Chapter III Retirement

When he joined the army, Zhou Nan brought two large boxes of clothes and paper, and now, in addition to the two large boxes of clothes, there are three more boxes of clothes and equipment.

In Switzerland, even after retirement, the weapons and ammunition, daggers, and gas masks issued by the army are still in the custody of the person. Switzerland's all-in-one army has never been a slogan, but a system that has been put into practice.

Before Zhou Nan entered the barracks, he was awarded the rank of senior soldier because of his excellent training performance. Funnily enough, on Christmas Day the following year, because he made a meal of potato roast beef for everyone, he was welcomed by the soldiers of the whole company, plus he was the only Oriental and kind, so he won the title of excellent soldier and was promoted to a corporal.

Now that he is about to retire, according to the convention, he will be promoted to the next level, but he will also be directly transferred to the reserve. Don't think that these military ranks are useless, in the future annual training, social welfare, the higher the rank, the better the treatment.

became a non-commissioned officer, and Zhou Nan had the right to carry a pistol with him in the future. When the rank does not reach the rank of corporal, you can only carry a long gun, and you have no right to carry a pistol with you.

In other words, as long as Zhou Nan doesn't go abroad, the police won't care if he has a gun on his body, and he won't use guns and bullets to separate. However, this policy seems to have been abolished in peacetime, and he did not hear of it when he came to travel in the nineties.

John also received two military licenses, one was a service record, and with this dog tag, he could enjoy medical reimbursement if he became ill in the future. Another Hero Medal is also hilarious, as it was awarded for the birth of more than 200 qualified military dogs in Switzerland two years ago.

Zhou Nan got countless promises from puppies, but none of them came true. However, before leaving, Zhou Nan will take a trained female military dog with him. Although this female military dog is over ten years old, she is still fertile and has a pure breed.

If Zhou Nan's luck is good, next year, there will be an extra litter of puppies in the family.

The day he left was December 8, and from the time he began his training, he served for a total of 27 months, exceeding the original three months.

However, this was his own request, because with the additional three months of service, he would not need to serve in the camp for the next six years. However, he still has to hand in a live-fire training sheet at the town's shooting range every year, proving that he has fired 120 rounds.

You can shoot as many shots as you want, but you have to buy your own bullets, that is, you can't shoot less than 120 shots.

Moreover, he also wanted to avoid the time when the war had just ended, because in the summer, the wartime policy was still being implemented. Even if everyone retires, they still have to obey the arrangement of the state and must become a screw of the country.

As the months passed, Switzerland's policies began to liberalize, with some restrictions on agriculture and a free economy in industry. Now Zhou Nan can do what he likes to do, instead of having to obey the arrangement.

A newcomer like him, who has no special skills, is afraid that he will be assigned a position as a chef or service staff, which is not something Zhou Nan is willing to do.

In the past two years, because the war has not broken out, he has hardly made any contributions. Comparatively speaking, John gave birth to more than 200 military dogs for the army, and the credit is far greater than his.

After returning from the company headquarters, the team also held a farewell banquet for him and Jaeger. Ten people who have lived together for more than a year, because of the particularity of the Swiss army, personnel have been coming and going, so there is not much sadness about parting. After eating a relatively sumptuous meal, he happily sent Zhou Nan and Jee away.

Entering November, after a few snowfalls, the road up the mountain was already icy, and their luggage was placed on a sleigh and pulled down the mountain by themselves.

The road down the mountain was very smooth, and Zhou Nan and his family sat on the sled, and from time to time they had to activate the brakes to prevent the sled from getting out of control, and the speed of sliding was not slower than that of a car.

Looking at the white expanse all around, Austria and Italy on the other side are completely different from this side. Only the three different flags on the Rad Peak, the majestic three-country dividing line, tell everyone that this mountain represents three different countries.

It was not until they slid down the mountain that Zhou Nan and Jaeger had time to speak. "Jonas, did you hear the news this morning?"

"What's the news?" Although there were more than 100 pounds of luggage on the sled, it did not add much resistance to the sled, and both of them behaved very easily.

"In Constance, near our border, the French have almost *** the German women in the city. One of our journalists was also killed by them because he had taken some pictures. ”

No one knows the post-war history of Europe better than Zhou Nan. Because of his background, he has been collecting information on this area since then, hoping to find the Hoffman family, so he is very clear about the history of this area.

In post-war Germany, in West Germany alone, there were 190,000 women who gave birth to children after being ***. It was even darker on the East German side, because the Germans had always considered Russia to be an inferior people, so their national vanity and vindictiveness also swelled after taking control of the GDR. At that time, the Soviet high-level even directly shouted slogans to turn all newborns in East Germany into descendants of the Soviets, which shows that the women there may not escape the opponent.

