Although Tie Xun and the top brass of the New Fourth Army did not have the awareness of image cultivation and mass public relations that later generations had, they also knew that proper propaganda was very beneficial after winning the battle. In the past, there were very few news media that were willing to cover the New Fourth Army, because the New Fourth Army was only one of the hundreds of military-level establishments of the National Revolutionary Army of the Anti-Japanese War, and it did not have particularly dazzling achievements, and because the dominant power of public opinion was in the hands of the Central Army, and the New Fourth Army was a CPC army, it was even more impossible to get any positive reports.

At that time, in the Battle of Huangqiao (considered by many fruit fans and Taiwan's official history to be the cause of the Southern Anhui Incident), the New Fourth Army defeated Han Deqin's 30,000 troops with 7,000 troops and occupied Jiangyan. It was immediately turned out by the Nationalist Government, and it was hyped up as an anti-joint war of resistance, undermining the unity of the War of Resistance, and smearing the CPC and its Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army. And in fact, the Chinese government army in the Battle of Huangqiao was not as innocent as they themselves said. Before the Battle of Huangqiao, Han Deqin repeatedly attacked the guerrillas led by the Eighth Route Army and CPC, causing the Red Anti-Japanese forces to suffer great losses, and only after they could no longer bear them and determined their reactionary nature, the New Fourth Army launched an attack on them. And the fruit fans will definitely be able to advance the reason, the CPC troops do not follow Chongqing's deployment, go beyond the area of responsibility for development, and infiltrate the vast area. Think about it, this question is not clear in the first place, neither side of the KC is as great and righteous as he said, and both sides are enemies that cannot tolerate the other.

With Chongqing in control of public opinion, although the outbreak of the Southern Anhui Incident aroused the sympathy of people from all walks of life, the more mainstream voice in fact probably said that the New Fourth Army was to blame, and even sang praises to Chang Kaishen and his party.

The CPC has its own organ publication, Xinhua Daily, but this newspaper is far from being as influential as it was twenty or thirty years later, and now it is not even the most accepted newspaper in the base areas, and there is no market in the Kuomintang area, and it is even a typical prohibited publication after that. (Xinhua Daily also has times when it is harmonized...... ）

"Ta Kung Pao" is a relatively influential newspaper in China, and Tie Xun does not expect them to be completely impartial, as long as the New Fourth Army's defeat of the two main divisions of the Japanese army can be reported and inspired by the whole people to resist the war, it can already be regarded as a complete merit.

After Cao Gubing reported his identity, he was warmly received by the New Fourth Army, and even the New Fourth Army specially found someone from the youth school class as a guide to take Cao Gubing to report what he wanted to report.

Of course, when Cao Gubing asked about the origin of the magical iron giant, Tie Xun prevaricated because it was inconvenient to reveal it. However, in this way, Cao Gubing also confirmed that the steel giant that people said did exist. Moreover, Tie Xun still told Cao Gubing a name as usual - the Wheel King.

"Can you tell us more about the Wheel King?" Cao Gubing asked the New Fourth Army personnel who accompanied him to the interview.

Qi Yuan also felt ridiculous, he was the real master of the Wheel King, and he was actually treated as a guy who didn't understand the situation, and was sent to deal with Cao Gubing, a reporter, naturally, he would not leak the situation to Cao Gubing.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Cao, we have discipline, and we must not disclose confidential things, and besides, how many things can we soldiers know, do you say yes?" Qi Yuan pretended to be embarrassed and said.

"Then at least tell me how this Wheel King fights." Cao Gubing wanted to bribe this young soldier, but remembered that the New Fourth Army was not the same as ordinary troops, and if he didn't bribe effectively, he might be driven away, so he didn't take this risk.

"No, Mr. Cao, I can't sue you for this." Qi Yuan still looks selfless with an iron face, but he knows that as long as Cao Gubing spends some effort to ask the residents of Wuhu, he can still ask a lot of things, at least he can ask about the "hand cannon" and "machine cannon" of the Wheel King

The 23mm Gatling cannon and the 125mm electromagnetic accelerator cannon are the most commonly used weapons of the Wheel King, although it also has binocular deathlight cannons, neutron cannons, high-frequency blades and other weapons, but in actual combat, they basically don't use it much.

After thinking about it, Qi Yuan was still going to say something, and he said to Cao Gubing sternly: "Mr. Cao, what I can tell you is that the Wheel King is very powerful, and nothing can resist it on the battlefield. ”

Cao Gubing immediately wrote down Qi Yuan's words, after all, Qi Yuan was a soldier of the New Fourth Army, and what he said had official attributes. But he himself believes it or not, anyway, Qi Yuan said so, and he wants to present it to the readers.

"So, it is because of the Wheel King that the New Fourth Army can achieve dazzling results in breaking the two main divisions of the Japanese Army, right?" Cao Gubing asked again.

Qi Yuan replied: "No, the main force that defeated the Japanese army was our New Fourth Army troops, and there was not much participation of the wheel king, especially when dealing with the 13th Division, our army fought a beautiful ambush battle, gave full play to the advantages of our army, played our prestige, and finally annihilated the Japanese army." His rhetoric is still relatively fake and empty, and it sounds very official, but it still reveals some important content, such as the New Fourth Army defeated the Japanese 13th Division by ambushing and sneaking attack.

asked Qi Yuan some questions that were not painful, Cao Gubing looked at the soldiers of the New Fourth Army who were wearing a Type 55 military uniform, and he had all kinds of thoughts in his heart for a while. Obviously, the current New Fourth Army looks more like a regular army than the Central Army, not only in terms of more beautiful military uniforms and more powerful weapons, but also that the spirit of the New Fourth Army is very different from that of the National Government Army. As long as it is an individual, he can feel the heavy twilight and decay of the Guofu Army, and can see the vigor and sharpness of the New Fourth Army.

Cao Gubing then returned to the hotel and sorted out tens of thousands of words of reports on the New Fourth Army, from the great changes in the New Fourth Army to the combat examples of the New Fourth Army, and even mixed some private goods, and by the way, some concepts of CPC were mixed in as background materials. After doing this, Cao Gubing thought about it, and he thought that in Wuhu, bigger changes were brewing, he might see more magical things, and the one qiē that appeared here was likely to save China, which was sliding into the abyss, and as a journalist, Cao Gubing wanted to witness history.

As a result, Cao Gubing wrote a letter to Zhang Jiluan, the editor-in-chief of Ta Kung Pao, asking for permission to stay in Wuhu for follow-up reporting, or to open a Wuhu edition of Ta Kung Pao.