Died
220
Ancestral home
Nanyang (Nanyang, Henan)
Book mentions
194
Roles:
general
Appears in 17 chapters:
  • Chapter 53 — Guan Yu Releases Huang Zhong; Sun Quan Fights With Zhang Liao.
    Sixty years old, bender of the three-hundred-pound bow: a hundred even bouts, then the stumbling horse and Guan Yu's mercy - repaid with two empty bowstring twangs and one perfect shot into the helmet plume. Han Xuan reads the mercy as treason and orders his head off; saved by Wei Yan's mutiny, he yields only when Liu Bei comes to his house in person - and his first request is leave to bury the master who condemned him.
  • Chapter 55 — Liu Bei Rouses The Spirit Of Lady Sun; Zhuge Liang A Second Time Angers Zhou Yu.
    Falls on the fleeing southern column at his appointed point in Zhuge Liang's covering plan - Zhou Yu's marines are cut up between him and Wei Yan.
  • Chapter 56 — Cao Cao Feasts In The Bronze Bird Tower; Zhuge Liang Provokes Zhou Yu A Third Time.
    Third of the four converging columns whose tramp 'shakes the heavens' around the trapped Commander-in-Chief.
  • Chapter 60 — Zhang Song Turns The Table On Yang Xiu; Pang Tong Proposes The Occupation Of Shu.
    Huang Zhong; with Liu Bei at Jingzhou.
  • Chapter 62 — The Taking Of River Fu Pass, Yang Huai and Gao Pei Perish; The Siege Of Luocheng, Huang Zhong and Wei Yan Rival.
    Huang Zhong; commands Liu Bei's van; the chapter's standout duelist.
  • Chapter 63 — Zhuge Liang Mourns For Pang Tong; Zhang Fei Releases Yan Yan.
    Huang Zhong; with Liu Bei in the western campaign.
  • Chapter 64 — Zhuge Liang Plans For The Capture Of Zhang Ren; Yang Fu Borrows Soldiers To Destroy Ma Chao.
    Huang Zhong; commands part of the Luocheng siege.
  • Chapter 65 — Ma Chao Battles At Jiameng Pass; Liu Bei Takes Over Yizhou.
    Huang Zhong; with Liu Bei at the conclusion of the Yi campaign.
  • Chapter 70 — Zhang Fei Takes Wakou Pass With Tactics; Huang Zhong Captures Tiandang Mountain By Stratagem.
    Huang Zhong; the Tiandang Mountain campaign - defeats Xiahou Shang and Han Hao, takes their grain depot and the mountain in a series of single combats. The chapter's establishing showcase for his age-defying skill.
  • Chapter 71 — At Opposite Hill, Huang Zhong Scores A Success; On The River Han, Zhao Zilong Conquers A Host.
    Huang Zhong; the chapter's hero. At Dingjun Mountain, on Fa Zheng's signal - a red flag dropped from the heights - charges down on Xiahou Yuan's resting troops and cuts him in half from shoulder to waist in a single blow. The killing of Xiahou Yuan that breaks Wei's hold on Hanzhong.
  • Chapter 72 — Zhuge Liang's Wit Takes Hanzhong; Cao Cao's Army Retires To The Ye Valley.
    Huang Zhong; with Liu Bei at the Han River.
  • Chapter 73 — Liu Bei Becomes The Prince Of Hanzhong; Guan Yu Marches To Attack Xiangyang.
    Huang Zhong; one of the Five Tiger Generals. Sends Fei Shi to placate Guan Yu's wounded pride.
  • Chapter 77 — Cao Cao Is Possessed At Luoyang; Guan Yu Manifests At The Jade Spring Mount.
    Huang Zhong; with the Shu army when the news comes.
  • Chapter 81 — Eager For Vengeance, Zhang Fei Is Assassinated; Athirst Of Retribution, The First Ruler Goes To War.
    Huang Zhong; with the Shu vanguard; eager despite his age - will die in the next battle. The Five Tigers shrinking.
  • Chapter 82 — Sun Quan Submits To Wei, Receiving The Nine Dignities; The First Ruler Attacks Wu, Rewarding Six Armies.
    Huang Zhong dies. Stings at Liu Bei's chance remark that the old generals are past it; charges alone into the Wu lines at the next engagement; mortally wounded by an arrow from Pan Zhang's officer Ma Zhong; dies at camp. The last of the Five Tigers (after Guan Yu and Zhang Fei) gone - Ma Chao and Zhao Yun remain.
  • Chapter 83 — Fighting At Xiaoting, The First Ruler Captures An Enemy; Defending The Three Gorges, A Student Takes Supreme Command.
    Huang Zhong; named in passing in the recap of his death.
  • Chapter 91 — Sacrificing At River Lu, The Prime Minister Marches Homeward; Attacking Wei, The Lord Of Wuxiang Presents A Memorial.
    Huang Zhong; named in passing in the recap of the Five Tigers - dead.