Xiao Yan retreated from the battle, unwilling to lead the army against the Sui Dynasty, which made Xiao Rushui pick right and wrong in the Later Liang State and interfere with the Sui Dynasty's plan to raise troops and attack Chen in danger of failing.

However, Xiao Rushui also thought that no matter which Xiao royal family child the Sui Dynasty supported to inherit the throne of Later Liang, the power of the Later Liang Dynasty would still be in the hands of Xiao Yan in the short term, which laid a good foreshadowing for encouraging Xiao Yan to oppose Sui in the future.

The only thing that disappointed Xiao Rushui was that Xiao Zong had promised Yang Jun before his death that he would take the initiative to give up the military power of Hou Liang and no longer retain the army, so that Hou Liang, the force that contained the Sui Dynasty and attacked Chen, would no longer exist.

After a whole day of bargaining and careful planning with Xiao Yan, Xiao Rushui decided to change the original plan, no longer forcing Xiao Yan to abandon Sui and surrender to Chen immediately, and temporarily adopt the strategy of static braking, and then make another plan according to the situation after the successor of Hou Liang Guojun is confirmed.

However, more than ten days later, Zhang Heng came to Jiangling by order and conveyed to the Later Liang royal family and civil and military ministers led by Xiao Yan that Sui Gaozu Yang Jian ordered Hou Liang to naturalize and the whole country was included in the Sui realm, which caught Xiao Yan and Xiao Rushui off guard.

None of them expected that Yang Jian would not give them a second chance to abandon Sui and join Chen at all, and directly used an edict and more than 100,000 soldiers and horses under Yang Jun to announce the destruction of the Later Liang Dynasty.

According to Xiao Rushui's meaning, since the Sui Dynasty directly issued an edict to Hou Liang to destroy the country, Xiao Yan can take this opportunity to use his power and appeal in Hou Liang to set off an anti-Sui storm, and pay tribute to Yang Jian, Yang Jun and his son A resounding slap in the face, even if the territory of Hou Liang cannot be restored, at least he can lead the Xiao royal family to defect to Nan Chen, providing an excellent opportunity for Nan Chen Xing to help Xiao restore the country.

However, what puzzled Xiao Rushui was that as early as when he rushed from Chang'an to Jiangling to see Xiao Yan, Guan Zizai had already sent a message back to the Southern Chen Dynasty, asking Chen Shubao, the queen of Southern Chen, to increase his troops in the middle reaches of the Great River, ready to respond to Xiao's anti-Sui at any time, but until Zhang Heng came to Jiangling to convey the edict of Later Liang to destroy the country, there was no reaction from the Southern Chen army on the other side of the river.

Xiao Rushui had no choice but to force Xiao Yan to rise up against the Sui on the one hand, and on the other hand, he personally sent people across the river to contact the chief general of the Southern Chen Army, asking him to send troops to respond and cooperate with Xiao Yan's actions.

In recent years, Xiao Rushui has been lurking in Chang'an, and he has heard a lot of rumors about Chen Shubao, the queen of Southern Chen, abandoning the government and obsessed with a group of literati and palace maids.

If it weren't for the fact that he himself was also born in the Xiao royal family, and had a grudge against Yang Sui to destroy the country, and his mentor had a deep relationship with Chen Shubao's father, Emperor Xuan of Southern Chen, Chen Xu, he and Xiao Wujian both sent him and Xiao Wujian down the mountain to serve as the two protectors of the "Wild Goose's Nest".

But when I think of it for so many years, Guan Zizai has always been loyal to the Nanchen court, and he is even more caring for Xiao Rushui himself, after Xiao Wujian died in the third year of the emperor's reign, he even made him the actual supreme leader of the "Wild Goose's Nest", and he retreated behind the scenes, willing to be his adviser and staff officer, this kindness of knowledge really made Xiao Rushui can't bear to abandon him.

Although Xiao Yan didn't see the rabbit and didn't scatter the eagle, and he couldn't see Nan Chen send troops to respond for a day, he refused to succumb to Xiao Rushui's coercion and temptation, and led the Later Liang royal family and ministers to rise up against the Sui, which made Xiao Rushui quite helpless, but just a few days after Zhang Heng arrived in Jiangling to convey the edict of the Later Liang to destroy the country, another opportunity appeared in front of Xiao Rushui: In order to urge the Later Liang state capitals and local garrisons to transfer power to the Sui Dynasty, Yang Jun, the king of Qin, personally led 20,000 elite Sui troops to leave Jiangling and go to the state capitals to inspect. Only Cui Hongdu, the governor of Jiangling, and Zhang Heng, who had not returned to Chang'an for the time being, were left in Jiangling City to lead the army to garrison.

Xiao Rushui had a wit, and decided to take advantage of Yang Jun's inspection to take the original false shot - at the request of Xinyi Shitai, he used the Qin princess Cui to take Lichen and Sima Luo away from Chang'an, and sent them back to Nanchen in a timely manner, which became a practical move, and arranged for someone to pick up Sima Luo and Lichen from Yang Jun's mansion and send them back to Nanchen.

Before the official action, Xiao Rushui also ordered the subordinates of the "Wild Goose's Nest" who followed him south to Jiangling this time to inquire in detail about Yang Jun's defense in Jiangling Mansion, and learned that Yang Jun specially brought the white-haired Liang Mo who was transferred by Yang Guang to deal with him as a personal escort in order to strengthen his own guard force.

After Xiao Rushui received this report, he was secretly happy in his heart, so on the night after Yang Jun went out to inspect, he personally led twenty elite "Goose's Nest" killers to pick up Sima Luo and Lichen from Yang Jun's mansion.

Because Zhang Heng, the number one strategist in front of Yang Guang, is now staying in Jiangling City, just in case, Xiao Rushui led people to pick up people, and he was particularly careful: he ordered his twenty "Wild Goose's Nest" killers to sneak into Yang Jun's mansion to pick up Sima Luo and Lichen, and he stayed outside the mansion to watch the wind.

At nearly three o'clock that night, twenty "Goose's Nest" killers wearing night clothes and black gauze masks sneaked over the wall into Yang Jun's palace in Jiangling, and after nearly half an hour, Xiao Rushui, who was hiding outside the palace and watching the wind, heard two bird calls from inside the courtyard wall, and couldn't help but be happy: this is the code that everything he agreed with his subordinates went well, and it seems that the subordinates who sneaked into the mansion have already won their hands and are about to pick up Sima Luo from Yang Jun's mansion.

Thinking like this, Xiao Rushui walked out of the corner where he was hiding, ready to pick up the twenty subordinates and take Sima Luo and Lichen out of the house.

Just when he had just walked to the root of the wall of the courtyard of Yang Jun's palace, he suddenly heard a bad wind above his head, and he was so eager that he didn't have time to look up, so he hurriedly twisted his waist and rushed out to the side more than a zhang away, and looked at it intently, but when he saw that where he was standing, a fishing net fell from the sky, and almost covered him inside.

"The wind is tight, pull it!"

As soon as Xiao Rushui saw that there was an ambush in Yang Jun's mansion, he secretly said that it was not good, so he raised his throat and shouted at the courtyard wall, turned around and spread his legs to run.