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The combat operations of the South-Western Front, which initially did not attract enough attention to the sudden attack of the Germans, either by the High Command of the Red Army in Moscow, or by the Voronezh Front, which operated on the flank of the South-Western Front, still stubbornly believed that the German counterattack was only to cover their retreat from the Dnieper, so that during this period the Voronezh Front was still desperately advancing westward.

It was not until the Southwestern Front was driven across the Severodonets River by the Germans that the commander of the Voronezh Front, Colonel-General Golikov, found himself in a very dangerous situation, at this time, the German 4th Panzer Army, which had just defeated the Southwestern Front, was heading north, preparing to strike at its own troops together with the German Kempf battle cluster, so that the 3 armies on the left flank of the Voronezh Front, the 3rd Tank Army, and the 40th and 69th armies would be attacked by 14 elite German divisions, including 4 armored divisions. 3 SS Panzer Infantry Divisions, 1 Motorized Rifle Division, 3 Infantry Divisions attacked, while the Red Army was able to use only about 70 tanks in this direction, and the Germans no less than 370.

Faced with such a terrible situation, the Red Army general also urgently asked his superiors to replenish his troops with serious material consumption, but since the nearest supply base was also 200 kilometers away, reinforcements were completely impossible.

The 4th Panzer Army, which had Leopard tanks, attacked the 3rd Tank Army of the Voronezh Front, which now had only 70 tanks, which had more than 300 tanks, and the German 4th Panzer Army pounced on it, but the offensive was not very smooth, under the command of Major General Rybalko, the commander of the 3rd Soviet Tank Army, the Soviet army, which lacked tanks and ammunition, used 50 mm anti-tank guns to resist the German tanks with strong armor, The Czechoslovak army, organized on the territory of the USSR, also took part in the fighting.

In the fierce battle with the strong German army, the Red Army suffered huge losses, each tank brigade had only 6 tanks left, and each motorized infantry battalion only 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 within the army with Leopard tanks, achieved great results, the division later claimed to have lost only 1 Leopard tank and 7 No. 4 tanks.

After throwing such a large number of troops, and the Voronezh Front, which was short of troops and had no reserves, could no longer come up with any troops to plug this gap, in order to rescue the Voronezh Front, Stalin ordered the transfer of tanks from the 2nd Guards Army and the 18th Army, and the 3rd Tank Army of the Supreme Command to reinforcements.

On July 4, 1941, the units of the German 4th Panzer Army were already approaching Kharkov, and at this time Rommel himself again came to the headquarters of Army Group South to cheer up the front-line troops. On that day, the SS Panzer Corps, which belonged to the 4th Panzer Army, in order to take Kharkov as a gift to Rommel, with the cooperation of the 320th Infantry Division, made a detour from the north of Kharkov and cut off the retreat of the Red Army despite heavy casualties, while the Panzer 48th Army attacked the city from the east, and in the direction of Belgorod, the 40th Army of the Red Army, which had run out of shells, was fighting fiercely with the German Rolls Army at this time.

On 5 July, SS troops stormed the city of Kharkov, fierce street fighting ensued between the Soviet and German armies, and two days later the Germans surrounded the 3rd Red Army Tank Army, which led the Soviet Red Army