Recaps

Jiang Yan Hai’s group continued through the dangerous route while Er Dan coordinated a covert missile strike against an enemy aircraft. The missile locked onto the aircraft, and its crew received a radar warning.

• Jiang Yan Hai’s team equipped themselves with weapons and continued toward the rendezvous point while Er Dan guided their route by satellite.
• Jiang Yan Hai received Gao Yun’s inquiry and had Er Dan send the order to proceed with the plan.
• Gao Yun ordered the submarine Sea Squid to execute the mission, and its captain launched a missile.
• Er Dan interfered with the enemy aircraft’s radar as Sephora investigated the virus affecting its systems.
• The missile’s seeker acquired the aircraft, triggering its radar warning receiver and alerting the crew that they had been locked on.

A hypersonic missile destroyed Sephora’s aircraft, cutting off the Sha Chen Organization’s external communications. Jiang Yan Hai reached a secret base near the target city and prepared to plan an approach that would avoid harming civilians.

• The missile ignored the aircraft’s countermeasures and struck its tail, killing Sephora and destroying the plane.
• Gao Yun received confirmation that all targets had been eliminated, and the nuclear submarine retrieved its communications buoy before heading back.
• Jiang Yan Hai received the report that Sephora was gone and concluded Sha Chen would have limited time to respond.
• Jiang Yan Hai and his team reached Black Lion’s temporary base thirteen kilometers from the target city, where they learned about the Rebel Army presence and available drones.
• Black Lion identified a guarded three-story building where apparent researchers frequently entered and left, while Jiang Yan Hai weighed the danger of approaching through a dense civilian neighborhood.

Jiang Yan Hai planned a daytime assault on the enemy’s building, dividing his forces into three teams and assigning himself to Leng Feng’s group. He explained that he wanted to guide Leng Feng’s soldiers through urban combat among civilians, and the teams prepared to enter the city the next morning.

• Jiang Yan Hai chose a daytime operation because the city’s civilians and the enemy’s familiarity with the terrain made a nighttime attack more dangerous.
• Jiang Yan Hai assigned three combat teams to attack from different directions, with his team drawing enemy forces while the other two advanced on the target building.
• Black Lion volunteered his team for the vanguard, but Jiang Yan Hai ordered him to follow the plan and said he would join Leng Feng’s team.
• Jiang Yan Hai told Black Lion’s team that he chose Leng Feng’s soldiers because they lacked experience in urban combat among civilians.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered the teams to change gear that night and blend into the city in the morning.

Jiang Yan Hai revealed his identity as a Dark Blade colonel and warned the three teams about the dangers of fighting rebels among civilians. He left them preparing for battle with new camouflage and advanced protective equipment.

• Jiang Yan Hai identified himself as Liston Han Xiao, codename Technician, and as Dark Blade colonel Haidongqing.
• Jiang Yan Hai warned the teams that they could face over a thousand Rebel Army soldiers and urged them not to die through reckless attempts to protect civilians.
• Shao Bing confirmed Jiang Yan Hai's identity, and the soldiers accepted his orders to gear up in thirty minutes.
• Jiang Yan Hai's three combat teams gathered in a resupplied warehouse and changed into jungle camouflage.
• Jiang Yan Hai issued the teams custom Kevlar vests and Superalloy inserts designed to stop bullets and reduce injuries.

Jiang Yan Hai equipped the teams with advanced armor, helmets, and support equipment before leading them toward the city. By dawn, the teams had infiltrated the outskirts and gathered at cars left there during reconnaissance.

• Jiang Yan Hai demonstrated that a new-alloy helmet could withstand a 7.62-millimeter sniper round, though he warned that the impact could still be fatal.
• Jiang Yan Hai outfitted the teams with beacons, ammunition, infrared detectors, and other equipment, and warned the snipers to stay near their combat teams.
• Before dawn, Jiang Yan Hai and the teams took Ramsey to a nearby mountain so she could operate the drones while a mercenary guarded her.
• Several hours later, the teams slipped into the city outskirts, where they found the cars Black Lion and the others had previously hidden.
• The teams climbed into the vehicles in groups and waited for dawn.

Jiang Yan Hai and his fourteen-man team infiltrated the city, using a drone to find a way past the checkpoints and into the core district. When Rebel Army patrols blocked their route near the target, Jiang Yan Hai ordered the team into combat and led them forward.

