Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Mushure mekutanga kweOperation Blue, mauto e4th nemauto ose eArmy Group Center haana kuona zvakawanda, sezvo mauto akaiswa kumaodzanyemba. Kubvira muna 1943, 4th Army yakanga yava kudzokera shure pamwe chete nemamwe mapoka eArmy Group Center. Hondo yeRed Army yematsutso a1943, Operation Suvorov (inozivikanwawo se "hondo yemigwagwa mikuru"), yakaona 4th Army ichidzoserwa kuOrsha. Pakati paOctober nevhiki yokutanga yaDecember, Western Front yakanga yaedza kanokwana kana kutora Orsha
uye vakanga varohwa muhondo dzinotyisa neFourth Army.