Chapter 614: Chapter 614 Joint Training
“Mr. Ye, are you threatening me?” Zhao Yanran’s face turned cold, she was certainly not easily frightened, which further confirmed Ye Shikai’s guess. Zhao Yanran had a complicated background, but this time, Ye Shikai’s intimidation was not so simple.
“Five seconds are up.” Ye Shikai suddenly reached out and grabbed Zhao Yanran’s delicate neck, his fingers tightly gripping like iron.
“Cough, cough.” Under Ye Shikai’s “violence,” Zhao Yanran quickly struggled to breathe. The wedding was extremely important to him, at necessary times, those false gentlemanly demeanors were worthless. Zhao Yanran’s behavior had infuriated him, and she should not blame him for tearing off the pretense.
“I’ll speak, I’ll speak now.” Eventually, Zhao Yanran compromised. Ye Shikai loosened his grip and the pressure on her neck instantly vanished, she gasped heavily.
“You really do not pity nor cherish jade, I wonder if Miss Su knows how rough you are.” Zhao Yanran rubbed her neck, her face full of delicate anger.
“In my eyes, you are just a femme fatale.” Ye Shikai coldly said, “Speak, who exactly wants to sabotage the wedding?”
“Hmph, I can tell you, someone is definitely scheming against your wedding behind your back, but I can’t tell you who it is.” Zhao Yanran regained her previous tone, indifferently saying.
“Don’t get agitated, this is something my subordinate found out while setting up the wedding venue; he received a threatening letter, and it was anonymous, so I don’t even know who it is.” Zhao Yanran quickly explained.
“Why should I believe you?” Ye Shikai was somewhat indignant, Zhao Yanran’s words were equivalent to saying nothing.
“If it doesn’t work for you, I can show you the threatening letter, and… you’ll have to trust me I guess.” Zhao Yanran gave a cunning smile, Ye Shikai felt as if he was kept in the dark, wondering if having a wedding had to be this difficult. He felt infuriated internally; he was the Netherworld King, after all. Abroad, if he decided someone’s life or death, nobody dared to say ‘no.’ He wanted to see who would dare to cause trouble.
“Let your people continue working.” Ye Shikai said indifferently.
Ye Shikai drove to the military camp located in the suburbs. It was his first day in office; he couldn’t be late. He hurriedly changed into his military uniform, the golden star on his shoulder shining brightly.
“Stop the car, please show your credentials.” Just as they reached the entrance of the Dragon Teeth special forces training base, two guards stopped his car. Ye Shikai handed over his credentials, one guard glanced at it, immediately returned the documents, and respectfully saluted him.
“Mm.” Ye Shikai continued to drive towards the deeper parts of the base, about to reach the training center soon.
Ye Shikai had just changed into combat attire and entered the center, only to see a group of familiar people—black camouflage uniforms, foreign military standard weapons—it was Hong Kong’s SAD special forces. Ye Shikai was quite surprised; what brought them to Huaxia?
“Instructor, good.” Seeing Ye Shikai arrive, the Dragon Teeth special forces team immediately lined up in two rows and shouted loudly.
“Captain.” Ouyang Feng quickly rushed over, smiling.
“I am now an instructor, not a captain anymore, remember to change how you address me in the future.” Ye Shikai patted Ouyang Feng on the shoulder, speaking lightly.
“Captain Cheng, we meet again.” Ye Shikai walked up to Cheng Luoqi, softly speaking. Although there were systematic differences between Hong Kong and Yanjing, Hong Kong’s SAD was still part of Huaxia’s military sequence. In other words, Ye Shikai was somewhat of a superior to Cheng Luoqi.
“Instructor Ye.” Cheng Luoqi saluted.
“What brings you here?” Ye Shikai curiously asked.
“The higher-ups in Hong Kong commanded us to come to Yanjing to conduct a month-long joint training with the Dragon Teeth special forces.” Cheng Luoqi explained, Ye Shikai could understand. This time the SAD had suffered heavy losses, even their brigade commander Jian Jiang had sacrificed. On the other hand, they had planned to participate in joint training with a European local special forces unit, which ended up being a futile effort.
“Do you have new members in the team?” Ye Shikai continued to ask.
“Yes, currently the team has three squads, totaling forty-two people.” Cheng Luoqi nodded. In fact, in Hong Kong, being SAD’s main ground, their operations not only relied on these three squads; additionally, there was the aerial firepower support group, logistic support group, and a series of auxiliary units, together reaching up to a hundred people. Plus, other forces could be mobilized to cooperate. Of course, most special forces had such support configurations, and naturally, the Dragon Teeth special forces did too. But during their time in Europe, they lacked these advantages, which was one of the main reasons for the severe losses.
“I’m very sorry about Jian Jiang.” Ye Shikai said regretfully.
“It’s alright, I believe that was his will too.” Cheng Luoqi sighed softly but then firmly said.
“It looks like your mindset has changed well.” Ye Shikai said with satisfaction, “So now, who is the chief commander of SAD?”
“It’s me.” At that moment, Cheng Luoqi lifted her head, and Ye Shikai realized that she had been promoted from Captain to Major.
“Very well, let’s start the training.”
For the joint training of the two forces, there had to be combat drills. Generally, there are two options: one is to simply have both teams face off, and the other is to shuffle the members of the two teams, randomly divided into two teams for the confrontation.
“Captain Cheng, you are the guests, choose which type of confrontation you prefer,” Ouyang Feng said indifferently. Frankly speaking, if simply comparing the individual capacities of the members from both teams, the Dragon Teeth special forces undoubtedly had the upper hand. Although SAD was an elite force from Hong Kong, their range of activities mainly stayed within Hong Kong itself. Moreover, given that Hong Kong’s security was always top-notch, they didn’t have many actual combat opportunities. In contrast, members of the Dragon Teeth special forces, who were selected from new military districts nationwide and often deployed to dangerous missions worldwide, had extensive combat experience.
Therefore, mixing and reshuffling the members into two new teams was undoubtedly the preferred choice for Cheng Luoqi, as it would ensure relative fairness.
“Instructor Ye, Captain Ouyang, I choose the first type.” Unexpectedly, Cheng Luoqi chose the first type, which not only surpassed Ouyang Feng’s and Ye Shikai’s guesses but also left many SAD members in astonishment.
“Since it is joint training, it’s about competing with the strong to improve,” Cheng Luoqi firmly said.