Zhou Nan sighed, very worried about the Hoffmann family in Leverkusen. Whether it's Caroline, or Vera and Claudio, they are all beautiful women, and they hope that they will escape their doom on the shores of Lake Dinn.

"Jaeger, your home is close to the border, and now the border is not strictly controlled after the war?"

He laughed and said, "My home is close to France, and the French are crazy right now, they only care about burning and looting in Germany, and they can care about the border with us. My dad said that there are now countless French civilians in La Chaux-de-Fonds who come to beg for a living, and that the situation in their country is very bad. ”

This was not the answer Zhou Nan wanted, and he asked again: "Then do you know that the procedures for going abroad are easy to handle now?" ”

He shrugged his shoulders and said, "I'm just like you, almost out of touch with the outside world. But now the rest of the country is in a mess, and the whole of Europe is almost in ruins, and if it were me, I wouldn't have gone abroad at this time. ”

Indeed, what is now Switzerland is almost the best-preserved country in Europe. More than a dozen cities such as Rotterdam in the Netherlands and Berlin in Germany, as well as some cities in Italy and France, have been almost wiped off the face of the earth.

Britain and the United States and other countries are emptying Germany, they want to control Germany's industrial capacity to the level of the thirties, and most of the factory equipment is being dismantled.

And this is just the beginning, because this aggression will continue to exist for the next two years. In addition, in the next two years, Europe will experience historically rare cold weather, and grain from Eastern Europe will not be able to come in due to political reasons. Europe fell into the Holodomor, especially Germany, where nearly ten million people died of hunger, cold and disease. Until the implementation of the Marshall Plan began, Germany was in the throes of pain.

After the implementation of the Marshall Plan, life in Germany was better, but the East and West camps had completely turned around, food was always a big problem, and the famine lasted until the fifties.

It was not until the curtain of the Cold War was raised in the fifties that the German problem was completely resolved in order to support Germany, which was at the forefront of the struggle against the Soviet Union. Since then, Europe has begun 20 years of rapid development, and the speed of development in these 20 years is only slightly worse than the economic miracle created by the motherland in the Far East a few decades later, and has become a heavy stroke in the history of world economic development.

Zhou Nan was not afraid of other problems, he was afraid that his relatives would encounter misfortune, and at that time, he would regret it.

If he became a prophet and had not changed the fate of his relatives, Zhou Nan would feel that he was the most useless person.

Because of his concern, he received the named Ollie at the military dog training camp, and he didn't let him smile too much.

Ollie had a brief married life with John and had six puppies, so the two dogs were familiar with each other. It's just that Ollie hasn't been in the childbearing period lately, so she is a little lukewarm to John, and makes John's hot face stick to the cold ass.

From two large boxes of clothing to five large boxes, and then there were guns and ammunition, weapons and equipment, plus two dogs. Zhou Nan, who was not short of money, originally wanted to rent a car directly to go home, but unfortunately the shortage of gasoline has not eased, and now the mountain roads are icy, and there is no car willing to run hundreds of kilometers of mountain roads to Lucerne.

The army can check the luggage back for free, because it has to be transferred to three cars, Zhou Nan carefully inquired about the luggage and people can arrive at the same time, and has no choice but to check it in.

However, guns and ammunition still have to be carried on the body, which is not included in the scope of consignment. With the gun behind his back, leading Ollie and John beside him, Zhou Nan and the others were sent to the train station by a truck with a tarpaulin.

In this way, Zhou Nan's military career began silently and ended silently. In addition to an extra record on the household registration document, the only mark left by Zhou Nan's military career in the past two years is that his body is much stronger.

When the train drove into Lucerne, Zhou Nan found that after the end of the war, there were many more people in the city, and although many restrictions had not been relaxed, they were also much looser. In the past, there were no idlers on the streets, but now, there are many people enjoying the winter sun on the lounge chairs on the side of the street.

Lucerne is still so beautiful in winter, Lake Lucerne is still so calm, the River Reuss flows slowly, and time seems to have left no trace on the city.

Ordered a four-wheeled carriage, and Zhou Nan loaded all his luggage onto the car with the help of the groom. He was very curious about Zhou Nan, who was wearing a military uniform, asked where Zhou Nan served, and also recalled his military experience when he was young.

Zhou You accompanied him to reminisce about the past, but his heart had already flown back home.

Could Kylie get fat again? Is Audrey prettier? The thought of them warmed his heart.