Recaps

After earning further honors for the Argentina operation, Jiang Yan Hai transferred to Special Forces 1st Battalion to serve as its Chief Instructor while pursuing fighter-pilot training. He imposed a demanding training regime and defeated the battalion’s leading soldiers in a series of competitions, winning their acceptance.

• Jiang Yan Hai returned from Argentina, received two First Class Merits, and accepted a transfer from Wolf Fang to the 8th Airborne Army as Chief Instructor of Special Forces 1st Battalion.
• Fan Tian Lei urged Jiang Yan Hai to consider building a family, and Jiang Yan Hai sent Li Ruo Bai his First Class Hero Model Medal with a note asking her to let him pursue her after nine meals.
• Jiang Yan Hai arrived at the airborne regiment, where Pan Ye and Zhang Qi welcomed him and the battalion’s veterans questioned the new arrivals’ authority.
• At the battalion assembly, Jiang Yan Hai challenged the soldiers’ pride in their honors, recounted his own record, and knocked Ma Dang Xian unconscious in a single move.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered a 50-kilometer forced march and punishing training, while Pan Ye learned about Jiang Yan Hai’s youth, degrees, and awards from his file.
• Jiang Yan Hai revealed that he had an Army Aviation helicopter Flight License and had come to learn to fly fighter jets, then proposed competing against the battalion before directing its training.
• Pan Ye defeated Zhang Qi sixteen to two, and Jiang Yan Hai began his own competition against fourteen selected soldiers by beating Ma Dang Xian in the opening events.
• Jiang Yan Hai won all eighteen basic events and then defeated Ma Dang Xian in hand-to-hand combat, prompting Qiao Dong to declare him the winner as the crowd applauded.

Jiang Yan Hai reshaped the battalion’s training before leaving to earn his Flight License and demonstrate his exceptional ability in the air. After testing a J10 and enhancing its systems, he was sent to fly the prototype Azure Dragon, whose limits he began probing on its first flight.

• Jiang Yan Hai confined Qi Xiao Tian in an obstacle-course pit, using hunger and endurance training to make him acknowledge his mistake.
• Jiang Yan Hai introduced a two-month physical-training plan for the battalion, divided the soldiers into groups, and left Pan Ye to oversee the demanding regimen.
• Jiang Yan Hai completed the Air Force’s academic tests and endured 10G and 11G overload training before beginning work toward his Flight License.
• Jiang Yan Hai took control of a JL-10 trainer during his first flight and impressed Wu Di by executing advanced maneuvers and landing safely.
• Jiang Yan Hai trained for a week, then flew a J10 whose systems Er Dan enhanced, and defeated Liu Hao Chen and other Air Force pilots in dogfights.
• Jiang Yan Hai flew a trainer jet to Rongcheng, where the officials revealed the redesigned J10S Azure Dragon and assigned him to test its limits.
• Jiang Yan Hai took off in Azure Dragon, tested its speed and maneuverability, and confirmed to Owl that its three painted stars were kill markings.

Jiang Yan Hai helped secure and analyze a captured stealth fighter, then returned to flight duty while preparing a disguised virus operation against enemy systems. His record and judgment earned the Old Commander’s approval for promotion to major as the mission began.

• Jiang Yan Hai pursued a stealth fighter near the border and helped stage its crash site so enemy analysts would believe the J20 wreckage had lost its research value.
• Jiang Yan Hai returned to Wolf Fang to discipline arrogant recruits, uncover the three Wolf Warriors members’ reasons for coming, and arrange training support for Fire Phoenix.
• Jiang Yan Hai cracked the captured fighter’s operating system, helped the experts dismantle it safely, and identified its powerful graphene-based computing system.
• Jiang Yan Hai proposed disguising a virus to infiltrate Skunk Works, then received orders to patrol in the northeast and flew to a base under the Northern Theater Command.
• Jiang Yan Hai impressed the young pilots with his four kill markings and defeated four trainee pilots in a group aerial confrontation at PLA Aviation University.
• Principal Tang reported Jiang Yan Hai’s maturity to the Old Commander, who approved his promotion to major.
• Jiang Yan Hai released a disguised virus among technical data on a bait supercomputer and gave Old Liu and the others modified firewall software.

Jiang Yan Hai tracked a Super Virus through military, research, and overseas networks while balancing his mission with his relationship with Li Ruo Bai. His pursuit of stolen engine designs led to a major hacker battle in Connecticut, where he mobilized company servers and turned his anti-tracking virus on the attackers.

• Jiang Yan Hai discovered a hidden Super Virus on his military computer, warned Academician Bai, and launched his Anti-tracking Program from Pearl City's supercomputers.
• Jiang Yan Hai met Li Ruo Bai in Pearl City, spent time with her, and later intervened when Brother Feng's group threatened her and Tian Yu Meng.
• Jiang Yan Hai accepted Polaris's offer to buy his firewall, then returned to monitoring the virus and learned it was targeting enterprise servers and had spread overseas.
• Jiang Yan Hai traced stolen Mach 3 engine designs to a U.S. public library server, infiltrated communications-provider systems, and planted a dormant Trojan.
• Jiang Yan Hai traced Cass through a botnet as Cass, Thor, and X-Man fought to regain the stolen data, while an unknown hacker joined the battle against Jiang Yan Hai.
• Jiang Yan Hai withdrew his defenses, traced the unknown attacker's data streams to three Google data centers, and mobilized servers across Connecticut.
• Jiang Yan Hai optimized Connecticut's network and pooled computing power from company servers, then released his anti-tracking virus against hackers attacking his systems.