Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yan Hai confronted Arthur after discovering he was an assassin whose target was not at the special forces camp. He deduced that Arthur had been sent to kill an American who was supposed to attend, but the Americans had changed their personnel.

• Jiang Yan Hai found Arthur hiding in a dark corner and revealed that he had noticed people installing surveillance devices nearby.
• Jiang Yan Hai and Arthur introduced themselves, and Jiang Yan Hai guessed that Arthur was an assassin after Arthur reacted tensely.
• Arthur said his target was not at the camp because the intelligence was wrong, and Jiang Yan Hai guessed the target was an American.
• Jiang Yan Hai explained that Arthur's excessive observation and poor teamwork had exposed him as an assassin or intelligence operative.
• Jiang Yan Hai reasoned that the intended target was likely among the Americans, whose personnel had apparently changed at the last moment.

Jiang Yan Hai pressed Arthur about his assassination job and deduced much of his situation from his reactions, but Arthur refused to reveal his target’s name. They stood up together just as a searchlight caught them holding hands.

• Jiang Yan Hai sat beside Arthur and guessed that Arthur had come to the camp to kill a target discreetly, then investigate why the SEALs were sent there.
• Arthur explained that his target was a U.S. government soldier accused of murder in another country, whose victim’s father wanted revenge.
• Jiang Yan Hai deduced that Arthur was American and a lone-wolf contract killer, while Arthur remained confused by how much he had inferred.
• Arthur refused to reveal his target’s name, so Jiang Yan Hai suggested they return to sleep after noticing someone approaching.
• Jiang Yan Hai helped Arthur to his feet, and a searchlight suddenly illuminated their clasped hands.

Jiang Yan Hai’s nighttime meeting with Arthur drew public teasing and harsher training, while Old Wen failed to persuade the principal to act on intelligence about an impending attack. During a ten-kilometer assault, Jiang Yan Hai spotted an ambush ahead.

• Jiang Yan Hai met Arthur outside at night, but a sentry interrupted them and ordered them back to their barracks.
• The instructor woke the soldiers with smoke grenades, mocked Jiang Yan Hai and Arthur for their nighttime meeting, and ordered everyone on a fully equipped ten-kilometer assault.
• Old Wen urged the principal to act on intelligence that an attack might be imminent, but the principal refused to proceed without verification and emphasized his responsibility for the multinational soldiers.
• As Jiang Yan Hai’s team advanced with Arthur beside him, Jiang Yan Hai grabbed Arthur and warned him that an ambush lay ahead.

Jiang Yan Hai detected a mercenary ambush near the training route and chose to warn the special forces trainees despite having no clear explanation for how he knew. He reached the vanguard and alerted Gong Jian and He Chen Guang to prepare for an immediate combat response.

• Er Dan alerted Jiang Yan Hai to an ambush involving incapacitating smoke, buried nonlethal mines, concealed weapons, and snipers.
• Jiang Yan Hai decided to warn the group because the mercenaries might kidnap Chachai and harm the unconscious trainees.
• Arthur agreed to stay at the rear while Jiang Yan Hai sprinted to the front of the formation.
• Jiang Yan Hai warned Gong Jian and He Chen Guang that an ambush lay about two kilometers ahead and told them to follow the most urgent combat protocol if anything seemed wrong.

Jiang Yan Hai warned Waters and the others about an ambush, then helped the formation prepare as it entered the enemy’s trap. After smoke mines detonated, Jiang Yan Hai killed the sniper and engaged another mercenary as gunfire erupted across the battlefield.

• Jiang Yan Hai told He Chen Guang to pass along the ambush warning and asked Waters for a sniper rifle.
• Waters gave Jiang Yan Hai an AWM and ordered his soldiers to red alert after hearing that an enemy sniper was ahead.
• As the formation entered the ambush zone, smoke mines detonated and Jiang Yan Hai rolled to cover and shot the hidden sniper.
• Jiang Yan Hai directed Arthur toward the woods while He Chen Guang and the others rushed out of the smoke for cover.
• When fighting broke out nearby, Jiang Yan Hai shot a machine-gunner, whose reflexive gunfire sprayed bullets across the battlefield.

Jiang Yan Hai led the troops through an ambush, drove the attackers into retreat, and joined forces with Waters's SEALs to pursue them toward a suspected Shang Ming Group stronghold. The pursuit continued with Red Cell and the SEALs moving together, and Waters praised the Chinese special forces.

