Recaps

After the Phantom’s test flight revealed a dangerous J20 flaw, Jiang Yan Hai began building a secret force and modernizing its logistics. He assembled sixty-two elite soldiers as Dark Blade and sent them toward the unit’s first training, leaving their captains wary of what awaited them.

• Jiang Yan Hai helped Peregrine Falcon eject safely after a J20 engine failure, then joined the crash investigation and identified a hidden design flaw that appeared during extreme maneuvers.
• Jiang Yan Hai repeated the dangerous test flight, confirmed the flaw, and then spent his leave with Li Ruo Bai, who agreed to become his girlfriend.
• Jiang Yan Hai took charge of the completed underground base, installed Er Dan, and used it to screen personnel for Dark Blade and its supporting regiments.
• Jiang Yan Hai secured approval to transfer elite personnel, establish the 9th Rapid Reaction Brigade Logistics Unit, and conduct a large redeployment exercise using Electronic Warfare Program tools.
• The logistics system helped the Night Tiger Armored Regiment move across the Gobi Desert, detect vehicle faults, and reach its new base efficiently.
• Jiang Yan Hai selected sixty-two soldiers from several special forces units, gathered them at a secluded airfield, and announced that they would serve under the codename Dark Blade.
• The soldiers received Dark Blade uniforms and Type 19 Assault Rifles, then prepared to depart by transport plane as Wang Yan Bing recounted Jiang Yan Hai’s notorious training stunts and left the captains apprehensive.

Jiang Yan Hai put the Jiaolong soldiers through grueling urban and wilderness exercises, then organized them into a regiment and prepared to recruit more elite trainees. Disguised as Jiang Ling, he accepted recognition for designing the Phantom Fighter Jet while keeping his identity secret from the public.

• Jiang Yan Hai’s live-fire urban exercise sent the sixty-two soldiers fleeing tanks and artillery as they searched the abandoned city for six hostages, then penalized them for mishandling a tuberculosis patient.
• Jiang Yan Hai sent the soldiers on a 180-kilometer trek through freezing snow without tents, and a staged rescue at a herdsmen’s yurts caught them off guard and revealed their hidden injuries.
• After the exercise, Jiang Yan Hai appointed the five officers as battalion commanders, kept the teams intact, and tasked them with training 316 elite special operations personnel.
• Jiang Yan Hai traveled to the capital as Jiang Ling, where Li Ruo Bai helped him prepare his disguise for an award ceremony and meetings with researchers.
• Jiang Yan Hai met the professors as Jiang Ling, revealed his identity to them, and offered to help develop Professor Qian’s engine designs into a larger series.
• Jiang Yan Hai arranged for Jiang Ling to accept the Phantom award publicly while former Wolf Fang members and his recruits watched the broadcast.
• Jiang Ling received the award as the Phantom designer, and Chen Shan Ming’s former Red Cell members recognized her as Jiang Yan Hai and learned of his aircraft and weapons designs.

Jiang Yan Hai returned from his award and promotion to become engaged to Li Ruo Bai, then began building Dark Blade through brutal training and security work. After months apart, he reunited with Li Ruo Bai and prepared to confront Wang Xin Tian before submitting their Marriage Report.

• Jiang Ling’s identity as Phantom’s young chief designer was revealed at the awards ceremony, while Jiang Yan Hai received the State Supreme Science and Technology Award and later earned a promotion to senior colonel.
• Jiang Yan Hai returned to Li Ruo Bai’s family, agreed to marry her after his birthday, and became engaged to her at a family banquet.
• After the Spring Festival, Jiang Yan Hai selected thousands of candidates, organized the first training groups, and warned them that the classified program involved deadly danger and live ammunition.
• Jiang Yan Hai put the recruits through sea-swimming tests, live artillery bombardment, shooting at corpse models, and other harsh drills, while many trainees withdrew and others learned to rely on their comrades.
• Jiang Yan Hai completed training with the first batch, leaving 273 special operations soldiers, while another 986 personnel finished physical training and prepared to continue under Gong Jian.
• Jiang Yan Hai reported to Old Commander, volunteered Dark Blade for an urban-combat exercise, and later received orders to protect Phantom’s blueprints and secretly monitor key research networks.
• After nine months apart, Jiang Yan Hai reunited with Li Ruo Bai, reassured her about their plans for marriage, and went shopping with her while keeping his Jiang Ling identity hidden.
• Li Ruo Bai told Jiang Yan Hai that Wang Xin Tian had returned to Pearl City to pursue her, and Jiang Yan Hai agreed to face him before his birthday and Marriage Report meeting with Old Commander.

Jiang Yan Hai led a military response through the Teleportation Gate after an experiment unleashed Blood Wolves, then established a foothold in the Xia Yan world. The arc left him launching an artillery rescue as thousands of Red Mad Wolves charged a threatened town.

• Jiang Yan Hai assembled a squad, entered the locked research base, and rescued the trapped researchers after finding that an unusual ore had opened a Teleportation Gate.
• Jiang Yan Hai crossed the gate, confirmed it led to another world, and killed Red Mad Wolves while learning from a survivor that the nearby town had been overrun.
• Jiang Yan Hai’s team found and rescued Dai Yuan, then built defenses around the gate and repelled an approaching pack of Red Mad Wolves.
• Jiang Yan Hai captured Red Mad Wolves for testing, and the gate expanded as the wolves were transported through it.
• Professor Xu learned that the Xia Yan people’s Great Qin Empire had fallen after Red Mad Wolves breached its defenses, while Jiang Yan Hai’s forces built a base beyond the gate.
• Jiang Yan Hai learned that thousands of Red Mad Wolves were converging on an eastern town and sent troops and artillery to help its defenders.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered Yi Wei to fire rockets at the charging wolves, and repeated barrages exploded across the battlefield near the town wall.