On the north bank of the Kalitva River, in the village of Styyanka.

In the midst of the war-torn buildings, soldiers in yellow-green uniforms fled in all directions, rushing out of the village towards the river to the south.

The soldier who was running at the front was about to reach the bridge by the river, when a string of bullets suddenly flew from behind him, passed through the soldier's back, and flew out of his chest with blood.

The soldier threw himself on the ground with a blood-spurting chest.

Behind them, four "wolf" infantry fighting vehicles rushed out of the village, chasing the enemy deserters and rushing straight to the bridge by the river.

Behind the infantry fighting vehicles, panzergrenadiers with assault rifles trotted towards the Kalitva River.

The turret machine guns on the infantry fighting vehicles swept by, and the fleeing Soviet routs were killed on the shore, and a few lay on the ground, waving their hands in a gesture of surrender.

The Panzergrenadiers, who were at the front, ignored the surrendering enemy, rushed to the river, rushed across the bridge in front of the infantry fighting vehicles, reached the south bank of the bridge, and in a flash plunged into the woods on the left side of the road on the south bank.

Another squad of Panzergrenadiers ran across the bridge and rushed into the bushes on the right side of the bridge before the "Wolf" infantry fighting vehicle turned its tracks and drove onto the bridge.

The buildings on the east side of the south bank of the bridge, four or five hundred meters away, were full of panicked Soviet soldiers.

The disorderly chaos was quickly stopped by rockets from the sky, and the rocket artillery company of the "Reich Marshal" armored regiment dropped 60 150-mm rockets into the complex on the south bank of the Kalitva River with a salvo.

The regimental artillery battalion, 12 Wasp 105-mm howitzers followed suit and fired at the southern bank.

81-mm mortar shells flew out of the north bank and hit the heads of the Soviet troops on the south bank.

Smoke billowed from the houses of the villages on the south bank, and the flames and smoke from the explosion of artillery shells were everywhere.

Take advantage of the gap where the enemy is suppressed on the south bank. More and more Panzergrenadiers rushed across the bridge to the south bank, where they set up an ultra-small bridgehead before the E-40 "Panther" tanks drove out of the villages on the north bank, crossed the open space on the shore, and crossed the bridge to the south bank safely.

As soon as the two E-40 tanks crossed the bridge, the Panzergrenadiers of the bridgehead on the south bank of the bridge immediately attacked again, attacking the buildings to the east.

The panzergrenadiers rushed to the front, at a distance of seven or eight meters or even more than ten meters, using the dense bushes and trees in the open space outside the village as a cover to rush towards the village.

Bullets and mortar shells flew from the village, and E-40 Panthers followed behind the Panzergrenadiers, shaking their muzzles and pointing at exposed Soviet fire.

88-mm high-explosive shells flew into the windows of buildings, the shock wave rushed out with dust and black smoke, and the buildings collapsed.

Machine guns and 20-mm guns on the "Wolf" infantry fighting vehicles fired one after another to suppress enemy fire points.

More and more Panzergrenadiers rushed across the bridge and joined the attack on the village.

Less than three kilometres west of the village of Styyanka, another village straddling the banks of the Kalitva River was also under attack.

Major Prince, commander of the Panzergrenadier Battalion, drove across the bridge in an infantry fighting vehicle and did not take part in the battle for the assault on the village, but drove straight to the south.

With his back to the sky, Major Prince looked around the sky, looking for his target among the planes that had never disappeared from the sky.

Soon, a group of aircraft from the south caught his attention.

"The plane is coming, send a signal to them."

Behind him, an SD KFZ Type 251 armored car was parked on the side of the road, and the six gunners in the compartment did not get out of the compartment, directly operating the GRW 34 type 81-mm mortar in the compartment, and the shells flew out of the open compartment, flew over the village, to the southeast of the village, the main battlefield in which the battle was taking place.

The shells landed, and green smoke came out with a hissing sound, spreading, quickly attracting the attention of the air group.

Summoned by the "Imperial Marshal" armored regiment, the tactical aviation regiment directly under the "Imperial Marshal" armored division sent eleven ME-110 ground attack aircraft to the battlefield to carry out a suppressive attack.

Ignoring the Soviet fighters chasing behind them, the ME-110 ground attack aircraft turned its nose and pounced in the direction of the green smoke.

On the ground, Rear Admiral Lazarev saw the green smoke for a moment, put down his binoculars, dodged into the turret of the T-34 tank at his feet, and then closed the hatch and began to pray.

The T-34 tank was hidden in the bushes and was not to be spotted by enemy aircraft.

The ME-110 ground attack aircraft swooped down, and the aerial bombs and SD-2 butterfly bombs fell to the ground with their heads covered in heads, and the black gunpowder smoke and red flames entangled with each other swept everything.

Bombs were thrown, and the ME-110 ground attack aircraft circled and flew over the battlefield again, machine gun and machine gun bullets swept across the battlefield, sweeping out bloody paths in the uncovered Soviet troops.

The 11 ME-110 attack planes repeatedly dived, dropped bombs and strafed, suppressed the Soviet infantry on the ground, and each looked for a hidden place to avoid air attacks.

From time to time, Soviet fighters rushed down to chase and kill ME-110 ground attack aircraft, but they were intercepted and tracked by German fighters.

