Even as the "Lascar" group and the 48th Panzer Army were annihilated and defeated, Paulus's German 6th Army was also doomed. As mentioned earlier, on 22 November, the Southwestern Front attacked Paulus from the west toward the Don River. At the same time, to the east, the Stalingrad Front also advanced smoothly.
On 22 November, in the Soviet 57th Army theater, as the German 4th Army and the 29th Motorized Division contracted northward, the Soviet 169th Division finally captured Nariman at dusk. Along the way, the Soviets pocketed the countless supplies that Hut and Paulus had left behind. The 13th Tank Corps of the Red Army was very rewarding, and the 90th Tank Brigade, combined with the 17th Mechanized Brigade, broke into a small village called Valvarovka and found a German repair base and 64 tanks. It is said that the 29th German Motorized Division (Rakodino, which retreated north of Valvarovka), tried to retake the tanks, but was repulsed by the Soviets.
The stalingrad front's greatest progress of the day was that the 36th Brigade of the 4th Mechanized Army broke into Soviet Tsky at 12:20 and advanced from the southeast to Karachi, only 20 kilometers away. The distance between the Stalingrad Front and the vanguard of the Southwestern Front was reduced to 10-12 kilometers. However, Yeliamenko temporarily issued an order for the main forces of the 4th Mechanized Army (the 59th and 60th Mechanized Brigades) to turn to the northeast to attack Karpovka.
Paulus, however, had already deployed a garrison in Marinofka and Karpovka ahead of schedule, including several battalion-level battle groups of the 3rd and 60th Motorized Divisions and the 295th Infantry Division. The two armies fought each other inseparably. But because of this, the Germans had no spare energy to ignore the 36th Mechanized Brigade in the Soviet Tsky region. On the same day, the Soviet 51st Army and the 4th Cavalry Corps turned south and advanced in the direction of Koterinikovo.