"Paulus, from the United Front Work Department." Schellner stood in front of the radio and motioned for Paulus to come over.

"Paulus, 231st Infantry Division."

"I'm Hoffman, and the 501st Tank Battalion is on its way and is expected to arrive tomorrow morning." Hoffman touched his nose and couldn't bear to tell them that President Eric didn't want the 231st to retreat. "Colonel, are there any difficulties?"

"Nope! Chief! The 231st Infantry Division will successfully take the 2165 heights and block the retreat route of the Italian army! Paulus gradually understood the weapons and equipment of this refitting under Schellner's introduction, and the 501st Tank Battalion had arrived, Paulus was very confident that with the 231st Infantry Division, 21,000 troops, the 140,000 Italian troops deep into the German-occupied area would remain here.

"Very good, hand over today's combat report tomorrow morning, take your time, the 59th Infantry Division of the Italian Army is not so easy to fight." Then Hoffman went offline.

"What did the Chief of the General Staff say?" Schellner didn't hear the conversation clearly.

"The 501st Tank Battalion is coming, and you'll be able to see Major General Guderian in a moment." Paulus said in a teasing tone.

"What a major general, he is already a lieutenant general." Schellner had just come from Berlin and knew about Guderian's promotion to lieutenant general after the Battle of Roveretto.

"When?" Paulus came to Italy from home with the field army, and much of the information is unclear.

"Two months ago, in the Battle of Lake Garda, the 23rd Mountain Army took the area from Rovereto to Brescia and 12 cities in three days." Schellner's envious look overwhelmed Paulus a little.

"My people from the United Front Work Department said that there was the Italian 59th Infantry Division in that area at that time?" Paulus also didn't know exactly where the Italian 59th Infantry Division came from.

"That's right, the commander of this infantry division is a German, I don't know where it is. However, it is the same as our president, and they are all officers of the Danzig Royal Military Academy, and Mr. President won the third place with his graduation thesis, and the 59th Infantry Division won the top 10, which is very good. Schellner told all he had heard.

Kant was a top student at the Royal Military Academy of Danzig in 1904, and Eric Adrian of the same class, although the two were alumni of the same class, they rarely intersected, Eric was interested in the business world, and Kant was in the military world. After graduating, Eric started a business in Germany, while Kant had to give up the assignment to go to Italy to attend his parents' funeral after learning that his parents had died in a car accident in Italy, and then took over the family business.

Kant stayed in Italy after the death of his parents and the abandonment of his clan, but unfortunately he was not a businessman, and finally had no choice but to sell the rest of the family business. Kant wanted to return to China without commercial baggage, but unfortunately he had no establishment in the army, so he had to return to Italy. At this time, in the midst of the Balkan crisis, Italy had no intention of entering the war, but it also began to recruit troops to prevent interference by its neighbors.

Because Italy did not have direct relations with Germany at this time, and Kant's resume was also very beautiful, he entered an infantry division of the Royal Italian Legion, the predecessor of the current 59th Infantry Division.

With Italy's entry into the war, Kant's troops also went to the Italian-Austrian border region to fight. Kant, who survived the Battle of Bretto, went from being a second lieutenant to a major in place of his superior.

Before the end of the war, the major received a "letter from home", Kant, who thought that he had no idea of returning home, had a sense of belonging after seeing this "family letter", and the letter revealed that he had punished some people who had betrayed him, Kant did not know whether it was out of gratitude or because he was a German and agreed, and became a midline of the Italian army of the German Federal Military Intelligence Agency.

At first, Kant did not receive any assignments, until the outbreak of the German-Italian war, when a Frenchman who claimed to be the connector gave him a map of the Austrian defense line and gave him a large sum of money in return, allowing him to pass on this information to the higher-ups.

Sure enough, this deployment map played a big role in the Italian army, which was attacking Austria at the time, and Kant was promoted again to lieutenant colonel, leading an infantry division.

The collapse of the Austrian line shocked the top brass and forced them to accept the proposal to incorporate into the German Confederation. Germany then demanded that Italy return its territory, and the arrogant Mussolini, of course, would not spit out the head that had been eaten in his mouth, and ordered the Italian armies to prepare.

Kant's 59th Infantry Division was ordered to deploy to Lake Garda, an important transportation hub for northern Italy to the European continent, and if lost, troops in western and eastern Italy would have to be transported from the peninsula city of Modena.

Guderian's 501st Tank Battalion stormed Brescia just as Kant received an order to defend it. Kant's identity was seen by Kluge as the conflict between the two sides escalated, and he was bent on making it convenient for the German army, and he showed his face in front of Eric, and he proposed to make Kant defect, which was vetoed by Eric.

"What are you kidding, such an important nail, such an informant obtained by chance, is such a waste? I'm skeptical of your abilities, Klug. ”

In this way, Kluge no longer dared to obtain information directly from Kant, for fear that this intelligence line would be exposed prematurely.

The news that Pershing landed on the Italian peninsula and entered Rome was very secretive, after all, the United States did not want to make enemies with Germany, which was in the honeymoon period, and the military councils held were basically Mussolini's self-selected aristocratic generals to show his attention.

Of course, Kant, who did not have a knighthood, did not have the opportunity to participate, but shortly after the army was dispatched, he encountered a German army, and Kant was coincidentally chosen by Pershing as the commander to resist the continued advance of the German army.

So there was an unexpected battle in the 2165 Heights.

Berlin, Hanseatic Palace.

"Paulus, that's what you really said?" Hoffmann relayed his conversation with Paulus to Brauchitsch, who had a play he reported before the president.

Hoffman said it was the exact thing.

"Interesting, I'm really looking forward to which of these two is stronger or weaker." Eric was not at all worried about the outcome of the war, and Germany's lack of wanting to expand the war did not mean that Germany was afraid that Italy would turn defeat into victory.

A partial victory, the combat effectiveness of a certain unit, cannot determine the outcome of a war between two countries.

"I heard Kluge say that this man named Kant is an alumnus of Mr. President?" Brauchitsch didn't know much from Kluger, only getting these two messages, a name and a presidential alumnus.

"I also listened to Kluger introduce me, and then I looked at the information and remembered that there was such a person." Eric said.

"That's right, Mr. President is a top student, and Kant's graduation grades are not as good as yours, so it's normal that you can't remember." Brauchitsch patted the fart appropriately.

Eric instantly blushed and was speechless, what could he say? Is it all about copying? Physical strength is even more incomparable, and Eric, who has been supplementing various nutrients in his mother's womb since birth, has grown up in various powerful supplements since birth. The two people were born 1,000 years apart, and there is no comparison.

It's like comparing a professional boxer in later generations with a commoner in BC, and the nutrition of the two is not on the same channel at all.

"Okay, this man named Kant, let the people under him stop discussing it." Eric didn't want to talk too much about his grades, he was afraid of revealing his stuff.

"What? Could it be that this person is the eyeliner of the NSA? Brauchitsch also did not know the identity of Kant.

In exchange for Eric's silence and a sharp gaze, he quickly shut up and left.