Three days later, a telegram was forwarded from the other side of the Pacific to the San Lucas Chinese District of the Federative Republic of Mexico, where there was a rebellion in Wuchang, Hubei Province, the Qing Dynasty (Wuchang Uprising), the rebels captured the three towns of Wuhan and quickly caused an uprising in Hunan, another day later, there was a riot in Shanghi, and a day later, there was a riot in Jiangxi, a riot in Jiangsu, and a riot in Zhejiang......

On September 21, 1911, revolutionaries Jiang Yiwu, Sun Wu, Cai Jimin, Xiong Bingkun, Wang Xianxian, Deng Wenhui, Jiao Dafeng, Chen Zuoxin and others decided to take advantage of the lax defense of the Qing court in Hubei Province and secretly launched an uprising on October 6. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.infoOn September 24, when the uprising was secretly being prepared, an accident occurred, the Nanhu artillery practiced drinking alcohol to the second battalion squadron for the comrades who went to Sichuan Province, at this time, the commander forbade it and caused a clash between officers and soldiers, and a drunk revolutionary soldier pushed the cannon out in a fit of anger and fired at the headquarters of the new army.

The governor of Huguang, Rui Cheng, was frightened enough and immediately investigated the matter thoroughly.

On September 25, through torture, Ruizi knew that the revolutionary party was preparing to launch a riot in Wuhan, and Ruizi immediately reported to the imperial court, and ordered his henchman Zhang Biao, the commander of the eighth town of the Beiyang New Army, to lead the commanders of each battalion to collect bullets and thoroughly investigate the rebels and curb the riot.

Due to the confiscation of bullets, the revolutionary uprising had to be postponed for three days, and the revolutionary Sun Wu decided to make his own bullets, but in the process of making it, on October 9, when Sun Wu was preparing gunpowder, the flame of a kerosene lamp ignited the gunpowder and exploded, Sun Wu was seriously injured, and someone immediately reported to the official.

Zhang Biao searched the list of uprisings in Sun Wu's house, and immediately ordered martial law in the three towns of Wuhan, and arrested the revolutionaries according to the register, Wang Xianxian, Liu Gong, Jiang Yiwu, Liu Fuji, Peng Chupan and others fled in a hurry, and soon after, Liu Fuji, Peng Chupan, and Yang Hongsheng were finally arrested and executed.

On the afternoon of October 10, after learning that the list of uprisings had fallen into the Qing court, the revolutionary Xiong Bingkun decided to immediately launch an uprising, and contacted Cai Jimin, Wang Wenjin, Luo Ziqing and others, saying that tonight was the only chance, and that after tomorrow the revolutionary party would definitely escape and be caught.

At seven o'clock in the evening, Xiong Bingkun suddenly heard a fierce battle in the engineer camp, and it turned out that the military police of the eighth town entered the engineer camp to arrest people, Xiong Bingkun immediately returned to the dormitory to take out the gun and the bullets that had been hidden, and led his soldiers to attack the military police, ringing the bell of the Wuchang uprising. Because the gendarmes were arresting people everywhere, many soldiers were already dissatisfied with them in their hearts, and Xiong Bingkun and others had a higher prestige than the officers of the New Army on weekdays, so the rebel soldiers immediately enthusiastically participated, killing several officers and neutral officers loyal to the Qing court, and the entire engineer battalion was completely controlled by the rebel army, and then Xiong Bingkun immediately decided to take the lead in capturing the Wangchutai armory.

The soldiers of Wangchutai and Xiong Bingkun, Jin Zhaolong and other rebel troops should cooperate with each other to conquer the Wangchutai armory in one fell swoop, and then the soldiers of the new army in other places learned that the engineer battalion had won the uprising, and immediately launched an uprising, and gathered at Wangchutai, and the rebel troops gradually grew. Xiong Bingkun was well aware of the ability of the Qing court, because of the failure of the Huanghuagang uprising in Guangzhou, he was more cautious, on the one hand, he ordered the division of troops to guard Chutai, and on the other hand, he constantly sent troops to meet other rebel soldiers. Since Xiong Bingkun was only the captain of the first team of the engineer battalion (equivalent to a company commander) and had no experience and ability to command the army in combat, he strongly recommended Wu Zhaolin as the commander-in-chief of the operation.

