"Captain Manstein, you think the coalition forces are insufficient, so you are so anxious to change your original intention and take Kharkov as your current first combat target. But in this case, why didn't the other party simply use heavy bombers to destroy the railway line south of Kharkov and the bridges along the way? Isn't this easier to cut off our retreat and eat our troops gathered in Kharkov in one go?" Another handsome 27-8-year-old German captain couldn't help but say. (144 Book! No., pop-up window....шwщdyzw8//The fastest update//

14:05 on July 31, 918, five kilometers southwest of Kharkov, a dense forest on the west side of the railway line, the first German armored train detachment

Everyone in the armored train command car turned their heads and looked at it, but it was the infantry battalion-level commander who had just entered, 27-year-old Captain Erwin Johannes Jugen Rommel, Army Captain Rommel quickly walked to the map, gestured with his hands, and raised his head to continue asking,

"Captain Manstein, you think the coalition forces are insufficient, so you are so anxious to change your original intention and take the capture of Kharkov as your current first combat target. But in this case, why didn't the other party simply use heavy bombers to destroy the railway line south of Kharkov and the bridges along the way? Isn't this easier to cut off our retreat and eat our troops gathered in Kharkov in one breath?" The handsome German captain repeated his question.

"Don't you think so? Captain Rommel..." Captain Von Manstein frowned slightly, looking at Rommel, who was 4 years younger than him, a trace of dissatisfaction flashed through his heart, but Manstein, who was always elegant, was unwilling to express it easily.

Although the European war lasted for more than four years, the aging degree of German army officers was comparable to that of the French because of the last 30 years of peace in Europe. Although a large number of outstanding generals showed their skills in the war, like the 27-year-old Captain Rommel, who had never attended the German Staff Academy, had been promoted to captain and became a member of the Blue Max Medal of the Supreme German Honor in the war.

Erwin Johannes Jugen Rommel German: ermel, born on November 15, 1891 - October 14, 1944, at noon Sunday, November 15, 1891, in Heidenheim, Baden Württemberg, the German Empire, which is a small city outside Ulm. Rommel's father named Erwin Rommel, a math teacher at Heidenheim Literature Middle School, after his own name. Rommel's father was also a teacher. Both of them were famous as mathematicians and were also very respected in Heidenheim.

The mother Helena Hene is the daughter of Karlonluz, the local administrative chief of Baden Württemberg. Although Rommel's surname does not have "on", he still has half of the blood of German nobles. Rommel's parents are both Protestant. Rommel has a brother Manfred, sister Helena Hene, brother Geerhard and Karl, among which Manfred died when he was young.

Rommel was weak in her childhood. According to her sister Helena, Rommel was called "little white bear" by her family members because of her thin hair color and pale skin. According to the memo held in Rommel's own personnel records, "When I was a child, I was very happy to play in my own spacious courtyard."

Rommel's father served in the artillery unit when he was young, but apart from this, the Rommel family had no relationship with the military and had no relatives related to it. In addition, because the Rommel family educated the citizens of the class, it was very disadvantageous in the German Imperial Army, which valued the aristocratic origin. In 1898, Rommel's father became the principal of Aron Liberal Arts High School, and the whole family moved to Aron. Since Aron did not have an elementary school, Rommel had to teach by a tutor before entering the middle school.

Rommel wanted to become an aircraft engineer, but was opposed by his father, who hoped that he could join the army of the Kingdom of Württemberg. However, Rommel himself was not interested in his military career at that time. On July 19, 1910, Rommel joined the 6th Infantry Company of the Royal Württemberg Army "Emperor William I" stationed in Weiningalten, which was the 124th Infantry Company of the German Imperial Army, and became a candidate for the lower-level officer.

After half a year of service as a military officer at the level of the following level, Rommel entered the Royal Officer's School of the Kingdom of Prussia in March 1911. During Rommel's military academy, he met his future wife to study linguistics here. 17-year-old Luciamamaria mollin, whom Rommel often called her "Lucy". After graduating from the officer's school, Rommel also often contacted Lucy Exin, and the two got married in 1916.

In March 1914, Rommel was transferred to Ulm. The 3rd Field Artillery Regiment of the Royal Württemberg Army, which belonged to the 27th Infantry Division, was the 49th Field Artillery Regiment of the German Imperial Army, but when World War I broke out, it returned to the 124th Infantry Regiment and served as the second battalion of the unit. Rommel was transferred to the Ukrainian battlefield in February 1918 and became a staff officer and alternate officer of the 29th Army. Then in May 1918, he joined the newly established 1st Armored Detachment of the Duli Armored Detachment in Ukraine, serving as the infantry commander of the 2nd Detachment. At the same time, Rommel was also promoted to army captain. In Wang Geng's previous life, Rommel did not have the chance to return to the front line until the defeat of Germany in the first battle, and Rommel was not promoted to captain until October 18, 1918.

The 1st Detachment of the Duli Iron Armor of the German 10th Army has two iron Armor trains, each with 16 carriages, of which 4 are heavy machine gun compartments, each with 6 mg08 water-cooled heavy machine guns, and the artillery compartments have 8 carriages. The first and the last carriages are each equipped with a German Krupp 150mm heavy howitzer. The other 4 carriages are equipped with 2 105mm light howitzers, and the other 2 carriages are equipped with 3 20mm anti-aircraft guns each, and the other 4 carriages are infantry compartments, each carriage is equipped with a company of infantry.

Captain Rommel is the commander of the four German infantry companies on the 2nd of the Armored Train Detachment 1. This former company-level commander of the mountain battalion had commanded several company-level troops more than once before. He is now promoted to an army captain at the age of 27 and officially commanding the 4 infantry companies in the 2nd of the Armored Train Detachment 1. It is considered to be a higher starting point in his military career.

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