Zhang Bao 張苞

In Chapter 81 of the Romance, when Zhang Fei was killed by Fan Jiang and Zhang Da, Zhang Fei's lieutenant Wu Ban had the eldest son Zhang Bao receive the body and the younger son Zhang Shao guard Langzhong, and then sent Zhang Bao in person to inform Liu Bei. Zhang Bao came in a white robe and silver armor, prostrated himself and wept, and when asked whether he would take the vanguard and avenge his father, he replied that he would not shrink from ten thousand deaths. Contending with Guan Xing for the vanguard's seal, he hit a red target a hundred paces away with three arrows, and he was about to clash with him, wielding his eighteen-foot steel-pointed spear, when Liu Bei rebuked them. Since Zhang Bao was a year older than Guan Xing, Liu Bei had Guan Xing serve him as his elder brother, and the two broke an arrow to seal their oath. Romance, Ch. 81 §19 · 23–24 · 33–37

In Chapter 82 he went out with Guan Xing to attack Sun Huan, drove back Xie Jing and fought Li Yi, and when his horse was brought down by an arrow secretly shot by Tan Xiong and he was in danger, Guan Xing cut Li Yi down and saved him. The next day he ran Xie Jing through with his spear and killed him, beheaded Tan Xiong, whom Guan Xing had captured and brought back, offering the head in sacrifice to his dead horse, and took Cui Yu alive in a single bout. In the battle of Xiaoting in Chapter 83 he speared the Wu lieutenant Xia Xun off his horse, and Liu Bei sighed, 'A tiger father has no dog for a son!' When Wu sent back Fan Jiang and Zhang Da in confinement together with Zhang Fei's head, Zhang Bao took up a blade himself, put the two to death by slow slicing and offered sacrifice to his father's spirit. Romance, Ch. 82 §25–30 · 36Romance, Ch. 83 §11–12 · 30–31

During Lu Xun's fire attack in Chapter 84, he broke through the encirclement layer upon layer to rescue Liu Bei, and together with Fu Tong held the mouth of Ma'an Mountain to the death. As he escorted Liu Bei down the mountain, his way was blocked by Zhu Ran's troops, and he and Guan Xing were badly wounded. Romance, Ch. 84 §25–28

In the order of battle for the northern expedition in Chapter 91, Zhang Bao, as General of the Tiger's Wings (huyi jiangjun), became Right Guard Commander before the Tent. In Chapter 92 he came with 5,000 troops to Zhao Yun, who was surrounded by the Wei army, killed the Wei general Xue Ze, who was blocking the way, and rescued him, and at Nan'an he speared off his horse Cui Liang, who had tried to counter a stratagem with a stratagem. In Chapter 94 he told Guan Xing that when he was being chased by the iron-chariot troops of the Qiang, Guan Yu had come down from the sky, driven the Qiang troops back and told him to go and save Guan Xing. In Chapter 95, after Jieting was lost, he raised a banner reading 'Right Guard Commander, General of the Tiger's Wings Zhang Bao' and, on the byways of Mount Wugong, made Sima Yi withdraw with nothing but drums and battle cries. Romance, Ch. 91 §43Romance, Ch. 92 §19–20 · 40–41Romance, Ch. 94 §11Romance, Ch. 95 §38 · 50–51

In the fighting of the 7th year of Jianxing (229) in Chapter 99, he and Guan Xing defeated Guo Huai and Sun Li, and while pursuing the two as they fled climbing up the mountain, he tumbled with his horse into a mountain stream and split his head. Zhuge Liang sent him back to Chengdu to recover, and when word later came from Chengdu that Zhang Bao had died, Zhuge Liang wept aloud, vomited blood and collapsed, and from then on he fell ill. Romance, Ch. 99 §1 · 5–7 · 34–35