《旧唐书·本纪·卷十九》
他还招纳亡命之徒，有部众二十万，十五岁以上的男女都命令他们拿起武器，那些人都举起锄头、铁钩当武器，号称 霍锥。 
招致亡命，有众二十万，男女十五已上，皆令执兵，其人皆舒锄钩为兵，号曰 霍锥 。
He also recruited death squads, with a force of 200,000 people, and ordered all men and women over the age of 15 to take up arms, and those people raised their hoes and iron hooks as weapons, calling themselves Huo Zhui.