When Huang Xing contacted the revolutionary uprising in Shanghai, it coincided with the nationalization of railways by the Qing court in Sichuan and other places, and a large-scale road protection movement broke out, especially in Sichuan.

For this reason, in order to extinguish the peasant uprisings in Sichuan and other places as soon as possible and prevent the expansion of the turmoil, the Qing court sent the minister Duan Fang to lead the new army in Hubei, which had a strong military force, and most of them entered Sichuan to suppress the various uprisings that arose one after another.

Huang Xing and others were doing revolutionary deeds, and their eyes were naturally keen, and after seeing this God-given opportunity, they decisively seized the opportunity, and then turned their eyes to Hubei, intending to launch an armed uprising in Hubei and unveil the curtain of the fall of the Qing Dynasty.

However, before that, Huang Xing made full preparations, first got in touch with the new soldiers left behind in the New Army camp in Wuhan, as well as the local revolutionary organization society and the Gongjin Society, to discuss revolutionary matters, and at the same time, after making preliminary preparations, it was decided to start a formal uprising on October 6, 1911.

Regrettably, however, the local revolutionaries had to postpone the date of the revolutionary uprising to the 16th because they were well prepared, and it was this postponement that led to the unexpected events that followed, neither bad nor good......

October 9, 1911, Russian Concession.

Seven days were still before the time agreed upon after the uprising, and it was impossible for the revolutionary army not to be nervous about this uprising, so after summing up the lessons of the past, in order to make the uprising go more smoothly, avoid unpredictable accidents, and increase the possibility of success, some revolutionaries were at this time planting some bombs in the Russian concession in Hankow to prepare for use in the uprising.

The lights in the room were a little dark, and the footsteps of Russian patrols could be heard from time to time outside, and the atmosphere was tense and depressing.

"Sun Wu, how is the explosives prepared? Be careful not to be spotted, these Russian devils have noses as sensitive as dogs. One of the revolutionaries, Zhang Liang, said to one of the figures who was dispensing explosives.

"I know, about thirty kilograms have been matched, according to this proportion, after everyone is familiar with the process, it will only be matched faster and faster, and we have already sent back some of it, if nothing else, we have enough gunpowder to use, and then we will use these things to blow up those bastards!"

The young man named Sun Wu nodded, his voice calm, but his words were full of ruthlessness.

After finishing speaking, Sun Wu didn't say more, turned around and buried his head in the few people next to the instructor and made a bomb seriously: "You must configure it strictly according to this ratio, don't make a mistake, this is a meticulous job, everyone will work hard for two more days." ”

"You haven't rested for a long time, hurry up and rest for a while, they've almost learned it themselves." Zhang Liang took two steps forward, pulled Sun Wu, saw the other party's red eyes under the light, and said in a serious tone.

Sun Wu rubbed his eyes that couldn't be opened, he was tired from the long-term intense work, and he felt that he couldn't hold on anymore, so he had to carefully check the work at hand again, and after feeling that there was no problem, he accepted Zhang Liang's suggestion and said to Zhang Liang: "Okay, I'll leave it to you for the time being, you look at it more, I'll go back to sleep first." I'll come here early tomorrow, and I'm really tired. ”

Zhang Liang: "Okay, you can rest assured." ”

Sun Wu yawned and walked out, this place was not too far from the barracks, thinking that he would soon be able to close his eyes and rest, and his heart was a little indescribably relaxed.

However, things always come unexpectedly, when Sun Wu just left the Russian concession and did not go halfway, he heard a "boom", Sun Wu's body couldn't help but be shaken, his heart was shocked, and he turned around and saw the secret ** place of the revolutionaries he had just come out of, which was already a fire at this time!

That violent explosion came from that place!

Sun Wu froze, and the buzz in his brain suddenly did not react for a while.

It wasn't until the firelight that Sun Wu saw a large number of Russian gendarmes rushing into that place that he reacted, and at this time he couldn't care about whether his friend Zhang Liang was still alive, so he hurriedly ran to his barracks.

