The Soviet 9th Army completely collapsed.

Major General Vlariakush committed suicide, Lieutenant General Haritonov committed suicide

The speed of failure is jaw-dropping, and it's hard to believe. The "Three-Headed Banshee" burst out with her immense and terrifying power from the very beginning in front of everyone.

And Ernst, who commanded these German troops. Marshal Braim, stability is like a huge rock, which has not been affected at all.

Having routed the 9th Army, the Germans quickly launched a powerful assault on the Soviet 57th Army. Moreover, a special opening was left to welcome the arrival of reinforcements from the Russians!

Ernst. Marshal Bram gave Marshal Timoshenko of the Soviet Union a huge dilemma:

To save, or not to save!

If it is not saved, the German army can concentrate all its forces and destroy the 57th Army, once the loss of two army groups in Kharkov, whether militarily or politically, what kind of impact will it have? This is a responsibility that Marshal Timoshenko did not dare to bear!

Save? What kind of results will you encounter? Marshal Timoshenko didn't know what to do

In fact, from the second stage of the battle of Kharkov, Marshal Timoshenko's brief hesitation caused the current situation.

If he had ordered the 9th Army to continue to break through and pin down the Germans in the movement, or had directly ordered the 9th Army to retreat in great strides, perhaps it would not have been the situation it is now.

Just such a short hesitation quickly changed dramatically on the battlefield!

Marshal Timoshenko now has only one choice:

Break into Kharkiv and start a decisive battle with the Germans!

The tragic Battle of Kharkiv is officially staged!

And Ernst. Marshal Bram has decided: never let go of this most advantageous opportunity!

Annihilation of the main forces of the Southwestern and Southern Fronts of the USSR. World War I reversed the passive situation on the Soviet-German battlefield!

On April 14, the German Skeleton Division and Kleist Cluster launched successive waves of attacks on the 57th Army. This put the situation of the 57th Army in jeopardy.

And Marshal Timoshenko, who made the final decision, personally commanded the Soviet army to launch a counteroffensive against Kharkov.

Now, it is not only a decisive battle between the two armies, but also a decisive battle between the supreme commanders of the two battlefields!

The Russians looked very bad, the Germans had penetrated 80 kilometers into the Soviet left flank, and continued to maintain surprise attacks, which continued to put heavy pressure on the Soviet troops.

Marshal Timoshenko attacking against attacking. Quickly order the 6th Soviet Army, commanded by Grodenyansky, to attack the 6th Army under the command of General Paulus of the German Army, which entered Kharkov!

Wang Weiyi urgently ordered the 6th Army to move towards him. Complete the confluence.

The two sides frequently deployed troops on the battlefield to duel their wisdom and courage.

The situation of the battle is changing every minute, and often the situation of the troops to whom the order has been given has already changed.

Right now. And not just a test of the supreme commanders of both sides. What is even more a test is whether the officers and soldiers of the Soviet and German armies have the courage and determination to achieve this battle!

The Luftwaffe played a huge role in the Battle of Kharkiv.

They kept taking off, bombing, and then returning to base, finishing their supplies, and taking off and bombing again. The Russians' communication and supply routes were constantly being disrupted.

And because of this, the Soviet army was made a mess.

Especially when it comes to communications, orders are simply impossible to convey.

On the 15th, the left flank of the Soviet 28th Army was broken through, which forced the Soviet command to use its own reserves in advance. The 34th Motorized Rifle Brigade and the 32nd Cavalry Division came to protect their flanks.

And on the way, these two units were again heavily bombed by the Luftwaffe

An encirclement of the Germans was gradually forming

16th. Wang Weiyi threw the 288th and 289th Infantry Divisions into his reserves, which were completely blocked.

Timoshenko also reacted quickly with his own order, ordering the main forces of the 38th Army to go west to break through the German front and restore contact with the inner forces of the German encirclement.

And Wang Weiyi's response is shocking:

He put a large part of the forces of the 38th Army into the encirclement!

How big is his appetite? How much Soviet troops did he really want to eat in Kharkov?

I'm afraid no one can give an answer now

On the 18th, Paulus's 6th Army completed its battle with Ernst Brown south of Baraklia. The rendezvous of General Brem cut off the way for the Soviet troops to retreat from the Barvenkovo salient to the other side of the Severodonets River, and surrounded all of the Soviet 6th, 28th, and 57th armies, as well as a large part of the 38th army.

The encirclement has been formed!

At this time, the Germans, who had completed the encirclement, continued to widen the blockade. Kleist's armored battle group widened the outer ring of this encirclement from the east.

