Yang Guangyuan
In 937, Fan Yanguang, who had initially submitted to Shi, rebelled against him at Tianxiong. Initially, Liu was to serve under Yang Guangyuan in attacking Fan, but when shortly after, under Fan's inducement, Zhang Congbin () also rebelled at Luoyang (by this point, Shi had moved the capital to Daliang), Liu was diverted to attack Zhang instead. After Zhang was defeated, the Later Jin forces put Tianxiong's capital Guangjin () under siege. Fan considered surrendering, as Shi promised him that he would live, but was still hesitating. Liu entered the city to persuade him, and he subsequently surrendered. For the time being, Yang, who was in charge of the operations, left Liu temporarily in charge of Tianxiong.