• Jiang Yan Hai ordered the drone operation to begin, and Ramsey found an alley route past the checkpoints.
• Jiang Yan Hai led his team through the alley and over a wall into the core district.
• Ramsey reported armed patrols ahead, and Jiang Yan Hai ordered his team to prepare for combat.
• Leng Feng fired into the air to drive civilians away from the streets.
• Jiang Yan Hai shot a Rebel Army soldier in a second-floor window and ordered his team to advance.

Jiang Yan Hai and his team fought through a residential district as the Rebel Army swarmed their position. They destroyed an enemy heavy-machine-gun truck and drew most of the enemy forces away, allowing Teams Two and Three to advance toward the target building, while Jiang Yan Hai remained under rocket fire.

• Jiang Yan Hai and Leng Feng led their team through the residential district while Rebel Army soldiers attacked from all sides.
• Jiang Yan Hai pulled a soldier into a house to escape a twin-mounted heavy machine gun, and Leng Feng and Shao Bing helped suppress it.
• Jiang Yan Hai destroyed the machine-gun truck with a Grenade Launcher Round, and his team charged toward the target building.
• Ramsey reported that most Rebel Army forces were converging on Jiang Yan Hai, so he ordered Teams Two and Three to advance and told Black Lion to secure the buildings around the target.
• A rocket forced Jiang Yan Hai through a nearby window, and he charged toward the other doorway as the blast struck behind him.

Jiang Yan Hai and his soldiers fought to escape a street ambush as Rebel Army tanks and machine guns pinned them down. After Ramsey’s drone destroyed both tanks and crashed into a machine-gun position, Jiang Yan Hai used smoke and infrared detectors to prepare the team to charge across the street.

• Jiang Yan Hai spotted two approaching tanks and ordered his team to move, then took bullets while shielding a soldier and killed nearby enemies.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered Leng Feng and Shao Bing to deploy smoke grenades as tank shells blasted nearby buildings and injured two soldiers.
• Ramsey’s drone fired its two missiles and destroyed both tanks, causing their ammunition to explode and killing nearby Rebel Army soldiers.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered Ramsey to crash the drone into a protected machine-gun position, opening a hole in the building.
• Jiang Yan Hai’s team filled the street with smoke and used helmet-mounted infrared detectors to locate the enemy before charging across.

Jiang Yan Hai’s team captured a research facility, rescued eight kidnapped scientists, and discovered that the researchers were developing radar-absorbing materials rather than studying Energy Ore. The team loaded the scientists and research materials into trucks and escaped the facility under Black Lion’s cover.

• Leng Feng and another sniper suppressed the Rebel Army’s machine guns while Jiang Yan Hai and Shao Bing used grenades to destroy enemy positions and open a route into the building.
• Jiang Yan Hai’s team cleared the facility and found research equipment but no Energy Ore, while Black Lion’s group established a defensive line outside.
• Jiang Yan Hai questioned eight captive scientists, who explained that they had been forced to develop materials that could absorb radar waves.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered Leng Feng to collect the research materials and hard drives, then prepared three trucks to evacuate the scientists and his team.
• Jiang Yan Hai’s convoy smashed through the building’s gate and escaped under fire with help from Black Lion’s defensive line and Ramsey’s drone guidance.

Jiang Yan Hai concluded that Sandstorm’s supposed new-material research was a decoy and traced suspicious supply trucks to a village near a government military base. After dispatching the scientists and setting out to investigate on foot, he examined information about the nearby base and its commander.

• Jiang Yan Hai reasoned that Sandstorm’s research facility had to be somewhere populated and ordered Ramsey to trace the supply trucks’ routes.
• Ramsey found that tarp-covered trucks repeatedly passed through a village thirty kilometers southeast, near a small city and government military base.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered his team to approach the village on foot without notifying the government forces, and sent Group Three to escort the scientists away.
• Jiang Yan Hai’s team abandoned their vehicles in the forest while Ramsey used drones to reconnoiter the village.
• Jiang Yan Hai reviewed information Er Dan gathered about the military base and the Republic of Goa’s political standoff between government forces and the Rebel Army.

Jiang Yan Hai investigated the government troops near the Rebel Army territory and led his team toward a suspicious village. After identifying a likely target there, he decided they would rest in a nearby farmstead and assess the situation before acting the next day.

