Mihran, compelled to obey this call, had to evacuate Armenia, and Vahan in a few weeks recovered possession of the whole country.
The year A.D.483 now arrived, and another desperate attempt was made to crush the Armenian revolt.

Early in the spring a Persian army invaded Armenia, under a general called Hazaravougd.

Vahan allowed himself to be surprised, to be shut up in the city of Dovin, and to be there besieged.
After a while he made his escape, and renewed the guerilla warfare in which he was an adept; but the Persians recovered most of the country, and he was himself, on more than one occasion, driven across the border and obliged to seek refuge in Roman Armenia, whither his adversary had no right to follow him.

Even here, however, he was not safe.
Hazaravougd, at the risk of a rupture with Rome, pursued his flying foe across the frontier; and Vahan was for some time in the greatest danger.
But the Persian system of constantly changing the commands of their chief officers saved him.

Hazaravougd received orders from the court to deliver up Armenia to a newly appointed governor, named Sapor, and to direct his own efforts to the recovery of Iberia, which was still in insurrection.