When the SS 104th "Polish Governor's Guard" heavy armored brigade engaged the Soviet 23rd Tank Army, on the southern front of the battlefield, the "Großdeutschland" Panzergrenadier Division was also drawn into a fierce battle.

Unlike the SS 104th "Polish Doge's Guard" Heavy Armored Brigade, which engaged the enemy in close combat, the "Großdeutschland" Panzergrenadier Division, which entered the battlefield at night, had the advantage of being the first to strike.

During the daytime battle, the 2nd Infantry Division under the 1st Army of Vlasov took the lead in breaking through the Soviet position, and then sent the 1st Tank Brigade to the position of the 3rd Infantry Division on the right side to break through in coordination.

Knowing that units of the Soviet 23rd Tank Army appeared nearby, and that there was a high probability of a large-scale counteroffensive during the day tomorrow, the 3rd Infantry Division immediately turned to the south and went on the defensive on the southern side of the road to Voroshilovgrad, with the Lujan River as the southern border.

The Panzergrenadier Division of the "Großdeutsch" entered the battlefield overnight, and on the north side of the 3rd Infantry Division, the 104th SS Heavy Panzer Brigade was on standby to the west, acting as a battlefield reserve, ready to rush to the aid of the battlefield in both directions.

Taking advantage of the cover of night, the Greater German Artillery Regiment urgently built artillery positions, erected camouflage nets, and covered a number of self-propelled guns, and at dawn, it was able to complete this urgent task.

At dawn, when the sky in the east had just risen white, the defenders of the 3rd Infantry Division issued warnings in the villages of Khorosher along the Luján River and Petrovinki in the west, and the defenders exchanged fire with small Soviet forces and successfully repulsed them.

The commander of the Panzergrenadier Division "Großdeutschland", Lieutenant General Hall Lein, judged that this was a reconnaissance unit sent by Soviet troops, and that the Soviet offensive was about to begin, and immediately called for reinforcements.

The Panzergrenadier Division "Großdeutschland" and the Panzer Division of the "Reichsmarshal" were under the command of Chen Dao, and for some unspeakable reason, the Panzer Division of the "Reichsmarshal" did not participate in the battle, but only put the subordinate tactical aviation regiments into the battle, and sent ground guidance units in the Panzergrenadier Division of the "Großdeutschland" and the SS 104th "Polish Doge's Guard" heavy armored brigade.

With the call of Lieutenant General Hall Lein, ME-109 fighters were the first to appear over the battlefield to ensure air supremacy on the battlefield and suppress the activities of the Soviet Air Force.

After seeing the ME-109 fighter appear in the sky, the air observation post sent by the "Großdeutschland" artillery regiment, the FI-382 "Black Hawk" helicopter in the shape of a tadpole, followed the battlefield.

No sooner had the Black Hawk helicopter landed on the battlefield than almost at the same time, Soviet artillery shells fell on the villages of Khorosher and Petrovenki.

A group of PE-2 bombers and an Il-2 attack plane appeared in the sky, but they were intercepted by the fighter units of the Sixth Air Force, which came to carry out the task of seizing air supremacy at dawn, and then a fierce air battle broke out with the fighters escorted by the Soviet troops.

Relying on the cover of escort fighters and breaking free from the shackles of German fighters, the Il-2 attack aircraft and PE-2 bombers launched attacks one after another, but they were intercepted by the fighters of the tactical aviation regiment under the "Imperial Marshal" armored division, and the air defense units deployed on the ground in advance, and the 20 mm and 40 mm caliber anti-aircraft guns also joined the battle to block the attack of the Soviet bombers.

The blue sky is full of fighter jets, black smoke of various sizes dotted with it, and you can occasionally see white umbrella flowers behind the pilot when he parachutes.

Ignoring the battle in the air, the Soviet artillery persistently launched an artillery bombardment on two villages along the Luján River.

The 21st Tank Corps was reinforced by five artillery regiments, and in the first wave of the attack, three artillery regiments and the subordinate "Katyusha" rocket artillery battalion were used.

The village of Khoroshe was shelled by a 152-mm howitzer regiment and a self-propelled rocket artillery battalion, while the village of Petrovinki was shelled by two 122-mm howitzer regiments.

Rockets rained down from the sky, leveling almost the entire village of Khorosher on the south bank of the Luhan River, while the 152-mm howitzer regiment focused on bombing the part of the village on the north bank of the Luhan River.

Just as the Soviet artillery was raging on both sides of the Luján River, behind the defenders, the Großdeutsche artillery regiment immediately launched a counterattack.

Two vigilant battalions of "Wasp" 105-mm self-propelled howitzers and 24 self-propelled howitzers, under the guidance of FI-382 "Black Hawk" helicopters cruising in the air, quickly pointed their guns to the southeast, a ground shrouded in black smoke.

The black smoke emitted by the salvo of the "Katyusha" rocket artillery battalion was too dazzling to evade the search of the German artillery observation posts.

The black smoke from the launch of the rocket had not yet cleared, and the black smoke from the explosion of the 105-mm howitzer shell rose one after another.

Under the black smoke, the positions of the "Katyusha" rocket artillery battalion were in shambles, the rocket launchers were torn apart, various parts were scattered in all directions, and the gunners who were exposed to the wilderness were killed and wounded.

As soon as the explosions stopped, the groans of the wounded Soviet soldiers filled the battlefield.

