The bombardment came suddenly and violently.

Even from a distance of more than ten kilometers, the flash of the explosion was extremely bright.

In total, Saudi fighter jets fired 32 cruise missiles, only eight of which carried high-explosive warheads, which were responsible for destroying the bridge being erected.

The other 24 carried anti-personnel warheads to deal with the rebels on the river beaches.

After giving the order, Wang Dong climbed into an M1A1 tank, knocked on the captain's cabin door with the butt of his gun, and signaled to leave immediately.

Vehicles were limited, and each tank carried several operatives.

As for the government officers and soldiers involved in the counterattack, they mainly traveled in armored vehicles, as well as off-road vehicles and pickup trucks requisitioned from civilians before the war.

Five minutes later, the shelling began.

Eight M109A6s opened fire at the same time, pouring shells at the rebel beachhead at maximum speed.

The key is not how many rebels are killed, but to suppress the rebels, so that the rebels do not dare to enter the set positions, and open the way for the counterattacking forces.

At this time, the counterattack force was already less than three kilometers from the river beach.

Six M1A1 were the first to stop and began shelling the fortifications on the rebel positions with tank guns, mainly various machine-gun fortresses.

In fact, the main weapon of the rebels is machine guns.

Fearing an attack by rebel anti-tank missiles, the main battle tank did not continue to advance, and the distance of three kilometers was not too far anyway.

Soon, armored vehicles transporting government officers and soldiers rushed to the front of the rebel positions.

At this time, six M1A1s were launched again.

The armored vehicle has a certain level of protection, but it is still not strong in the face of the rebels' heavy machine guns, especially large-caliber anti-aircraft machine guns.

As for those requisitioned civilian vehicles, it is even less worth mentioning.

Six tanks is not much, but the value cannot be underestimated.

More importantly, it was not government officers and soldiers who accompanied the tank attack, but the operatives brought by Wang Dong.

In addition, a group of operatives remained in the rear, acting as snipers, using the DF8SMG to name the rebel machine gunners who dared to resist.

The pace of advancement is not very fast, and it cannot be fast.

Although it was only a few hours, the rebels had built a relatively complete defense system, set up a large number of fortifications, and a lot of bazookas.

In addition, the rebels fought extremely bravely.

Fortunately, the rebels were not able to expand the beachhead in time.

Due to the lack of defensive depth and the fact that the bridge had been blown up, the rebels were unable to deploy powerful anti-tank missiles far enough.

At a distance of direct fire from tank guns, anti-tank groups had little survivability.

Not to mention, there are also a large number of snipers.

If necessary, it was even possible to call in artillery, suppress the rebel anti-tank positions with artillery fire, and take out the anti-tank men hiding behind the sand.

After less than an hour of fierce fighting, government forces captured the outer line of the beachhead.

The rebels made several counterattacks and even fired several heavy anti-tank missiles from across the Tigris, but there was no threat.

From a distance of several kilometers, the missile shooters of the rebels could not see the tanks on the opposite bank at all.

Don't forget, it's night, and the rebels clearly lack equipment for night fighting.

With the fall of the outer defensive line, the morale of the rebels was severely damaged and their fighting spirit began to waver.

As the government forces continued to advance, the rebels began to retreat towards the riverbank, and a few officers and soldiers even turned to flee and tried to swim to the opposite bank.

Only, the good fortune ends here.

At around ten o'clock, Wang Dong received news that Nasiriyah was shelled by the rebels, and the eight M109A6s commanded by Shamkh became the key targets of the rebels.

In order to take out the artillery of the government army, the rebels used M270 rocket artillery!

Because of the defenselessness, all 8 self-propelled howitzers were damaged.

Even if it can be repaired, it will take time.

In addition, the rebels launched another offensive to the west and south of Nasiriyah, and the rebels in the west had already crossed Victory Square and were about to break through the government lines.

Comparatively speaking, the situation in the south is more dangerous, because the defenses on that side are weaker.

Wai Wei to save Zhao?

Apparently, the rebels tried to get the government forces to abandon the counterattack by storming Nasiriyah.

If the government forces continue to counterattack in the direction of the river beach, the rebels will be able to sweep through most of the city before dawn and break the government army's urban defenses.

Withdraw to go?

That is also unrealistic, after all, there are not many troops involved in the counterattack, and withdrawing may not be able to turn the tide.

"General, no matter what, hold the line. Once the rebels have been routed across the river, we will withdraw immediately, and you must hold on! ”

"Pong-......"

The sudden strange sound startled Wang Dong, and he immediately judged that it was the sound of an armor-piercing bullet flying nearby.

In fact, by the time the sound was heard, the armor-piercing projectile had already flown over.

You must know that the muzzle velocity of the armor-piercing projectile fired by the tank gun is as high as more than 1,600 meters per second, and the speed is still as high as thousands of kilometers per second after flying several thousand meters.

Later, Wang Dong saw that the armor-piercing bullet hit the captain's hatch of the tank and threw away the anti-aircraft machine gun on the commander's hatch.

The commander climbed onto the hatch, but only half of his body remained.

The tank engine roared and turned to the left while accelerating wildly.

Wang Dong didn't think much about it, dragged the captain's body out and got into the tank turret.

Several tanks in the vicinity were also accelerating, and all were turning backwards, since armor-piercing shells were fired from the rear, and enemy tanks were behind.

That's right, the tanks of the rebels.

There are more than a dozen green light spots densely packed in the night vision device, all of which are rebel M1A1 main battle tanks, but they are all more than 3,000 meters away.

Obviously, it was the rebels who had rushed to converge, perhaps the armored units of the brigade of the "Holy Land Heroes".

After the bombardment of the river-crossing troops, the rebels must have picked up their advance, and the tanks rushed to the front, leaving behind the infantry that accompanied the operation.

Firing from such a distance was just to attract the attention of government troops.

"Armor-piercing bullets!"

Although it was the first time to sit in the position of a tank commander and the first time to drive this American tank, Wang Dong did not panic.

Like Lei Dong and other special forces, Wang Dong had driven tanks before, but they were Huaxia's tanks.

"Reloaded."

"Twelve o'clock, aim and fire!"

"Boom-"

There was no need for Wang Dong to say more, the artillery commander did it.

It's just that the distance is too far, and Wang Dong can see that the armor-piercing bullet deviated by several meters and did not pose a threat to the rebel tanks at all.

The point is that both sides are moving, moving to move.

"Reload!" The cannon commander shouted, his tone very anxious.

"Reloaded!" The loader was not slow, it took less than ten seconds.

"Steady, don't fire, listen to my orders." Wang Dong kept staring at the rebel tank, and after seeing the flash of light from the rebel tank, he immediately shouted loudly: "Stop!" ”

With a sudden braking, the speed of the M1A1 suddenly decreased, and it rushed out more than ten meters before it could stop.

"Boom-"

Then the tank gun roared.