Sun Zhong 孫仲

In Chapter 2 of the Romance, news arrives that Huangfu Song has beheaded Zhang Liang at Quyang and dug up Zhang Jue's coffin to behead the corpse, while Zhu Jun, attacking Yangcheng with all his strength, pacifies several commanderies and reports his victory after the bandit commander Yan Zheng stabs Zhang Bao to death and surrenders. Just then three more remnants of the Yellow Turbans, Zhao Hong, Han Zhong and Sun Zhong, gather a host of tens of thousands, burning and plundering wherever they go and proclaiming that they will avenge Zhang Jue. The court orders Zhu Jun to lead his victorious army straight against them, and the bandits are holding Wancheng. Romance, Ch. 2 §8–10

Zhu Jun has Xuande (Liu Bei), Guan Yu and Zhang Fei attack the southwest corner of the city, and when Han Zhong comes with all his picked troops to defend the southwest, Zhu Jun himself drives 2,000 iron-clad cavalry against the northeast corner. The bandits are badly defeated and flee into Wancheng, and when the food in the city runs out Han Zhong asks to surrender, but Zhu Jun refuses. Following Xuande's advice, Zhu Jun withdraws the troops on the east and south sides and attacks only the northwest; Han Zhong abandons the city and flees but is shot dead with arrows, and the rest scatter in all directions. Romance, Ch. 2 §10–14

In the midst of the pursuit, Zhao Hong and Sun Zhong arrive with a horde of bandits and fight Zhu Jun. Seeing Zhao Hong's great strength, Zhu Jun withdraws his troops for a while, and Zhao Hong seizes the chance to retake Wancheng. Just as Zhu Jun pitches camp 10 li from the city and is about to attack, Sun Jian arrives to help, leading more than 1,500 men, including young men of his home district, merchants and picked troops from the Huai and Si rivers. Romance, Ch. 2 §14 · 16

Zhu Jun has Sun Jian attack the south gate and Xuande the north gate while he himself attacks the west gate, leaving the east gate open for the bandits to flee. Sun Jian is the first to mount the wall and stabs Zhao Hong from his horse, and Sun Zhong, bursting out of the north gate at the head of the bandits, runs straight into Xuande. With no heart for fighting and thinking only of flight, Sun Zhong is struck squarely by a single arrow that Xuande looses, and tumbles from his horse. Zhu Jun's main army follows up, taking tens of thousands of heads, and more than ten commanderies of the Nanyang region are all pacified. The Romance does not say whether Sun Zhong died, and he does not appear after this. Romance, Ch. 2 §17–18