• Jiang Yan Hai learned that the military base’s leadership and soldiers belonged to government-loyal tribal groups, though he still suspected an undiscovered connection.
• Jiang Yan Hai asked Gao Yun to have officials verify whether the Republic of Goa troops along the Rebel Army border could be trusted.
• Jiang Yan Hai and his team reached a large farmstead near the village and cut through its fence to hide in the fields for the night.
• Ramsey showed reconnaissance footage indicating that newer buildings in the village’s southwest and nearby patrol routes might mark their target.
• Jiang Yan Hai decided the team would rest and wait until the next day, while Black Lion and the others held off on attacking until he gave the order.

Jiang Yan Hai and his team found a vegetable farm, ate fresh produce, and settled in for the night. They discovered the farm owners were Chinese but stayed hidden to avoid alarming them while on their mission.

• Jiang Yan Hai and his group found well-tended tomato, cucumber, and watermelon fields and ate the produce, with Inov offering to pay the owner.
• White Headed Eagle and other snipers stood guard while the team ate and waited for nightfall.
• White Headed Eagle spotted the farm owners, and Jiang Yan Hai used low-light binoculars to see a phone bearing a Chinese flag.
• Leng Feng confirmed the farm owners were Chinese, but Shao Bing and the others decided not to approach them.
• Jiang Yan Hai began resting as Black Lion's side arranged watch rotations, and the team slept in the dark.

Jiang Yan Hai and his team woke to armed men approaching the farmer’s house and learned that a local gang was threatening the owners over their farm. Because the team owed the farmers money for their food, Jiang Yan Hai ordered his men to move in and protect them.

• White Headed Eagle woke Jiang Yan Hai and the others after spotting three vehicles heading toward the farmer’s house.
• Jiang Yan Hai and his team crawled closer and heard the farmers say the Kaman Gang might be coming to force them to sell their farm.
• Leng Feng explained that the gang was threatening the farmers, and Jiang Yan Hai ordered Black Lion to circle around while the snipers protected the owners.
• Jiang Yan Hai gave further orders as his teams advanced through the grass toward the armed men, while Ramsey stayed with the snipers.

Jiang Yan Hai and his team watched as Bamanhe threatened Boss Yang’s family into selling their farm for a fraction of its value. As Bamanhe pressed his advantage, Jiang Yan Hai prepared a quiet intervention and used national flag patches as part of his plan, but the confrontation had not yet turned violent.

• Jiang Yan Hai and his team approached unseen while Bamanhe demanded that Boss Yang sell the farm for one million Gadan.
• Boss Yang offered to sell the farm and its equipment for half the 600,000 RMB he had paid, but Bamanhe refused and had his men aim their rifles.
• Jiang Yan Hai told his team to prepare silencers and flashbang grenades, keep the three men alive, and avoid firing unless Bamanhe’s side fired first.
• Boss Yang warned Bamanhe that the embassy knew about the situation, but Bamanhe threatened to flee to Rebel Army territory if he killed the family.
• Jiang Yan Hai instructed Leng Feng’s squad to wear national flag patches, took one for himself, and told Black Lion’s men to stay hidden.
• Bamanhe urged Boss Yang to think of his wife and taunted him to bring in his country’s military, leaving the standoff unresolved.

Jiang Yan Hai and the Chinese Special Forces rescued Boss Yang and his men from Bamanhe and his soldiers at the farm. The chapter ended with Jiang Yan Hai greeting an overwhelmed Boss Yang.

• Bamanhe offered Boss Yang 30,000 RMB for the farm and threatened that his homeland could not save him.
• Jiang Yan Hai and thirteen other special forces soldiers emerged from hiding and surrounded Bamanhe’s men.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered the soldiers to drop their weapons, and Leng Feng and the others disarmed them.
• Jiang Yan Hai knocked Bamanhe’s gun aside, kicked him down, and captured him.
• Jiang Yan Hai greeted Boss Yang in Chinese, and Boss Yang struggled to express his relief and disbelief.

Jiang Yan Hai interrogated the gangsters who had threatened Boss Yang and learned they were helping a guarded group of more than twenty people who might be Rebel Army. He changed the planned attack to that night and sent Black Lion’s group around the village after learning the compound was surrounded by minefields.

