Li Yunlong wants to form the backbone of the iron-blooded brigade.

"Next, I'll announce the five tiger generals of the Iron Brigade!" Li Yunlong looked up at the people present and said, "These five tiger generals are Zhou Weiguo, Li Xiangyang, Zhentianlei, and Zhang Dabiao!" Monk"

Zhou Weiguo, monk Li Xiangyang, Zhentianlei, and Zhang Dabiao are the most backbone members of the Iron and Blood Brigade, and they followed Li Yunlong from the beginning, which can be described as great achievements, especially Zhang Dabiao, monks, etc., who have witnessed the strength of the Iron and Blood Brigade.

Although Zhentian Lei, Zhou Weiguo and others only joined later, they have made a lot of military exploits, and it is not an exaggeration to become one of the five tiger generals!

"Next, for the five tiger fierce generals to find the ** rank! Since Zhang Dabiao is not present, he will be publicized and awarded by telegram and so on! ”

Immediately, Zhou Weiguo, monk, Li Xiangyang, Zhentianlei and others all walked in front of everyone, waiting for Li Yunlong to be promoted to the first rank.

Li Yunlong gave everyone a ** rank epaulette and carried out a solemn ceremony.

At present, there are a total of six generals in the entire iron-blooded brigade, namely Li Yunlong, a lieutenant general, and five **.

"Next, I announce the personnel of the Thirteenth Taibao of the Iron Brigade!"

The Thirteenth Taibao, this is the backbone member of the Iron Brigade!

"The thirteen Taibao are Wang Buer, Liu Fusheng, Sun Desheng, Xiao Qiao, Liu Shiyin, Xiao Yan, Yu Fei, Duan Peng, Anthocyanin, Hua Mulan, Wei Dayong.........

Although Liu Shiyin was a non-combatant, because his news agency played a very important role in propagating the Iron and Blood Brigade and conducting psychological warfare tactics, he was specially awarded one of the 13th Taibao.

"All the thirteen Taibao will be awarded the ** rank!"

Immediately, Li Yunlong began to issue the epaulettes of the rank of ** to the people of the Iron and Blood Brigade.

At this point, the Five Tiger Generals and the Thirteen Taibao of the Iron and Blood Brigade were officially established.

The reason why Li Yunlong wants to promote such a name is to affirm and commend everyone, and the most important reason is that he hopes to play the role of an exemplary pacesetter.

The role of the model pacesetter is very powerful, and if the predators of the whole army are fighting and fighting towards the model benchmark, then the morale and combat effectiveness of the predator brigade will rise to a higher level.

Immediately afterwards, Li Yunlong began to award awards and promotions to every hero of the Battle of Nanjing.

Afternoon, 15:20.

Li Yunlong, the four tigers of the five fierce generals, the thirteenth Taibao, and others all gathered at the operational meeting for the final meeting of the general attack on Shanghai.

After the rest of the troops and the addition of new troops, there are now a total of 50,000 troops that can go to battle.

Previously, the Iron and Blood Brigade plus the troops were nearly 100,000 people, but after the Battle of Nanjing, more than 70,000 people were killed and wounded, which is very large.

It can be seen that the battle of Nanjing was very tragic.

Among the more than 70,000 casualties, more than 50,000 soldiers were sacrificed, of which the main ones were soldiers of local troops, followed by predators, and the remaining more than 20,000 people were seriously injured on the battlefield and could not go to the battlefield even if they returned from treatment.

Therefore, with the addition of rest and reinforcements, the Iron and Blood Brigade only had more than 50,000 people to go to Shanghai in addition to the garrison troops in Nanjing.

Li Yunlong looked at everyone present: "According to intelligence, because of the failure of the Nanjing battlefield, the Japanese puppet army in Shanghai only has more than 30,000 people guarding the Japanese puppet army, which is almost all the Japanese puppet troops in the surrounding areas of Shanghai!" ”

"The Japanese army set up several lines of defense in Shanghai, and the most important line of defense was the Songhu area, that is, the confluence of the two rivers of Huangpu and Wusong in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, choking the gateway of the Yangtze River. This is also the main battlefield of the previous Battle of Songhu. ”

Battle of Songhu. Also known as the August 13 Campaign, it was the first large-scale battle between China and Japan in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and it was also the largest and most tragic battle in the entire Sino-Japanese War.

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The battle began on August 13, 1937, with a total of about 1 million troops on both sides engaged in the battle, and the battle itself lasted for three months, with the Japanese army investing more than 200,000 people in 8 divisions and 2 brigades, and more than 40,000 casualties were announced; The Chinese army invested more than 800,000 people in the most elite Central Teaching Corps, the 87th and 88th Divisions, 148 divisions and 62 brigades, and counted 300,000 casualties.

However, because of the Battle of Songhu, Japan's plan to "destroy China in three months" was completely crushed.

Although none of the people present had participated in the Battle of Songhu, they also knew the tragedy of the Battle of Songhu, and they all mourned in silence.

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The officers and soldiers of the Battle of Songhu were all good.

"Therefore, our main concentration of forces is to fight in Songhu, and the other battlefields are flank battlefields, forming an encirclement of the entire Shanghai!"

Everyone present nodded.

"In this battle of Shanghai, although our strength is against the Japanese puppet army, we have one shortcoming, that is, we don't have any warships!"

"The Japanese army is deployed in Shanghai, and there is a Third Navy Fleet located in the coastal waters of Shanghai and at the mouth of the Yangtze River, which is our biggest headache!"

Japan's Third Fleet is responsible for operations in the East China Sea and the Yangtze River Valley, and has one light cruiser, three destroyers, two coastal defense ships, 13 gunboats, and five base fleets.

Although the strength of these navies is not strong, it is a huge threat and difficulty for the iron-blooded brigade with 0 navy.

When everyone heard this, their brows furrowed.

This is indeed a problem.

After being silent for a moment, Zhou Weiguo suddenly spoke: "Brigade commander, do you think we can repeat our old tricks and use super underwater forces?" ”