarding of the fort at Dongxing and in this appointment, and his courtesy name, his origin, his later deeds and his death are not recorded. Records, Wu 3 §11 · 4Records, Wu 19 §28