The Severodonets River is the largest tributary of the right bank of the Don River, and about 20 kilometers east of Izyum, an important town in the middle reaches of the Severodonets River, the Oskol River, which flows into the Severodonets River, is the largest tributary on the left bank of the Severodonets River.

In the early morning of 20 June, just as the Luftwaffe was indiscriminately bombing the Boguchar and Obermamont lines to block the movement of the Voronezh Front, the German Army and the Waffen-SS were also racing against time to prepare a huge pincer offensive for the Southwestern Front under the command of Field Marshal Timoshenko.

In the northeastern corner of the confluence of the Oskol and Severodonets rivers, the commander of the heavy armored brigade of the 104th "Polish Doge's Guard" of the SS, Colonel Clark von Reinhardt (played by the reader "The Fantasy of the Snow Moon Fox"), welcomed the second reinforced unit under his command.

Colonel Reinhardt led his troops across the Severodonets River from the bridge north-west of Voroshilovgrad, reinforced by a Panzergrenadier battalion under the Panzergrenadier Division of the "Großdeutsches", and attacked along the left bank of the Severodonets River all the way to the west.

The troops first captured the riverside towns of Triossian and Koryakivka, which were being attacked by the 3rd Infantry Division of Vlasov's 1st Army.

With the arrival of Colonel Reinhardt and his men, the two towns were flanked from both sides, the defenders collapsed, and the troops of the 3rd Infantry Division continued to cross the Severodonets River from the bridge south of the town.

Leaving the 3rd Infantry Division across the Severodonets River, Colonel Reinhardt led his troops to continue westward, attacking Severodonetsk, a riverside town about 70 kilometers northwest of Voroshilovgrad.

The city of Severodonetsk was being attacked by the 111th Infantry Division of the 55th Army of the Sixth Army under German Army Group B in the Lisichansk area on the other side of the river.

With the arrival of the SS 104th Heavy Armored Brigade, the defenders of the city were flanked from both sides of the river and held out for less than two hours and completely collapsed.

Without staying too long in Severodonetsk, Colonel Reinhardt continued westward with the SS 104th Heavy Panzer Brigade to attack Rubezhnoye, another riverside town about five kilometers northwest of Severodonetsk, which was also attacked by the German 111th Infantry Division.

In close coordination with the 111th Infantry Division, another small pincer offensive, flanked from both sides, the SS 104th Heavy Armored Brigade successfully captured Rubezhnoye.

With the fall of the cities of Severodonetsk and Rubezhnoye, the road ahead of the 111th Infantry Division was completely open, and the troops continued to cross the Severodonets River and march in tandem with the 3rd Infantry Division of Lieutenant General Vlasov on the right flank to attack the Soviet rear far to the north.

Colonel Reinhardt and his men did not advance north, but continued westward along the left (north) bank of the Severodonets River, working closely with the 75th Infantry Division on the other side of the river, successively conquering riverside towns such as Redman and Studenok, and sparing the 75th Infantry Division across the river.

After three days of marching operations, the SS 104th Heavy Armored Brigade worked closely with friendly forces across the Severodonets River to open a gap up to 120 kilometers wide on the Severodonets River.

In the town of Studenok, Colonel Reinhardt and his men rested for the night, replenished fuel and ammunition, and were reinforced by an advance team from the 55th Infantry Corps.

The 55th Infantry Corps drew the first company from the 695th Assault Gun Battalion directly under the military headquarters, and the reconnaissance battalion from the 75th Infantry Division to form a battle group, which served as the vanguard of the whole army, and assigned to the commander of the 104th SS "Polish Doge's Guard" heavy armored brigade, serving as the pioneer of the whole army.

The Oskol River flows from north to south and flows into the Severodonets River northwest of the town of Studenok.

Colonel Reinhardt led his troops not to cross the river, but to march north along the left (east) bank of the Oskol River with the left flank of the Oskol River escort troops, and to Kupyansk, an important town in the middle reaches of the Oskol River.

