After receiving the news, Wang Dong immediately went to the command center.

The rebels launched a surprise attack, and the government forces were caught off guard.

Actually, it was not without warning.

Before launching the offensive, the rebels carried out electromagnetic interference, which paralyzed most of the government army's radio stations.

How did the rebels do it?

Quite simply, the government army used the exact same radio station as the rebels, except that the operating frequency and communication password were adjusted.

In addition, the rebels must have obtained some information, such as the operating frequency of the government's main radio stations, before they targeted the interference.

It's a pity that the government forces did not detect these anomalies.

Because it was late at night and only a few radio stations were working, the government forces believed that something was wrong after receiving the interference.

For this, the government army wasted half an hour!

If vigilance can be heightened in time, half an hour is enough to pass on orders and bring the vast majority of combat units into combat readiness.

Of course, this is not the only mistake made by the government forces.

Since no one expected the rebels to appear east of Semavo, the government forces were all facing west and north, and the main forces were also in these two directions.

As a result, the rebels crossed the Tigris River at Sidder, east of Semavo, and an armoured brigade reached the south bank within two hours.

As the rebels crossed the river, the government forces guarding Sidl raised the alarm.

It's a pity that the Semavo command did not receive it!

As the roundabout troops crossed the river, the rebels began shelling Semavo and, within the first fifteen minutes, hundreds of tons of shells were dropped on Semavo.

It was only after the shelling that the government forces woke up.

Subsequently, Izal made a fatal mistake.

He concluded that this was an artillery preparation for a large-scale offensive by government forces, because the Tigris River was to the north, so the main force of government forces must be in the west, that is, on the side of Najaf.

Since he had been monitoring the area and had not found anything unusual, Izhar felt that the rebels would not invest too many troops, and it was likely that they were three infantry brigades deployed in Najaf before, and that the purpose of the government army's attack was not to take Semavo.

Maybe it's just a feint to test the reality of the government army.

It is also easy to understand that in the past few days, more than a dozen brigades have arrived in Semavo, and the rebels will definitely need to figure out the intentions of the government forces.

Isn't launching a tentative attack at this time just to find out what is true and what is false?

Based on this judgment, Izal ordered nearby government forces to move in that direction.

Izhar's idea was very simple, he took the initiative to attack the rebels, and then took the opportunity to advance towards Najaf and take Najaf in one fell swoop.

Not only him, but other generals also thought so.

As a result, after Izhar gave the order, the five brigades originally deployed south of Semawa began to move west of Semawah.

These five brigades are the feint forces of the Western Front.

Because the feint was scheduled to take place after the main attack, it was deployed behind the main attacking force, that is, on the southern outskirts of Semavo, rather than in the city.

Just the transfer of these five brigades is not much of a problem.

What's worse is that the four generals in charge of the main attack on the middle line take it for granted that since the feint attack has begun, the main attack must also follow.

What's more, the rebels are just tempting.

At this time, the government troops stationed in the city also moved, and they moved to the north, that is, to cross the river to the assembly point on the south bank of the Tigris.

With so many troops moving at the same time, it was a mess.

By the time the rebel roundabout forces came in from the east, the eastern side of Semavo was undefended, with only a few dozen infantry guarding two outposts.

By the time Izhar received the news, the rebels had taken control of the road east of Semavo.

Later, Izhar learned that there were at least four brigades of rebels coming from the west, and that there was an armored brigade at the front.

Immediately after that, rebels appeared on the other side of the Tigris.

Also the main force, the forward is a mechanized infantry brigade.

Although the rebels did not have the strength of the Tigris, for the government forces who flocked to the assembly site to cross the river, the rebels on the other side were the spokesmen of death.

At several assembly sites, the width of the river was less than two kilometers.

The rebels did not need to cross the river at all, and the rebels could fire the government troops gathered on the river beach with their guns mounted on the opposite bank, not to mention machine guns, mortars and tank guns.

It was only at this point that Izhar reacted, made a final effort, and made a final mistake.

That is, let the troops break through to the east.

At that time, Izhar only gave the feint troops, that is, the five brigades originally stationed in the southern suburbs, an order to break out, to be precise, a combat order.

Yizar's intention was clear, first of all, to take out the rebels in a roundabout way and open the road to Nasiriyah.

Strictly speaking, there is nothing wrong with this order.

Only in this way can we stabilize the morale of the military.

It is a pity that the staff officer sent this order to all combat units.

All units are involved in the breakout operation, so is it still a breakout?

This is retreat, it means to flee for your life!

The result can be imagined: when more than 100,000 officers and soldiers began to flee for their lives, not a single one could escape.

Wang Dong waited patiently for several hours, but only received some fragmented news that the dozen or so brigades stationed in Semavo had collapsed.

When it was almost dawn, Yunlong sent battlefield information.

The rebels' roundabout troops, who had been out of the day and night, and had made a very clever camouflage, took only two hours to drive from Teloch to the north bank of the Tigris River, and marched nearly 60 kilometers in a surprise manner, completing a strategic detour and crossing the Tigris River by surprise.

These two hours happened to be the gap period for Saudi reconnaissance planes.

It is clear that the rebels have long mastered the pattern of the activities of Saudi reconnaissance aircraft.

The main attacking force also marched day and night, again in the last two hours, but with a large detour tactic, that is, from Najaf to the south to the desert about 50 kilometers southwest of Samawah, before turning north, bypassing the government army's perimeter cordon.

As for the rebel force that appeared north of Semavo, it was from Diwaniyah and was supposed to be a feint.

Based on this information, Yunlong also made an analysis that the rebels would not march on Nasiriyah immediately after capturing Semavo.

Quite simply, the main rebel forces consumed too much motorcycle time on the rapid march.

After the capture of Semavo, the rebels had to rest and recuperate and maintain their main battle equipment, especially the power equipment of tank fighting vehicles.

It would be a different story if the government forces were quickly defeated.

All in all, it would be better for government forces to hold out in Semavo for a few days.

Just, is this possible?

Wang Dong did not dare to delay, and immediately contacted Xie Chuyue, who was still in Semavo, not to ask him to assist the government army in defending to the death, but to ask him to withdraw immediately with the operatives.

The defeat is decided, and to stay in Semavo is to bury the government army! 5610