《资治通鉴·晋纪·晋纪三十四》
姚兴也把主力驻扎在汾水以西的地区，凭借着山谷，建起营寨壁垒，又把一些柏树等木材捆缚在一起，从汾水上游投放河中，使其顺流而下，打算用这种方法来摧毁北魏军搭在汾水上的浮桥，但北魏军队却把这些木材全部用钩捞上岸来，当做取暖煮饭的劈柴了。
兴屯汾西，赁壑为垒，束柏树从汾上流纵之，欲以毁浮梁，魏人皆钩取以为薪蒸。
Yao Xing also stationed his main force in the area west of the Fen River, built camps and fortresses with the help of valleys, and bundled together some wood such as cypresses, and threw the wood into the river from the upper reaches of the Fen River, and let it flow down, It is intended to use this method to destroy the pontoon bridge built by the Northern Wei army on the Fen River, but the Northern Wei army hooked the wood ashore and used it as firewood for cooking and heating.