Wu Zhaolin was the best staff officer of the engineer battalion of the Hubei New Army, although at first his attitude was between the anti-Qing and the protection of the Qing, but at this moment, he could not hesitate, Wu Zhaolin resolutely decided to oppose the Qing, and decided to take advantage of the dark night to attack the Huguang Governor's Palace, so that the Hubei Qing army lost its command.

Wu Zhaolin's command was sure to boost the morale of the rebel soldiers, so the various units began to attack the Huguang Governor's Mansion and block the Qing army respectively according to the command.

However, due to the early preparation of the governor of Huguang, the rebel soldiers were stubbornly blocked by Zhang Biao and other Qing troops when they arrived at the Huguang Governor's Palace, and the rebel soldiers organized two attacks ended in failure, and Zhang Biao took the opportunity to lead the Qing army to counterattack, Zhang Biao's general Li Xiang led the army to capture two key passes guarded by the rebel soldiers in a row, and approached the base camp of Wangchutai, and the rebel army was in danger.

At this time, Xiong Bingkun led some of the rebel soldiers to face the choice of returning to help Wangchutai or continuing to attack the Huguang Governor's Mansion, Xiong Bingkun, who was born in the military, immediately made a subconscious reaction that most soldiers would have, executed Wu Zhaolin's military order, and continued to storm the Huguang Governor's Mansion.

Zhang Biao, because the victory of the counterattack was in sight, mistakenly thought that the rebel soldiers were frightened and fled, and was overjoyed and ordered the soldiers of the Governor's Mansion to be transferred to support the attack on Wangchutai. At this time, Xiong Bingkun organized the soldiers to carry out a third assault, and this time the rebel soldiers decided to burn down the governor's palace.

Zhang Biao was furious, organized his men to shoot to block the enemy's advance, and ordered to put out fires, because the Qing army had several Makqin heavy machine guns in the governor's palace, the third attack of the rebel army was fruitless.

Under the crisis, Ji Hongjun, a soldier of the rebel army, poured his whole body full of kerosene, and rushed to the wall with an explosives bag, the bullets of the Qing army hit Ji Hongjun and caused a fire, Ji Hongjun became a living person and rushed to the Qing army, and detonated the explosive bag. The rebel soldiers followed Ji Hongjun's example, which frightened the Qing army into a daze, and let Zhang Biao give the order, and the Qing soldiers fled one after another.

Zhang Biao knew that the morale of the rebel army was strong at this time, so he ordered to retreat to the second line of defense, reorganize the defense, and transferred four Makqin heavy machine guns to strengthen the firepower. The defense of Zhang Biao's organization was originally foolproof, but the governor of Huguang, Ruizi, was frightened enough by the flying stray bullets, and he hurriedly ordered Zhang Biao to protect himself and escape. This Zhang Biao was also an inflexible officer, although he understood that the rebel army would never be able to conquer the Governor's Palace, but after facing the military order, he ordered the army to withdraw and protect Ruizi.

After the Qing army withdrew, Xiong Bingkun and other rebels quickly captured the Huguang Governor's Mansion, and at this time, Wu Zhaolin led the army at Wangchutai to defeat Li Xiang's Qing army and launched a counterattack. Seeing that the reinforcements were delayed, Li Xiang also led the army to retreat, and Wu Zhaolin took the opportunity to directly attack the governor's palace and join Xiong Bingkun and others.

At this time, more and more soldiers participated in the uprising, because the moon was dark and the wind was high, Ruizi was terrified, so he ordered the Qing army to retreat to the warships of the Yangtze River Naval Division to protect everything. Soon after the Wuchang Uprising, the new army in Hanyang and the new army in Hankou also launched an uprising, because the Huguang Governor's Mansion was occupied, the officers and soldiers loyal to the Qing court lost their command, and many people chose to flee, so that Hanyang and Hankou were quickly controlled by the rebel army.

On October 11, 1911, the rebel army burned the Qinglong Banner of the Qing Dynasty, hung the iron-blooded eighteen-star battle flag of the Communist Association, and officially telegraphed at home and abroad, announcing the abolition of the imperial system and the establishment of the Republic of China.

