Back at the station, Wang Dong immediately contacted Yunlong.

The news of the rebels' bloodbath against the Sunnis had long since arrived, and Yunlong gave clear instructions to fully support the government forces in launching a counterattack.

Full support!?

What does that mean?

Yunlong did not give a clear explanation, but mentioned that Karim raised a butcher's knife to the Sunnis, which was tantamount to digging his own grave.

Isn't it the government army that is now launching a counterattack to send them to death?

After pondering deeply, Wang Dong understood the meaning of Yunlong's words.

That's right, Karim did dig his own grave.

Why?

Iraq has two major sects and two major ethnic groups, and while the Shiites are the overwhelming majority among Arabs, the Kurds are almost exclusively Sunni.

Karim took the Sunni knife, what will the Kurds think?

The civil war continues to this day, and the Kurds have stayed out of the matter and have not chosen sides.

If the Kurds feel threatened, they will definitely go to war and become allies of Razak to open a second front in northern Iraq.

As for the military power of the Kurds, it will certainly not be weak.

In fact, it is not very important how well the Kurds can fight.

As long as the Kurds open a second front in the north, Karim will have to fight on two fronts, and it will be impossible to concentrate forces against the Razak regime.

What's more, Karim is not much stronger than Razak.

In the case of fighting on two fronts, Karim is not far from defeat.

The question is, doesn't Karim know the impact of this move on the Kurds, does not know the risks of fighting on two fronts, and does not worry about the consequences of defeat?

If he knew this, why would he do such a stupid thing?

There is only one explanation, and that is that Karim has no choice.

With the Arab League's ground forces on the verge of entering Iraq and aid from Saudi Arabia and other countries being sent to Basra, government forces will be able to recover within a few months and gain the strength to launch the project, while Karim's external support is clearly not enough to maintain the current favorable situation.

The only thing Kareem can count on is Iran.

Clearly, Karim needed a reason for Iran to send troops directly to the war.

The Kurds are a fitting reason.

Don't forget, there are also many Kurds in Iran, and they are in the Northwest Frontier region, and they share the same roots as the Kurds in Iraq.

Over the past few decades, the Kurds have been seeking to create a "Greater Kurdistan", that is, a state of their own.

By now, the Kurds have taken control of Syria and northern Iraq, and the Kurds in Iran and Turkey are responding.

During the Syrian civil war, the Turkish army repeatedly crossed the border and even established a military foothold inside Syria, not to deal with the Syrian government forces or to fight extremist groups, but to encircle and suppress the Kurdish forces that have established bases in Syria.

It can be said that the Kurdish forces have always been a major problem for Turkey.

The same is true for Iran.

As long as the Kurds in Iraq sit large, then the Kurds in Iran will be encouraged to become a problem for Iran.

With the Kurds entering the war, Iran will inevitably increase its support for Karim.

In this way, the Razak regime promised the Kurds, even if it did not allow the Kurds to establish an independent state, but only gave the Kurds more autonomy, such as changing Iraq from a federal system to a confederation system, allowing the Kurds to have their own armed forces, and Iran would have to defend Karim.

Obviously, in the end, we will have to go straight to the war.

Because the possibility of an alliance between Razak and the Kurds does exist, it would be in Karim's favor to let the issue detonate in advance.

At least, the current government forces are not strong enough to defeat Karim.

Forcing government forces to launch an early counterattack and allowing Razak to form an alliance with the Kurds, Karim is expected to stabilize the southern front first with Iranian support.

When the Kurds entered the battle, he was free to clean up the enemy in the north.

If Razak had stabilized himself and not been deceived, Karim would have dealt with the Kurds in the north first, and even compromised with the Kurds in private.

Because Razak's indifference to the life and death of the Sunnis is bound to chill the Kurds and even despair of him, so after Karim extended an olive branch, the Kurds are likely to be in their own interests and continue to stay outside the battlefield instead of provoking themselves.

After stabilizing the Kurds, Karim will be able to concentrate his forces against Lazak.

Thus. Regardless of whether the government forces launched a counterattack or not, Karim was able to continue to hold the initiative and turn the tide of the war in the direction he envisioned.

It can also be seen from this that Karim was indeed a very far-sighted military commander.

Only, there is a premise.

That is, after the government forces launched a counterattack, Karim must hold the current front, inflict heavy losses on the government forces, and thwart the counterattack of the government forces.

If he fails to hold the line, Karim will lose everything.

When the time comes, not only will the government military leaders drive in, but the Kurds will also move south to reap the fruits of Lazak's victory.

It was precisely in this way that Yunlong clearly told Wang Dong that he fully supported the government army in launching a counterattack.

To this end, Yunlong also told Wang Dong that Crown Prince Mohammed had promised to provide them with all-round support, such as all kinds of necessary materials.

Just two days ago, the Greek ro-ro freighter Hercules entered the port of Dammam and brought 10,000 heavy trucks purchased by Saudi Arabia.

With these heavy trucks, all the necessary equipment for the ground troops of the Arab League to enter Iraq and participate in the war is in place.

By order of Crown Prince Mohammed, the vanguard of the Royal Saudi Army, two mechanized infantry brigades, will arrive in Basra within a week.

In a maximum of 10 days, six brigades of the coalition will enter Iraq.

Because the government army would launch a counterattack in advance, and Wang Dong would take on the logistics support task, Yunlong won a thousand heavy trucks for him.

Weapons and ammunition, combat materials, engineering equipment, etc., Yunlong thought that he had made good arrangements.

To put it simply, Wang Dong's first task is to go to Nasiriyah, where he will gain a foothold and prepare for the Arab coalition forces.

As for how far the counterattack of the government army can go, it is not very important.

As Yunlong said, if Baghdad can be recovered by relying on government forces, do you still need the Arab League to send ground troops?

Although it is said that it fully supports the government army to launch a counterattack, no one expects the government army to play a triumphant song all the way, and the real purpose is to stabilize the situation of the war.

That is, to buy time for the Arab League ground forces to participate in the war.

Three days later, Nanijal, accompanied by a battalion of mechanized infantry led by Xie Chuyue, left Basra and arrived at Nasiriyah that night.

Wang Dong only stayed for three more days.

When the convoy arrived, he set off with another battalion.

By this time, the battle for the counteroffensive on Semavo had already begun.