"John, come back." Zhou Nan shouted, John got out of the forest, looked at Zhou Nan, and ran over. Its hair was stained with snow from the bushes, and a few strands clung to its body, revealing the outline of its muscular muscles.

John is already six years old, for a dog, it is the age of its prime, although it has been a little too indulgent in the past two years, but it has not affected its physical strength in the slightest.

Jager, who was standing beside Zhou Nan, said with some envy: "What a good dog, I heard that there was another litter of its offspring over there?" ”

Zhou Nan nodded and said, "The dog they promised me is enough to pull out the dogs in the company." ”

Jaeger said with a smile: "Being a dog to do this is enviable!" Let's go......"

Carrying a sleigh on his back, he took the lead towards the north of the hillside, leaving a series of footprints of varying shades on the snow. Zhou Nan followed his footprints all the way, but his eyes looked at the opposite side of what looked like a mountain range of less than five hundred meters.

This is the only gateway to Austria and Italy in the southeast corner of Switzerland, with Austria to the east and Italy to the southeast, and Switzerland to the northwest.

Germany had surrendered, the war had ended, and the tensions of the military standoff had vanished in those final months.

I think that when I first came to serve, the Austrian army and the Italian army often engaged in some incidents of misfire, and after 45 years, both sides were stable.

On the day Germany announced its surrender, Italian troops entered Austrian territory directly, and to Zhou Nan's surprise, there was no friction between the two sides.

The vigorous Second World War ended silently.

At this time, Zhou Nan missed his family who was still in Germany. Every day, the radio broadcasts the crimes of the British and American forces in Germany, and the life of the Germans is not easy at all.

John suddenly ran at a rapid pace, its four legs almost completely sunk in the snow, but it didn't affect its speed in the slightest. On a slippery snow, it even slid down more than ten meters at once, but after stabilizing, it still rushed into a dense forest without hesitation.

Through the bushes, Zhou Nan couldn't see what it was doing, but in less than a minute, it ran out with a gray hare in its mouth.

When it came to Zhou Nan's side, it threw the hare at Zhou Nan's feet, wagging its tail as if waiting for Zhou Nan's praise.

The hare was still alive, but the bones in his legs had been bitten off by John, and he no longer had the strength to run, and he was dying. Zhou Nan touched John's head and scratched it twice under its neck as a sign of encouragement.

When it was complimented, it wagged its tail in contentment and took the lead and walked forward again. When passing by Jaeger's side, Jaeger tried to touch it, but it dodged it.

Jaeger shrugged his shoulders, turned around and walked to Zhou Nan's side, skillfully pulled out K31's bayonet from his waist and stabbed it directly into the hare's neck. Blood stained the white snow on the ground, leaving a bright red trail on the white snow.

Carrying the hare's hind legs, he drained the blood and put it in a somewhat torn plastic bag and hung it behind his buttocks. "Jonas, if you have been following a policy of not killing, you will never be able to experience the joy of hunting for the rest of your life."

Zhou Nan looked at the opposite hillside with a telescope, raised his right hand to greet the other party, and then said, "Hunting will never have any attraction to me. Today's Italians are lazy again, and there are only seven people in the patrol who patrol normally. ”

"It's normal, the war is over, and their lazy character has flared up again. Seven of them was a surprise to me. ”

The two men continued to walk forward, talking with one and the other. With John here, they don't need to pay too much attention to their surroundings at all.

Seen from a distance at the semi-hidden cellar at the point of the line, John crouched in the doorway, ignoring Steinli, who was holding a can of food to attract his attention.

Because the war was over, the ban on fires in the cellar was not perfectly enforced. Seeing the faint green smoke coming from the cracks in the cellar, you knew that Stein and the others had started a fire again.

The temperature here is around minus 5 degrees Celsius during the day and minus 10 degrees Celsius at night. The cellar was built in an open area on the top of the mountain, and in the face of the cold wind, it was indeed unbearable to be without a brazier.

Even the officers would not reproach Stein at this time, not to mention that the officers would not have walked a kilometer of mountain road to get here at all.

Zhou Nan and Jaeger greeted Stein and Burgman on duty, and leaned over to the brazier to roast their cold hands. When their hands were warmer, Zhou Nan and Jaeger signed their names on the signature book, and then asked Stein to sign the signature book they had brought.

A few people chatted around the brazier for a while, and Thomas, who had patrolled from the north base, also walked in with a joke. Seeing the hare behind Jaeger, he snatched it while he was not paying attention.

Jaeger did not follow and immediately chased him out. But Zhou Nan refused to help him, and he couldn't deal with two people by himself, so he had to blackmail them for half a pack of cigarettes, which was considered to be a confession.

