It is not far from Chang'an to Bingzhou, but it is not close, just when Di Renjie led a large number of Dali Temple to go to Bingzhou, Fan Lihua had already surrounded the Western Turkic royal court with an army of 60,000.

Although Sanmi Mountain is very large, the mountain is not steep, so there is no big moat, and the royal court is built on the mountainside, which is much higher than the ground level, so there is no moat outside the royal court city.

The moat is a good thing, it can effectively slow down the enemy's offensive and greatly increase the difficulty for the enemy to climb the city wall, and the Western Turkic royal court has no moat, which means that the only thing the Western Turkic army can rely on now is the city wall.

Fortunately, the city wall of the royal court is very high, two or three meters higher than the general city wall of the Tang Dynasty, only a little shorter than Chang'an City, don't underestimate these two or three meters, which can make the difficulty of attacking the city double.

Fan Lihua is encircling three and one this time, mainly attacking the east city wall, auxiliary attacking the north and south city walls, and not attacking the west city wall.

On the first day of the siege of the royal court, according to the unwritten rule that the city should not be attacked, and it must be persuaded to surrender first, Fan Lihua sent people to the city to constantly shout and persuade to surrender, and in the afternoon of the same day, the east city gate opened, and a messenger rode towards Fan Lihua and their temporary camp.

Just before arriving at the camp, the envoy was surrounded by the Tang army, the general envoy is Wenchen, and this time the envoy is actually a military general in his fifties, his hair has turned gray, it can be seen that the Western Turkic Wenchen is also a group of bad people, at this time, they don't even dare to enter the enemy's camp to show their tongues, they also chew the root of the tongue on the main hall, as Li Hao said, although there are a thousand words in the pen, there is no plan in the chest.

Facing the sharp guns of the Tang army, the military general turned over and dismounted, and said in a loud voice: "Lin Meng, the general of Ningwei of the Western Turks, asks to see Marshal Fan of the Tang Dynasty!" ”

When Tang Jun heard this, someone immediately went back to the camp to spread the word, and soon, Fan Shui came to pass the word, and the chief manager Fan Lihua asked Lin Meng to go to the tooth tent.

Lin Meng was led by Fan Shui to Fan Lihua's tooth tent, and entered the tooth tent, Fan Lihua sat in front of the military case, and Lin Meng saluted Fan Lihua: "Meet Fan Dashuai." ”

Fan Lihua raised her eyes to look at him and said lightly: "General Lin, I haven't seen you for a long time, what is the matter with coming this time?" ”

Lin Meng said: "Lin Meng was ordered by the Khan to come to sue for peace. ”

Fan Lihua was not surprised at all, and spread her hands and said, "Tell me about Ashina Helu's conditions." ”

Lin Meng said: "Fan Dashuai and Lin Meng are former colleagues, and they have also worked together to retreat from the enemy army, and there are countless Fan Dashuai's comrades in the royal court. ”

Fan Lihua raised her eyebrows and asked, "This is what Ashina Helu said?" ”

Lin Meng shook his head and said, "No, these are Lin Meng's words." ”

Fan Lihua sneered when she heard this: "Lin Meng, you are also a soldier, you should know that fighting is not a joke, on the battlefield, even if father and son meet, there is only life and death, if you are soft-hearted, you will be killed by tens of millions of brothers." ”

"Lin Meng naturally knows." Lin Meng sighed, "But the war hasn't started yet. ”

"The army has moved, how can there be no reason to return in vain, when the grain and grass of the Tang Dynasty are all falling from the sky!" Fan Lihua said coldly: "Don't talk nonsense, the chief manager just wants to know, what did Ashina Helu say?" ”

Lin Meng was helpless, so he could only say: "Khan first wants me to ask Fan Dashuai, the Tang Dynasty is a state of etiquette, and now he has sent troops to attack my Western Turks for no reason, where is the etiquette, my Western Turks don't seem to have offended the Tang Dynasty in recent years." ”

Fan Lihua got up and bypassed the military case, and slowly paced: "Say that my Tang Division is unknown, right, then you go back and tell Ashina Helu that he was rude to the Heavenly Khan, called me the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty by his name, and threatened to attack the Tang Dynasty one day in the future and take away the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains of the Tang Dynasty, is such a crime enough?" ”

Lin Meng's face turned black when he heard this, this kind of thing does exist, but under normal circumstances, Emperor Tang would not know, but Fan Lihua was once a Western Turkic general, so naturally he knew it clearly.

"Okay." Lin Meng nodded and said, "The Khan said that no matter what mistakes my Western Turks make, they are willing to sue for peace, and the Khan is willing to cede thousands of miles of territory, and from now on pay tribute to the Tang Dynasty every year. ”

Fan Lihua sneered: "I'm sorry, the Western Turks have said such things to the Tang Dynasty more than once, but every time they are contrary to the yang and the yin, capricious, the Tang Emperor said, the Western Turk Khans are all villains who have no faith in their words, let the chief personally take off Ashina Helu's head and go back to restore his life, you still go and persuade Ashina Helu to kneel in front of the city gate to surrender, so as not to let everyone use swords and soldiers." ”

Lin Meng's face was very ugly, the demands of the two sides were 108,000 miles apart, the negotiations collapsed, he didn't stay anymore, he said goodbye to Fan Lihua, withdrew from the tooth tent, and Fan Shui led people to send him out of the camp.

