Zhang Liang 張梁

Chapter 1 of the Romance introduces three brothers of Julu Commandery: Zhang Jue, Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang. Zhang Jue receives the 'Essential Arts of Great Peace' from the Old Immortal of Nanhua, styles himself the 'Great Worthy and Good Teacher' and gathers a following; consulting with his two younger brothers, he says that the hearts of the people are already with them and that it would be a great pity not to take the realm on the strength of this momentum, and he secretly has yellow banners made and sets a date for the rising. When the plot comes to light through the denunciation of his disciple Tang Zhou, Zhang Jue raises troops that very night and styles himself 'General of Heaven', while Zhang Bao calls himself 'General of Earth' and Zhang Liang 'General of Man'. Romance, Ch. 1 §7–8 · 10–11

Lu Zhi, who faces Zhang Jue at Guangzong, tells Liu Bei that the bandit's younger brothers Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao are confronting Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun at Yingchuan. The bandits, with the fighting going against them, fall back to Changshe and pitch camp against the long grass, and on a night when a great wind rises, Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun set fires all at once and attack, so that the bandits scatter in all directions without even time to saddle their horses. After fighting until daybreak, Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao lead their defeated remnants and cut their way out to flee. Romance, Ch. 1 §34–36

In front of them the troops of Cao Cao, Cavalry Commandant, carrying red banners, block the way and crush them in a great battle, taking more than ten thousand heads and seizing countless banners, drums and horses, but Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao fight desperately and barely escape. Cao Cao, after meeting Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun, pursues the two, and when Liu Bei reaches Yingchuan too late, Huangfu Song tells him that Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao, at the end of their strength, will surely go to Guangzong to rely on Zhang Jue. Romance, Ch. 1 §36 · 40–42

In Chapter 2, while Zhu Jun attacks Zhang Bao together with Liu Bei, Cao Cao follows Huangfu Song against Zhang Liang and fights a great battle at Quyang. A scout returning to Zhu Jun, who is besieging Yangcheng, reports that by the time Huangfu Song arrived Zhang Jue had already died, and that Zhang Liang took command of his followers and resisted, but Huangfu Song won seven victories in a row and beheaded Zhang Liang at Quyang, dug up Zhang Jue's coffin, cut the head from the corpse and sent it to the capital, and the rest of the followers all surrendered. The court promotes Huangfu Song to General of Chariots and Cavalry and makes him Governor of Ji Province, and Cao Cao too, for his merit, becomes Chancellor of Jinan. Romance, Ch. 2 §3 · 8–9