Li Shan suddenly woke up in a dream, but saw his generals come to the tent to report: "Your Majesty, there are some Japanese militia outside attacking our army's camp, and they have been caught, please send them down." ”

Li Shan called for face washing water, washed his face, and refreshed himself. Walked out of the tent and went straight to the cage where the prisoners of war were held.

"Your Majesty, this is the leader of those Japanese militias." The general grabbed a man in his thirties and made him kneel in front of Li Shan.

The Japanese man was still very backbone, and he didn't kneel, and he knelt down painfully when he was hit by two sergeants behind him with the butt of a gun, but he never said a word.

"Why did you attack us with men?" Li Shan asked.

The man glared at Li Shan fiercely, but he didn't say a word, Li Shan asked the general beside him, "He shouldn't understand Chinese, right?" Find a translator. ”

After a while, the general brought a Japanese with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes, and when he saw Li Shan, he immediately knelt down and saluted, and the general said: "This person used to be an envoy sent by Japan to the Tang Dynasty and knows Chinese. ”

Li Shandao: "What's your name?" ”

The translator said: "The villain's name is Kimura Kamisa, and he is the master of the scribe of Kumamoto Castle, and he is willing to serve His Majesty." ”

Li Shan pointed at the militia leader and said, "You ask him, why did you lead the militia to attack our department?" ”

Kimura translated truthfully, but the militia leader apparently ignored Kimura and scolded Kimura fiercely. Kimura's face was ugly, and he didn't know what to do when he looked at Li Shan.

Li Shandao: "What did he say? ”

Kimura said: "He refuses to say, scolding the little one is a traitor and a lackey in Japan." ”

Li Shan laughed and said, "Very good, that's it, Kimura, you tell him that I want to play a game with him, and if he wins me, all the captives will not have to die." If he loses, not a single captive is left behind, and he is beheaded on the spot. ”

Kimura translated Li Shan's words, and the Japanese man looked at Li Shan and said, "How can I believe your words?" ”

Li Shandao: "Of course you can choose not to believe me, then you don't need to compare." You people have to be dealt with by me anyway, we don't have so much food to feed the prisoners of war. ”

The militia leader said, "Okay, I promise you." ”

Li Shan looked at the militia leader and said, "Since you are the militia leader, you must have good kung fu and know how to shoot arrows, right?" ”

The militia leader nodded, and Li Shan continued: "In that case, let's compare archery, give you six arrows, as long as you have an arrow that hits the bull's-eye, even if you win." ”

The militia leader was stunned for a moment and asked, "Really?" He didn't expect Li Shan to make such a simple request, which was simply a deliberate release.

Li Shan shook his head and said, "Of course it can't be so simple, I still have to add a little difficulty." ”

Li Shan ordered the five prisoners of war to be released and let them stand in front of the target in a vertical row, just blocking the route of the arrow flying to the bull's-eye. Obviously, the only way to hit the bull's-eye is to shoot the first five people.

The militia leader's hand with a bow and arrow was already shaking, and although killing five people could save dozens of lives, it was worth it, but it would be difficult for you to kill these people.

Especially when he saw the frightened and helpless eyes of the militia in front of him, he had no strength to pull out his bow and arrows.

Li Shan watched coldly, did not urge or stop, just waited for his decision. Finally, the militia leader seemed to have made up his mind and said to Li Shan: "You must keep your promise, otherwise I won't let you go even if I become a ghost." ”

Li Shan didn't answer, and made a gesture of please: "Since you have made a decision, let's do it." ”

The militia leader drew his bow and aimed directly at the first person standing in front of the target, who was so frightened that he could barely stand on his feet, but he did not dare to move, because the Dali soldier with a spear next to him would not hesitate to pierce his chest.

"Whoosh" An arrow feather was fired, and the militia in front of him fell to the ground. The second person was even more frightened, and said to the militia leader: "Don't kill me, I don't want to die yet, don't kill me." ”

The militia leader shouted: "You coward, think for your brothers, your death in exchange for their lives, this is a glorious thing, what are you afraid of?" ”

"Whoosh" was another arrow, and the second militia also responded to the end, the militia leader's eyes were already moist, and he quickly touched a handful of tears, and prepared the third arrow.

But the third man was noticeably more frightened, and ducked to the side as the militia leader drew his bow and arrow, but the result was not ideal, and the arrow hit his shoulder, but it was not fatal.

Li Shan looked at the militia leader expressionlessly and said, "What can I do?" Wasted an arrow, can you still finish it? ”

The third man, who dodged the fatal arrow, did not escape his fate, and was still killed by an arrow shot by the militia leader.

Now there are two people left, and two arrows. The militia leader shouted at the two of them, and then shot an arrow with a bow again, this time an arrow pierced the throat of the fourth man and shot at the fifth, and the fifth man did not dodge, but sent himself forward, met the arrow, indifferently raised his thumb at the militia leader, and slowly fell.

The fifth arrow, without any suspense, the militia leader hit the heart with one arrow.

Li Shan clapped his hands and said, "Good archery, not bad." Be resolute and don't drag your feet at all. Let me ask you, why did you sacrifice these five people to save those people? ”

The militia leader said: "The death of the five of them can be exchanged for other rights to live, if you don't shoot them, then all of them will die, so this is a choice that does not need to be hesitated, please keep your promise and let them go." ”

Li Shan smiled: "Let them go? You heard me wrong, I said that if you win, everyone will not die, but I didn't say that I would let them go. ”

The militia leader said angrily: "You want to go back on your word? Didn't you say that there was no food to feed the prisoners of war? Are you going to starve them to death? ”

Li Shan waved his hand and said: "That's not the case, since I said not to kill them, of course I won't let them die." But since they were prisoners of war, I had to get enough value from them, and I think these people must have been very popular with the Tang Dynasty or the Arab Empire, and they needed slaves. ”

Hundreds of years ago, the notorious business of selling black slaves, Li Shan wanted to reproduce it, but this time it was not blacks, but Japanese.

Although the Tang Dynasty and the Arab Empire had entered a feudal society, slaves were no strangers to them. In China, people are sometimes like slaves, and they have no human rights at all. This was especially true for the Arab Empire, where slaves were mere instruments of action.

"You despicable villain, you go back on your word." The militia leader rushed towards Li Shan to ask for it, but was stopped in time by Li Shan's generals and pressed to the ground, but he still screamed.

Li Shandao: "Thank you, you made me understand a truth, and finally I don't have to feel guilty about it." ”

Li Shan's heart was shaken before, when he came to Japan a thousand years ago, Li Shan did not have that kind of hatred of national shame, and in the face of the uncivilized Japanese people, Li Shan was ruthless and swordsman-to-face them.

But the way this militia leader did it made Li Shan firm up his thoughts, sometimes you kill some people, just to save more people, compared to the people you kill now, more people will be saved in the future, this is the most important thing. Sometimes in order to achieve a set goal, you have to give up something, even if it seems cruel. But as the ancient poem says, once you will succeed, sometimes you have to be cruel if you want to do great things. (To be continued.) )