• Jiang Yan Hai questioned Boss Yang, learned the gangsters had been pressuring him for two months, and borrowed his warehouse.
• Jiang Yan Hai exposed Bamanhe’s lie and learned that a guarded group had arrived in the village two months earlier and arranged for the gangsters to buy Boss Yang’s land.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered Bamanhe and two others to guide his team toward the village, keeping three gangsters under guard at the warehouse.
• Jiang Yan Hai changed the operation to that night and told Black Lion’s group to approach from the other side of the village.
• Bamanhe warned Jiang Yan Hai that minefields surrounded the group’s houses, and Jiang Yan Hai relayed the warning to Black Lion as both teams moved toward position.

Jiang Yan Hai and his team launched a surprise assault on the armed researchers in the village, but their attack triggered an explosion. Er Dan warned Jiang Yan Hai that the enemy had detonated the Energy Ore and opened an Alpha 3 Type Invasive Star Gate.

• Jiang Yan Hai used his warning system to locate the enemy guards and a hidden sentry as his team approached the village.
• Bamanhe rammed through the checkpoint while Black Lion’s snipers killed the guards, and Inov’s machine gun swept through the building.
• Jiang Yan Hai and his team eliminated the enemies outside before closing in on the central building, where four enemies remained.
• Jiang Yan Hai detected a bomb inside the building and warned everyone to retreat moments before it exploded.
• Er Dan told Jiang Yan Hai that the enemy had tried to detonate the Energy Ore, opening an Alpha 3 Type Invasive Star Gate.

Jiang Yan Hai secured the newly opened Stargate and brought Black Hawk’s men through to investigate the other world. After Er Dan connected to an encrypted signal there, Jiang Yan Hai recognized the names Captain Price and Soap.

• Jiang Yan Hai alerted home to the SSS-level emergency and saw that the Stargate had opened to a diameter of 2.25 meters.
• Jiang Yan Hai drove a truck in front of the Stargate, ordered Balek to establish a perimeter, and told the group that the gate connected to another world.
• Jiang Yan Hai sent Carlos to prepare communications through the gate and led Black Lion, Leng Feng, and Carlos across.
• Jiang Yan Hai asked Er Dan to scan for and connect to nearby electronic signals, and Er Dan cracked an encrypted channel.
• Jiang Yan Hai heard the names Captain Price and Soap on the channel and recognized them.

Jiang Yan Hai’s team emerged through the Star Gate into a world with technology comparable to their own and spotted armed groups nearby. He reported the discovery to Old Commander, who arranged for troops to secure the area while the team kept the gate’s location secret.

• Carlos connected the communication devices, allowing Jiang Yan Hai to contact Balek and brief the others on the need to keep the Star Gate secret.
• Jiang Yan Hai led Black Lion and Leng Feng up a slope, where they spotted three professional-looking soldiers and armed guards farther away.
• Er Dan relayed that troops and helicopters were moving from a nearby city, and Jiang Yan Hai returned through the Star Gate to contact Gao Yun and Old Commander.
• Jiang Yan Hai told Old Commander that the Sha Chen Organization’s experiment had opened a 2.25-meter Teleportation Gate to a world with technology comparable to theirs.
• Old Commander said the Republic of Goa had sent troops to establish a cordon and that a peacekeeping infantry battalion would arrive with supplies in about three hours.
• Jiang Yan Hai reported seeing covertly advancing special forces soldiers and a distant armed group with sentry posts.

Jiang Yan Hai learned that a Marine Corps unit had secretly entered the Republic of Goa to retrieve Energy Ore being researched by the Sandstorm Organization. After searching nearby corpses for clues, he suspected Sandstorm was using a fake target and a second ore site to divert attention.

• Jiang Yan Hai learned from his Chinese contacts that a neighboring country’s Marine Corps unit had entered the Republic of Goa through Rebel Army territory.
• Jiang Yan Hai called Jacques Fraser, who revealed that the Marine Corps was seeking Energy Ore secretly researched by Sandstorm and that its location was in Rebel Army-controlled territory.
• Jiang Yan Hai admitted that his team had attacked a Rebel Army city while searching for the ore, but found only a fake target.
• Jiang Yan Hai searched nearby corpses, found four phones, and ordered Er Dan to retrieve their call records and trace the numbers.
• Jiang Yan Hai suspected Sandstorm was researching two pieces of ore and had planted a fake target to conceal a second research site.

