Chapter 10:
July 6, 1937
Central-Western Spain, Salamanca, a major stronghold of the Spanish Nationalist faction Thanks to Colonel Model working me to the bone as soon as I returned, I was able to tighten the discipline I’d lost during my dispatch to the Luftwaffe and quickly adapt to my duties as Company Commander.
While I was at it, I also accumulated enough firing data for the 88 Anti-aircraft Gun with Colonel Model, completing a fairly precise firing table.
Rommel's cheat code and the nightmare of the Allied Forces—the method for using the 88, written as an anti-aircraft gun but read as the best anti-tank gun of World War II, has emerged in the Interwar Period!
And just as that happened, we were immediately summoned to battle.
“The Republican faction launched an offensive toward Brunete at dawn today.
It was an unexpected surprise attack, so the front line is said to be collapsing rapidly. A defense force has been assembled, and the Commander-in-Chief will be General Varela.
We will be operating under Colonel Juan Yagüe, and the location is here…”
The officers who saw the point indicated by the baton of Lieutenant General Thoma, the Condor Legion's Army commander, swallowed hard.