After receiving the news from Lei Dong, Wang Dong was relieved to learn that Xie Chuyue, Zhang Kaka and others were alive, and only three of them were slightly injured.

Twenty minutes later, two helicopters returned.

Because there were still many wounded people who needed to be sent to the hospital in the rear, the two helicopters did not stop, and flew away after putting down Xie Chuyue and the others.

The three injured operatives were fine, with only flesh wounds.

Seeing Xie Chuyue, Wang Dong didn't talk nonsense and took them to the officer's cafeteria.

Obviously, they need a delicious meal right now, not delicious, but a hot meal, barely delicious.

At this time, Wang Dong knew what Xie Chuyue and the others had experienced in the past few days.

After leaving Nasiriyah, Xie Chuyue and the others kept heading west.

According to the plan, they were to cross the Tigris River a few dozen kilometers west of Nasirye, avoiding the large forces of the rebels and going around to the rear of the rebels.

It's just that the plan can't keep up with the changes.

On the night of their departure, the rebels forced their way across the Tigris River thirty kilometres west of Nasirye, and had a brigade of troops.

At that time, Xie Chuyue and the others were near the rebels' crossing site.

Faced with a brigade of rebels, Xie Chuyue did not dare to mess around, and continued to move west with a reconnaissance team, only crossing the Tigris River the next night.

At this time, Xie Chuyue and the others were already 60 kilometers away from Nasiriyah.

In order not to be detected by the rebels, Xie Chuyue and his men had to operate at night, and they lost their all-terrain vehicles before crossing the Tigris.

To be precise, the all-terrain vehicle was thrown into the Tigris.

Considering that the rebels would not deploy their air defense systems sixty kilometers from the front line, Xie Chuyue decided to go to the southeast, where the probability of finding the rebel air defense system was the greatest.

For the next three days, Xie Chuyue and the others had been circling in the desert.

Quite simply, the main forces of the rebels were all pressed up, and under the influence of the bombing of the Saudi Air Force, the rebels have not increased their troops to the front line.

That is, there is a large blank space between Nasiriyah and Semavo.

After three days of busy work, Xie Chuyue and the others began to move in the direction of those establishments.

By this time, it was already the fifth day of their departure from Nasiriyah.

After two nights of rapid marching, in the previous evening they reached the south side of Nasiriyah, where they found the rebel convoy.

While scouting in Dijin, they were discovered by the rebels.

Subsequently, they encountered a reconnaissance team led by Zhang Kaka.

"You mean that in the last few days, the rebels have not increased their troops to the front?"

"I'm not sure, but we certainly didn't have a big troop buildup, or we'd have found out. In addition, the rebels did not deliver much to the front line. ”

"Are you sure?"

"During those three days, there were at most five convoys heading east to Nasiriyah, and they were dominated by tankers."

Wang Dong nodded slightly and said, "In this way, the rebels not only do not have enough troops now, but they are also short of materials to continue fighting. ”

"The current rebels are at the end of their crossbows, and they are still insisting on fighting, but there is still a glimmer of hope."

"Now, even that hope is gone."

Xie Chuyue nodded, indicating that he understood what Wang Dong meant.

After the destruction of the air defense system, the rebels no longer had a way to deal with the Saudi fighters, and only an air strike was enough to crush the rebels.

In fact, as long as the Saudi Air Force goes all out, a few large-scale bombings can completely reduce the morale of the rebels to zero.

"If we launch a counterattack now......"

"The most important thing to think about now is not to fight back."

Wang Dong's eyebrows jumped a few times and looked at Xie Chuyue.

"The fighting power of the rebels is very strong, this is my personal experience. Although we all know that as long as the Saudi Air Force strengthens its air strikes, the rebels will not want to occupy Nasiriyah, let alone attack Basra, but is retreat the best option for the rebels? ”

"If you don't retreat, what else can you do?"

"Retreat will inevitably lead to the loss of the initiative in the war. It may take a month, or even a few months, for government forces to be able to organize a counterattack, but if they retreat now, the tide of the war will turn against the rebels until they are completely defeated. ”

"You mean ......"

"If it were you, what would you do?" Xie Chuyue paused for a moment before saying, "If it's me, I'll make a desperate bet." ”

"What's the use?"

"Drain the combat effectiveness of the government army, hit the morale and fighting spirit of the government army, and buy more time, maybe there will be a turnaround."

"Unless there is outside aid, ......"

Wang Dongmeng was stunned for a moment and didn't say any more.

Xie Chuyue smiled, because he guessed what Wang Dong didn't say, because after entering the stalemate stage, it was indeed possible for the rebels to receive foreign assistance.

The Arab League has already sent troops, and Iran will sit back and watch the rebels defeat?

The premise is that the rebels still have hope of victory.

As a result, the rebels were left to take a desperate gamble and gain Iranian aid by capturing Nasiriyah to prove that there was still hope of victory.

If the rebels retreated, Iran would never send troops to fight for a regime that was about to be defeated.

Wang Dong did not hesitate, and immediately called Nanijer over.

In a desperate gamble, the rebels will inevitably storm Nasiriyah, including the previously unused Brigade of the Holy Land Heroes, in an effort to take control of most of the city.

In urban street fighting, air support from Saudi fighter jets will be greatly reduced.

Not to mention anything else, just because they might accidentally injure friendly soldiers, Saudi fighter jets did not dare to rashly drop bombs, at most they only bombed the rebels outside the city.

With the current strength of the rebels, they are still sure to take Nasiriyah.

Although the rebels have already lost the civil war in the long run, and it is unlikely that they will capture Basra before the arrival of Arab League ground forces after the capture of Nasiriyah, it means that the government forces defending Nasiriyah will need to suffer more casualties here.

The operatives brought by Wang Dong are no exception.

In fact, it is very likely that the rebels will annihilate Nasiriyah's defenders before the Arab League ground forces enter the battle.

Wang Dong didn't think about retreating, even if he wanted to retreat, it wouldn't be now.

Quite simply, retreat now, the morale of the government forces will be finished, and the rebels will quickly occupy Nasiriyah and then advance east at full speed.

The question now is how to withstand the onslaught of the rebels.

The sky is about to dawn, and if the rebel commander, Major General Giannini, is determined, the storming of Nasiriyah will begin in a few hours.

At this time, inside the rebels' front-line headquarters.

Major General Giannini was talking on the phone to the rear, and he only occasionally responded with a very ugly face, and the atmosphere in the command was very tense.

Needless to say, it was Karim on the other end of the line.

As for Karim's order on the phone, it was already written on Giannini's face, so there was no need to guess.