The good news is that the victorious side can calmly recover the damaged tanks. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info to fix it. 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 operations by the German Army Group South around Kharkov against the Soviet Red Army, which was codenamed Operation Donetsk and the Soviet Red Army was called Operation Donetsk and Kharkiv.

On July 8, 1941, the Soviet Red Army took the lead in launching Operation Planet, in which the Soviet Army broke through the German defense line and captured Kharkiv, Belgorod and Kursk, although the Soviet Red Army successfully operated, but the supply lines of the participating units were excessively extended, the Central Front of the Soviet Red Army turned to the west and launched an offensive against the German Army Group South and Army Group Center, but after several months of fighting, the Soviet Red Army suffered heavy losses, and some units were only 1000 to 1700 people. Guderian, the former commander-in-chief of the German Army Group South, transferred some Waffen-SS troops and 2 Panzer Corps from other lines of defense to prepare for a counteroffensive.

Recapture of Belgorod Kharkov, a column of the Soviet Red Army under the command of Makienv, under the leadership of 4 tank armies, broke through the German lines, crossed the Donetsk River, and inserted into the German flank, which was the key point for controlling the road to Rostov-on-Don, where Army Group South and the headquarters of the Luftwaffe 4th Air Force were located, although Rommel ordered to hold on, Guderian informed Guderian that there was no interest in retaking Kharkov immediately, He would use his seven armies to attack the overstretched flanks of the Soviet Red Army before retaking Kharkov

July 10, 1941 Konstantin? The 6 corps of the Soviet Red Army under Rokossovsky's command were reorganized and reinforced with the 2nd Tank 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 Oryol and Donbas offensives, which were aimed at encircling and destroying the German forces in the Orel salient, crossing the Desna River and encircling and destroying the German Army Group Center.

The Soviet Red Army was originally planned to be deployed on July 8-10, but deployment problems caused the Soviet Red Army High Command to postpone the operation until July 12, while the Soviet Red Army's 60th Army, expelling the German 2nd Army's 4th Panzer Division from 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, which was torn apart by Rokossovsky's offensive.

The 14th and 48th armies of the Soviet Red Army made little progress in attacking the right flank of the 2nd Panzer Group, and Rokossovsky launched an offensive on July 13, breaking through the German defense line, and encircling and cutting off the German 2nd Army and the 2nd Panzer Group to the south, but the German army's very resistance slowed down the progress of the Soviet Red Army offensive, so that Rokossovsky's offensive made only a little progress on the left flank and center, but the 2nd Tank Army of the Soviet Red Army broke through 160 miles along the left flank of the offensive and attacked the German flank. But make their flanks too extended.

As the Soviet Red Army continued its offensive, the 4th Air Force under the command of Richthofen went all out and increased the average number of sorties per day from 270 in normal times to 1,000 now, giving the Germans strategic air superiority, and when the Soviet Red Army approached Zaporizhzhia, the Germans began a counteroffensive, known as Rommel's "Operation Donetsk".

From July 8 to July 15, 1941, Limer's original plan was 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, at the same time, the Battle of Hollitt Group continued to contain the Soviet Red Army's 1st Panzer Group, which had broken through the German front, and was ordered to cut off and eliminate the ** Man's mobile forces to the north, and Li Mo grasped the weakness of the Soviet Red Army according to accurate information, so he chose their offensive route and gained a numerical advantage in strategy, and 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 depth

From 10 July, the 13th Waffen-SS Panzer Division cut off the flanks of the 6th Army of the Soviet Red Army, blocked the road to the Dnieper, and successfully encircled and eliminated part of the Soviet Red Army on the Samara River. The 2nd Waffen-SS Reich Panzer Division advanced northeast, while the 3rd Waffen-SS Skull Panzer Division advanced in the same direction, and 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, 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 the south of Oryel to stop Guderian's offensive, and together with the 167th and 360th Infantry Divisions, the 3rd Waffen-SS Skull Panzer Division, and the 2nd Waffen-SS 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, but it made progress on both flanks and did not succeed in the center.

After the start of the offensive, the offensive on the right flank of the German army, which was blocked by the stubborn resistance of the German troops, and at the same time extended excessively on the left flank, faced with the success of the German offensive on the Southwestern Front, including the encirclement of the 6th Army of the Soviet Red Army.

The Soviet High Command ordered the Voronezh Front to transfer the 3rd Tank Army to the command of the Southwestern Front, and 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 the lack of fuel and ammunition, the 3rd Skull Panzer Division finally broke through to the 17th Tank Army front, joined up with other units attacking north, and surrounded the 17th Tank Army. The 7th Tank Army, another unit under the 3rd Tank Army, was also put on the defensive side because the 3rd Skeleton Panzer Division and the 2nd Imperial Panzer Division jointly cut off the supply lines of the 3rd Tank Army, and only a few men escaped the encirclement to the north to form a defensive line.

The Soviet mobile arm, the 6th Army, was routed at the beginning of the German offensive, creating a large gap in the Soviet Red Army line, and in view of the lack of cooperation between the Soviet Red Army, Guderian ordered the Germans to attack Orel, the German 4th Panzer Group, including the Waffen-SS Panzer Corps, advanced 80 km, about 16 km south of Orel, and on July 16 the Waffen-SS 13th Panzer Division established a bridgehead at the Mosh River, opening the way to Orel.

…… (To be continued.) )