Sach'aqan gunboats roared up and down the shoreline of the Nahr, rocking it's usually calm beaches, where they existed, with rough waves reminiscent of a busy storm. Storms rarely encroached deep into the Nahr, thanks to the mountainous entrance at Bawwaba Medina, but the river knew those waves.
The waves of attack upon Alghana Al'ard were vicious and quick. Thanks to the massive delta the city was built upon, there were many avenues of attack and bombardment available to Sach'aqa, but the size had a few bonuses to the defenders as well: The complex water ways were only really well-traversed and know by Alssahra, who blocked off sections that would lead to the capitol buildings, the size was too hard to uniformly attack at once, whereas the defending navy had time to organize themselves into traps and to arm sections of the river's edge with rockets and other ordinance, and there was a storm that was blowing through. Aimed for the mountains, it was the one downside both navies had.
Despite the storm, the battle continued fiercely, with Sach'aqa electing to bombard and destroy the city instead of simply capturing it. The air forces of both sides were in battle over the skies, and the armies of both fought street to street in the same city that was crumbling around them.