Juggernaut made a move, and there was no false shot.

Pei Min is not only proficient in swordsmanship, but also good in archery...... Stronger than the Turkic Rangers!

On his horseback, there was an embarrassed man tied to him, pouting his ass in the same embarrassed posture, but unfortunately he was a big man and had no sense of beauty.

However, the arrow on the butt was extremely artistic, nailed between the two petals, and it was estimated that this unlucky captive would curse Pei Min fiercely every time he went to the toilet in the future.

Provided that he is still alive.

"There were a total of twenty-seven people who escaped, and they were quite able to run, but they couldn't catch all of them alive, so it took a little effort."

Pei Min reported on the battle and ordered his entourage to throw down the prisoners and heads on horseback.

"Okay, although the living are more profitable, it's not bad to have a guaranteed head...... Hey, who are you, raise your head and look at my brother? ”

Suddenly discovering the familiar face among the captives, Li Ran suddenly became interested.

"Ahem, ahem, Immortal Master, it's me."

Ashina Qiyun had already tried his best to shrink his neck to prevent himself from being discovered, but it was a pity that it was difficult for his sassy posture not to attract attention, and he threw himself on the ground in embarrassment, and the panic in his heart was worse than the pain in his buttocks.

Becoming a captive or something, never thought about it.

"Haha, it turned out to be my old friend, what's the matter, this New Year hasn't arrived yet, so you can bring your friends to Datang to pay a visit to my early years?"

There were words in the words, and the little devil-like smile made Ashina tighten her chrysanthemum.

"Don't, don't kill me, I'm forced."

"I know, you're not stupid enough to step into a trap, and besides, you dodge before the fight starts, which suits your style."

Li Ran nodded heavily, believing that he was not lying.

That show of muscles was very successful, as the first witness, Ashina Qiyun definitely has the most intuitive understanding of Datang's strength, there is no reason to be so reckless.

But who said that an accomplice can be exempted from punishment?

You have to 'educate' this kid hard...... Li Ran's demonic smile did not decrease in the slightest, but became thicker and thicker.

"Get up, what are you doing lying on the ground, we are old friends, you have preferential treatment, go, get him a trolley, the ground is cold."

Li Ran's intimate command made Ashina's heart warm, and he almost couldn't believe his ears.

Such a gentle style, good man.

"Let's go back to the station and have a good chat, and talk about what happened after you returned to the Turks, the long night is long, with a pot of good wine, just to pass the time."

However, in the next second, Ashina knew that he had made a mistake after all...... Li Ran is still the same Li Ran, a smiling tiger who pretends to be a pig and eats a tiger.

It was only less than noon, and he actually said 'the long night', do you want to torture yourself all night?

Ashina guessed half right.

Li Ran was indeed 'torturing' him, but not with a leather whip and a candle, but ...... Wine.

This meal was probably the most eaten in Ashina's life.

From just after noon until dawn the next day, he was so drunk that he almost forgot to pull out the arrow on his buttocks.

For ten hours, Li Ran asked over and over the questions was enough to make him collapse.

At first, it was hidden, but when it arrived, it was like a bamboo tube to a basket, and I couldn't wait to explain the color of my wife's bottoms, just to let me sleep well.

The intelligence was recorded in seven pages, which was very detailed, giving Li Ran the most intuitive understanding of the Turkic interior.

"Brother Ran, you haven't slept all night, why don't you rest first?"

Pei Min, as a guard, witnessed how Li Ran asked so much information from a man's mouth without blood, and this alternative interrogation method was so admirable.

When you have time, you must ask for advice, what is it called the method of repeated inquiry, it is very interesting.

"No, I'm not tired, I'm drinking coffee from that guy, I'm on top."

Li Ran was in high spirits, and he took the trouble to read the information, trying to sort out the information provided by Ashina Qiyun and report it to his father-in-law as soon as possible.

Within the Turks, there are many contradictions!

To put it simply, the incumbent khan is almost overwhelmed...... Like Wu Zetian, he has also reached the age of retirement, and the descendants of the golden nobles under him are all ready to move.

In addition, this winter is extremely cold, and the grass of the grassland withers very quickly, which cannot feed the cattle and sheep of various tribes.

Therefore, going south to plunder is almost the only option, and it has nothing to do with whether the Tang Dynasty shows off its muscles, just like a moth to a fire, it is just a foraging instinct.

Of course, the action of showing off the muscles is not fruitless, otherwise it is not a small group of rangers who are invading the territory of the Tang Dynasty now, but a large number of Turkic troops!

"After the Turks were beaten by Taizong Gaozong decades ago, they have been silent for so long, and their strength has recovered a lot, and Empress Wu has neglected to govern the border fortress, and properly raised bandits for trouble, this time the plundering rangers who went south will successively reach more than 10,000 people, no less than a medium-sized battle, this group of bandits is uncertain, and they will go to the next place after robbing a place, not only Hedong Road, Hebei Province and even Longyou Road, they may appear in their figures, blindly defense is not the way, if you want to protect the territory and the people, We have to deal with them at the source. ”

Coffee is very intellectual, Li Ran's thinking is very clear, not only found the root of the contradiction, but also found the solution to the contradiction.

Very bold and imaginative.

The Turks went south to rob?

Then why can't the Tang Dynasty's army go north to sweep up?

Pei Min looked at his paperwork and only had two words to evaluate this genius creativity.

"It's useless."

In order to increase the persuasiveness, Pei Min even took off half of his sleeves...... Could it be that you want to tempt your brother?

On his arm, there was a wound that had long since healed.

"The Turks made it, surrounded by six or seven people, and at that time I had not yet achieved martial arts, so I finally escaped."

Pei Min got dressed and said solemnly, "These people grew up on horseback, the grasslands in the north are the most suitable battlefield for them, our army in the Tang Dynasty is far better equipped than them, and the training is more sophisticated, but the results are often unsatisfactory, and the root cause is this...... Compared with martial arts and team combat, riding and horses are the biggest advantages on the grassland! ”

"Besides, in the vast grassland, no one is clearer than the nomads, if you want to fight with them, they will never be hard with you, they will harass you, and after you are tired, they will wear down your will to fight with a knife, just like a wolf's way of fighting!"

With good intentions, Li Ran only smiled.

He didn't refute Pei Min's opinion, after all, this guy was kind-hearted, and what he said was right.

But with more than a thousand years of experience, how could he not even understand such a simple truth?

"Who told you that you have to use a knife to sweep ......"

Li Ran only had a faint rhetorical question, which made the chattering Pei Min instantly dumbfounded.

"Genghis Khan proved with facts that if you want to surrender a nation, the knife is useless, at most it will take care of a few decades, and national assimilation is the way to do it once and for all, of course, it is too early to say this, in short, you can understand a truth, passive defense is far less effective than active attack."

"Besides, the situation is different from when Wu Sansi just rebelled, there is no movement on the Tibetan side, just to deal with the Turkic side, and there are more chess pieces that Datang can use, this is an external factor, and my father-in-law has already sat on the throne and smoothly completed the transfer of power, our internal power structure in Datang is stable and in the rising period, and it is just right to use a small-scale military operation to enhance the cohesion of the monarch and ministers."

Obviously, Li Ran's thinking stands at a higher level.

The purpose of battle can be not only to destroy the enemy, but also to develop and strengthen oneself.