Gan Ning and Zhou Tai swim across the river. When they arrive at the central camp of Cao Cao’s water borne forces, they board a commander’s boat to assassinate two of Cao Cao’s highest ranking commanders of the water borne forces, Kuai Yue and Fu Xun. They succeed and bring with them their heads and swim back the same way as they came, to report to Zhuge Liang. Cao Cao is surprised that there are such capable people in the Southlands, who are able to kill two of his commanders in the middle of the night. Consequently, he takes more precautions. Liu Bei orders Mi Zhu to go to see Zhou Yu, and rewards the army with food and drink. His actual intention is to inquire about Zhuge Liang. Zhou Yu lies and says that Zhuge Liang has not come to Three Rivers, he is still in Chaisang. Zhou Yu makes plans to arrange a peace meeting and invite Liu Bei to a banquet. In fact, he wants to kill Liu Bei. He reckons that to kill Liu Bei would be in his own best interest, because then Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun would have no master. Moreover, Zhuge Liang, who is in the Southland, would have to surrender or die.
甘甯、周泰由水肚過江。到曹操水師中營，上官船刺殺曹操水軍正印大都督蒯越、傅巽，得手後帶著人頭由原路回報諸葛亮。曹操大驚，江東有能人，居然半夜三更行刺二都督，曹操加倍提防。