• Jiang Yan Hai warned the troops that the yellow smoke was toxic and directed He Chen Guang and Li Er Niu to engage the attackers.
• Jiang Yan Hai pinned down the enemy spotter while Arthur quietly eliminated an enemy soldier, and the attackers began retreating.
• Jiang Yan Hai learned that Gong Jian's group was safe and Waters's SEALs had defeated the enemies on their side.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered everyone to pursue the retreating attackers, reasoning that they could lead the troops to a nearby Shang Ming Group stronghold.
• Waters's SEALs joined Jiang Yan Hai's team in the jungle, and Waters praised the Chinese special forces.

Jiang Yan Hai’s team pursued two fleeing enemies through the rainforest while Warrior School learned of the attack and came under a mortar barrage. The principal sought reinforcements as the school’s forces struggled to respond.

• Waters praised Jiang Yan Hai’s command, and Jiang Yan Hai continued leading the pursuit while concealing his confusion about his altered identity.
• Jiang Yan Hai used the Scanning System to track unfamiliar people and equipment as his team kept pressure on the two fleeing enemies.
• At Warrior School, Old Wen identified Shang Ming’s mercenaries as likely attackers targeting Chachai, and the principal prepared to send forces after them.
• Mortar shells struck Warrior School, killing soldiers caught outside cover and forcing the principal and Old Wen to take shelter.
• The principal decided to call for reinforcements while leaving the pursuit of Shang Ming’s group to the two teams already tracking them.

Jiang Yan Hai’s team continued toward their objective after a huge explosion struck Warrior School, while Jiang Yan Hai revealed that Wang Yan Bing’s missing father was an undercover agent. The team shared intelligence and prepared to confront Shang Ming, with Jiang Yan Hai asking Waters to explain his group’s presence.

• An explosion destroyed the ammunition depot at Warrior School, and Jiang Yan Hai told the team to continue toward the enemy rather than turn back.
• Jiang Yan Hai told Wang Yan Bing that his father, Wang Qing Shan, had been an undercover police officer codenamed Tuna and was at their destination.
• Wang Yan Bing struggled with the revelation but accepted Jiang Yan Hai’s order to protect his father during the mission.
• Jiang Yan Hai briefed the team on the earlier enemy intelligence, and Waters asked him to share any new information with them.
• Chachai apologized for the trouble caused by his father’s connection to Shang Ming, and He Chen Guang said the team needed to eliminate the criminals.
• Jiang Yan Hai asked Major Waters why he and his group had come to the area.

Jiang Yan Hai learned that Waters's team had come to protect a senator's son from a terrorist warlord tied to an old mission in Africa. The group pursued the fleeing mercenaries through the mountains for hours, exhausted but still moving together.

• Jiang Yan Hai connected Waters's arrival to the attack on Warrior School and pressed him to explain the mission.
• Waters revealed that a warlord he had once opposed in Africa had become a terrorist and might be near Warrior School, targeting the American soldiers there.
• Jiang Yan Hai warned the group that the enemies might have heavy weapons, ordered them to keep Shang Ming alive, and reminded them to protect the undercover agent near him.
• Jiang Yan Hai guessed that Arthur's target was the senator's son and asked Arthur for his contact information.
• Jiang Yan Hai's group and the enemy traveled more than forty kilometers through mountain paths over several exhausting hours.

Jiang Yan Hai and the combined Red Cell and Navy SEAL teams attacked Shang Ming's villa, with Jiang Yan Hai's rapid sniping eliminating the enemy's most dangerous fighters. The assault overwhelmed Shang Ming Group's defenses as the special forces prepared to push into the compound.

• Jiang Yan Hai recognized that the team was nearing the enemy base and ordered everyone to prepare for combat.
• Jiang Yan Hai sniped fleeing mercenaries and a bodyguard carrying a Rocket Launcher, using Er Dan and the Active Warning System to locate dangerous targets.
• Jiang Yan Hai repeatedly reloaded and shot enemies who revealed themselves, while Red Cell and the Navy SEALs advanced in coordinated sectors.
• Song Kai Fei and Xu Tian Long marveled at Jiang Yan Hai's speed, and Waters's team was shocked by his ability to find priority targets.
• Waters ordered the teams to attack, and the Red Cell and Navy SEAL forces launched a joint assault that overwhelmed Shang Ming Group's men.

