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"Ten percent."

Mu Ying lowered her head and smiled bitterly: "However, after taking Xiangyang, we probably won't have many troops left. Although Xie Dai is incompetent, Pei Jin is a very difficult character to deal with. I heard that this General Pei I have already figured out a set of combat formations to deal with the thunder, and I lead the soldiers under my command to practice day and night."

This is not surprising. It has been several years since Tianlei became famous all over the world. When Pei entered and left Hanzhou in the eighth year of Taikang, he suffered a big loss from Tianlei. After knowing the function and characteristics of Tianlei, even Can't get the same thing out, but it's not difficult to figure out a way to deal with it.

For example, the formation is scattered, for example, the archers are suppressed from a long distance, for example, the city gate is blocked with bluestones, each of these three points will make the side using the sky thunder extremely uncomfortable.

"Pei Jin..."

After Li Xin lowered his head and pondered for a while, he said slowly: "Shen Gang has already taken people to Shanyin. In a few days, there should be news from Shanyin. If Shanyin fails, Shen Gang will go there. Yuezhou, bring King Yueyang back to the southwest."

"When the time comes, it's time for us to make a move."

Li Xin lowered his head slightly, and said in a low tone: "That is to say, we still have a few months to prepare. In these few months, I will stay in Hanzhong. The two of you are going to clean up military discipline. Clean out the dirty stuff."

"Everyone of the Southwest Army's generals at the rank of lieutenant or above must go through a detailed investigation. If there are any spies from the imperial court after the investigation, they will be executed together with the Shangguan!"

Mu Ying and Li Shuo bowed their heads respectfully to Li Xin: "The final general will follow the general's order!"

Li Xin looked calm.

"Both of you, send 500 people each to investigate the generals in the opposing army. All the results will be sent to me. I will be responsible for what happens."

"This is a matter of life and death. Before we do it, we must be clean, otherwise we will be defeated in the face of the court."

The two generals looked at each other, then bowed their heads respectfully.

"The last general... obey!"

Chapter 1035

It is very normal and even certain for two parties who are hostile to each other to infiltrate each other, and often the side with the dominant power on the surface will infiltrate the weaker party extremely seriously.

Take the imperial court and the Southwest as an example, the imperial court only needs to make a promise of a small official of the seventh or eighth rank, and countless people will come to the imperial court. , Da Jin is orthodox.

Li Xin's kind of anti-thief is not very popular. For example, Xie Dai who is at home now, Li Xin promised him the position of second-rank general in the Southwest, and he would not come to the Southwest.

In the same way, even if the people in Southwest China were inside, as long as the imperial court gave a small official some small favors, they might secretly join the imperial court.

However, it was extremely difficult for Li Xin to place people in the imperial court. Right now, Southwest's business hadn't taken off. Except for some Li Xin's diehard loyalists, no one would be willing to lurk into the imperial court to do things for Southwest.

If the people sent by Li Xin really broke into the court and became officials in the court, maybe they would stay in the court and continue to serve as officials, breaking away from the Southwest.

Because of this objective power gap, Li Xin basically has no people inside the court, but there are many people from the court in the Southwest. Over the years, at least thousands of people have sneaked into the Southwest, hoping to get Tianlei from the Southwest. According to Fangzi, there must be people from the imperial court inside the Southwest Army.

What Li Xin has to do now is to keep his interior as clean as possible, otherwise, if the interior is full of spies from the imperial court, once they fight, they will be defeated immediately.

The method of censorship is also somewhat risky.

In the early years, Muying had some conflicts with Li Shuo because of the Pingnan Army incident, and the two sides had a very unpleasant quarrel. Let the two of them check each other, and the effect will be slightly better.

Ever since, under Li Xin's order, the two offices in Hanzhong and Ankang began to examine each other. In just two days, a thick pile of documents was piled up on Li Xin's desk.

Sitting in his study, Li Xin casually flipped through the documents on the table, feeling a little scared.

