"For Ukraine!" hundreds of young Ukrainians, armed with Mauser 98K rifles, charged through the crowded streets, rushing at their enemies without hesitation, letting the bullets fly past their ears.

Behind these Ukrainian soldiers, a German MG42 light machine gun was constantly roaring, shooting bullets at the ground positions on the opposite side. On the opposite position, the Soviet soldiers were frequently pulling the bolts of the Mosin Nagant rifles in their hands, and then firing at the Ukrainian soldiers who rushed up.

Bullets flew everywhere, and a Ukrainian soldier was hit in the throat by a bullet that severed his artery and sprayed blood everywhere, staining the gray-green German uniform he was wearing. He clutched his neck and struggled to fall, slumping on the icy snow and closing his eyes.

More Ukrainian soldiers crossed his body and continued their assault on the positions of the Soviet Red Army, who, under the cover of machine guns, poured into the trenches and mingled with the Soviet troops who were dodging everywhere. Bullets flew everywhere, screams echoed everywhere, and the entire battlefield was bloody, and corpses were piled up higher and higher in the fierce battle between the two sides.

A German officer watching the battle put down the binoculars in his hand, looked at the Ukrainian officer beside him, and showed a warm smile: "Your troops are really very brave, these soldiers are well-trained and have a strong will to fight, I am very satisfied." ”

"Thank you for your compliment, my troops will occupy this neighborhood this afternoon, and then continue the offensive towards the city center, and it is our duty to liberate this city ruled by Stalin, and liberate the whole of Ukraine!" The Ukrainian officer said solemnly: "You have come to liberate us...... Now, we should fight together!"

At the same time as these words were spoken, in the trenches fought by the two sides on the battlefield, the Ukrainian soldiers and Soviet soldiers who were fighting together were swept down by a light machine gun on the Soviet side. Because it was too chaotic, this strafing was simply an indiscriminate attack, and in an instant, more than a dozen soldiers from both sides fell in a pool of blood screaming.

The grenade, which was thrown from nowhere, exploded in the trench, blowing up the two soldiers who were tearing them apart. One of the soldiers' arms flew far away, and the flesh fell on top of a pile of corpses.

The Ukrainian soldiers who rushed into the trenches in the back, with bayonets stuck in their rifles, jumped into the trenches, giving the attacking allies an immediate overwhelming advantage in numbers. The soldiers quickly leveled the entire trench and, braving a hail of bullets, continued to attack the next trench.

It can be said that even compared to the fanatical SS, these Ukrainians are models of combat bravery. It can be seen how oppressed these Ukrainians were during the Soviet rule, and they hated the Soviet Union, so they regarded the German army that drove out the Soviets as a savior.

These Ukrainian soldiers have searched and encircled Polish partisans in Poland, and have undergone strict anti-Soviet ideological education and training. Most of them have debts from Soviet rule, and they have dealt with large numbers of uncooperative ethnic Russian prisoners in concentration camps in Poland and Ukraine. So these people are now fighting for Ukraine, for the Third Reich and for their own lives, and naturally become heroic and fearless.

On the positions of the outer encirclement of Kharkiv, the German servant army, the Ukrainian 1st Army was fighting to the death with the Soviet soldiers, and the former friendly troops fought repeatedly on a position, and finally the blood flowed. As a result of the battle, the flag of the Third Reich fluttered in the wind on the positions, getting closer and closer to the center of the city of Kharkov.

A Ukrainian soldier lies on the rubble of a collapsed building, his gun on guard in the direction of the street, and in a huge crater not far below him, two machine gunners are leaning against the corner of the crater, shivering from the cold wind.

These servant armies generally had less supplies and fewer supplies than the regular German army. More than 70 percent of the German regular army was armed with winter combat suits and snow camouflage. And only eight percent of the Ukrainian 1st Army has such treatment.

Therefore, most of the Ukrainian soldiers are still wearing the gray-green uniforms of the Wehrmacht, holding Mauser 98K rifles that the main German army is unwilling to equip, and even more than half of them do not have gas mask barrels, which has also become one of the important symbols of the Soviet army to distinguish Ukrainian units from the regular German army.

A cannonball landed in the middle of a distant building, and the huge explosion caused the already crumbling building to finally collapse, and the brick structure began to fall, and the force formed spread in all directions, bringing up a cloud of dust that obscured the sky.

