general sard shazli shabeh spent a month round the clock to plan the attack on the sinai desert.g of the army took place at different levels , from discrimination and training of the air force and defense of the egyptian army, and the expansion of the land and sea forces , of course, one of the most important exercises that must design there was a new plan for crossing the suez canal in the shortest possible time. now the egyptian and syrian army forces were counting the minutes to start this battle . saturday, october 6, 1973, coincides with yom kippur , the biggest holiday in the jewish calendar, and coincides with the tenth month of ramadan. the war began on the 14th, the egyptian air force crossed the suez canal with 220 fighter planes, and all the command centers located along the suez canal were heavily bombarded by missile defense radar stations and artillery at the same time as mehr artillery airstrikes with the help of 2000 cannons and heavy mortar attacks were also carried out on the bases located behind the upper line of the 20th minutes after the start of the air and