In the evening of the same day, the Royal Saudi Air Force dispatched three C-17s to carry out an empty replenishment of Nasiriyah.

The drop site is located north of the city, on the south bank of the Tigris.

Because the rebels had a lot of small-caliber machine guns, the airdrop altitude of the transport plane was set at 5,500 meters, as a result of which many pallets fell into the Tigris.

Fortunately, Saudi Arabia has a lot of money, and two copies of various airdrop materials have been prepared.

This airdrop can be said to be crucial.

The main ones are ammunition, especially 8mm and 6mm countersunk rounds, as well as 7.62mm NATO and 5.56mm NATO rounds used by government forces, as well as hundreds of DF762N rifles.

The most important thing, of course, is forty sets of RA-12ER anti-tank missiles.

Although only 30 launch systems and 300 missiles fell to the drop site, and a pallet containing 10 launch systems and 100 missiles fell into the Tigris River and was salvaged by Iraqi government forces after the war, 300 anti-tank missiles were sufficient.

You know, the remaining tank fighting vehicles of the rebels did not have a total of three hundred.

Wang Dong and the others had already used up the RA-12ER they brought, because of the lack of effective anti-armor weapons, they were often helpless when they encountered the rebels' tank fighting vehicles.

During the morning fighting, hundreds of government officers and soldiers were killed by the rebels as they tried to approach the tanks that attacked them with rocket launchers.

With these anti-tank missiles, tank fighting vehicles against the rebels are no longer a problem.

In addition, Wang Dong and the guns and ammunition they brought were almost used.

Once you've got the airdrop, you won't have to worry about ammunition for at least the next few days.

After nightfall, the rebels, having "rested" for an afternoon, went on the offensive again.

Obviously, the two bombardments during the day had made the rebels realize that the cost of attacking during the day was too great, and that it was better to attack at night.

Quite simply, Saudi fighter jets will not necessarily be at night.

Not to mention whether there is ground guidance or not, if you drop bombs at night, the probability of accidentally injuring your own people is higher, and the bombing effect will not be too good.

And that's exactly what happened.

Throughout the night, Saudi fighters did not appear.

It is not that the pilots of the Royal Saudi Air Force need to sleep, but according to the operational arrangement, they will focus on bombing the rear targets of the rebels at night.

In fact, after the Arab League entered the war, Saudi fighter jets have been bombing military targets in central and northern Iraq at night and have never stopped.

That night, the Royal Saudi Air Force focused on bombing an air base outside Baghdad.

It was also the first time since the outbreak of the civil war that Saudi fighter jets bombed a rebel air base.

Until then, Saudi fighter jets had not bombed high-risk military targets such as air bases for fear of being intercepted by air defense systems.

According to the battle report released by the Royal Saudi Air Force, a total of 16 F-15SAs were dispatched that night to carry out two rounds of surgical bombing of the air base outside Baghdad, destroying the runway of the air base, blowing up more than 10 aircraft forts, and destroying more than 30 combat aircraft.

This battle report is a bit exaggerated, but ** is not far from ten.

As for how much it means, I can't say for sure.

Quite simply, the rebels did not have many fighters in the first place, and they never expected to receive air support, and the few attack aircraft they did were rarely deployed.

It was mainly small planes that were blown up that night.

In Nasiriyah, government forces that received airdrops withstood the rebels' onslaught.

It was not the government army that acted as the main force, but the operatives brought by Wang Dong.

According to Wang Dong's deployment, the government army is responsible for guarding the forward defense line, and the operatives are all deployed in the rear to provide fire support for the government army.

Don't forget, the operatives are equipped with complete night combat equipment, all DF8**G can be equipped with optical sights, used as sniper rifles, and the marksmanship of most of the operatives is not too bad, and it is absolutely a hundred shots against personnel within a few hundred meters.

A few hundred operatives, that's a few hundred snipers.

What's more, these operatives are ready to go into battle as machine gunners at any time, and are even able to attack rebel tank fighting vehicles with anti-tank missiles.

If anything, it is the absence of mortars.

Mortars are of great value in urban street fighting.

Fortunately, Wang Dong and his team obtained enough gun-mounted grenade launchers, as well as 40mm high-explosive grenades, which can replace mortars in close combat.

In fact, in urban street fighting, most of the time the distance between the battles is less than 200 meters.

In addition, the tactics of the rebels went wrong.

That is, during the night offensive, the rebels did not concentrate their forces to attack, but dispersed and launched an attack on various streets.

Although the rebels have a clear superiority in numbers, it is difficult to play in such separate battles.

The commander of the rebel army was not to blame, because it was a huge trouble to concentrate forces at night to launch an attack, just to organize and command.

Because of the lack of equipment for night warfare, it was difficult to coordinate operations even if the troops were concentrated.

The biggest advantage for the rebels is that they have hundreds of mortars of various calibers, as well as quite a few recoilless guns, and there are plenty of shells.

After a night of fierce fighting, the rebels were almost standing still.

On this night, the rebels abandoned their positions outside the city, leaving only a small number of troops to guard the road to the west, and the main force entered the city.

The fighting in the city of Nasiriyah has turned into a war of attrition.

The most important thing that happened that night was the first time that UAE and Omani fighter jets entered the war, bombing several bridges near Kut.

Both the UAE and Oman are low-key and don't make a big deal about it.

In fact, the two countries have long sent fighter jets to the King Khalid Military City, and have previously arranged for fighter jets to carry out air defense patrols on the border between Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

However, the authorities of the two countries have never allowed fighter jets to enter Iraqi airspace.

As for the reason, it is obviously related to the war situation.

If Razak loses the war, then sending fighter jets to bomb the rebels will not only make little sense, but will get into a lot of trouble.

Now that the war is clear, there is no reason for the two countries to remain on the battlefield.

Moreover, it has to do with Iran.

There is ample information that a large number of armed men have crossed the Iran-Iraq border into Iraqi territory and are massing in the vicinity of Kut.

There is no doubt that this is Iran's Quds Brigade.

If the UAE and Oman still have even the slightest sympathy for the Karim regime, then there is nothing to say about Iran.

It was in this way that the first appearance of the fighters of the UAE and Oman went to bomb the Kut.

With the bombing of Iraq by UAE and Omani fighter jets, the Arab coalition was officially established and was no longer a unilateral action by Saudi Arabia.

The Air Force has entered the war, when will the ground forces of the coalition forces enter Iraq?