When the weather was cold and dripping water turned into ice, when the trampled on the frozen roads everywhere, the eighth town went to Xingguo. After the two places of Daye's suppression of bandits was extremely slow after the oath in the morning, they were slow to move, almost every step was slow. After leaving the city, the march was even slower, and the revolutionary party that was plaguing the crowd deliberately delayed and incited dissatisfaction in the army.

In fact, the soldiers of the Eighth Town should have expressed their dissatisfaction. In order to stimulate morale, Chen Kuilong sent Zhang Biao a red envelope before leaving: During the bandit suppression, all the bandit suppression soldiers were all given a bonus of 5 silver, and then 5 taels were rewarded after quelling the rebellion. It is famous for the officers of all sizes to double the level of robbery. The Governor said 5, and when he returned to the army, he turned into 4, which encouraged morale.

There is no airtight wall in the world. Zhang Biao thought he did it ingeniously, but in fact, the news had been spreading around for a long time. The soldiers had been suffering from military pay withhelds. They finally got the chance to get some oil and water, but were exploited by the officials who led the troops layer by layer. There was a fire in their hearts that had nowhere to vent. In addition, the weather was cold and the road was difficult to move, and almost no one was complaining or scolding.

When it was time to camp, many soldiers settled down and began to pester the team officer for silver rewards - what the governor promised to give, why don't you give it? 5 or 4, don't go there for a while + it's too unreasonable for the officers to hold the silver and don't pay it.

But the officers were also angry. On the one hand, they had to try their best to settle all matters under their jurisdiction, and on the other hand, they had nowhere to spend money. They kept complaining in their words.

The point of being confronted by Maimang. With the intentional fuel to the revolutionary party, the question gradually turned into verbal quarrels and abuse.

"Fuck it, it's cold and cold. I took my life and the officials to suppress the bandits, but I even had to embezzle this little money..."

"Li Pifu, please keep it clean for me. Who has embezzled the money in filth? I haven't even seen a single piece of money."

The quarreling platoon leader and the soldier were heading for the head, staring at his eyes, like two roosters glaring in the cockfighting arena. There had been a large circle of people watching the fun, and they looked quite angry and had a one-sided position. A revolutionary saw it clearly and quietly pushed him behind the crowd. The soldier who was quarreling was pushed by the man behind him, and his footsteps rushed over. Because he was short, his head was pressed against the platoon leader's chin. The pain made the other party grin and screamed.

This time, I stabbed the hornet's nest. The platoon leader on the opposite side felt that he couldn't get off the stage. When he saw that you were rushing over to resist yourself. His instinctive reaction was to pick up your fist and hit him.

"Zhi Madam, do you dare to hit me?"

"It's you who beat me. What's wrong?" The platoon leader was used to being arrogant. At this time, he was watched by a large number of people. He had already felt that he had lost all his face. Now that he had the advantage of taking the initiative, he was ruthless and was as heavy as a punch.

The soldier was short and not as strong as the platoon. In addition, he missed the initiative and was beaten backwards. In anger, he took the opportunity and snatched a rifle from the side.

"You want to rebel?"

"I'm going to rebel! How dare you do me?" The soldier roared, picked up the guy and rushed back. Seeing that the momentum was not good, the platoon leader grabbed the other party's gun and wanted to pull him back with force.

The soldiers who were quarreling with guns had no idea of ​​killing, but in a hurry, they pulled the trigger. With a "bang", the platoon leader fell to the ground, which also alarmed Zhang Biao and others in the camp.

The crowd was in agitation, and everyone did not expect this change for a moment and stood there in a daze. Seeing that the time was ripe, the revolutionary party took the opportunity to shout: "Rebellion, rebellion, if we don't rebel, we brothers will not survive."

With a shout, everyone responded, and the crowd had a herd mentality. When they saw someone taking the lead, they immediately gathered into a mighty rebel army. At this time, Zhang Biao sent someone to check what happened. Before he could say a word, he was shot and killed by the leading revolutionaries.

