There's not much use in doing a global regex match with an anchored regex.

Furthermore, a global regex match returns a list of matches, so use a for-loop to iterate over them:

use v6;

my $line = '124des123';
for $line ~~ m:g/ \d ** 2..3 / -> $match {
    say ~$match;
}
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Output:

124
123
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