Jiang Yan Hai secured the Stargate and prepared to investigate the nearby world while a battle broke out near Price's group. He ordered Er Dan to spread a virus through the local network as the team waited for a chance to approach Price and make contact.

• Jiang Yan Hai ordered Ramsey to trace supply routes and told Balek and the others to guard the Stargate's perimeter and keep its secret.
• Jiang Yan Hai took White Headed Eagle and Seagull through the Stargate, ordered Carlos to mine the area, and joined Black Lion and Leng Feng to observe Price's group.
• Er Dan identified their location as the northern Caucasus region, and Jiang Yan Hai learned that Kamalov was a soldier commanding a unit nearby.
• Jiang Yan Hai sent Carlos and Red Fox to investigate a signal tower while his group watched Price's team approach the town.
• An explosion and gunfire erupted in the town, and Jiang Yan Hai decided to wait until Price's group entered the battle before making contact.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered Er Dan to release their computer virus and spread its subprograms through the local network.

Jiang Yan Hai and his team decided to help Price and Soap against the Rebel Army, using their sniper rifles to support the advancing soldiers. Price recognized the rifles as Barretts and suspected the unknown snipers were allies, while the fighting continued.

• Jiang Yan Hai judged that the troops fighting the Rebel Army were worth helping and named the plan Operation Friendship.
• Price argued with Kamalov while his team fought Rebel Army forces across the town.
• Jiang Yan Hai, Leng Feng, and Bob Lee opened fire from a distance, taking down enemies and supporting Price's advance.
• Price and Kamalov realized the snipers were an unknown third party, but Price ordered his team to keep following their original plan.
• Soap identified the weapons as Barrett Large Caliber Anti-Materiel Sniper Rifles, and Price decided to proceed while treating the snipers as possible allies.

Jiang Yan Hai and his team helped Price’s squad clear a path through the town, then watched them escape by helicopter. After connecting to the local network, Jiang Yan Hai found a world map that confirmed they were in a different world, whose countries had unfamiliar names.

• Jiang Yan Hai and his snipers helped Price’s team eliminate enemies on the cliff, while Price told Soap that battlefield cooperation depended on practical advantage.
• Jiang Yan Hai sent Leng Feng and Bob Lee to assist Kamalov’s Russians and continued covering Price’s team as they advanced through town.
• Price’s team reached the northeastern corner, fought inside a building, and escaped by helicopter without approaching Jiang Yan Hai’s position.
• Jiang Yan Hai asked Carlos to crack a network connection, then used a program to search the local web.
• Jiang Yan Hai opened a world map and found that none of its country names matched those from his own world.

Jiang Yan Hai and his team realized they had arrived in another world and met Kamalov, a local commander, while posing as soldiers from Red Star. After Kamalov departed, Jiang Yan Hai kept watch over the Star Gate and considered how to conceal it from the rebels who controlled the area.

• Jiang Yan Hai identified the new world’s major countries and told his team not to reveal that they had come from another world.
• Leng Feng alerted Jiang Yan Hai that Kamalov was approaching, and Kamalov arrived with a few men while signaling that he meant no harm.
• Jiang Yan Hai introduced himself as Han Xiao and claimed to be with Red Star, then learned that Kamalov had not retaken the area from the rebels.
• Kamalov offered an encrypted radio frequency and withdrew, warning Jiang Yan Hai that the rebels would return soon.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered Leng Feng and the others to stay on guard and considered how to disguise the Star Gate in rebel-controlled territory.

Jiang Yan Hai briefed the homeland on the new Stargate world and received authorization to seek cooperation with the Red Star Republic. The chapter ended with him preparing an operation to investigate the Marine Corps in Rebel Army territory.

• Zhang Qi arrived with a peacekeeping force, and Jiang Yan Hai ordered his soldiers to camouflage the Stargate and establish security.
• Jiang Yan Hai held a video conference with the homeland and reported on the Red Star Republic, Mipu United States, Sand Bear Federation, and Sulan United Kingdom.
• Jiang Yan Hai proposed visiting the Red Star Republic to seek a partner and learn about its higher-level Stargates, and the homeland approved his plan.
• Jiang Yan Hai identified the Marine Corps as the next matter to investigate, with a possible target about a hundred kilometers away in Rebel Army territory.
• Jiang Yan Hai asked Zhang Qi for security, two Armored Vehicles, and ammunition, and Zhang Qi agreed to prepare them.