《后汉书·列传·虞傅盖臧列传》
认为自己的兵力太弱，向袁绍请兵，袁绍不给，张超的守城被攻破，张超的全族人被杀尽。
自以众弱，以绍请兵，而绍竟不听之，超城遂陷，张氏族灭。
Believing that his own troops were too weak, he asked Yuan Shao for troops, but Yuan Shao did not give him any, and Zhang Chao's city walls were breached, and Zhang Chao's entire family was killed.