In the fierce battle with the strong German army, the Red Army suffered huge losses, each tank brigade only had 6 tanks left, and each motorized infantry battalion only had 16~20 people, but the desperate resistance of the Soviets made the German army advance only 6 to 8 kilometers in the 2-day offensive, and at the same time put the Rolls Army belonging to the Kempf Battle Cluster into battle, the Great Germanic Division formed by the army achieved great results with Leopard tanks, and the division later claimed that it only lost 1 Leopard tank and 7 IV tanks.

After throwing such a large number of troops, the Voronezh Front, which was short of troops and had no reserves, could no longer have any troops to plug this gap, and in order to rescue the Voronezh Front, Stalin ordered the 2nd Guards Army, the 18th Army and the 3rd Tank Army of the Supreme Command to be reinforced

On July 24, 1941, the troops of the German 4th Panzer Army had approached Kharkov, at this time Hitler himself also came to the headquarters of Army Group South again to cheer up the front-line troops, and on that day, the SS Panzer Corps to which the 4th Panzer Army belonged in order to take Kharkov as a gift to Hitler, with the cooperation of the 320th Infantry Division, carried out a detour from the north of Kharkov despite heavy casualties, cutting off the retreat of the Red Army, while the Panzer 48th Army attacked the city from the east, and the Red Army 40th Army, which had no shells in the Belgorod direction, was fighting fiercely with the German Rolls Army at this time.

On July 25, SS troops stormed the city of Kharkov, and after fierce street fighting, the Germans surrounded the Red Army tank 3rd Army, and the Soviet Red Army High Command could only order the 2nd Air Army to replenish the army with night aircraft

At this point, the fall of Kharkiv was a foregone conclusion, and exactly a month passed between the recapture of Kharkov by the Red Army and the loss of the city again

After the fall of Kharkov, the Red Army's 3rd Tank Army broke through in the early morning of March 17, and after losing a large number of soldiers and discarding many equipment, the exhausted Red Army Tank Army finally withdrew to the left bank of the Severodonets River and was incorporated into the Southwestern Front on the spot

However, by July 26, due to the lack of German troops and the muddy roads, the Red Army's three new reinforcements, the 1st Tank Army, the 2164th Army, had already driven to Limer, so he had to order to stop the pursuit, and the Red Army, which had retreated across the Severodonets River, established positions along the river bank in the Oboyan area south of Kursk

At this time, after several months of brutal fighting, the Soviet-German armies finally exhausted their last strength in the battle of Kharkov, and each other could no longer organize a large-scale offensive, so the exhausted Soviet-German armies along the entire eastern front were turned to the defensive, and the Soviet-German battlefield would enter a short truce before the two sides completed their rest and replenishment

By this time, Li Mo had already mobilized a large number of troops to the periphery of Stalingrad, and Army Group South was fighting continuously. The material is already seriously insufficient, even if Li Mo repairs the railways in the Soviet Union, and some Ukrainian factories provide ammunition, it will take about ten days to replenish the ammunition material before there is a way to launch a large-scale offensive war.

On the one hand, Li Mo chose to directly attack Stalingrad, which was on the defensive front, and the other option was to cooperate with the German Army Group Center to attack Kursk, which needed to depend on Hitler and Stalin's moves.

The battle of Kharkiv caused considerable losses to the Red Army, the German 4th Panzer Army announced that they had killed a total of 40,130 Soviet Red Army prisoners, captured 7,430 people, destroyed Red Army technical weapons, including 767 tanks, 1,072 artillery pieces, and according to information published by Russia in 1993, the Red Army launched an offensive in the direction of Voronezh to Kharkov, and the battle of Kharkov finally ended, with a total of 100,000 dead and missing, 100,000 prisoners, wounded and sick, more than 140,000 people lost, 1,347 tanks and self-propelled guns, 7,291 artillery mortars of various calibers, and 417 aircraft, including 417 aircraft in the German 4th Panzer ArmyThe number of troops lost in the battle was about 30,000 dead, missing, and captured, and about 200 tanks and self-propelled guns

For the losses of the German army in the Battle of Kharkov, there is still not a comprehensive statistic: the Reich Panzer Infantry Division lost 102 officers and 4396 soldiers, the Skeletal Panzer Infantry Division lost 94 officers and 2170 soldiers, plus the corps units, the entire SS Panzer Corps lost 367 officers and 11174 soldiers

Also included in the list of lost personnel is the founder of the SS skeleton division - division commander Theodore? Ike died on June 26, 1941 on the Kharkov front while observing the situation on an airplane, and in honor of his skeleton division, the Panzer Infantry Regiment was named after him, and in terms of technical weapons, the losses of the SS Panzer Corps were not light, and at the end of the battle, the army could still use less than 40% of the total number of tanks, of which the Reich Division alone lost 77 tanks and assault artillery, and the losses of other German units were also very serious, judging from some sporadic materials.

The good news is that the victorious side can calmly recover the damaged tanks. so that it can be repaired. More than 60 percent of the tanks lost by the Germans could be repaired, while the defeated Soviets were completely lost.

How could Stalin be willing to lose, although the first battle of Kharkov cost the Soviet army more than 100,000 people, but this was for Stalin. Those are cold numbers. Human life was seriously meaningless in Stalin. Stalin decided to launch a number of small offensives in order to deplete and delay the supply of the German army.

The Second Battle of Kharkiv was a series of offensive actions by the German Army Group South around Kharkov against the Soviet Red Army, codenamed Operation Donetsk by the German Army, which was known as Operation Donetsk and Kharkov by the Soviet Red Army.

On August 2, 1941, the Soviet Red Army took the lead in launching Operation Planet, in early August, the Soviet Army broke through the German defense line and captured Kharkiv, Belgorod and Kursk, although the Soviet Red Army was successful, but the supply lines of the participating units were excessively extended, the Soviet Red Army Central Front turned to the west and launched an offensive against the German Army Group South and Army Group Center, however, the Soviet Red Army suffered heavy losses after several months of fighting, and some units were only 1,000 to 1,700 people, and the former enemy commander-in-chief of the German Army Group South, Marshal Limer, transferred some Waffen-SS troops and 2 Panzer Corps from the Stalingrad Line to prepare for a counteroffensive

Reconquest of Belgorod Kharkov by Makin? A column of the Soviet Red Army under the command of Popov, led by 4 tank armies, broke through the German lines, crossed the Donetsk River and inserted into the German flank, which was the key point of control of the road to Rostov-on-Don and was the seat of Army Group South and the headquarters of the 4th Luftwaffe Air Force. Hitler ordered to hold on, and Limer told Hitler that there was no interest in retaking Kharkov immediately, and that he would use his seven Panzer Corps to attack the overstretched flanks of the Soviet Red Army before retaking Kharkov

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