Later history books contain only a few words about this battle:
In the third year of Zhenghe, there was a small country called Khitan, which lived in the south of Huangshui. North of Huanglong. The hometown of Xianbei. The emperor is displeased by his arrogance in raising troops and repeatedly offending me. At the beginning, he ordered a hundred thousand generals to attack him, but they all failed. The war is endless, beacon smoke rises one after another, and corpses litter the fields. Rivers of blood flowed. The monarch was benevolent and thought of the innocence of the people. He sent envoys to discuss peace and reached an agreement. In the Tang Dynasty, he gave Khitan 100,000 pieces of silk and 30,000 catties of tea. Khitan regarded Tang as Zhengshuo.