Drive the RV back to Datang

Chapter 624 Chapter 642: Standing in the city
It's not too far from Chang'an to Bingzhou, but it's not too close. When Di Renjie led a large number of Dali Temple officers to Bingzhou, Fan Lihua had already led an army of [-] to surround the royal court of the Western Turks.

Although Sanmi Mountain is very large, the mountain is not steep, so there is no large moat. The Wangting was built on the mountainside, which is much higher than the ground level. Therefore, there is no moat outside the Wangting 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. However, the Western Turkic Royal Court does not have a moat, which means that the only thing the Western Turkic army can rely on now is the city wall.

Fortunately, the city wall of Wangting is very high, two or three meters higher than the general city walls of the Tang Dynasty, and only a little lower than Chang'an City. Don't underestimate the two or three meters, which will double the difficulty of attacking the city .

Fan Lihua is besieged three times this time, mainly attacking the east wall, assisting the north and south walls, and not attacking the west wall.

On the first day of the siege of the royal court, according to the unwritten rules, it was not allowed to attack the city and had to be persuaded to surrender first. Fan Lihua sent people to the city to urge them to surrender. In the afternoon, the east gate opened, and an envoy rode towards Fan Lihua and their temporary camp. Come.

Just before arriving at the camp, the envoy was surrounded by the Tang army. Usually the envoy is a civil servant, but this time the envoy was a military general in his 50s with gray hair. It can be seen that the civil servants of Western Turks are also a bunch of cowards. At that time, they didn't even dare to enter the enemy's camp to show off their tongues, so they just chewed their tongues in the main hall. It was true as Li Hao said, although there are thousands of words in the pen, there is no strategy in mind.

Facing the sharp spears and halberds of the Tang army, the general dismounted from his horse and said loudly, "General Lin Meng of Ningwei, Western Turkic, begs to see Marshal Fan of the Great Tang!"

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

Lin Meng, led by Fan Shui, went to Fan Lihua's tooth tent and entered the tooth tent. Fan Lihua was sitting in front of the military case. Lin Meng saluted Fan Lihua: "Greetings to Marshal Fan."

Fan Lihua raised her eyes to look at him, and said calmly: "General Lin, long time no see, what's the matter here?"

Lin Meng said: "Lin Meng was ordered by the Khan to seek peace."

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

Lin Meng said: "Marshal Fan and Lin Meng are colleagues in the past, and they also fought back against the enemy together. There are countless Marshal Fan's comrades in the royal court. I also ask Marshal Fan to let the Western Turks go because of their past friendship."

Fan Lihua raised her eyebrows and asked, "Is this what Ashina Helu said?"

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

Fan Lihua sneered when she heard the words: "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 kill thousands of brothers. .”

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

"The army has already moved, so there is no reason to return without success. Do you think my food and grass in the Tang Dynasty all fell from the sky!" Fan Lihua said coldly: "Don't talk nonsense, I just want to know, Ashina What did He Lu say?"

Lin Meng had no choice but to say: "Khan first asked me to ask Marshal Fan, the Tang Dynasty is a state of etiquette, and now we send troops to attack our Western Turks for no reason, where is the etiquette? It seems that our Western Turks have not offended Datang in recent years. "

Fan Lihua got up and bypassed the military case, walked slowly and said: "It is said that my Great Tang master is unknown, then you go back and tell Ashina Helu that he was rude to Tian Khan, calling me the Great Tang Emperor by name, and Threatening to invade Datang one day in the future and take away thousands of miles of rivers and mountains from Datang, is such a crime enough?"

Lin Meng's face darkened immediately when he heard this, such things did happen, but under normal circumstances the Tang Emperor would not know about it, but Fan Lihua was once a general of the Western Turks, so naturally he knew it all.

"Okay." Lin Meng nodded and said, "Khan said that no matter what mistakes I have made in Western Turks, I am willing to seek peace. Khan is willing to cede territory for thousands of miles. From now on, I will pay tribute to the Tang Dynasty and become a minister every year. There is no two intentions."

Fan Lihua sneered and said: "I'm sorry, Western Turkic Khan has said such things to Tang Tang more than once, but every time he always obeys and contradicts, and is capricious. Tang Huang said that the Western Turkic Khan is a villain who does not believe what he says. , Let the chief executive personally take off the head of Ashina Helu and return to his command, you should go and persuade Ashina Helu to kneel down in front of the city gate and accept the surrender, so as to prevent everyone from using weapons rashly."

Lin Meng's complexion was very ugly, the demands of the two parties differed by a thousand miles, the negotiation collapsed, and he didn't stay any longer, bid farewell to Fan Lihua, quit the tooth tent, and Fan Shui led people to send him out of the camp.

