In addition, defensive positions were set up on the north bank.
As for the bridge on Samawa's side, it was destroyed by the Alliance Army in late July.
This was a dual-use railway and highway bridge, and since there was only this railway between Basra and Baghdad, to prevent the enemy from reinforcing the southern region, the Alliance quickly deployed attack aircraft and used laser-guided bombs to destroy the number 3 pier of this bridge.
Since then, the bridge has been in a paralyzed state.
Otherwise, the Fifth Marine Division would have crossed the river after occupying Samawa and seized and controlled the bridgehead north of the bridge.
Further upstream is the bridge at Sinafiye.
Although it was not until late September, when the operation to attack Baghdad was decided, that Ding Zhennan selected the Sinafiye Bridge, as early as July, more than a month earlier, Ding Zhennan had the idea of seizing the bridge, which is why the Alliance did not destroy it.
