《资治通鉴·后唐纪·后唐纪一》
后来李继韬秘密派人送给他弟弟李继远一封信，请他弟弟让士卒们在军营放火，希望后唐帝再派自己回去安抚士卒，事情败露之后，辛巳，把他贬为登州长史，不久在天津桥南斩杀了他，同时还斩杀了他的两个儿子。
继韬潜遣人遗继远书，教军士纵火，冀天子复遣己抚安之，事泄，辛巳，贬登州长史，寻斩于天津桥南，并其二子。
Later, Li Jitao secretly sent a letter to his younger brother, Li Jiyuan, asking his younger brother to let the soldiers set fire to the barracks in the hope that the Later Tang emperor would send him back to appease the soldiers. After the incident was exposed, on Xinsi, he was demoted to the Changshi of Dengzhou and was soon killed in the south of Tianjin Bridge. His two sons were also killed at the same time.