《后汉书·列传·皇甫嵩朱俊列传》
晓得贼军士思想松懈了，于是晚上悄悄地集合部队，等到鸡叫，发起冲锋，战斗到天黑时，大破敌军，斩了张梁，获首三万级，赴黄河淹死的五万人左右，焚烧车辆辎重三万多辆，俘虏了敌军全部妻室儿女，逮捕很多。
知贼意稍懈，乃潜夜勒兵，鸡鸣驰赴其阵，战至晡时，大破之，斩梁，获首三万级，赴河死者五万许人，焚烧车重三万余两，悉虏其妇子，系获甚众。
On learning that the morale of the rebels' troops had relaxed, he silently assembled his troops at night, and when the cocks crowed, he launched a surprise attack. The battle raged until nightfall, when he finally defeated the enemy, killed Zhang Liang, beheaded 30,000 enemy soldiers, drowned about 50,000 in the Yellow River, burned over 30,000 enemy chariots and baggage carts, captured all the families of the rebels and arrested many of them.