《淮南子·览冥训》
那些体质强壮行动敏捷的人被征为兵卒在千里之外拼杀，而老弱病残者在家悲怆凄凉。那些服役的兵卒马，推拉着车子运送粮饷，道路遥远，一路风雪交加，破衣烂衫难以御寒，人困马乏车辆破损；遇到深达膝盖的泥泞道路，人们只能互相搀扶拉扯，拼命奋力向前，这样常常有人累冻而死，倒在挽车的横木上。
是故质壮轻足者为甲卒千里之外，家老赢弱姜枪于内；厮徒马围，軵车奉饟，道路辽远，霜雪亟集，短褐不完，人赢车弊，泥涂至膝；相携于道，奋首于路，身枕格而死。
Those who were strong and nimble were conscripted for the battlefields thousands of miles away, while the old, the weak, the ill and the disabled were left home alone in misery. Those conscripted soldiers and horses pushed and dragged carts to deliver food and payments, the roads were long and the weather was snowy and windy, their torn clothes could not keep them warm, they were exhausted and their horses were tired and the vehicles were broken; when they encountered knee-deep muddy roads, they could only support and pull each other, desperately trying to move forward; this way, people often died of exhaustion and froze to death, and fell on the shafts of the carts.