Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yan Hai’s convoy saved the town from the Red Mad Wolves with a rocket barrage and rapid-fire vehicle guns. After pursuing the survivors, Jiang Yan Hai ordered his forces to enter the town, and the mayor’s people hurried to open the gate.

• Twelve rocket launchers fired 144 rockets, devastating the charging Red Mad Wolves and drawing cheers from the city wall.
• Jiang Yan Hai led the convoy toward the town, and the mayor recognized that the arriving force was not Commander Lu’s.
• Three vehicles’ machine guns killed the wolves that charged the convoy near the city wall.
• Jiang Yan Hai sent twelve Lynx assault vehicles to pursue the wolves that escaped the bombardment.
• After reconnaissance reported that a few hundred wolves had fled into the forest, Jiang Yan Hai ordered the artillery to cease fire and led the convoy toward the town gate.
• The mayor and townspeople rushed down from the walls to open the gate for Jiang Yan Hai’s forces.

Jiang Yan Hai met Du Hong, the mayor of Yang Qing Town, and promised his group would protect the town without taking it over. After returning to the base, he ordered a checkpoint to be set up and visitors to be directed to the town.

• Jiang Yan Hai told Du Hong that his group were descendants of Great Qin Empire soldiers and would not take over Yang Qing Town.
• Jiang Yan Hai explained that Red Mad Wolves had massacred Yang Shu Town and said his group would help protect Du Hong’s people.
• Du Hong and the townspeople knelt to thank Jiang Yan Hai as his convoy departed, then Du Hong ordered carts prepared to bring supplies to the group.
• Yang Rui questioned why Jiang Yan Hai had not stayed to learn about the world, and Jiang Yan Hai said the situation was unfolding as intended.
• Jiang Yan Hai returned to the base and ordered a checkpoint set up, with visitors sent directly to the town.

Jiang Yan Hai began clearing Yang Shu Town for reconstruction and received Du Hong, who arrived with supplies and asked to join him. Du Hong explained that the region was ruled by Commander Lu, who commanded over twenty thousand soldiers and controlled two Arms Factories.

• Jiang Yan Hai ordered the engineering unit to bulldoze Yang Shu Town’s damaged houses and build a temporary command post.
• Jiang Yan Hai prepared basic supplies for Du Hong’s expected visit and considered what goods could be transported between worlds.
• Du Hong arrived at Yang Shu Town at night after traveling for nearly seven hours with four horse-drawn carts of grain.
• Jiang Yan Hai agreed to let Du Hong and his people join, then asked him about the region’s leadership.
• Du Hong told Jiang Yan Hai that Commander Lu ruled the region with over twenty thousand soldiers, two Arms Factories, cannons, and the ability to produce firearms and ammunition.

Jiang Yan Hai learned that the Red Mad Wolves were the only monsters people had seen emerging from Ghost Gate Pass and sent Du Hong home with his supplies, adding extra goods for Yang Qing Town. After Du Hong recognized Jiang Yan Hai’s forces as different from Commander Lu’s, Jiang discussed establishing contact with the town and left the task to Ling Weifeng and Fan Tian Lei.

• Jiang Yan Hai asked Du Hong about other monsters from Ghost Gate Pass, and Du Hong said none had appeared since the fall of Great Qin besides the Red Mad Wolves.
• Jiang Yan Hai refused Yang Qing Town’s grain, sent Du Hong home with his goods, and had extra supplies delivered for the townspeople.
• Du Hong ordered the gathered goods returned to their owners and Jiang Yan Hai’s supplies distributed, concluding that Jiang’s soldiers were unlike Commander Lu’s forces.
• Jiang Yan Hai asked Ling Weifeng and Fan Tian Lei what to do next, and they proposed establishing a contact point in Yang Qing Town.
• Jiang Yan Hai assigned Ling Weifeng and Fan Tian Lei to handle contact with the town and left.

Jiang Yan Hai briefed the leaders on the ore, possible foreign competition, and preparations for transporting supplies to the other world. He left the meeting planning to recruit experienced political commissars as Great Qin prepared for future conflicts and expansion.

• Jiang Yan Hai returned to the base and ordered Bei Chen Xiang to request an emergency meeting with the leaders.
• Jiang Yan Hai learned that the transported ore was the only stockpile available, while three more deposits were known in Africa, and urged stronger satellite reconnaissance of America across the Pacific.
• Jiang Yan Hai and Old Commander discussed possible competition for resources, the limits of military involvement, and the tunnel expected to open in one month.
• Old Commander explained that an announced expressway project would conceal the movement of supplies toward the tunnel construction site.
• Jiang Yan Hai asked for veteran political commissars to help manage political affairs in Great Qin.

