Li Dian 李典

Li Dian was a scholar and a general who served Wei warlord Cao Cao during the Three Kingdoms era. He fought against the Yellow Turbans when the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out and he also fought in the Battle of Guandu, between Cao Cao and rival warlord, Yuan Shao

Life
Li Dian, styled Mancheng, was a man of Juye, Shanyang. He and his father, Li Qian, had heroic qualities and being host to about a thousand families, lived in Cheng Shi. In the middle of (the reign of) Chuping (A.D. 190–193), Li Dian along with many went to follow the Grand Ancestor (Cao Cao), breaking the Yellow Turbans at Shouzhang. And again, he was involved in the attack against Yuan Shu and the conquering of Xuzhou.

When the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out, Li Dian participated in Cao Cao's campaign against the rebels.