On 15 August, he officially announced the formation of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, with General Matsui Ishine as commander and the troops of the 3rd and 11th Divisions to Shanghai for reinforcements and further expand the war of aggression against China.

At this time, the war in Shanghai was still going on, and the Central Army, which had the upper hand, still launched a series of fierce attacks, hoping to annihilate the Yue army in Shanghai before the arrival of reinforcements.

After several years of hard fighting, the 87th Division occupied Hujiang University, the 88th Division occupied Wuzhou Cemetery, Baoshan Bridge, Bazi Bridge and other key points, and the 14th Supplementary Brigade of the 2nd Division (renamed the 20th Brigade of Reading Force) took over from the 88th Division (Sun Yuanliang's Division) to defend Shanghai Patriotic Girls' School and Zhizhi University, and assumed the task of attacking Hongkou Park and Jiangwan Road Army Headquarters. On the 16th, the army retreated to the stronghold centered on the headquarters of the Marine Corps in Jiangwan, and relied on strong fortifications to resist stubbornly, and the central army often failed to overcome repeated attacks and returned in vain. And the casualties themselves are very large.

After receiving Li Long's good news, Jin Zhao did not show much joy, although Li Long thwarted the attack of the Yue army in Duolun and annihilated thousands of the Yue army. However, the victory in the local battlefield could not change the entire battle situation, especially the situation in Shanghai, which always made Jin Zhao worried.

At this time, Lao Chiang considered that it would be more convenient to fight in Shanghai than to fight in the Great Plains in the far north, and that Shanghai was an international metropolis with foreign concessions, and that a war here was very likely to cause the intervention of the great powers, and if he fought well, he might win a glorious peace with foreign mediation, and then thwart the ambitions of the Yue army against North China, which would be extremely advantageous to the relatively weak China.

Lao Jiang's idea was good, but Jin Zhao, who came from later generations, knew that counting on the intervention of Britain and the United States, and stopping the invasion of Yuben was completely wishful thinking!

Jin Zhao sat in his office, constantly looking through the newspaper reports on the battle in Shanghai in the past two days. One of them was a report on the August 14 air battle.

On 14 August, 18 Type 96 heavy bombers of the Luwu Air Force took off from Taipei at 14:50 to bomb the mainland's coastal airfields, and nine of them flew over Hangzhou's raft and bridge airfield. The 4th Brigade of the Huaxia Air Force, under the leadership of Captain Gao Zhihang, flew Hawker III fighters into the air to meet the battle, groped from above the clouds to under the clouds, and immediately occupied a favorable position and launched an attack after discovering the enemy plane. The plane panicked and dropped the rest of the bombs in an attempt to escape, but the air force fighters clung to the enemy plane and aimed and opened fire. In a short air battle, Gao Zhihang and others shot down a total of 3 planes and damaged 1, while the 4th Brigade only had 1 fighter lightly damaged, setting the first time that the Chinese Air Force had a glorious record of 3:0 in an air battle in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (the newspaper advertised that it was 6:0, but in fact, the 4th Brigade only shot down a total of 3 planes in the "August 14" air battle).

"it!" Jin Zhao couldn't help but scold, Jin Zhao had already ordered the air force to prepare for war, and in the past two days, he has also successively sent some fighters to bomb the Shanghai army, and has also achieved certain results. However, Jin Zhao was still very dissatisfied, saying that the army still firmly held Shanghai's air supremacy, and it was necessary to increase investment in the air force and try to seize Shanghai's air supremacy.

But the following report made Jin Zhao angry. On the 14th, although the Ninth Army suffered heavy losses, the progress was still considerable. Lao Jiang was worried that the losses of the troops would be too large, so he ordered Zhang Zhizhong to stop the attack, so that our army missed an opportunity to take advantage of the victory to expand the results of the battle.

On the 15th and 16th, although there were continuous battles in Shanghai, in order to prepare for the second full-front attack, our army did not launch a large-scale offensive, and at this time, the Shanghai army was completely at a disadvantage and was unable to launch a large-scale offensive. However, military planes and naval artillery seized the opportunity to carry out intensive bombing of the downtown area of Shanghai in retaliation for our army's attack, and the ten-mile ocean field suddenly turned into a purgatory on earth, and 1,600 civilians were killed and wounded on the streets of the Bund on Nanjing Road. More than 200 passengers were killed in the bombing of Shanghai South Railway Station.

Jin Zhao looked at the photo of a bereaved toddler sitting on the ruins and crying in the newspaper, his heart was deeply stabbed, and the muscles on his face were constantly twisted because of anger. Get you back? Lao Tzu also wants to take revenge! Jin Zhao grabbed the phone on the table and connected to the Air Force Command, "Inform your commander-in-chief to come to my office for a meeting immediately!" ”

In the early morning of August 17, before dawn, Jin Zhao drove away from his home and rushed to Fuzhou Airport! At this time, the airport was busy, and the ground crew was urgently refueling dozens of planes on the airport.

Jin Zhao ascended the control tower under the leadership of Lu Yunfei, commander-in-chief of the Fujian Air Force, and more than an hour later, when a trace of fish belly white had just appeared in the east, an officer walked up to Jin Zhao and the others and reported loudly, "Report to the general seat!" All the planes participating in the battle are ready! Ready to take off! ”

Jin Zhao said loudly to the pilots at the airport who were ready to go through the loudspeaker, "Brave pilots, you are the pride of the sky, you are the eagles soaring in the blue sky!" Go ahead! Use your claws to shred all the enemies who try to challenge me Huaxia! I am here waiting for your triumphant return! ”

Then Jin Zhao turned around and nodded at Lu Yunfei, and Lu Yunfei randomly ordered all the fighters to attack! The same order was transmitted to several coastal airports such as Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, and Putian at the same time through telephone lines.

The pilots who received the order, like bullets out of the chamber, quickly rushed to the tarmac and climbed onto their beloved fighters.

Under the guidance of the ground crew, one after another fighters quickly crossed the runway and soared into the sky. After completing the formation over the airport, the fighter plane flew towards the southeast and soon disappeared from Jin Zhao's sight.

Seeing the dozens of small black dots in the sky finally disappear, Jin Zhao breathed a sigh of relief, and then slowly closed his eyes.

Lu Yunfei turned to Jin Zhao and said, "The main seat! You'd better go down and rest for a while! They won't be back for a while. ”

Jin Zhao shook his head and said, "I'll wait here for them to come back!" After a while, Jin Zhao turned to Lu Yunfei and said, "This is still too far away from the Shanghai battlefield, and I am now communicating with Nanjing, hoping to send an air force to the airports in Shanghai and Suzhou to support the brother troops in Shanghai nearby!" You immediately organize a task force and be ready to go north at any time! ”

"And how many planes do we send north?" A hint of excitement flashed in Lu Yunfei's eyes.