The 60th Motorized Rifle Division, the 384th, 389th Infantry Division, and the 100th Light Infantry Division fanned out westward, firmly blocking the enemy's retreat in the encirclement.

At this point, the Great Siege of Kharkov has been formed!

Within the encirclement, there were all of the 3 Soviet armies, most of the 38th Army, and the remnants of the previously annihilated 9th Army.

Huge Russian forces are waiting for the Germans to exterminate!

Wang Weiyi knows very well that the "three-headed banshee" plan has already succeeded halfway!

On the night of the 18th, a new news came:

The command of Marshal Timoshenko turned out to be in the Kharkov encirclement!

This information came so suddenly! Even Wang Weiyi didn't react for a while.

Did Timoshenko personally bring his troops to a decisive battle with him? No, now it's not a decisive battle, it's the madness of the Soviet army at its worst!

After surrounding so many troops, the Soviet High Command had no strength to send new troops for reinforcement and rescue, leaving Wang Weiyi with plenty of time to eat these troops.

After the end of the siege of Dmyansk, the Germans finally let out a long breath of evil.

It's time to give an account to the dead Germans in Dmiyansk! It's time for the Russians to taste the same taste of encirclement and annihilation!

They—there's no escape!

Not only are the Germans working hard, but in the purple light military base, Xiao Ling and Elena are also working hard.

The information they detected and the intercepted telegrams continued to reach Wang Weiyi's hands.

In front of Wang Weiyi, the Russians no longer have secrets to speak of

The besieged troops of the Soviet army are now in complete confusion, and the troops and troops no longer consider any password issues at all, but directly generate electricity in clear code.

The content of the telegram was also quite confusing.

The commander directly gave an order to a regiment commander to open the gap to the west, and in less than a minute, the division commander gave the regiment commander another order to open the gap to the east, so that the regiment commander could not serve at all, who should he listen to?

It's messed up, the Russians are completely messed up!

At this time, the German army began to calmly redeploy its troops, preparing to complete the most rear-end annihilation operation against the Soviet army!

At the Kharkov High Command of the Soviet Army, Timoshenko was also distraught.

The battle was too bad, and the Soviets were not very prepared, and so many troops were surrounded by the Germans. And how exactly all this happened, Timoshenko has not reacted until now.

In the sky, German planes constantly bombed the Russians in the encirclement, not giving them a moment of rest; On the ground, German artillery rained shells like crazy, blowing up the Soviet troops who wanted to regroup.

Crisis, this is a complete crisis, if a gap cannot be opened in two days, then there is a possibility that the Soviet troops here will be completely eaten!

Marshal Timoshenko, reinvigorated, decided to also perform a miracle:

Miracle of the Great Breakthrough of Kharkov!

It's the same as the Demyansk miracle created by the skeleton baron, except that now the roles of the two sides have been reversed

In the early morning of the 19th, Timoshenko ordered the 151st Infantry Division and the 114th Tank Brigade to launch a surprise attack at Slevingtonya in an attempt to tear a gap and cover the retreat of the main German army.

Defending here was a wide line of SS skeleton divisions and the 60th motorized rifle division.

Once again, Timoshenko made a wrong choice:

He chose one of the most tenacious and heroic units of the German army as the breakthrough point

And what he didn't expect was that the General Headquarters of the German Kharkov Group was located here!

This is where Baron Alexon is!

Two excellent commanders, two commanders of extraordinary courage:

Ernst. Marshal Bram and Marshal Timoshenko!

One of them set his headquarters at the forefront, and the other personally came to the encirclement to command the troops to break through!

From this point of view, Wang Weiyi and Timoshenge are sympathetic

The 151st Infantry Division and the 114th Tank Brigade of the Soviet Army, which were almost all composed of veterans, were extremely trusted, and the brave, desperate, and tragic breakthrough battle began!

The sound of "Ula", which was incomparably familiar to the German army, resounded throughout the battlefield. But I don't know what the road is about, but in such a "Ula" sound, the German soldiers seem to hear the desperate cries of the Russians.

The Germans opened all their firepower and slaughtered the Russians who rushed up

Dense enemies, dense targets!

Totally a target!

The machine gun shooter does not need to do more movement to easily shoot down a large area of enemies; The shells of the Tiger tank, often one shot, can destroy a Russian T34.

And those German shooters don't know how many people they have killed since the Russians began to break through to the present.

Completely incalculable!

This is not a battlefield, this is hell on earth! (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )