Hitler wanted to draw the Southern Army Group to participate in the typhoon battle, but would Stalin give Hitler such an opportunity? Of course it is impossible. Stalin, who had basically stabilized the situation due to the severe cold, began to let Temuxingo, who was nesting in Stalingrad, execute the "Kharkov Battle."

At that time, the army and the Kleist group were under the jurisdiction of the 17th Army and the 1st Armored Army were preparing for an offensive battle code-named Frederick I to capture the southeastern Kharkov in the west of the North Donets River.

Li Mo's main force is still in the Baku area and has no time to mobilize to Stalingrad. Li Mo put the Sixth Army on Kharkov as a blocking and alert, so that the Soviet army could not sneak attack the back of the Southern Army Group. If Stalin issued such an order earlier, it would indeed cause countless troubles to Li Mo. It would be too late now. At the same time, it also gave Li Mo an excuse not to allow Moscow movement. Hitler could not draw Li Mo to support the "Typhoon Battle" when the Southern Army Group faced the Soviet attack!

Li Mo immediately asked Bok to prepare to mobilize troops to the outside of Stalingrad to participate in the war, and he immediately flew to Zaporoze, an important town located at the bend of the Dnieper River, to command the upcoming battle, and the Soviet army was already rushing towards Kharkov.

The purpose of the Soviet army battle was to smash the basic forces of the German army B group in the direction of Kharkov. Liberate the Kharkov industrial zone, and the battle was code-named Xing.

Before the battle began, the Soviet troops had been on offensive for nearly two and a half months. The attacking combatants and military technical equipment were severely short of all personnel. All personnel were exhausted and muddy. The season has arrived. According to the battle attempt, the 40th Commander was Lieutenant General Moskarenko, the commander of the 69th Army of the 69th Army of the 3rd Army of the Tank. Rebarko, from the new Oskolvaluyiki area to Kharkov, the commander of the main assault from the northwest and south. The commander of the 60th Army of the city was Lieutenant General Chernyakhovsky, from the area west of Kastornoye, to Kursk.

Commander of the 38th Army is Lieutenant General Chibisov should develop an attack on Oboyan. Commander of the Southwest Front. The Battle of Donbas is being implemented. Commander of the 6th Army of General Vatukin. Lieutenant General Kharidonov should attack Barakleyakrasnograd from the south to ensure the implementation of the battle.

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In July 1941, the Southwest Front of the Red Army launched an attack on Kharkov, occupied by Germany, but it collided with the powerful German armored cluster. The Red Army suffered heavy losses. The Kharkov offensive battle, which was once held with great hope, became the prelude to the German offensive battle at the end of 1941.

But as in early 1941, the Red Army's strength was far from strong enough to completely defeat the German army. Soon after, the Germans will prove to the Soviet Red Army again in Kharkov that they still have enough strength to show the strength and tenacity of the German armed forces. Marshal Li Mo will play the protagonist in between.

For Li Mo, who had been fighting on the Soviet-German battlefield for two years, it was not a big deal. It was not a big deal. It was not a big deal. When the Red Army Voronezh Front occupied Kharkov, the Southwest Front of the Red Army had approached Zaporore, the important town of the Dnieper River, where the Li Mo Command was located, was located at the bend of the Dnieper River.

But just as the city was about to fall, Nazi German head of state Hitler came here in a large four-engine type FW-200 type aircraft to inspect the head of state. The visit of Li Mo, who was about to roll the bedding from here, was in a hurry. At that time, the Soviet tank group was close to this dangerous city. The Red Army could break into the city at any time. In order to ensure Hitler's safety, Li Mo sent more than 200 anti-aircraft guns. The order was to block the Soviet tank battle until the last shell and the last man.

Just as the German gunners were fighting with Soviet tanks outside the city while Hitler in the city was furious at Li Mo for the loss of Kharkov. He ordered the marshal to immediately recover Kharkov.

"I cannot retreat, I must hold on to Kharkov immediately. As long as anyone dares to retreat, I will immediately send him to the execution ground."

But Li Mo boldly rejected Hitler's plan and proposed another bolder plan.

"For the time being, ignore the Voronezh Front of the Soviet Red Army that occupied Kharkov. We will fight and retreat in Kharkov city. Just drag the Soviet army here, but concentrate our forces to eat the rampant Soviet Red Army Southwest Front, that is, the approaching Red Army troops outside the city, and then turn around to defeat the Red Army in the direction of Kharkov and recapture the city."

This bold plan was indeed a bit sudden for Hitler, but he finally recognized Li Mo's plan. Hitler announced a counterattack decision to the troops of the Southern Army Group and claimed that more than 1,000 kilometers from the border of the German Empire would determine the current and future fate of Germany. Therefore, Hitler asked his subordinates to be brave and calm in the counterattack battle. When Hitler's landline left Zaporoze, he could already hear the rumbling sound of Red Army tanks and German anti-aircraft guns fighting.

If the land is lost, it will put the entire eastern front of the German army in danger of being cut apart. However, Li Mo was already in the heart. His counterattack operation had begun, and the Soviet Red Army that occupied his headquarters fell into his trap.

The southern wing is the 14th Armored Army of the German Army, and the northern wing is the Kempf Campaign. In the hands of these three German heavy army groups, Li Mo's confidence in his counterattack operation was certainly not out of thin air. Three favorable factors contributed to his plan.

First of all, from the battlefield situation, the Voronezh Front, which occupied Kharkov and Kursk at this time, was oppressing Li Mo's Southern Army Group from the front, while the Southwest Front of the Red Army carried out a large encirclement from the flank of the Southern Army Group at this time, it had already hit the door of the Li Mo's headquarters' nest.

But while this Red Army assault group penetrated deep into the enemy's depths, its own wings were exposed to two powerful German groups. They had the most elite German armored troops, including the SS armored forces.

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