Lin Meng went back and told Ashina Helu the content of the negotiation. Ashina Helu was trembling with anger. He never expected that his casual bragging would be used by Fan Lihua as an excuse. Can't afford it.

In fact, although what he said was bragging, but if their Western Turks were strong enough, it would not be bragging. He would really do that, and he would attack Datang. It can be seen from his aggression against the small neighboring countries. It can be seen 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.

Tang Jun continued to yell into the city before the battle to persuade them to surrender. When a group of people got tired of yelling, they replaced the group. They yelled from noon to evening. Suddenly, a general wearing a golden armor and white robe appeared on the top of the city. It was Yang Fan.

Yang Fan looked at the Tang army's camp, waved to the guards beside him, and said, "Let Fan Lihua, the general manager of the Tang army, come out and see him!"

Hundreds of messengers shouted in unison: "Fan Lihua, the general manager of the Tang Army, come out and see you!"

The voices of hundreds of people spread far away and entered the Datang military camp. After hearing this, Fan Lihua frowned, stepped out of the tent and asked Fan Shui, "Who wants to see me?"

Fan Shui said: "It seems to be the commander-in-chief of Wang Ting's army. You also know the head of the National People's Congress."

"Oh? Who?"

Fan Shui said: "Yang Fan."

"It's him?" Fan Lihua was a little surprised.

Yang Dingguo told her before that this Yang Fan was not simple, so she had to deal with it carefully, but she didn't expect to meet him so soon. It stands to reason that Yang Fan had been away from Western Turkic for 13 years, he was not very old, and he was a Han Chinese. The foundation is still shallow, and in terms of seniority, it is not his turn to be the commander of the city, but now that he has taken the position of the commander of the city, it shows that this person must have unique abilities, otherwise Ashina Helu would never be able to send him Defending the city, even if Ashina Helu agreed, the civil and military ministers of the Western Turks would not agree.

Fan Lihua is full of curiosity about Yang Fan at this moment, she really wants to know how far the defeated underling has grown, so she said: "I'll go meet Yang Fan for a while!" Stepping towards the outside of the camp, Fan Shui hurriedly sent someone to lead Fan Lihua's war horse, and followed closely behind.

Fan Lihua came outside the camp, which was five miles away from the West Turkic Royal Court. She rode on her horse, carried a silver gun and came to the city without haste, and finally saw Yang Fan.

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

Fan Lihua pointed her silver gun at Yang Fan at the top of the city, and asked proudly, "You want to see me?"

Yang Fan sneered and said, "That's right, I want to see you, but do you still know who I am?"

"How could I forget this." Fan Lihua raised her eyebrows and raised her voice, "It's just a defeated subordinate back then."

Yang Fan narrowed his eyes when he heard the words, and a stern look flashed across his face, but it was fleeting. He asked coldly, "It's been 14 years, do you dare to fight me again?"

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

Yang Fan was very angry when he heard the words, but he was deep in his thoughts, forced himself not to get angry, and said: "Since you dare not fight with me, you should quickly lead your troops back, lest you lose your life on Mount Sanmi."

Fan Lihua said loudly: "Really, I would like to advise you to open the city and surrender quickly. Once today is over, I will start attacking the city tomorrow. By then, I am afraid that you will not even have a chance to surrender to save your life."

Yang Fan sneered and said, "You can try it!"

"I'll let you try it now!" Fan Lihua's phoenix eyes opened sharply, and she quickly took off the steel tire bow on her back, and pulled out a sharp steel arrow from the quiver, bent the bow and set the arrow, all in one go. Flowing clouds and flowing water.

Seeing her movements, Yang Fan's heart trembled, and he quickly took the golden-backed broadsword from Yang Li's hand next to him.

As soon as he took the knife in his hand, there was a "buzz", Fan Lihua shot an arrow, and the arrow came straight to Yang Fan's chest, almost at the same time as the sound of the bowstring. Any chance to dodge.

Yang Fan's pupils contracted violently, and he quickly shielded the knife against his chest, pushing the blade with his left hand, and the fine steel sharp arrow hit the side of the knife, making a crisp "Dang" sound, which was very loud and accompanied by sparks, and Yang Fan was directly caught He was so shocked that he took half a step back. At the same time, a guard standing next to Yang Fan fell straight to the ground, because after the fine steel sharp arrow was bounced off, it happened to hit the guard's head, directly smashing his entire head. After piercing through the hole, the arrow after flying was so powerful that Yang Fan broke out in a cold sweat. He couldn't imagine that Fan Lihua used a bow of several stones to shoot such an extremely powerful arrow. All the Western Turkic troops were shocked and dumbfounded.

(End of this chapter)