Lin Meng went back and told Ashina Helu about the content of the negotiation, Ashina Helu was so angry that he trembled, he never expected that his casual bragging words would be used by Fan Lihua as a handle, and now he can't rely on it.

In fact, although his words were bragging, if their Western Turks were strong enough, it would not be bragging, he would really do that, he would attack the Tang Dynasty, and it can be seen from his aggression against the surrounding small countries that the Western Turks are very ambitious, but the Tang Dynasty is too strong, and their strength cannot support this huge ambition for the time being.

The Tang army continued to shout in front of the battle to persuade the city to surrender, and a group of people shouted that they were tired and replaced the next batch, shouting from noon to evening, suddenly, a general wearing gold armor and white robes appeared at the head of the city, it was Yang Fan.

Yang Fan looked at the Tang Army's camp, beckoned to the guards beside him, and said, "Pass, let Fan Lihua, the head of the Tang Army, come out and see it!" ”

Hundreds of heralds shouted in unison: "Fan Lihua, the general manager of the Tang Army, came out to see it!" ”

The voices of hundreds of people came out from afar, all the way into the Tang military camp, Fan Lihua frowned when she heard it, walked out of the tent and asked Fan Shui: "Who wants to see me?" ”

Fan Shuidao: "It seems to be the commander of the defenders of the royal court, and you also know this person." ”

"Oh? Who is it? ”

Fan Shui said: "Yang Fan." ”

"Is that him?" Fan Lihua was a little surprised.

Yang Dingguo told her before, this Yang Fan is not simple, let her be careful to deal with it, I didn't expect to meet it so soon, it stands to reason that this Yang Fan has been away from the Western Turks for thirteen years, he is not very old, and he is still Han, his foundation in the court is still shallow, and he is not the turn to be the commander of the city, but now he is sitting in the position of the commander of the city, which shows that this person must have unique skills, otherwise Ashina Helu will never be able to send him to defend the city, even if Ashina Helu agrees, the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs of the Western Turks will not agree.

Fan Lihua was full of curiosity about this Yang Fan at the moment, she wanted to know how far the defeated generals had grown now, so she said, "I'll go and meet this Yang Fan for a while!" As she spoke, she lifted her cloak and strode towards the outside of the camp, and Fan Shui hurriedly sent someone to lead Fan Lihua's war horse and followed closely behind.

Fan Lihua came to the outside of the camp, which was five miles away from the Western Turkic royal court, she rode her war horse, carried a silver spear and came to the city without hurrying, and finally saw Yang Fan.

Although I haven't seen Yang Fan for many years, Yang Fan's appearance has not changed much, and the biggest change may be that the childishness on his face is gone, replaced by a calm and ruthless anger.

Fan Lihua raised the silver spear and pointed at Yang Fan at the head of the city, and asked proudly, "Are you going to see me?" ”

Yang Fan sneered: "That's right, it's me who I want to see you, do you still know who I am?" ”

"How could I forget this?" Fan Lihua raised her eyebrows and said, "The subordinates of the year were just defeated. ”

Yang Fan's eyes narrowed when he heard this, and a trace of fierceness flashed on his face, but after a moment, he asked coldly: "Fourteen years, do you dare to fight with me again?" ”

"I'm sorry." Fan Lihua snorted coldly, "I never fight with my subordinates. ”

Yang Fan was so angry when he heard this, but he was deeply thoughtful, and forcibly held back his anger, and said, "Since you don't dare to fight me, quickly lead the troops and retreat, so as not to lose your life in Sanmi Mountain." ”

Fan Lihua said loudly: "Yes, I want to persuade you to open the city and surrender quickly, as soon as today passes, I will start attacking the city tomorrow, and when the time comes, I am afraid that you will not even have a chance to surrender and save your life." ”

Yang Fan sneered: "You can try it!" ”

"I'll let you try it now!" Fan Lihua's phoenix eyes widened sharply, and she quickly took off the steel tire bow on her back, and easily pulled out a steel arrow from the quiver, bent the bow and arrows, and completed it in one go, with a smooth movement.

When Yang Fan saw her movements, his heart sank, and he hurriedly took the golden-backed big knife from Yang Li's hand beside him.

As soon as he took the knife in his hand, there was a "buzz", and Fan Lihua's arrow had already been shot, and the arrow came straight to Yang Fan's chest, almost with the sound of the bowstring, such a fast speed, not giving Yang Fan any chance to dodge at all.

Yang Fan's pupils contracted violently, and he hurriedly blocked the knife to his chest, pushing the blade with his left hand, and the steel arrow hit the side of the big knife, making a crisp sound of "dang", the sound was very loud, and it was accompanied by sparks, Yang Fan was directly shocked and took half a step back, at the same time, a guard standing beside Yang Fan fell straight to the ground, because after the steel arrow was bounced away, it hit the guard's head and directly pierced its entire head, and the arrow after the bounce had such a huge power, Yang Fan was shocked into a cold sweat, he couldn't imagine, Fan Lihua used a few stone strong bows, and he was able to shoot such an incomparably powerful arrow, and all the Western Turkic armies at the head of the city were shocked and stunned.