They also completed their signature procedures, and the three parties chatted for about ten minutes in this airy cellar, and then sorted out their clothes and returned separately.

It's hard when you come, but it's much easier when you come back. Because Zhou Nan and they came uphill when they came, they could only walk over, but when they went back, it was downhill, and they could ski back directly.

Zhou Nan didn't know how to ski, but after coming here, the first thing he had to learn was skiing. Whether it was from the company headquarters to the battalion headquarters or to the regiment headquarters, from November to February of the following year, the mountains were almost covered by heavy snowfall.

When the snow freezes on the ground, even the car with snow chains has to walk carefully down the mountain, and there is no way to go up the mountain. In many cases, the transportation of materials depends on dog sleds, and the entry and exit of people have to rely on skiing to get out.

When winter first came, Zhou Nan learned to ski in a few months, and he fell in love with this sport, and last winter, he became even more familiar with this sport. But he is only skilled, and his skills are nothing compared to those who have been skiing since the age of three.

After putting on the skis, Zhou Nan shouted John, supported the ski poles with both arms, and the person skipped out. John excitedly followed and ran behind, every time he went back to this kilometer, Zhou Nan skated as fast as he could, exercising twice a day, never stopping.

A few minutes later, Zhou Nan and Jaeger braked sharply and stopped at the camp of the fourth class where they were. There were a total of ten people in the four squads, one squad leader, one deputy squad leader, and eight soldiers.

Their camp was a cliff on the side of the cliff, which was facing the direction of Austria, and a 155-gun howitzer at the entrance of the cave would not only cover all positions in sight, but also blow up the only passage between Switzerland and southern Austria.

And there are at least hundreds of such arrangements in this valley of nearly 30 kilometers. It is said that in a dangerous part of the valley, the Swiss side also planted more than 10 tons of explosives, which can be blown up directly with the push of a button.

This squad belongs to a mixed squad, five people from the border battalion and five people from the artillery battalion, if there is a battle, the two sides do not belong to each other, and only accept the deployment of their superiors, but they must also cooperate in the face of crises.

Zhou Nan belongs to the border battalion, and their daily task is to patrol the border within one kilometer of the left and right. They are only responsible for the area from 2,008 to the top of the mountain, and below the mountain, there are other patrol battalions, and people at different altitudes have different patrol times, the purpose is to form an all-round coverage monitoring network.

For two years, since they had not participated in any battles, they had no chance to shoot at all, except for going to the company's shooting range once a week to shoot targets. But it's also a good thing.

handed over the signature book back to the squad leader for signature, and Zhou Nan's task this morning was completed.

This cave was very rough when it was first built, as it was at the forefront of the cave. On the side of the artillery squad, even the shells were only equipped with a base. It seems that this place was abandoned from the day it was built.

But also, whether it is won or lost, the contact at the front line will definitely not last long.

The cave is not very deep, only about twenty meters deep. The outermost five meters are the ammunition depot next to howitzers and artillery.

The ammunition depot is to dig a branch hole in the cave, in fact, not only the ammunition depot, but even Zhou Nan's dormitory is also dug one by one next to the main cave of the branch hole.

Each branch hole is two meters deep and two meters wide, and a two-layer wooden frame bed with a width of one meter and two meters is placed inside, and a curtain is hung outside to form a hidden space.

On the opposite side of the bed, two half-meter-wide planks, about 60 centimeters higher than the bed board, were fastened to the rock wall with expansion screws, which were everyone's luggage storage racks. Sitting on the edge of the bed, you can also lie on the wooden board to write something, for the past two years, Zhou Nan has been lying on this wooden board to write letters to Audrey and Kelly, and also wrote more than one million words on this wooden board.

Today, the book "General History of the World" is more than half completed, and only the final touches are left, as well as the verification of some uncertain places. This can't be done by recalling it here, and if you want to complete this tome, what Zhou Nan needs is to go to the libraries of European countries to verify the facts.

This is because Zhou Nan did not rely on plagiarism to complete the book, in addition to borrowing from the original book, Zhou Nan rearranged the plot in the book, and modified the obvious fallacies in the original book.

And in the second half of the book, that is, the part of modern history, Zhou Nan's changes are even greater. He almost just retained the original framework and essence, and integrated the content of "The Rise of Great Powers" into it.

This is not abrupt at all, because the content of the book The Rise of Great Powers was originally to describe the modern development history of countries according to the arrangement of the general history of the world. In politics, economy, military, culture, education, religion, science and technology, etc., the two are very similar.

"The Rise of Great Powers" is like a revised version of the latter part of the "General History of the World", and if it is used as two books, it will inevitably be suspected of fried leftovers. So Zhou Nan simply combined these two books into one, improved the content and structure of the book with his own understanding, and turned it into his own book.