Kharkov, as a huge trap, did not wait for Guderian, but for Vlasov. What was intended to be a layer of defense against the German armored forces has now become a battlefield where infantry on both sides is fighting back and forth, and both sides are losing more soldiers every minute, with the difference that few of the soldiers lost are Germans.

With the continuous development of the entire Eastern Front, the German new force finally joined the battlefield, 100,000 Italian elite troops and 150,000 Romanian main forces filled the gaps in part of the German defense line, and these servant armies combined with a full 200,000 Ukrainian troops to form an Axis group, which replaced Moder's Army Group D, encircled Kharkov, and launched a fierce attack.

It was undoubtedly another heavy blow to the Soviet side, because the Soviet Union had to face an increasing number of enemies after losing a large number of troops in a row. At least 300,000 German troops were liberated from the cumbersome garrison in the rear, which was now filled by Italian and Romanian troops. And these troops, together with the troops of several countries already engaged in operations on the front line, suddenly increased the strength of the Axis coalition forces by as much as 750,000, and these additional troops were putting pressure on the Soviet defenders from all directions.

In the distance, a Soviet soldier poked his head out, glanced around him sneakily, and then quickly shrank back. The Ukrainian soldier here remained silent and aimed his gun at the window where the enemy was outcropping. After a while, probably seeing that there was no danger, the Soviet soldier poked his head out again, but this time he was not so lucky, and a bullet hit him in the head accurately.

A Soviet heavy machine gun hidden in the corner suddenly opened fire, and the bullets rained down on the rubble, hitting the side of the Ukrainian soldier and sending a cloud of white smoke. The shot immediately ensued a vicious battle, and soon Soviet soldiers fired their bullets from all sides.

The Ukrainian soldiers on this side did not sit still, and the MG42 machine gun next to them immediately opened fire and returned fire, and tracer shells flew towards the enemy's position, where a cloud of white smoke was also shot. Farther away, several Ukrainian soldiers were holding their Mauser 98K rifles, firing shot after shot.

After all, it was not the elite grenadiers of the German army, and the Ukrainian troops were actually about the same as the Soviet Red Army on the opposite side in terms of firepower, and the two sides were at a standoff for a while, and soon there were casualties.

At this time, a Soviet T-26 tank with gray paint and a black iron cross painted on the turret with white edges drove up from the end of the street, followed by more T-26 tanks in this liaison. These are the armored units of the 1st Ukrainian Army, and the elite of this army.

One of the T-26s also underwent some modifications, and the turret was not located in a closed turret, but an open shield with two 20mm cannons on it - this anti-aircraft weapon was originally modified to equip the German army, but was later eliminated due to lack of parts, inconvenient maintenance, and was given to the Ukrainian servant army using T-26 tanks.

The appearance of tanks of the Ukrainian army tilted the situation on the battlefield, and some rifle bullets hit the sandbags hanging in front of the T-26 tank, but did not penetrate these temporary "armor". The machine guns on the T-26 tank began to fire heavily, suppressing some Soviet points of fire.

The outdated T-26 tank was no different from the record in front of the German armored forces, but in this case, it could still have a certain deterrent effect, the defense line of the Soviet Red Army began to waver, and the situation on the battlefield tilted in favor of the Ukrainian side.

Since it is a pit dug for the German armored forces, naturally this pit is not an embroidered pillow, there are many anti-tank guns inside the entire Kharkov, these things are easy to hide and powerful in street battles, and often can also get a relatively close shooting distance, which is simply a tank killer in urban street battles.

Now, on the positions of the Soviet Red Army, an anti-tank gun has fired, and the shell easily penetrates the T-26 tank of the Ukrainian army, destroying the guy who had just slaughtered Soviet soldiers.

The remaining Ukrainian tanks fired in the direction where the shells came, and the small guns on the turrets fired desperately, because the drivers in these tanks knew in their hearts that if there was a second shell flying over, it would be bad to say that the tank they were riding in was destroyed.

At this time, the anti-aircraft twin 20-mm anti-aircraft guns came up, and the two cannons quickly aimed at the Soviet position, which was already a cloud of white smoke. With a fierce order, this originally anti-air weapon began to be suppressed by flat fire - this was also learned from the German army, and it was said that the effect was very good in actual combat.

As expected, the anti-tank gun that opened fire had been destroyed, the commander and soldiers next to him had been shot, and then the Soviet defenses of the entire block collapsed, and another swastika was covered on the roof of the tallest building in the block.