In Kupyansk, the 104th Heavy Panzer Brigade of the SS joined forces with the Panzergrenadier Division of "Großdeutschland" from the east, as well as the 6th Panzer Army of Army Group B, which arrived from the west.

From Studenok to Kupyansk, the distance in a straight line is less than 70 kilometers.

If the offensive goes well, it will be possible to reach Kupyansk at night.

Colonel Reinhardt personally led the E-50 "Tiger" heavy armored battalion, reconnaissance company and panzergrenadier battalion, as well as an armored artillery battalion to the front.

The troops traveled about thirty kilometres north, unimpeded through several riverside towns and towns that had been captured the previous night, passing through a small town called Boyni, and then again into the middle of the battlefield.

Colonel Reinhardt did not ride in a sedan, but, like his immediate boss Chen Dao, in an SD KFZ 251 armored car, followed by a radio command vehicle modified from the same armored car.

Lying on the left side of the machine gun in the bow of the armored car, Colonel Reinhardt looked up at the sky.

In the last two days, the sky here has been so quiet, so quiet that I can't get used to it.

In previous battles, the ubiquitous Il-2 attack aircraft disappeared and did not know where they went, and even Russian fighters were rare, with only the occasional appearance of reconnaissance aircraft and PE-2 bombers.

Now above their own heads, the planes in the line of sight were almost exclusively German fighters and bombers.

Without the harassment of the Russian Air Force, the helicopters of the armored artillery battalion could boldly fly over the heads of the troops, providing the troops with first-hand battlefield intelligence in a timely manner.

Colonel Reinhardt did not know that the disappearance of the Russian Air Force was all the result of the destruction of airfields along the way by the Panzer Division of the "Reichmarshal", the expulsion of Soviet airfields to the north and east, etc., far from the Severodonets front.

No sooner had Colonel Reinhardt entered the town of Boyny in an armored vehicle than he received a report from a FI-382 "Black Hawk" helicopter overhead that there were traces of enemy activity in two riverside towns about 10 kilometres north of the town.

Colonel Reinhardt immediately asked the communications corps to relay the information to the heavily armored battalion in front, and he reached out with a sapper shovel and knocked on the top of the carport of the armored car's cab to call out the driver.

The driver received a new order to park at the junction north of the town of Boyni.

After the arrival of the Panzergrenadier Battalion's "Wolf" infantry fighting vehicles, Colonel Reinhardt's armored vehicles were activated again and moved with the Panzergrenadiers.

The colonel spread the combat map flat on the armored car carport, and after finding the location of his troops and the enemy on the map, he laughed out loud.

By radio, Colonel Reinhardt called for the commander of the Panzergrenadier Battalion, Major Joachim Piper.

After a round of conspiracy between the two men, Major Piper shook his head with a smile and jumped off the armored vehicle to get back onto his infantry fighting vehicle.

Directly in front of the troops was a small town called Boguslavka, about two kilometres east of the town, where there was a small village whose name was not indicated on the map.

Major Piper, on the orders of Colonel Reinhardt, assigned the 4th Panzergrenadier Company to reinforce the reconnaissance company, and asked these two units to monitor the town south of the town of Boguslavka, and he himself led the other three companies to follow the E-50 "Tiger" heavy armored battalion to the unnamed village east of the town.

The village was so small, with a handful of fewer than 100 houses, lined up in a row.

Under the guidance of the FI-382 Black Hawk helicopter, 12 Wild Bee self-propelled howitzers in the armored artillery battalion fired a five-shot rapid fire.

Colonel Reinhardt parked the armored car on a higher slope, and he lay on the bow of the armored vehicle, and through the binoculars, he clearly saw a series of gunpowder smoke bursting from the nameless village, and in the south of the village, the E-50 "Tiger" tank was in front, and the "Wolf" infantry fighting vehicle was behind, and the troops were in a wedge-shaped attack formation, rushing towards the nameless village.

Mortar shells fell into the German armored clusters one after another, and apart from kicking up a puff of dust and shrapnel rubbing off some paint on armored vehicles and tanks, they did not cause substantial damage to the troops.