In the Southwest Army alone, there are not a few spies sent by the imperial court. It is difficult to know how many people have secretly defected to the imperial court in the entire Southwest.

But there is nothing strange about this kind of thing. Most people in this world are weeds on the wall. Whichever side is more powerful, they will fall to that side. All the letters were burned, and then I devoted myself to being a person from the Southwest.

There are countless of these people in the Southwest, but there is no need to pay attention to them for the time being, as long as they fight a good battle, these people will naturally become loyal.

These people can be ignored, but the Southwest Army cannot be ignored. The army must be kept pure, and it is impossible to pose any threat to the imperial court.

Sitting alone in Hanzhong's study, Li Xin looked through the paperwork sent over from both sides. While he was looking through, a guard knocked on the door and said, "General, outside Someone asked to see..."

Li Xin put down the document in his hand, frowned and said, "Who is it?"

"A young man."

The personal guard bowed his head and said: "He asked the villain to hand something to the general, saying that the general will see him after he has seen it."

Li Xin put down the document in his hand and said, "What is it, bring it in and let me have a look."

The personal guard held a long box in both hands and put it beside Li Xin. Li Xin opened the box and saw a blue long sword inside. Seeing this, Li Xin immediately knew who was coming. , he said with a complicated expression, "Let him come in and see me."

"Yes."

Not long after, a young man with scars on his forehead and face walked into Li Xin's study. After seeing Li Xin, he bowed his head respectfully and said, "Brother."

Li Xin was still reading the documents, and without raising his head when he heard the words, he said coldly, "I thought you were dead."

Back then, Zhao Fang took Li Xin's sword, the green pheasant, and went north to fight against the Xianbei people. Later, after Jizhou was destroyed, they disappeared without a trace. Li Xin deliberately left a dozen people near Jizhou. No news.

Zhao Fang lowered his head and smiled wryly: "Brother, before Jizhou City was destroyed, I was shot in the shoulder by an arrow, and I was seriously injured. I was recuperating in Jizhou City. After the northern barbarians broke the city, the whole city was in chaos. I went to chop people up and didn’t have time to take care of me, so I hid in the cellar of a farmer in Jizhou City for several months.”

Speaking of this, Zhao Fang said with emotion: "Fortunately, that farmer's family is good, otherwise the younger brother may not see his elder brother in this life."

"What did you see me doing?"

Li Xin sneered slightly: "Xiao Xiao thought you were dead, and set up a spiritual tablet for you at home a few days ago, and burned incense every day to worship."

Mentioning Zhong Xiaoxiao, Zhao Fang's expression restrained, he lowered his head and smiled wryly: "She must have had a hard time these days..."

Li Xin looked up at Zhao Fang, and said in a muffled voice, "Since you are hiding in Jizhou City, why did you rush back to the southwest now?"

Zhao Fang said in a low voice: "Brother, my younger brother has been recuperating in Jizhou."

He pulled back his clothes, revealing the wound on his right shoulder. The arrow wound on his right shoulder had turned into an arrow sore, which looked very scary.

"After recovering from his injuries, the northern barbarians also withdrew from Jizhou. I didn't contact anyone in the imperial court. After a few months, I returned to Yongzhou. After I returned to Yongzhou, I heard that my brother was in Hanzhong. So I came to Hanzhong."

Li Xin frowned.

"Are you all right?"

"There is nothing wrong with the body, but..."

Zhao Fang smiled wryly and said: "Most of my right hand has been useless. I tried it on the way back. Not to mention the blue pheasant that moved my brother, even ordinary swords are hard to hold."

Zhao Fang lowered his head and said slowly, "I'm afraid...it won't recover."

The arrow wound on his shoulder went deep into the flesh, and he needed to rest at first, but at that time Jincheng was destroyed, and he had no choice but to live in the cellar. Firstly, the medicine was broken, and secondly, the environment was poor, so he was able to keep this arm. It was already very difficult.

Li Xin frowned slightly.

He asked slowly, "Can you still write?"

Zhao Fang lowered his head and said, "Barely can."