Jiang Yan Hai approved Wang Xue Bing’s plan to employ the town’s residents in road construction and provide them with food and other necessities. Wang Xue Bing submitted the expanded supply request as engineering troops began preparing foundations for signal towers.

• Jiang Yan Hai met Wang Xue Bing, the political commissar of the Special Operations Regiment, and asked him to handle more local arrangements.
• Wang Xue Bing proposed building roads to employ the townspeople, distribute grain, and build support for Great Qin by improving their livelihoods and safety.
• Jiang Yan Hai approved the plan and reviewed Wang Xue Bing’s supply report.
• Jiang Yan Hai added soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste, and inexpensive durable cloth to the request so the locals could receive useful goods beyond food.
• Wang Xue Bing submitted the revised request, while engineering troops began pouring foundations for signal towers to extend drone communications.

Gong Jian recruited Yang Qing Town residents to help build a road to Yang Shu Town, presenting the work as a way to bring help faster. Hundreds volunteered, and registration also recorded information and photographs for future identification policies.

• Gong Jian told Du Hong that Colonel Jiang had approved a road between Yang Qing Town and Yang Shu Town and requested five hundred workers.
• Du Hong gathered the townspeople and urged them to help the soldiers who had saved the town from the Red Mad Wolf disaster.
• Many residents volunteered, and soldiers registered their names, ages, household sizes, and photographs.
• More than five hundred people signed up, and Gong Jian told them to assemble at the town gate the next morning.

Gong Jian and the others brought more than a hundred extra townspeople, including many women, from the city gate to Yang Shu Town to help with roadwork. Jiang Yan Hai organized the labor and prepared stamped food slips as an experiment, then called the hungry workers to line up for lunch.

• Gong Jian registered the townspeople who arrived with tools and rations, including many women who volunteered to work.
• Ten trucks carried the workers from the city gate to Yang Shu Town, where Jiang Yan Hai organized them to dig and level the marked ground.
• Du Hong declined Jiang Yan Hai's offer to organize the workers and joined them in the labor.
• Jiang Yan Hai and Wang Xue Bing stamped slips redeemable for steamed buns as part of an experiment in how to reward the workers.
• Jiang Yan Hai's soldiers rang a bronze gong at noon and called the workers to line up for a meal.

Du Hong and the townspeople discovered that the soldiers were providing free meals to everyone who worked. Seeing Major Jiang Yan Hai eat the same food—and even leaner meat—left Du Hong convinced he had seen the true soldiers of Great Qin.

• Du Hong learned that workers would receive meals, then followed He Chen Guang's instructions to line up and wash his hands.
• A soldier explained that Du Hong's five meal tickets could be exchanged for food, and Du Hong received a tray at the distribution point.
• Du Hong traded two tickets for white steamed buns and three for a large serving of meat stew.
• Du Hong saw Jiang Yan Hai eating nearby and realized the major was eating the same dishes, with leaner meat than the workers received.

Jiang Yan Hai and Wang Xue Bing used shared meals, rest, and meal tickets to win the laborers of Yang Qing Town’s trust. Du Hong was stunned by the food, the promise of breakfast, and the goods available to exchange, while the workers returned to their jobs with renewed energy.

• After eating, Du Hong and the other laborers washed their trays and rested while Jiang Yan Hai praised Wang Xue Bing’s efforts to build goodwill.
• When work resumed, the laborers worked so hard that soldiers had to force them to rest, and Jiang Yan Hai and Wang Xue Bing watched with admiration.
• A soldier announced that the workers would eat breakfast before starting work the next day, leaving Du Hong amazed that they could provide three meals a day.
• The workers received meal tickets that covered dinner and gave them five extra tickets to exchange for goods to take home.
• Du Hong visited the exchange area and found soap and many unfamiliar goods alongside food, marveling at how much the officials had to offer.

Jiang Yan Hai used meal coupons and food exchanges to test whether displaced people would trust a system of internal exchange, while recruiting workers in Yang Shu Town. As people began saving coupons to trade for grain, he planned to expand the goods on offer and build houses to store them.