It turned out that after Sun Wu left, Zhang Liang instructed the comrades who made the explosives to be treated carefully, and he sat down and dozed off.

And the comrades who Sun Wu confessed before leaving just now were also very sleepy, although they were better than Sun Wu, but they didn't close their eyes for a day and a night.

One of them accidentally put too much nitric acid, causing the gunpowder to burn, he was suddenly startled, and hurriedly went up to fight, but all around him were explosives that had just been prepared, which instantly ignited the gunpowder next to him, and then in the fear of these people, it exploded in an instant, and at the moment when Zhang Liang woke up, only a large flame was left in his eyes and rushed in front of him, and then he no longer had any consciousness and passed out.

But said that Sun Wu's side, after verifying his identity at the barracks, hurriedly followed the dark night to find Wu Zhaolin and others, and told him the matter carefully, Wu Zhaolin knew the urgency of the situation, and if he couldn't figure it out, he didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly contacted the revolutionaries in other battalions to discuss countermeasures.

But by then, it was too late.

Ruicheng, the governor of Huguang, had heard some rumors before, and he had also strengthened the control of the new army barracks, but in recent days, those new troops were extremely honest, which also made him feel a little relaxed, but he was not completely reassured.

Besides, at this juncture, how could it be a good thing to hear such a violent explosion?! Therefore, the first thing Rui Cheng did after reacting was to quickly lead his escort team and the soldiers of Zhang Biao, the commander of the eighth town, to start martial law in the barracks, strictly restricting the movement of soldiers in the battalion, so that the revolutionaries in each battalion could not get in touch, so they had to give up.

At this time, they could only hope that Zhang Liang and others would not leak their secrets.

October 10, 1911, is a day worth writing about.

On the morning of the 10th, the Russian military police, worried about provoking the fire, and were happy to see the excitement, handed over some of the survivors who had been caught, including Zhang Liang, and some of the lists they had found to Ruicheng, the governor of Huguang......

Subsequently, Rui Cheng decisively carried out the bomb suppression, and then ordered his subordinates to go out in all directions, and hurriedly arrested people according to the list, and ordered Zhang Biao, the commander of the eighth town, and his cronies to order the closure of the four cities, search for revolutionaries everywhere, and shoot Zhang Liang and others who had been caught on the spot, intending to suppress the restlessness in the city.

The arrest operation lasted for a whole day, during which more than a dozen revolutionaries were arrested, and without any verdict, they were summarily executed.

In the evening, the arresting officers were too tired to stop the arrests, but they were still under full martial law and the situation was as dangerous as eggs.

That night, the revolutionaries, while the captors were resting, secretly began to make contact, and decided to launch an uprising in the second half of the night with the sound of gunfire.

There was still a period of time before the uprising, and Sun Wu felt a little guilty at this time, thinking that if he hadn't left, this would not have happened.

Lying on his bed, he kept wiping the body of the gun without bullets in his hands with both hands, and said to a big roommate next to him: "I am to blame for the leakage of the plan this time, otherwise Zhang Liang and the others would not have sacrificed." Speaking of thinking of his friend, Sun Wu was even more sad.

At this time, if Qin Ying was here, he would definitely recognize this big man as a second stunned, and when he was assigned, the military assigned him to the Wuhan New Army and became a small platoon commander.

"Hurry up and go to sleep, there's no time for the second half of the night. When the time comes, just fuck them, just avenge them, mother-in-law and mother-in-law don't talk like that. The second stunned man said angrily when he heard this.

Sun Wu was not very afraid of this platoon commander, he heard that he graduated from the regular officer academy, but unlike those who came out of the officer academy, he usually didn't see the other party put up any swag.

For a period of time, the society and the Gongjin Society approached him and wanted him to join the company, but the platoon commander did not agree.

Because of this, the society also arranged for itself to monitor him at that time, for fear that he would tell him, but he was like no one, what should he do.

Until the recent establishment of the uprising, he was not only against it, but also in favor of it. Two days ago, he couldn't help but ask this platoon commander why he didn't join the organization, but he said that one of his former captains and classmates had told him to be a pure soldier, and he himself said that it was not us who really did it? One sentence turned himself down.