The Qing court never thought that in just a few days, eighteen provinces across the country would launch riots, and the Qing Dynasty would be about to die? The regent Zaifeng was flustered, where were there any capable people around him, Tie Liang, the most capable minister of the Manchurians, was driven out of the central government because he was excluded, and around him were nothing more than the elderly Yixuan, the ignorant Empress Dowager Longyu, the young Pu Yi, the impulsive and inexperienced Zaitao, Zai Ze and other young nobles, although Liangbi and Shanqi and others advocated a war, they did not trust the Han officers, and even the Ministry of Civil Affairs Shilang (Deputy Minister) Gui Chun absurdly proposed that all the Han people in the Beijing Division should be killed first to prevent the Han people from launching a riot in the Beijing Division, Naturally, there was unanimous opposition.

The Manchu nobles argued fiercely, with Yixuan, Na Tong, and Xu Shichang hoping to reactivate Yuan Shikai, while other Manchu nobles feared that Yuan Shikai would lead the Han people to overthrow the Manchus when he left the mountain.

After a night of discussion, Zaifeng decided to send the Minister of War Yin Chang to lead the first town of the Beiyang New Army to the south to quell the rebellion. Yin Chang visited Yuan Shikai when he passed through the river and disdained the Wuhan rebel army, but Yuan Shikai was very jealous of Li Yuanhong and warned Yin Chang to be careful.

Yin Chang didn't care, and bluntly said that the rebel army would be like a landslide when the army went south, while Yuan Shikai secretly instructed Feng Guozhang, the ruler of the First Army, to "go slowly, wait and see". Therefore, the new army of the first town of Beiyang marched slowly, and Yinchang underestimated the enemy, so Zhang Biao, the commander of the eighth town, made meritorious service and led the patrol battalions of all parts of Hubei to form a forward and attack Wuhan.

The Wuhan rebel army had already been prepared and set up an ambush along the railway, Zhang Biao led 2,000 Qing troops directly into the pocket of the rebel army, most of the dead and wounded, Zhang Biao was wounded and fled.

After losing the first battle, Yin Chang was furious and ordered the three armies to attack Hankou, Hanyang and Wuchang in three ways, and the leader of the rebel army at this time was no longer Wu Zhaolin, but Li Yuanhong, the commander of the 21st Mixed Association of the former Beiyang New Army.

Li Yuanhong led the troops for many years and was good at using troops, especially the use of artillery very properly, and hid and commanded the army to launch a three-way fierce attack, which was easily defused by Li Yuanhong. Then the main force of the first town of Beiyang arrived, and the rebel army and the Qing army started a fierce battle, the Beiyang elite was well-equipped and trained hard, and the rebel army suffered heavy casualties and repeatedly lost its position. At this time, the members of the Communist Association in the rebel army played an important role, they hid behind bunkers many times, and when the Qing army attacked the position, they jumped out of the bunker and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Qing army.

Although the rebel army was full of bones, it relied on this ruthlessness to defeat the Qing army with corpses. The main force of the Beiyang Army was originally Yuan Shikai's private army, unwilling to serve the Qing court, let alone fighting to the death with the rebel army, after seeing the determination of the rebel army to exchange a position at a price of 10:1, the first town withdrew at the cost of heavy casualties.

The soldiers of the first town told the imperial court that the thieves were huge and the first town was beyond their strength, and hoped that the reinforcements would arrive in Wuhan as soon as possible. What kind of thieves are huge, it's just that the Beiyang Army is forcing the palace, if Yuan Shikai is not enabled, the Beiyang Army is afraid that it will always be so "huge".

The sudden forced palace of the front-line army made the Qing court in a hurry, and the young Zaifeng panicked and hurriedly consulted Yixuan and others, Yixuan only had one attitude, unless Yuan Shikai, no one could command the Beiyang Army, and those arrogant generals only listened to Yuan Shikai.

"How this should be good, how should this be good." Zaifeng Express Road.

At this time, Huang Bo said: "How about transferring the Jiangbei Army to Wuhan to quell the rebellion?" ”