• Jiang Yan Hai explained to Wang Xue Bing that the meal coupons were an experiment in internal exchange, designed to avoid the suspicion that calling them money might cause.
• After many people arrived seeking work, Jiang Yan Hai told Gong Jian to subtly let them know that children could also be accepted, and the arrivals continued to be able to work.
• Jiang Yan Hai and the others stopped accepting new workers after the third day, then observed how the people used their extra meal coupons.
• After several days, more people began saving coupons, and the first saver exchanged twenty-five for a bag of flour; others also chose grain over daily necessities.
• Jiang Yan Hai told Wang Xue Bing to keep the unwanted goods available, expand the product range, and arrange for houses to be built in Yang Shu Town to store the goods.

Jiang Yan Hai saw Yang Qing Town residents begin trusting the meal-voucher system as private trading started, while his troops completed a tunnel that greatly improved supply transport. Eight modified DF31 satellite launch vehicles and radar units arrived at the base, and the first vehicle headed to its launch site as preparations began for a satellite launch.

• A resident exchanged twenty meal vouchers for blue cloth, marking the first trade for something other than food and showing growing trust in Jiang Yan Hai's system.
• Wang Xue Bing reported that a resident had obtained ten extra meal vouchers by selling his family's belongings to another person.
• Jiang Yan Hai announced that the tunnel was complete, allowing large supplies to travel directly to the Teleportation Gate.
• Jiang Yan Hai and Fan Tian Lei received eight modified DF31 emergency satellite launch vehicles and four active phased-array radar vehicles through the gate.
• Professional operators took their places in the command center as the first launch vehicle drove to its prepared launch site.

Jiang Yan Hai and the command center launched eight satellites and began receiving images that revealed the world’s altered geography, vast forests, and enormous rings of walls. With the satellites in orbit and reconnaissance underway, Jiang Yan Hai turned to arranging the arrival of Dark Blade’s armored regiment, artillery, and J15 fighters.

• The command center launched the first satellite, confirmed it entered orbit, and then launched two more in succession.
• People in Yang Qing Town watched the missiles rise and gained confidence that the Great Qin soldiers were deploying powerful weapons.
• Jiang Yan Hai and the others received panoramic images showing the changed continents, dense forests, and two vast rings of walls.
• Jiang Yan Hai prioritized detailed satellite images of the surrounding area and handed imaging tasks to the command center operators.
• Jiang Yan Hai arranged to bring over Dark Blade’s armored regiment, artillery equipment, and J15 fighters through the Teleportation Gate.

After the tunnel’s completion, Jiang Yan Hai’s forces brought in heavy equipment, aircraft, and supplies while expanding reconnaissance and mapping the surrounding settlements. When a force of about three hundred people approached from the east in horses and automobiles, Jiang Yan Hai ordered an armored company to meet them and investigate.

• Jiang Yan Hai’s forces moved military equipment and supplies through the tunnel, and engineers selected a site for a field airfield north of the Teleportation Gate.
• Two Z-20 reconnaissance helicopters surveyed the region, while Wang Xue Bing gathered information about Red Mad Wolf attacks and local population patterns.
• Jiang Yan Hai’s team mapped eighteen walled towns, five county-level towns, and one large city within two hundred kilometers.
• A drone spotted an armed group of roughly three hundred people, including horse riders and five automobiles, traveling toward the group from the east.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered an armored company and infantry to establish a checkpoint, and said he and Zhang Ronghua would go to find out why the group had come.

Jiang Yan Hai’s forces blocked Hong Da’s tax-collection convoy and demanded it turn back, but Hong Da refused, confident that his men outnumbered them. Jiang Yan Hai revealed the tanks hidden nearby, and the chapter left the confrontation as Zhang Ronghua’s crew fired a shell into the hillside.

• Jiang Yan Hai led his armored company to a choke point and set up a checkpoint before Hong Da’s convoy arrived.
• Hong Da identified himself as a tax collector under Commander Lu and demanded that Jiang Yan Hai’s smaller force surrender its weapons and clear the road.
• Jiang Yan Hai declared the area under the Great Qin Empire’s control, and both sides raised their rifles.
• After Hong Da mocked Jiang Yan Hai’s claim about cannons, Jiang Yan Hai signaled Zhang Ronghua to bring the tanks over the hill.
• Zhang Ronghua’s crew fired a tank shell into the hillside, startling the horses below.

Jiang Yan Hai used a tank cannon to drive off Hong Da’s men, then declared the surrounding lands part of Great Qin territory. After satellite images revealed a First World War-era warship in the western part of the world, he ordered his forces to accelerate their advance.