Since then, there has been no mention of asking him to join the community.

"Platoon commander, the captain you used to be, you are so angry with him? If you are such a powerful person and obey him, isn't he stronger than you? Sun Wu couldn't help but ask when he thought of this.

"It's not that he's stronger than me, it's just that we have a good relationship, he's in the military academy, everyone helps each other, and the captain has a good brain, so you don't have to worry about following him."

Speaking of this, thinking about what the captain said when parting, I couldn't help but think of the captain more and more, and I was a little silent for a while, and I didn't speak.

At about ten o'clock in the evening, suddenly a gunshot rang out outside, and the hearts of the new soldiers who had been looking forward to it for a long time jumped, they knew that the Wuchang Uprising had broken out......

The first to shoot were the revolutionaries of the 8th Battalion of the New Army Engineering, and it was the team led by Wu Zhaolin who fired the first shot of the Wuchang Uprising, and quickly seized the Chuwangtai armory near Zhonghe Gate, obtaining a large number of guns and ammunition.

The soldiers of the other battalions were not to be left behind after hearing the gunshots, and they went out of the camp one after another to respond, and the two stunned sons, Sun Wu and others quickly got up, picked up their guns and rushed over.

The Governor of Huguang, Ruicheng, had just finished writing the excerpt and fell asleep because of the events of the day, when he heard the sound of gunfire outside, and was immediately alarmed, and his own soldiers broke in, and reported to him what was happening outside, saying that the new army had launched an uprising, and had obtained sufficient ammunition, and the people who had been suppressed had been dispersed by the rebels, and they were all panicked.

Ruicheng, the governor of Huguang, hurriedly got dressed, found Zhang Biao, the commander of the eighth town, and asked him to send troops to suppress the turmoil.

However, at this time, the revolutionaries relied on the seizure of tens of thousands of rifles, dozens of cannons, and hundreds of thousands of bullets from the ordnance station, which greatly boosted the army, and the revolutionaries of the baggage brigade, artillery battalion, and engineering team outside the city also launched an uprising under the name of raising fire, and gathered at Chuwangtai to suppress the army in the form of internal and external attacks.

Cai Jimin, the 29th standard, and Wu Xinghan, the 30th standard, also led some of the rebel soldiers to rush out of the camp gate and rushed to Chuwangtai; Later, the revolutionaries of various standards and battalions inside and outside Wuchang City also led the people to revolt and rushed to Chuwangtai.

The number of people in the uprising gathered more and more, even as many as more than 3,000, and it was about 10:30 by this time.

After the armies rushed to the ordnance station one after another, they quickly elected Wu Zhaolin as the temporary commander-in-chief, and launched an attack on the governor's office and the headquarters of the eighth town next to it, and bombarded the governor's office.

As soon as Zhang Biao, the commander of the eighth town, led a makeshift patchwork army out of the headquarters, he encountered an attack by the revolutionaries, and because he saw the strength of the rebel army, Zhang Biao was forced to turn back to the headquarters and organize local resistance.

Huguang Governor Ruicheng saw that the general trend has gone, irretrievable, had to break the back wall of the Governor's Office, and then fled by boat from the Yangtze River, although Zhang Biao, the commander of the eighth town, was still stubbornly resisting in the headquarters, but under the repeated attacks of the rebel army, it was finally completely defeated before dawn, and then fled in all directions, and the rebel army officially occupied the Governor's Office and the town headquarters at this time.

Zhang Biao was forced to flee from Wuchang in embarrassment, and at this point, the entire Wuchang resistance was purged and completely fell into the control of the rebel army.

However, another small incident had a far-reaching impact, when the Wuhan Uprising broke out, the Caohe Iron Bridge near Baoding was then blown up by some revolutionaries from the Baoding Military Academy, which successfully prevented the Qing army from moving south to suppress the revolutionary movement, and won valuable preparation time for the revolutionaries.

The era of the Great Revolution began to come.