Gao Lan, Guo Tu, and Jiang Qi led 30,000 Yuan troops to rescue Cao Cao, and naturally they already knew the size of Zhu Wei's army on Puyang City.

So for the question of how to support Cao Cao, they are really a little nerve-wracking, now that Zhu Weijun has surrounded Puyang City to death, what is the point of their 30,000 people passing?

It is impossible for their 30,000 troops to break through the encirclement of Puyang City by Zhu Wei's army, in fact, even if they lead their troops to break through Zhu Weijun's encirclement of Puyang City, Cao Cao will not dare to go out of the city.

After leaving Puyang City, where can Cao Cao go?

Could it be that they also entered Puyang City to help Cao Cao defend the city together?

This seems to be a bit inappropriate, after all, their 30,000 people plus Cao Cao's troops may not have an advantage over Zhu Weijun's troops, so they will only add a piece of meat to Zhu Weijun when they enter Puyang City.

How can it be regarded as rescuing Cao Cao?

At least it is to help Cao Cao repel Zhu Weijun, but judging from the current situation, this seems unlikely to be realized, relying on their 30,000 people.

It can be said that although Gao Lan, Guo Tu, and Jiang Qi were ordered to support Cao Cao, they were also at a loss for how to support Cao Cao, and the 30,000 army was not less, but in the face of Zhu Wei's more than 100,000 troops, if they really pounced, they would send meat.

At the same time, Puyang was on the south bank of the Yellow River, and Gao Lansuo led Yuan Shaojun to cross the Yellow River to reach Puyang, which was another trouble for Yuan Shaojun.

Now the Yellow River is basically under the control of Zhu Weijun, and since Zhu Wei transferred Gan Ning's Jiangjiao battalion to the frontline battlefield, the warships of the Jiangjiao battalion have taken the Yellow River as their main route.

As a northern army, Yuan Shaojun was not very good at water warfare, so naturally there was no naval army to confront Ganning's Jiangjiao battalion on the Yellow River.

What's more, on the front line of Chaoge and Liyang, there is also the army of Pang Yan's Xionglu camp stationed, Gao Ran wants to go to Puyang to support Cao Cao, and he also needs to bypass the defense line of the Xionglu camp's army, so he can only enter Yanzhou Dongjun from the direction of Fanyang and Yin'an, and then support Puyang City from north to south.

As a result, although Gao Lan, Guo Tu, and Jiang Qi led their troops to Puyang City to support, they didn't know exactly how to do it, and they could only take one step at a time.

At least before there was no major change in the situation on the side of Puyang City, he was ready to lead his troops from Fanyang into the territory of Yanzhou East County, and then slowly went to the north bank of the Yellow River in the direction of Puyang, but in the end he would only stop on the north bank of the Yellow River and stop advancing.

It's just that Gao Ran didn't expect that they were going to mix up time, but Zhu Wei treated them as a piece of meat and was ready to eat it with his mouth open.

Of course, in Yanzhou, there are basically plains that can be seen through at a glance, and there are only a few small hilly terrains, and it is difficult to find an ambush place, so Zhu Wei needs to put some thought into setting up an ambush to swallow the 30,000 Yuan army led by Gao Lan.

Leaving aside Gao Lan's side for the time being, he followed the route of the march in the direction of Puyang City, and soon came to Dunqiu County on the border between Yanzhou East County and Yizhou Wei County.

This Dunqiu County was originally just a small county, but because there was a hill named "Dunqiu" in the territory, it became the name of the county.

In addition, in the Book of Songs, there is a "hooligan" chapter that mentions Dunqiu, which also makes this small county famous in history, "Hooligans, hugging cloth trade silk." Bandits come to trade silk, and I seek to come. Send the son to wade Qi, as for Dunqiu. I am scared, and there is no good matchmaker. ”

This "Hooligans" poem is about a woman who fell in love with a "scholar", got married, and was abandoned, which can also be regarded as a tragic story.

However, now there will be another battle in this Dunqiu County that will be recorded in the annals of history.

Gao Lan, Guo Tu, and Jiang Qi led 30,000 Yuan troops to the territory of Dunqiu County.

After all, Gao Ran didn't want to expose his traces of the march too much, he still hoped that his support army would be unknown for the time being, so that he could also play the role of a surprise soldier at a critical time.

In fact, when they marched in Yuan Shao's territory in Wei County, Yizhou, Gao Lan's headquarters could be regarded as a secret march, and they did not let too many people know their traces.

Unexpectedly, not long after the Yuan army led by Gao Ran entered Dunqiu County, he met people from Dunqiu County on the way, saying that he had been waiting for Yuan Shaojun to come here.

The people of Dunqiu County said that they were the county magistrates of Dunqiu County (the county magistrates of counties below 10,000 households in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the county magistrates above 10,000 households) admired Yuan Jun to support the lord Cao Cao, so although Dunqiu County was a small county, it was also ordered by Cao Cao to prepare some grain and grass materials in the county, and wanted to give them to Yuan Shaojun as a reward.

Gao Ran was still a little skeptical at first, how could the people of Dunqiu County know the whereabouts of his army, but the people who came to greet him only said that it was the arrangement above, maybe their lord Cao Cao expected their marching route, so he had such preparations.

Gao Ran thought about it and still didn't suspect too much, after all, Cao Cao was indeed not an ordinary person, not to mention that the other party had prepared grain and grass materials to give to him, Gao Ran felt that since his army had already exposed its whereabouts, it was nothing to take the troops to Dunqiu County.

On the way, Gao Ran also consulted with Guo Tu, and Guo Tu also felt that this might be Cao Cao's fear that they would not be willing to help, so he deliberately played such a hand here, so that they were embarrassed not to support, so that they could be more dedicated.

At the same time, Cao Cao may still be here through the county magistrate of Nadunqiu County, what news will be given to them, so that they can have a better way to support Puyang.

In addition, in Guo Tu's opinion, the grain and grass materials prepared here in Dunqiu County are also not in vain, their 30,000 troops come all the way, if they can get some grain and grass supplies on the spot, they can always reduce the consumption of materials in the rear.

Therefore, the 30,000 Yuan troops led by Gao Ran also marched in the direction of Dunqiu County, and outside the Tucheng of Dunqiu County, which was not very large, he saw a lot of piled up materials, which seemed to be grain, grass, silk cloth, and so on.

And the people from Dunqiu County who came to greet him also invited Gao Ran and Guo Tu to the county for a banquet on behalf of the county magistrate, saying that the county magistrate had prepared a banquet to treat each other.

Gao Ran thought about it and refused, after all, as a commander general, he couldn't leave the army easily, but Gao Ran still asked Guo Tu to participate, which could be regarded as showing their affection for bearing this.

Originally, Guo Tu was not very happy to meet the county magistrate of a small county like Dunqiu County, which is less than 10,000 households, but the other party did show such a warm hospitality, and at the same time, he also wanted to know if there was really Cao Cao in this Dunqiu County, so Guo Tu followed the people of Dunqiu County to Dunqiu County......