On November 12, 1943, when half of the strength of the entire Southern Army Group of the German Eighth Army Group, together with Romania, Italy, Hungary, Spain; After the troops of Finland, France, Slovakia, Ukraine and Croatia occupied a large part of Kharkiv, the whole of Kharkiv was covered by more and more ferocious and dense artillery fire of the German army, and the bombing of bomber groups became a large ruined city, which was shocking.

Although the planes of the Soviet Army and Air Force from the periphery were frantically carrying out rescue operations, in the end they were greatly pulled apart by the Germans because of the gap in the strength of their troops and the combat effectiveness of weapons and equipment.

As a result, these Soviet troops who came to help did not immediately rescue the small number of Soviet troops who were besieged and left Kharkov.

They even let their own troops get caught in the increasingly fierce peripheral war in Kharkov.

At this time, the German Army, which was reorganized by the Southern Army and the Central Army, led by Manstein, united the forces of Moder's Northern Army and parts of the 2nd and 9th Armies; Huge forces were massed around Kharkov.

This force was the 20th Infantry Division on the southern flank, the St. Latzlo's Division, the 4th Hungarian Army, the Viking Division, and the 1st German Panzer Division.

On the northern flank were the newly created 11th Army of Ukraine, the newly formed 3rd Panzer Division of Romania with the assistance of the German army, and the 5th Panzer Division of Hungary, the 3rd Panzer Division of the German Army, and the 503rd Heavy Panzer Division.

Half of Army Group South on the northern flank, the 1st Panzer Corps of the SS, the 22nd Mountain Army of the German Army, the 69th Infantry Corps; The Croatian 6th Infantry Division, the Italian 13th Panzer Division, and the Slovak 20th Infantry Division, which were newly reorganized and formed by the Germans.

On the eastern flank the Spanish "Blue Division" of more than 10,000 infantry, the SS 6th Panzer Army, the 298th Infantry Division, the 2nd Cossack Division, the 90th Infantry Division, the Finnish 66th Infantry Division, the French 27th Mechanized Army......

And on the periphery of these main attacking forces, which were gradually occupying Kharkov, were Army Group Center, under the personal command of Manstein, a large number of elite Waffen-SS troops.

Among them were the SS 1st Adolf Hitler Guards Panzer Division, and the 502nd Heavy Panzer Division, the 45th Reichgrenadier Division, the 58th Infantry Division, a small part of the SS Hitler Youth Panzer Division, the 2nd SS Panzer Division, the 6th SS Mountain Division, the 7th Volunteer Mountain Division (Prince Eugen), the 9th SS Panzer Division (Hohenstaufen Division), and the 10th SS Panzer Division (Flensburg Division), and the 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division (Nordic Division) formed a formidable perimeter attack formation against the growing number of Soviet units coming to the rescue.

Half of these newly replenished Waffen-SS units were Germans, a quarter were foreigners of German origin, and a quarter were foreigners from Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine, Bosnia, Poland, Finland; Croatians, Serbians, Albania, Belarus, Norway, Bosnia, Hungarians, French, Romanian, Bulgarian and Soviet Unions, as well as people of German origin from various Eastern European countries.

At present, the total strength of the Waffen-SS has expanded to more than one million troops, forming 50 divisions, but the Waffen-SS has only 23 divisions with a certain combat effectiveness, and most of the remaining 27 divisions are recruits, which are really being trained in Germany itself.

However, these 23 Waffen-SS divisions were transferred to the Eastern Front and fought on the Western Front.

There were 10 Waffen-SS divisions on the Eastern Front and 13 on the Western Front.

Because there were Manstein and Moder's armies stationed on the Eastern Front, as well as a large number of Wehrmacht and client state troops, Chen Yanlong transferred a relatively large number of Waffen-SS divisions to the Battle of Cassino, which was under war, for strict defense and a lot of actual combat training.

Moreover, in order to greatly improve the strength of the Romanians, who are more loyal and combat-ready, as well as the mechanized and armored units that have voluntarily joined the fighting on the Eastern Front with a large number of Ukrainians.

So Chen Yanlong gave 600 armored transport vehicles, 60 assault guns, 26 No. 3 tanks, 36 No. 4 tanks, 16 No. 4 destroyers, 12 No. 4 tank destroyers, 36 Leopard tanks, 30 heavy anti-tank guns and other relatively new weapons and equipment from the Second World War era to the Romanians and Ukrainians.

When the troops of these two different countries received half of their weapons and equipment, they were also very elated.

Because the more advanced weapons and equipment they can have to participate in the battle, the more their lives will be guaranteed for survival.

Although the more advanced weapons and equipment given by Chen Yanlong during World War II are not as powerful and advanced as the super-modern weapons and equipment that the German army is using now.

But the Romanians and Ukrainians still like these weapons and equipment, because the German weapons and equipment they have obtained are much more advanced than the domestic weapons and equipment they usually use, and the destructive and killing power of attacking the enemy is also much stronger.

The most important thing is that these weapons and equipment are given by the German army for free, and as long as they use these relatively new German weapons and equipment to fight desperately with the Soviet army, as long as they can kill 3 or more Soviet troops, then this SS soldier can immediately choose to withdraw from the battlefield, return to his hometown and reunite with his family, live the original peaceful life, and do not have to go to the battlefield again to suffer those bullets and bullets of war days.

Therefore, even if they are very envious of the advanced performance of the weapons and equipment used by the German army, they do not dare to ask the German army that they can also use weapons and equipment that are beyond the times.