Jiang Yan Hai’s team captured Shang Ming and honored Wang Qing Shan, whose son Wang Yan Bing learned that his father had spent eleven years undercover. After they contacted Director Wen, Jiang Yan Hai learned the school had suffered a mortar attack and arranged helicopters to transport the captured criminals.

• Jiang Yan Hai ordered Shang Ming taken away separately, then Gong Jian called the soldiers to salute Wang Qing Shan.
• Jiang Yan Hai explained to Waters that Wang Yan Bing was Wang Qing Shan’s son, who had believed his father was dead and a traitor.
• Wang Qing Shan led the team to a satellite phone, and Jiang Yan Hai told Director Wen that Shang Ming had been captured and Tuna was safe.
• Director Wen reported that a mortar attack had caused at least thirty casualties at the school and that Argentine forces were responding.
• Jiang Yan Hai requested helicopters to transport the prisoners, and two transport helicopters and two Argentine armed helicopters arrived less than twenty minutes later.

After the school was destroyed, Jiang Yan Hai learned that several of his unconscious comrades would likely suffer permanent brain damage, and he resolved to think more carefully about future decisions. As the survivors prepared to join the authorized fight against Tukana’s organization, Arthur asked Jiang Yan Hai to help fake his death.

• Jiang Yan Hai and the others returned by helicopter to the ruined school, where Shang Ming was taken for interrogation.
• The principal asked the combat teams to help eliminate the terrorists, and Old Wen explained that the inhaled drug had left several companions at risk of permanent brain damage.
• Jiang Yan Hai blamed himself for not saving the unconscious soldiers, but Gong Jian and Waters reassured him that he had done what he could.
• Waters sought permission to contact his country about Tukana, while Old Wen said Jiang Yan Hai’s team could join the fighting once Afghanistan authorized them.
• Jiang Yan Hai suggested that the Americans might have the latest intelligence on Tukana, and the others began waiting for orders from their countries.
• Arthur asked Jiang Yan Hai to help him be declared dead, and Jiang Yan Hai agreed to arrange the deception.

Jiang Yan Hai learned why Waters’s team was pursuing Tukana and realized the newly trained pilots might threaten an Argentine air force base. He questioned the Argentine general about the nearby military base’s deployment and training mission, leaving the group facing an urgent danger.

• Jiang Yan Hai and Arthur exchanged contact details and said goodbye while the group waited for Waters’s intelligence.
• Waters reported that Tukana was a brutal former warlord with a history of terrorist attacks and international criminal ties.
• Jiang Yan Hai pressed Waters for the real reason the Navy SEALs were hunting Tukana, and Waters revealed that Tukana had kidnapped five American pilots and forced three to train pilots for him.
• After learning that Tukana’s men had trained three pilots, Jiang Yan Hai questioned the Argentine general about the troops’ nearby base and discovered it protected an air force base and had recently been assigned a training mission.

Jiang Yan Hai warned that an enemy might seize Argentina’s air base and use newly purchased Ying Long fighters to attack Buenos Aires, so he and the others prepared to defend it. Red Cell and the SEALs assembled for an urgent deployment while officials contacted China and the military to confirm the threat.

• Jiang Yan Hai told Waters and the others that Argentina’s Ying Long fighters could be captured and used to strike Buenos Aires, potentially targeting American buildings.
• Waters reported the danger, the general contacted his base and the Air Force Base, and Old Wen called China to verify the fighters’ readiness.
• Jiang Yan Hai asked the principal to identify the Air Force Base and insisted they leave immediately to protect the Chinese pilots.
• The principal arranged transportation while Jiang Yan Hai ordered Red Cell and the SEALs to assemble and prepare for battle.
• Jiang Yan Hai briefed the group on the possible attack in English and Chinese as they checked their weapons and equipment.

Jiang Yan Hai led the teams through the airport’s drainage system to rescue the hostages, but learned that the enemy was preparing to launch fighter jets. He handed command to Waters and headed for the hangar to stop them.

• Jiang Yan Hai briefed the Sea Lion soldiers and Red Cell on the airport infiltration plan, then split them into teams after they landed.
• Jiang Yan Hai led the group toward the airport and used a Shaped Charge to enter through the drainage system.
• Old Wen warned Jiang Yan Hai that the enemy was moving fighter jets out of the hangar to prepare for takeoff.
• Jiang Yan Hai put Waters in charge of rescuing the pilots and other hostages, then said he would go to the hangar to stop the enemy.

