Zhang Bao 張寶

Chapter 1 of the Romance introduces three brothers of Julu Commandery: Zhang Jue, Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang. Zhang Jue received the 'Essential Arts of Great Peace' from the Old Immortal of Nanhua and gathered followers, and after consulting his two younger brothers, saying that the hearts of the people already followed them and it would be a pity not to ride this momentum and seize the realm, he secretly had yellow banners made and set a date for the rising. When the plot came to light through the denunciation of his disciple Tang Zhou, Zhang Jue raised troops that very night and styled himself 'General of Heaven', while Zhang Bao called himself 'General of Earth' and Zhang Liang 'General of Man'. Romance, Ch. 1 §7–8 · 10–11

Lu Zhi, who was facing Zhang Jue at Guangzong, told Liu Bei that the bandit's younger brothers Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao were confronting Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun at Yingchuan. The bandits, faring badly in battle, fell back to Changshe and pitched camp against the grass, and were scattered in all directions by Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun's fire attack; after fighting until daybreak, Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao led their defeated remnants and cut their way out to flee. On that road the Chief Commandant of Cavalry Cao Cao blocked them and took more than ten thousand heads, but the two fought desperately and barely got away. Huangfu Song judged that Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao, their strength spent, would surely go to Zhang Jue at Guangzong. Romance, Ch. 1 §34–36 · 40–42

In Chapter 2, while Cao Cao followed Huangfu Song to fight Zhang Liang at Quyang, Zhu Jun made Liu Bei his vanguard and attacked Zhang Bao. Zhang Bao, leading 80,000 to 90,000 bandits, encamped behind the hills and sent out his lieutenant Gao Sheng to challenge them, but Gao Sheng was run through by Zhang Fei's spear and fell from his horse. When Liu Bei drove his troops forward in a charge, Zhang Bao, on horseback, let down his hair, gripped his sword and worked sorcery: wind and thunder rose fiercely, and from within a black vapour countless men and horses seemed to pour forth, so that Liu Bei's ranks were thrown into great confusion and he returned in defeat. Romance, Ch. 2 §3–4

Zhu Jun said that if they prepared the blood of pigs, sheep and dogs and splashed it from a high hill, the sorcery would be undone, and Liu Bei gave Guan Yu and Zhang Fei a thousand men each and hid them on the hill behind the mountain. The next day, as Zhang Bao again worked his sorcery and, pursuing the fleeing Liu Bei, was about to pass over the ridge, the ambushers splashed the filth all at once; the paper men and straw horses in the air fell to the ground, and the wind and thunder ceased. Seeing his sorcery broken, Zhang Bao tried to withdraw his troops, but Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, together with Liu Bei and Zhu Jun, fell upon them and the bandits were utterly routed; Liu Bei, spotting the 'General of Earth' banner, gave chase and shot Zhang Bao in the left arm. With the arrow still in him, Zhang Bao went into Yangcheng, held it fast and would not come out. Romance, Ch. 2 §5–7

Zhu Jun surrounded and attacked Yangcheng while sending men to find out news of Huangfu Song, and his scouts reported that Zhang Jue was already dead, that Huangfu Song had beheaded Zhang Liang at Quyang, and that he had dug up Zhang Jue's coffin, cut off the corpse's head and sent it to the capital. On hearing this, Zhu Jun urged on his troops and attacked Yangcheng with all his might; as the bandits' situation grew desperate, the bandit general Yan Zheng stabbed Zhang Bao to death and surrendered, presenting his head. Romance, Ch. 2 §8–9

In Chapter 28, Pei Yuanshao told Guan Yu that Zhou Cang of Mount Woniu had originally been a general under the Yellow Turban Zhang Bao and, after Zhang Bao died, had gathered a band in the mountains and forests. Zhou Cang himself said that he had once seen Guan Yu's face in the days when he followed the Yellow Turban Zhang Bao, and begged to be taken on even as a foot soldier. Romance, Ch. 28 §20 · 23