The crisp firing of the 45-mm anti-tank gun was heard from the village, and the E-50 Tiger heavy tank returned fire.

105-mm high-explosive shells flew into the village and landed near the 45-mm anti-tank gun emplacement, flying dust and shrenchnel swept through the Soviet gunners, and the corpses lay lying next to the anti-tank guns.

The GRW 34 81mm mortar shell then fell, dumbing the last anti-tank gun and completely destroying the courage of the defenders of the village.

"The enemy's infantry is starting to flee, and it's up to us to see how the enemy reacts in the town."

Colonel Reinhardt clearly saw the north side of the nameless village, and the figures rushed out of the village, running wildly in the fields, muttering a word, and then turned to look at the town of Boguslavka to the west.

The defenders in the town did not make any moves, and they had no intention of helping friendly forces outside the town.

"It's a wise choice for you not to come out, but if you don't come out, you'll die even worse."

Colonel Reinhardt once again turned his gaze to the nameless village outside the town and saw that the Panzergrenadiers had stormed the village.

After a short exchange of fire, the nameless village was captured by the Germans, leaving an E-50 "Tiger" heavy armored company and a panzergrenadier company to stay in the village, and the main force of the heavy armored battalion and the main force of the panzergrenadier battalion set off again by car, leaving the nameless village, and the tracks mercilessly ran over the open fields north of the village, and unimpeded diagonal insertion into the town of Boguslavka.

Major Piper's voice came over the radio, and Colonel Reinhardt, informed of the success of the outflanking, then shouted into the radiophone: "Artillery battalion fire, ten rapid fire, all troops, the offensive begins." ”

12 "Wild Bee" self-propelled howitzers opened fire one after another, raining 150-mm high-explosive shells on the town of Boguslavka.

The town is filled with gunsmoke and dust.

Outside the town, an order was received to attack, and the three troops attacked together from the north, southeast, and southeast directions of the town.

On the outskirts of the town, the firing points hidden in the houses opened fire one after another, trying to block the German attack, but they were exposed to the sight of the German army one by one.

Strings of machine-gun bullets and 20-mm shells flew and hit the windows and walls of buildings, leaving numerous mottled bullet marks.

A 105-millimeter high-explosive projectile shot into the window, causing a thrilling burst of fire in the room, and dust and smoke erupted from the window, along with the groans of the wounded.

Colonel Reinhatha did not pay much attention to the attack of the troops, and rode around the southwest of the town in an armored car, setting his sights to the west of the town.

"Almost, it's time for them to come out."

To the west of the town of Boguslavka, across an open riverside tidal flat, is the flowing Oskol River.

Colonel Reinhardt's troops attacked from three directions, north, south, and south, in order to drive the enemy into the Oskol River.

Under continuous artillery fire, the troops from the north were the first to charge into the town, followed by the troops from the east and south.

The street fighting lasted about ten minutes, and Colonel Reinhardt was in good spirits.

"Here they come, here they come."

Hordes of Soviet infantry rushed out of the town and spread their legs into the tidal flats to the west, intending to flee to the Oskol River.

Colonel Reinhardt shouted over the radio, "Rocket fire." ”

Six "donkey" self-propelled rocket launchers fired a salvo, and in less than 20 seconds, 60 150mm rockets were smashed into the tidal flat to the west of the town, and boundless black gunpowder smoke rose from the tidal flat, enveloping the ground, swallowing the Soviet infantry running on the ground.

When the smoke cleared, the crowds of Soviet infantry on the tidal flats disappeared, leaving only a few soldiers who had managed to dodge the rockets still running, and behind them lay patches of corpses.

A volley of rockets and ferocious firepower completely made the defenders of the town desperate and lost the courage to flee.

After waiting for about 20 minutes, Colonel Reinhardt received the report.

The defenders of the town of Boguslavka were annihilated, and the troops could pass.

"Call the men of the 75th Infantry Division to come and receive the prisoners, and we move on."

A new order was given over the radio, Colonel Reinhardt struck three times on the roof of the carport with a sapper shovel, and the armored car was activated and drove towards the town of Boguslavka.

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