In the fierce battle with the powerful German army, the Red Army suffered huge losses. There were only 6 tanks, brigades, and motorized infantry battalions. There were only 16 to 20 people. However, the desperate resistance of the Soviets caused the German army to advance only 6 to 8 kilometers in two days of attack. At the same time, the Rolls army belonging to the Kempf Campaign Cluster was put into battle. The Great Germanic Division formed the army achieved huge results with the Leopard tank. The division later claimed that it had only lost 7 Leopard tanks, No. 4 tanks.

After throwing such a strong force, the Voronezh Front, which lacked troops and had no reserves, could no longer provide any troops to block the gap. In order to rescue the Voronezh Front, Stalin ordered the 18th Army of the 2nd Guards and the 3rd Army of the Tank of the Supreme Command to be transferred to reinforcements.

On July 24, 1941, the troops of the German 4th Panzer Army had approached Kharkov. At this time, Hitler himself came to the Southern Army Group Command again to cheer the frontline troops. The SS Panzer Army, which belonged to the 4th Panzer Army, was in charge of the 320th Infantry Division, in order to take Kharkov as a gift to Hitler, with the cooperation of the 320th Infantry Division, deviating from the north of Kharkov, and cut off the retreat route of the Red Army from the north of Kharkov. The 48th Armored Army attacked the city from the east, which had no artillery shells in the direction of Bergorod, was fighting fiercely with the German Rolls army.

On July 25, SS troops rushed into Kharkov. The Soviet-German army had fierce street fighting. Two days later, the German army surrounded the Red Army Tanks. The 3rd Army of the Soviet Red Army command could only order the 2nd Air Force to supplement the army with night flight aircraft.

The war has come to this point. The fall of Kharkov city has been a foregone conclusion. From the Red Army to the recapture of Kharkov and when they lost the city again, it took just a month.

After Kharkov's fall, the 3rd Tank Army of the Red Army broke through in the early morning of March 17. After losing a large number of troops and discarding a lot of equipment, the exhausted Red Army tank army finally retreated to the left bank of the North Donets River and was incorporated into the Southwest Front on the second day. The German German Motorized Infantry Division occupied Belgorod. For Limo, the biggest goal at present is to seize as much territory as possible from the Russians as possible until August 2. The Red Army Voronezh Front has been retreating under the pursuit of the German army.

But on July 26, due to the lack of German troops and the muddy roads, the Red Army's newly added three new armies. The 2164th Army of the 1st Tank Army had already reached the end of the journey. Li Mo had to order the pursuit to stop and the Red Army's Voronezh Front, who retreated across the North Donets River, established positions along the river bank in the Oboyan area in southern Kursk.

This is the south of the Kursk protrusion. At this time, after several months of cruel fighting, the Soviet and German armies finally consumed their last strength in the Battle of Kharkov. They could no longer organize large-scale attacks. So the exhausted Soviet and German armies along the entire eastern front moved into defense. Before the two sides completed rest and supplemented, the Soviet and German battlefields would enter a short period of truce.

At this time, Li Mo had mobilized a large number of troops to the periphery of Stalingrad, and the Southern Army Group fought continuously. The material was already seriously insufficient. Even if Li Mo repaired the railways in the Soviet Union and some factories in Ukraine provided ammunition, it would take about ten days to replenish ammunition and drugs to launch a large-scale offensive war.

New changes have emerged in the current situation. On the one hand, Li Mo chose to go north to attack and focus on defense. Another option is to cooperate with the German Central Army Group to attack Kursk. This depends on the moves of Hitler and Stalin. Now Li Mo can only replenish material and ammunition with peace of mind, otherwise there is no way to talk about it.

The damage caused to the Red Army by the Battle of Kharkov was also considerable. The 4th Armored Army of Germany announced that they killed 40,130 Soviet Red Army prisoners and captured 7,430 people. The Red Army's technical weapons were destroyed, including 767 tanks and 1,072 artillery pieces. According to the information published by Russia in 1993, the Red Army launched an attack in the direction of Voronezh to Kharkov. The battle of Kharkov was finally over. The Red Army's participating troops died, disappeared, and were captured, and 100,000 injured and sick. More than 140,000 people lost tanks and self-propelled artillery. 1,347 artillery and self-propelled artillery. 7,291 artillery and mortars of various caliber. Among them, the troops lost in the battle with the 4th Armored Army of Germany were about 30,000 people lost tanks and self-propelled artillery.

There is no comprehensive statistics on the losses of the German team in the Kharkov battle. The Imperial Armored Infantry Division lost 102 officers and 4396 soldiers. The Skeleton Armored Infantry Division lost 94 officers and 2170 soldiers. Plus the military unit. The entire SS Panzer Army lost 367 officers and 11174 soldiers.

The list of lost personnel also includes the founder of the SS Skeleton Division, theodore Ike, who died on the front line of Kharkov on June 26, 1941 while observing the situation on June 26, 1941. In order to commemorate his SS SS SS SS In terms of technical weapons, the end of the battle also caused less than 40% of the total tanks that the Imperial Division alone lost 77 tanks and attack artillery. The losses of other German troops were also very serious from some sporadic materials.

What is gratifying is that the defeated side can calmly recover damaged tanks and thus repair them. More than 60% of the tanks lost by the German army can be repaired and used, while the defeated Soviet side suffered a complete loss.

How could Stalin be willing to fail? Although the first Kharkov battle caused the Soviet army to lose more than 100,000 people, for Stalin, it was all cold numbers. Life was seriously meaningless in Stalin. Stalin decided to launch some small-scale attacks to consume and delay the German supply speed.

The Second Battle of Kharkov was a series of offensive operations by the German Southern Army Group around Kharkov against the Soviet Red Army. The German army's operation was code-named Operation Donetsk, while the Soviet Red Army was called Operation Donetsk and Operation Kharkiv.

On August 2, 1941, the Soviet Red Army took the lead in launching the Planet Operation. In early August, the Soviet army broke through the German defense line and captured Kharkov Belgorod and Kursk. Although the Soviet Red Army successfully operated, the supply line of the participating units extended too much. The Central Front of the Soviet Red Army turned west and launched an attack on the German Southern Army Group and the Central Army Group. However, the continuous battles caused heavy losses to the Soviet Red Army. Some units were only 1,000 to 1,700 people. The former commander-in-chief of the German Southern Army Group Marshal Li Mo transferred some armed SS and two armored troops from the Stalingrad defense line to prepare for a counterattack.

Recover Belgorod Kharkov under the leadership of Makien**v, a Soviet Red Army column led by Makien*v, broke through the German defense line under the leadership of four tank troops and crossed the Donetsk River and inserted into the German flank. This is the key to controlling the road to Rostov and is the location of the Southern Army Group and the command of the 4th Air Force of the Luftwaffe. Although Adolf Hitler ordered the persistence of Li Mo to inform Hitler that there is no benefit to immediately recover Kharkov. He will use the seven armored armies in his hands to attack the excessively extended flank of the Soviet Red Army before recapturing Kharkov.

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