The attack of the ME-110 ground attack aircraft completely crushed the last courage of the Soviet troops on the ground, and the balance of victory on the battlefield was greatly tilted in favor of the German army.

Perceiving the trend towards the collapse of enemy troops, on the Kalitva River, the actions of the armored regiment of the "Reich Marshal" accelerated.

E-40 "Panther" tanks drove across the bridge and launched an attack to the west of the Second Tank Army, outflanking the exposed backs of the Soviet troops in a roundabout way.

Perceiving the movement of the German troops, Major General Lazarev hurriedly gave the order to retreat, and then let the T-34 tank turn around and flee to the southwest.

On the battlefield, Soviet tanks that received orders, as well as infantry, sensing that the momentum was not right, swarmed and fled in the direction of the south and southwest.

The real disaster was the infantry, the ME-110 suppressed the ground attack aircraft, the infantry did not dare to run around, most of them lay on the ground, or look for dense grass to hide.

When the ME-110 ground attack aircraft ran out of shells and bullets and left, the Soviet infantry looked up to find that the tanks had fled first.

In a panic, the Soviet infantry followed the tanks like headless flies.

With the Kalitva River to the north and the enemy to the east, it was a dead end, and some of the tanks fled to the west, but were intercepted by the armored regiment of the "Imperial Marshal" who had just crossed the river, and could only flee to the south and southwest.

The plains, the open ground, the lush vegetation, it was very difficult to intercept the fleeing tanks and infantry, the "Reich Marshal" Panzer Regiment and the "Reich Marshal" 2nd Panzergrenadier Regiment launched a charge, closely coordinated, wanted to encircle the Soviet army, but it was still a step too late.

Soviet tanks, especially the fast T-34 and T-60 tanks, were fleeing to the southwest, and the encirclement turned into a crushing battle.

Major General Lazarev's T-34 tank was at the forefront of the rout, and the T-34 tank's wide tracks rotated at high speed, and its superior cross-country ability was fully displayed when fleeing, and it was the first to flee the battlefield, leaving the other tanks and infantry far behind.

Sticking his head out, Major General Lazarev looked back behind him from time to time, and saw almost all his tanks and light vehicles, and couldn't help but secretly rejoice that he was fleeing victoriously.

A loud noise suddenly came from the front, and Major General Lazarev looked up at the sky, his two eyeballs almost out of their sockets.

Helicopters, a lot of helicopters, there are as many as twenty or thirty.

Most of these helicopters have the right side of the fuselage aimed at themselves, and a few have the nose facing them.

Ignoring the fugitive tanks, the FI-382 "Black Hawk" helicopter group spared the tanks and fired wildly from the MG-42 machine guns on board, spraying bullets at the infantry behind the tanks.

The hapless infantry was once again suppressed by the fire from the air, unable to move, and had to lie down and hide.

Allowing the tanks to pass underneath the planes, some of the helicopters calmly turned around and aimed their noses at the tail of the Soviet tanks.

The FI-382 helicopters were armed with weapon pylons on the left and right fuselages, each equipped with eight R-4M rockets, for a total of sixteen.

Under the fuselage, a 7.92 mm six-barreled Gatling gun was also suspended.

In order to prevent the enemy from escaping in the vast plains, the Black Iron Brigade under the 101st Special Air Service Regiment was ordered to send two companies of troops to the battlefield in FI-382 helicopters to cooperate with the ground troops to encircle the remnants of the Second Tank Army.

The general-purpose Black Hawk helicopter intercepted the Soviet infantry, and the tanks were handed over to the helicopter gunships to deal with.

Major Recht, the captain of the Black Iron Brigade, who personally led the attack, with the nose of the fuselage facing the tail of the fleeing tank, fired four R4M rockets mercilessly.

A rocket hit the engine compartment of the T-34 tank in which Major General Lazarev was riding, and the armor-piercing warhead burned a bullet hole in the steel plate and drilled into the tank for destruction.

Soon after, the turret hatch was opened, and four men got out of the tank one after another.

A string of bullets flew and landed beside the four people, who did not dare to move, stopped, stood by the tank, and helplessly looked at the helicopter in the sky.

Two companies of helicopters flew through the air, stopping in the south and southwest directions, driving back the fleeing Soviet troops in this direction until they crashed into the pursuing German tanks and armored vehicles.

Any infantry and tanks that dared to continue on the run would be mercilessly hunted.

FI-382 helicopters flew through the air, making contact with friendly forces on the ground via radio, guiding them to hunt down Soviet troops hiding in all corners.

Towards four o'clock in the afternoon, the sound of gunfire on the battlefield gradually faded away.

Major Prince personally rushed to the front of the battalion and went straight to the southwest of the battlefield.

Next to the T-34 tank, Major Lazarev and three of his subordinates raised their hands and looked at the helicopters flying around them in dismay, not daring to move until the "Wolf" infantry fighting vehicle stopped beside them.

Major Prince, half of his body exposed the turret, looked Major General Lazarev up and down, his gaze resting on his epaulettes.

A grenadier jumped out of the hatch behind the armored car, walked up to Major General Lazarev and asked in Russian: "Your rank?" ”

"Major General." Major General Lazarev said.

The grenadiers rummaged through the pockets of Major General Lazarev and searched for his military ID.

After reading the above, the grenadier excitedly turned his head and shouted to Major Prince, "Major, we have captured a major general." ”