August 14, 1941 Konstantin? Six corps of the Soviet Red Army under Rokossovsky's command were reorganized and reinforced with the 2nd Tank Army Corps and the 70th Army Corps, which were deployed at the junction of the German Army Group South and Army Group Center, and they participated in the Orel and Donbas offensives, which were to encircle and destroy the German forces in the Orel salient, to cross the Desna River, and to encircle and destroy the German Army Group Center. ／／

The Soviet Red Army was originally planned to be deployed from August 7 to 17, but the Soviet Red Army High Command postponed the operation until August 27 due to deployment problems, and at the same time, the Soviet Red Army 60th Army drove the German 2nd Army's 4th Panzer Division out of Kursk, while the Soviet Red Army's 13th Army attacked the flank of the German 2nd Panzer Group, which was the junction of the two German armies, torn apart by Rokossovsky's offensive

The 14th and 48th armies of the Soviet Red Army made some progress in attacking the right flank of the 2nd Panzer Group, and Rokossovsky launched an offensive on January 27, breaking through the German lines and encircling and cutting off the German 2nd Army and the 2nd Panzer Group to the south, but the unexpected resistance of the German army slowed the progress of the Soviet Red Army offensive, so that Rokossovsky's offensive made only a little progress on the left flank and center, except that the 2nd Tank Army of the Soviet Red Army advanced 160 kilometers 99 miles along the left flank of the offensive to attack the German flank But to make their flanks extend too much for 100 km 62 miles

When the Soviet Red Army continued its offensive by Air Marshal Wolfram? Feng? Richthofen's 4th Air Force was able to reorganize and increase the average number of sorties per day from 270 to 1,000 today, giving the Germans strategic air superiority. When the Soviet Red Army approached Zaporizhzhia, the Germans began a counteroffensive in the "Donetsk operation" formulated by Limer.

The entire operation, which began on August 19 and ended on September 17, 1941, was originally divided into three parts: the first part was to launch an offensive to defeat the overstretched offensive, the second part was to recapture Orel, and finally to crush the Soviet Red Army at Kursk with Army Group Center

As a barrier to the offensive of the 4th Panzer Group, while the Hollitt Battle Group continued to contain the Soviet Red Army that broke through the German front, the 1st Panzer Group was ordered to cut off and destroy the mobile forces of the ** Kov to the north, and Li Mo grasped the weaknesses of the Soviet Red Army based on accurate information, so he chose their offensive route and gained a numerical advantage in strategy The 1st and 4th Panzer Groups were also ordered to attack the 6th Army and the 1st Guards Army of the Soviet Red Army, which were lone in the depths

From 20 to 23 August 1st Waffen-SS Adolf? Hitler's Guards Panzer Division cut off the flank of the Soviet Red Army's 6th Army, blocked the road to the Dnieper and succeeded in encircling and annihilating part of the Soviet Red Army at the Samara River, the Waffen-SS 2nd Reich Panzer Division advanced northeast, while the Waffen-SS 3rd Skull Panzer Division advanced in the same direction on 22 August These two divisions successfully cut off the supply lines of the Soviet Red Army's attacking forces

The Supreme Command of the Soviet Red Army ordered the Voronezh Front to transfer the 3rd Tank Army and the 69th Army to the south, which were under pressure, to the pressed Southwestern Front in order to prevent the Germans from capturing the Krasnograd region

The 3rd Tank Army of the Soviet Red Army attacked the Germans from south of Orel to stop the continuation of Limer's offensive Together with the 167th and 360th Infantry Divisions, the 1st Battalion of the Waffen-SS 3rd Skull Panzer Division and part of the Waffen-SS 2nd Reich Panzer Division, defended the westward front of the Soviet Red Army salient but did not make much progress The offensive became weak due to lack of supplies 2 Progress on both flanks but no success in the center After the offensive began, the attack on the German right flank was hampered by stubborn German resistance and extended too much on the left flank

