On June 18, the Kharkov counterattack ended. The Germans killed and captured more than 80,000 Soviet troops, destroyed and captured more than 1,500 Soviet tanks and assault guns, and more than 2,000 artillery pieces.

Fafnir won 27 victories in the campaign, successfully pushing his record to the number 98, which was only 2 years short of 100, and was the No. 1 tank killer in the whole army. Dick Karl of the 1st Company also piled up his record to 50 vehicles, successfully ranking himself in the top 10 of German tank killers. Juncker's Panther also opened, destroying 9 vehicles and piling up the record to 15, making it the number one killer of Panthers tanks by vehicle type. But after the battle, Fafnier also got the bad news that Eckert had died of a lung infection. Sergeant Julien von Eckert, a 24-year-old Junker-born tank destroyer commander No. 4, died of an infection in May 1943 after being shot in the lungs by a Soviet sniper. Fafnier attended Eckert's funeral......

The German losses in the Battle of Kharkov were not small, the replenishment for several months was almost exhausted, and the casualties were close to 10,000 soldiers. In particular, the losses of all kinds of tanks -- out of the 80 Tigers that took part in the battle, 5 of the 35 Tigers of the Wehrmacht were lost in the campaign, 17 of the 45 Tigers of the SS were lost, nearly 60 of the more than 200 Tanks were lost, and about a quarter of the various assault guns were also lost.

Throughout July and August, Germany and the Soviet Union were busy deploying troops, and a large number of technical weapons and troops were replenished into the front. Taking advantage of the favorable situation in the Kursk Salient, Germany was preparing to launch a decisive offensive to regain the strategic offensive initiative, annihilate the Soviet Voronezh Front and the Steppe Front, and inflict heavy losses on the Central Front; while the Soviet Red Army was striving to thwart the German offensive in the salient and eliminate the German offensive forces as much as possible, and strive to fly on both flanks to destroy the main force of the German Army Group South in the salient and inflict as much damage as possible on the German Army Group Center, so as to create a favorable situation for the future war of annihilation.

Fafnier's tank was redeployed to the rear, and he was re-equipped with a new Tiger Mid-Range, still painted with the number 223 and painted with a unique tiger skull. At the same time, he met another friend, Salfi Lee Decker, who was now on the same level as Faviniel, who had just been promoted, and Sergeant Major Dirk, who was now the commander of a Ferdinand heavy assault gun in the 653rd Battalion, and was proud of a 1st class Iron Cross obtained by firing the No. 3 assault gun in the north, and Fafnier's tiger was immediately a head shorter than Ferdinand. 102mm vs. 200mm front, 88mmL56 vs. 88mmL71, Fafnier's Tiger was defeated, but at least Fafnier could still laugh at Dirk in maneuvering......

On 3 September, Army Group South and Army Group Center launched an attack on the Kursk salient from the north and south, with more than 150 Tiger tanks and more than 300 Panthers leading the way behind Tank Groups 3 and 4 to attack the Soviet Red Army's lines.

The Russians dug numerous tunnels and bunkers in the ground, half-buried the tanks in bunkers, exposed a turret and fired. Favinier saw some unusual Soviet tanks in his binoculars—much larger than the T34 and a low, huge turret with a thick, long cannon on it—noticeably thicker than his Tiger and Ferdinand......

"We've finally met....... IS and IS2 heavy tanks!, let me see if you're as tough as I've seen before...," Fafnir whispered. Now the distance is still relatively long, but the IS2 122 guns have begun to shoot at the Tiger tank in the head. It's just that the shells seem to be biased, and the nearest landing points are 100 meters away. Before Favenier could begin to laugh at the IS2's botched aiming, the earth-shattering shelling began. The Soviet Red Army seemed to have a surprisingly large number of artillery, as if the shells did not cost money. Fafnier's No. 223 tank was like a sampan dangling in the sea, and the body was beating so hard that Fafnir had no choice but to pray that he would not be hit directly by heavy artillery shells......... Soon the German heavy artillery shifted its target, no longer providing fire readiness for the impact, but began counter-artillery fire, trying to knock out the Soviet artillery positions. German and Soviet fighter planes and attack planes were in a heap in the sky, and thousands of planes fought fiercely over Kursk, and the attack planes of both sides had no time to attack on the ground, and they were busy evading the hunt of the opposing fighters. And the fighters dogged together, biting their tails repeatedly.

The defensive positions of the Soviet Red Army were one after another, and the numerous anti-tank guns and semi-fixed tank fire points made the German offensive difficult. With less than twenty kilometers advanced in two whole days, it can be said that the rapid breakthrough of the campaign has come to naught.........

Fafnier's car No. 223 was also hit by several shells, but fortunately none of them penetrated the tiger's armor. He and his comrades in coordination were blocked by a group of small hills and fortifications. Just as he was trying to find out the weak point of the defensive positions of the Soviet Red Army, a new group of grenadiers came to the rear. His vision was sharp, and he could clearly see a captain leading the well-armed soldiers. The captain glanced at the Soviet position on the opposite side with disdain, and directly gave the order: "Is it Sergeant Major Fafnier? I'm Captain Troham." Ask your Tiger tanks to provide us with cover, and we will occupy this position to open the way for the onslaught behind. ”

"Shotroham?'s name familiar?, have you seen it?" Fafnir didn't have time to think slowly, "Forward! The Tiger tank engine roared, driving the 56-ton guy to climb towards the Soviet positions at a speed of 30 kilometers. Another Tiger and several No. 4 tanks and other armored vehicles in the back hurriedly followed Favenir's footsteps. The German tank group crashed headlong into the Soviet lines.

The attention of the Soviet army was attracted by the onslaught of the German heavy tanks, and they did not care about the grenadiers led by Captain Troham, who was approaching quickly, and Fafnir looked at the grenadiers and could not think of how they were going to break into the Soviet light and dark pillbox positions.

The answer to this question soon came out - Captain Shotroham's speed was very abnormal, and he saw that he rushed through the air and wide firing range of hundreds of meters in a few steps, and the Soviet machine gunners did not have time to catch up with him. But the Soviet army had too many machine guns and mortars, and soon the captain was drowned in a torrential rain of bullets and shells. Fafnier was just about to sigh for the captain, when a figure suddenly jumped out of the smoke! The captain actually had a machine gun sticking out of his stomach! Fafnier was surprised to find that half of Captain Xiutroham's body was actually mechanical! His brain suddenly remembered where he had seen this name!"Xiutroham!JOJO Adventure?!" Then Fafnier suddenly felt a slight tremor in this world, and it seemed that something different was beginning to coincide with this world.......