《资治通鉴·汉纪·汉纪四十八》
唯一的办法，只有用长矛直指他们的前胸，用大刀直加他们的颈项。共计东羌诸部只剩下三万余个帐落，全部定居在边塞之内，道路没有险阻，并不具备战国时代燕、齐、秦、赵等国纵横交错的形势。可是，他们却长久地扰乱并、凉二州，不断侵犯三辅地区，迫使西河郡和上郡的太守府都已迁徙到内地，安定郡、北地郡又陷于孤单危急。
计东种所馀三万馀落，近居塞内，路无险所，非有燕、齐、秦、赵从横之势，而久乱并、凉，累侵三辅，西河、上郡，已各内徙，安定、北地，复至单危。
The only way is to use spears to point straight at their chests and use big knives to add directly to their necks. A total of only over thirty thousand tents of the various tribes of the Eastern Qiang remain. They have all settled within the border fortresses. The roads have no obstacles and do not have the crisscrossed situation of the states of Yan, Qi, Qin, and Zhao during the Warring States period. However, they have been disrupting the Bing and Liang regions for a long time, continuously invading the San Fu region, forcing the governor's offices of Xi He Commandery and Shang Commandery to both migrate to the interior, and安定 Commandery and Bei Di Commandery have once again fallen into isolated peril.