Jiang Yan Hai rescued the Chinese ground crew at the airport, but three enemy fighter jets were already taxiing for takeoff. With the crew freed and the jets threatening Buenos Aires, he asked them to help him take to the skies.

• Jiang Yan Hai left Waters and the others to rescue the ground crew while they focused on freeing the hostages.
• Jiang Yan Hai reached the hangars and saw three enemy fighter jets taxiing toward the runway.
• Jiang Yan Hai silently killed the guards and freed the Chinese ground crew members held inside a hangar.
• Jiang Yan Hai explained that he was training at Warrior School and asked the crew for help as enemy aircraft engines roared nearby.

Jiang Yan Hai claimed he was a pilot and rushed to prepare a Ying Long fighter so he could stop the enemy aircraft and help the hostage rescue. He launched directly from the pavement and raced toward the hostage building as Waters prepared to attack.

• Jiang Yan Hai asked the ground crew to make a fighter combat-ready and said he was a pilot.
• The ground crew armed Ying Long with four PL-10 missiles and six PL-12 missiles, while warning Jiang Yan Hai that it was not fully fueled and he had no Anti-G Suit.
• Jiang Yan Hai climbed into Ying Long and took off from the pavement beside the hangar instead of using the runway.
• Jiang Yan Hai told Waters to attack in ten seconds and warned him to cover his ears.
• Jiang Yan Hai engaged the afterburner and flew supersonic within thirty meters of the hostage building.

Jiang Yan Hai attacked three fighters with PL-12 missiles and pursued one pilot after the missiles scattered the enemy formation. As the pilot tried to escape, he began a Cobra Maneuver at nearly Mach 1, leaving Jiang Yan Hai stunned.

• Jiang Yan Hai climbed to 10,000 meters, closed to sixteen kilometers, and launched three PL-12 missiles at the three fighters.
• The enemy pilots scattered, and Er Dan reported that one target had been destroyed while another missile had been evaded.
• Jiang Yan Hai locked onto the fighter ahead and pursued it through its evasive maneuvers, matching its turns and closing the distance.
• The pilot ahead tried to evade the PL-12 with flares and a sharp dive, causing the missile to explode, but Jiang Yan Hai continued closing in.
• The frightened pilot began a Cobra Maneuver, and Jiang Yan Hai realized he was attempting it at nearly Mach 1.

Jiang Yan Hai defeated the opposing fighters in a dogfight, surviving extreme maneuvers and shooting down the last enemy with two PL-10 missiles. He reported the airspace secure and received clearance to land.

• Jiang Yan Hai's high-speed Cobra Maneuver tore apart one Ying Long fighter and incapacitated its pilot.
• The last enemy pilot pursued Jiang Yan Hai, but Jiang Yan Hai evaded his lock with repeated high-G maneuvers and slipped behind him.
• Jiang Yan Hai used ACM mode to lock onto the remaining Ying Long and launched two PL-10 missiles.
• The missiles destroyed the last enemy fighter, and Jiang Yan Hai reported the airspace secure to the Control Tower.
• The Control Tower cleared Jiang Yan Hai to return and land on Runway 01.

Jiang Yan Hai returned after defeating three enemy fighters in a one-against-three aerial battle, leaving the Chinese soldiers and the Navy SEALs astonished by his flying ability. He landed safely and joined the cheering group at the airfield.

• The Argentine trainees and staff celebrated Jiang Yan Hai's victory, while Song Kai Fei and the others struggled to believe he had shot down three fighters.
• Li Er Niu asked whether special forces soldiers had to learn to fly fighter jets, and Waters was bewildered by the question.
• Waters asked Gong Jian whether Jiang Yan Hai was a soldier or a pilot, and Gong Jian awkwardly described flying as Jiang Yan Hai's personal hobby.
• Canary confirmed to Zhang Yan that Jiang Yan Hai had eliminated the enemy and was returning.
• Gong Jian, Waters, and the others hurried to the airfield and watched Jiang Yan Hai land the Ying Long fighter jet without wearing an Anti-G Suit.
• Jiang Yan Hai climbed out of the cockpit and was greeted with applause and hugs, while Arthur watched him resentfully.