In the face of the success of the German offensive on the Southwestern Front, including the encirclement of the Soviet Red Army's 6th Army, the Soviet High Command ordered the Voronezh Front to transfer the 3rd Tank Army to the command of the Southwestern Front, in order to shorten the handover time, the 3rd Tank Army handed over 2 sniper divisions to the 69th Army of the Soviet Red Army and attacked the Waffen-SS Panzer Corps from the south, but due to a lack of fuel and ammunition, the 3rd Skull Panzer Division finally broke through to the 17th Tank Army line and joined up with other units attacking north, encircling the 17th Tank Army The 7th Tank Army, another unit under the 3rd Tank Army, was also put on the defensive as the 3rd Skeleton Panzer Division and the 2nd Imperial Panzer Division cut off the supply lines of the 3rd Tank Army, and only a few escaped the encirclement to the north to form a defensive line

The 6th Army of the Soviet Red Army of the mobile unit of the Soviet Union was routed in the early stages of the German offensive Created a large gap in the line of the Soviet Red Army In view of the lack of cooperation between the Soviet Red Army, Limer ordered the Germans to attack Orel The German 4th Panzer Group, including the Waffen-SS Panzer Corps, advanced 80 km 70 miles Approximately 16 km south of Orel 10 miles On August 26, the 1st Waffen-SS Adolf? The Hitler Guards Panzer Division established a bridgehead on the Mosh River and opened the way to Orel

Limer's counteroffensive succeeded in forcing the Soviet High Command to order Rokossovsky to stop the offensive German 1st Panzer Group regained the line of defense on the Donets River Limer began planning to destroy the Soviet Red Army units west of the Donets River According to the Germans, the German counteroffensive caused the Soviet Red Army to lose an estimated 23,000 casualties and 617 tanks and 372 artillery pieces

While Rokossovsky's Central Front continued the offensive of the German 2nd Army, the 2nd Army had been greatly strengthened by the reinforcement of several elite divisions, and he was greatly shocked by the German attack on Orel, when the Greater German Panzergrenadier Division had returned to the front and was the main attacker, dividing the remnants of the 69th Army and the 3rd Tank Army of the Soviet Red Army, dividing the Soviet 69th Army and the 40th Army, and then turning east on the 9th to complete the encirclement Although the Soviet High Command ordered the 19th Sniper Division and the 186th Tank Brigade to stop the German offensive

On March 9, the Soviet 40th Army launched a counteroffensive against the Großdeutsche Panzer Orel Bullet Division to restore communication with the 3rd Tank Army The 4th Panzer Group ordered the Waffen-SS Panzer Corps to retake Orel as soon as possible Commander Paul? Hausser ordered 3 Waffen-SS Panzer Divisions to attack the city immediately The 2nd Waffen-SS Reich Panzer Division was to the west 1st Waffen-SS Adolf? The Panzer Division of Hitler's Guards and the 3rd Waffen-SS Panzer Division provided cover from the north and northwest

Although Hauser ordered Hausserl to go back to his original plan and postponed it for a day due to the stubborn resistance of the defenders, Hausserl still attacked according to his plan, and Limer gave the order to surround the city, but Hausserl did not follow the order and continued to attack with his own plan, according to Limer, the headquarters of the Army Group intervened several times to allow the Waffen-SS Panzer Corps to encircle Orel from the east instead of attacking the city head-on

On the morning of September 11 1st Waffen-SS Adolf? The Panzer Division of Hitler's Guards launched a two-flank attack on the north of Orel.3 The 2nd Panzergrenadier Regiment attacked from the northwest and advanced in 2 columns along the Belgorod~Orel railway to the north of Orel. The 2nd Battalion was on the right side of the railway to attack the north station area of the city

A flank attack from behind the city allowed the Germans to establish a stronghold in the city, and at the same time, the 1st Waffen-SS Panzergrenadier Regiment and a ** Panzer Unit attacked to capture the road to Belgorod and repelled a counterattack from the Orel airfield to its left flank, and after destroying some passing T-34 tanks, the Germans established a stronghold in the northern suburbs, and in the northeast, other German infantry, armored vehicles and assault guns tried to control the road to Chuguev, and the attack penetrated deep into the city of Orel

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