The second victim was a 122-mm howitzer regiment, and the incessant firing greatly increased the chances of this howitzer regiment being exposed.

The heavy howitzer battalion under the Großdeutsche Artillery Regiment joined the battle, and 12 "Wild Bee" self-propelled howitzers opened fire one after another, instantly overturning the positions of the artillery regiment.

After the first company and two artillery units were countered by enemy artillery fire, the commander of the 21st Tank Corps, Major General Kuzmin, decisively stopped the shelling and instead sent infantry tanks to attack in groups, and at the same time let the artillery observation posts occupy the high ground and search for the positions of the enemy artillery on the opposite side.

The first wave attacked two villages at once, and Major General Kuzmin used two infantry battalions, two light tank battalions and one heavy tank regiment at once.

The huge cluster of Butan, on a frontage as wide as 4 kilometers, ran from south to north, crushing over the green fields, and rushed mightily towards the two villages on the banks of the Luján River.

However, as soon as the attack group left the assembly area and advanced less than two kilometers, on the north bank of the Luhan River, on the artillery positions of the "Großdeutsch" artillery regiment, a piercing roar suddenly sounded.

The 4th Battalion of the Greater German Artillery Regiment is a "donkey" self-propelled rocket artillery battalion, and the whole battalion is equipped with a total of 18 "donkey" self-propelled rocket launchers.

After receiving the order to open fire and adjusting the firing angle and bearing, in less than 20 seconds, 180 150-mm rockets took off into the air, streaked across the sky with a piercing scream, and fell towards the Soviet infantry cluster exposed in the wilderness.

The Soviets attacking the village of Khorosher withstood more rocket fire, and almost the entire unit was shrouded in black smoke from the rockets, and no one could see what was happening under the black smoke except for the explosion.

Before the black smoke cleared, a T-60 light tank was the first to burst out of the black smoke, followed by a second and a third····· Then there is the slow KV-85 heavy tank.

The black smoke slowly drifted away with the wind, and the surviving tank clusters continued to charge, while the infantry clusters that had been following the tanks were gone.

Leaving behind the corpses and wounded of the infantrymen, and throwing down a dozen destroyed and wounded tanks, the tank group still resolutely rushed towards the village of Horoshe, and rushed into the part of the village of Horosher on the south bank of the Luhan River without any extra resistance.

The ruins and bushes of the village separated the Soviet tanks.

A T-60 light tank had just driven up the bridge built by the villagers when smoke erupted from the muzzle of an M1937 45mm anti-tank gun squatting in the bushes on the side of the road.

In the blink of an eye, the spinning shell flew over a distance of less than 100 meters, drilling a round hole in the T-60 tank, which relied on inertia to drive over the small bridge and become paralyzed at the bridgehead.

There is no bridge over the river to the east of the village, only a ferry that the villagers use all year round, which can be used by people and vehicles to wade across the river.

A KV-85 heavy tank was the first to arrive at the crossing, and with a damp chassis, the KV-85 heavy tank drove with difficulty onto the road on the north bank of the Luhan River.

Without waiting for the tank to drive out of the shade of the north bank of the river, in the lush riverside jungle on the right, two figures who were originally lying on the ground suddenly squatted up and aimed the iron-fisted anti-tank rocket in their hands at the side of the turret of the KV-85 heavy tank.

At a distance of less than ten meters, there was no possibility of missing shots, and two iron fists hit the right side of the turret armor one after another, and the metal jet burned two bullet holes in the turret.

Almost at the same time, in the shade to the left of the tank, two RPG-40 anti-tank grenades flew out and fell one after another on the engine compartment of the tank.

After the thunderous explosion, the massive body of the KV-85 tank stopped in place, blocking most of the road.

Iron Fist, Tank Hunters, Anti-Tank Guns, 45mm Anti-Tank Guns, and 76.2mm Cannons, taking advantage of the tree-lined landscape along the Luján River, the defenders of the village of Khorosher ruthlessly and boldly hunted down Soviet tanks at close range, lacking infantry support.

The Soviet tankmen, who had a narrow field of vision and could only hide in the tanks and did not dare to show their heads, drove the tanks like headless flies, and one after another were destroyed by the Luján River.

Three tanks panicked and fell headlong into the riverbank.

I don't know how long it took, but with the escape of the remaining tanks, the first battle for the defense of the village of Khorosher was won.

To the west of the village of Khoroshe, the battle in the village of Petrovinki was much the same, and the Soviet infantry was overwhelmed by the heavy artillery fire, and could only watch as the tank group charged alone to the village of Petrovenki. Later, it was blocked by the Luhan River, and was hunted down by the German infantry in the woodland by the river at close range, and one after another was destroyed by the river.

In the field command post in the rear, the commander of the 21st Tank Army, Major General Kuzmin, saw the defeat of his troops in his eyes, and his eyes almost burst into flames.

His gaze turned to the east, and to the east of the battlefield, in the town of Zmoheria controlled by the 21st Tank Army, another attacking force had successfully crossed the Luhan River and attacked the village of Horosher along the north bank of the Luhan River to the west, but the battle was obscured by the lush and continuous trees along the riverside, and there was no way to see the situation on the other side of the river, and I did not know how the battle was going.

Hopefully, the offensive will be successful, as long as our tanks storm the village, and they will be finished.