The embankment being urgently protected is on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and is part of the Jingjiang Embankment.
Xu Mingyuan, Ma Jintao, Chen Youren, and other soldiers from the Water Rescue Team are far away in Xiang'an County of Nanhu Province, which is on the opposite bank of the river. This means that the 402nd Military Vehicle Company will have to cross the river overnight to pick up the Water Rescue Team's soldiers and equipment.
If it were another unit, it wouldn't be easy to cross the river at night.
The Linghai Reserve Camp is a water mobile rescue camp with no problem crossing the river.
As soon as Vice Director Yu of the Jingzhou Port Supervision Bureau Traffic Control Center received the order, he urgently used the high-frequency radio on the barge to announce a ferry sailing notice for crossing the river and dispatched a supervision boat from the Jingzhou Port Supervision Bureau along with a small tugboat to guard the upstream and downstream areas.