• Jiang Yan Hai fired the tank cannon into a hillside and frightened Hong Da’s armed group into lowering their weapons.
• Jiang Yan Hai told Hong Da to have Commander Lu register with the Ninth Army of the Great Qin Empire, and Hong Da led his men away.
• Jiang Yan Hai explained to Zhang Ronghua that he considered everything within the base’s 8,000-kilometer missile range to be Great Qin territory.
• Jiang Yan Hai gathered Fan Tian Lei, Ling Yunfeng, Qiao Fangyuan, Wang Xue Bing, Yi Wei, Zhang Ronghua, and other commanders to discuss their first contact with the local warlords.
• Jiang Yan Hai showed satellite images of a western harbor and its First World War-era warship, then agreed that the army needed to accelerate its advance.

Jiang Yan Hai’s staff divided responsibilities for protecting nearby towns, preparing winter supplies, and tracking the Red Mad Wolves. The chapter ended with Wang Xue Bing setting Du Hong’s people in motion to reach neighboring towns before heavy snow arrived.

• Wang Xue Bing proposed extending protection to towns west of their position with help from Yang Qing Town.
• Bei Chen Xiang reported on reconnaissance capabilities, the Red Mad Wolves’ location, and the planet’s severe approaching winter.
• Liu Ping agreed to prepare supplies for both the troops and local residents, while Jiang Yan Hai proposed requesting political commissars to manage towns.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered increased surveillance of Commander Lu and the Red Mad Wolves and put combat units on standby ahead of a predicted snowfall.
• After the meeting, Wang Xue Bing asked Du Hong to help spread the word to nearby towns, and Du Hong agreed.

Jiang Yan Hai prepared the towns for possible Red Mad Wolf attacks as winter arrived with heavy snow, then received an urgent warning and rushed to the command center. The chapter left the cause of the alert unknown.

• Jiang Yan Hai reviewed records showing that Red Mad Wolf packs grew larger before winter and discussed the danger with Du Hong and the others.
• Du Hong and the others traveled to seven towns, coordinated defenses, and left a six-man combat team in each town.
• Heavy snow began, and Jiang Yan Hai ordered drones to scout the southern area despite the risk of losing them.
• Jiang Yan Hai reflected on the hardship of winter in this world, looked at a photograph and his Marriage Report, and returned to reading.
• A red warning appeared on Jiang Yan Hai's phone, and he rushed to the command center.

Jiang Yan Hai’s base detected tens of thousands of Red Mad Wolves gathering and moving toward a nearby provincial capital, prompting him to place the base on Level One alert and deploy forces. Drone footage then revealed enormous wolf and bear-like creatures among the packs, leaving the threat’s scale and destination increasingly alarming.

• Shao Xiao Jia reported that infrared scans had detected roughly twelve hundred Red Mad Wolves emerging from caves south of the base and moving east, so Jiang Yan Hai ordered a Level One alert and additional drone patrols.
• The base prepared its armored, artillery, Special Operations, and logistics units while drones tracked the wolves and marked their routes.
• Jiang Yan Hai learned that vast wolf packs were converging northeast toward a provincial capital about a hundred kilometers away, where Commander Lu was stationed, and worried they could reach the city unseen.
• A drone detected five unusually large heat sources, including one with a body temperature near forty-five degrees Celsius, and Jiang Yan Hai ordered illumination flares and photographs.
• The illuminated images showed two nearly five-meter-tall, fur-less brown-black bears and a Giant Wolf measuring about 1.8 meters at the shoulder and 2.5 meters long, excluding its tail.

Jiang Yan Hai learned that a massive Red Mad Wolf pack was heading for Dingyan City, putting five hundred thousand people at risk. He sent the armored units toward the city and awaited orders from Supreme Command as the wolves’ vanguard threatened to arrive first.

• Shao Xiao Jia estimated that the Red Mad Wolves would reach Dingyan City’s outskirts in thirty minutes, with the vanguard arriving sooner.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered the armored units to depart and reported the threat to Supreme Command, while ruling out an inaccurate missile strike that might scatter the wolves.
• Jiang Yan Hai boarded the armored unit’s command vehicle and ordered it to move out.
• Zhang Ronghua led the armored vehicles through the snow toward Dingyan City, about one hundred kilometers away.
• Jiang Yan Hai worried that the city’s defenders might not spot the approaching wolves in time and considered deploying long-range rocket artillery if the situation became urgent.