Killing one person is also a kill, and killing dozens of them is also a kill. When everyone saw that they had already taken action, they all clamored and started to use force to fry. The drying firewood happened to be a fire, especially after the revolutionary party members mixed with it helped burn as Mars, the scene became more and more intense, and the war became more and more prosperous. In less than half an hour, the two teams had already rebelled, and Zhang Biao was horrified to find that the entire camp was in chaos.

He was not good at responding to command, and he was at a loss when he encountered such a difficult situation. The staff officer cried: "Sir, the soldiers have rebelled, and the troops will definitely not be able to close them in their eagerness. I will leave the green mountains without fear of no firewood. Let's retreat first, and then go to the provincial capital to report the letter and ask for reinforcements."

Listening to the sound of killing sounds around him, Zhang Biao was already scared to the point of being incoherent. After hearing these words, he was even more frightened and said in a very trembling voice: "Retreat...retreat quickly..."

Zhang Biao fled under the protection of the guards, with no leader. The officers at all levels called Tiantian and the ground were not effective, and they could not respond effectively. They were either beaten to death by the sudden soldiers, or they quickly disguised themselves and fled in panic. In less than an hour, the two bandits had raised the banner of revolution and the battle was basically over.

The revolutionary, Du Wuxiang, who was originally a team official in the bidding, was elected as a temporary commander of the two biddings. He shouted: "Brothers, don't worry. Tonight it is the revolutionary party, I am the revolutionary party... Brothers who are willing to revolutionize and fight the Tartars will follow me to fight the Tartars and go to Wuchang City!"

"Go into Wuchang City!" The crowd cheered loudly and began to run towards Wuchang City. A large number of officers and soldiers who had originally had a wait-and-see attitude and were also surrounded by them.

Just when the two teams were in chaos, a chaos began to occur in Wuchang City.

Wuchang City is about five miles from east to west and six miles from north to south. The total length of the city is about twenty-two miles, and the overall area is not large. In such a small urban area, Snake Mountain is located across it, dividing the city into two parts: the south and north of the mountain. Shannan.

Each bid, battalion, the Governor's Office and the Eighth Town Command in the west, and the Shangong Envoy's Office is located. There are three cannon positions on Sheshan, and the direction of the muzzle is usually always pointing to the southwest. That is, the place where the matter is to be attacked this time - the Governor's Office and the Imperial Mission.

According to the prior agreement, the 21st Cooperation Packet was responsible for the general launch of the revolutionary signal in the city. The unified command of the revolutionary party was also located nearby. Song Jiaoren and Sun Wu personally ordered the ignition of the sky-crowding fire. The flames were the orders. When almost half of the Wuchang City were reflected red by the flames, the revolutionary forces finally started to be fully mobilized.

Due to the large number of revolutionaries, the Eighth Battalion of the Engineering was mainly responsible for capturing the Chuwangtai Armory. The arsenal was located in the southeast of Wuchang City, only more than one mile away. The revolutionary representatives of the Wudi District had collected several boxes of bullets in advance, and they secretly distributed them to the revolutionaries. Due to the principle of the separation of weapons and bullets in the new army, the officers who opposed the armed forces had no firepower or time to suppress the bullets in a hurry. After barely firing a few shots in the ground pistol in his hand, they were shot and killed by the revolutionaries who rushed forward.

At this point, all the ammunition of the engineering battalion fell into the hands of the revolutionary party. During this period, Xiong Bingkun, the general representative of the revolutionary party, fired three guns in a row as a signal of the uprising, and gathered more than 200 people one after another, announced the establishment of the Hubei Revolutionary Army and served as a temporary commander, preparing to occupy Chuwangtai. Because Xiong Bingkun's position in the army was not high, the soldiers of each team of the engineering battalion gathered together for the first time, which seemed extremely messy and extremely difficult to command. After urgent consultation, he took the initiative to elect the former Ri notified officer, and the team officer was equivalent to the company commander Wu Zhaolin as the temporary commander. Wu had rich military knowledge and was also very prestigious among the soldiers. He quickly sorted out the team and led the team to set off.

According to the information sent by the military police in advance, the Chuwangtai Armory is an important arsenal of the Hubei New Army, with more than 10,000 Mauser rifles. Hanyang has made nearly 20,000 rifles, dozens of artillery, hundreds of thousands of bullets, and a whole town of equipment. After occupying the warehouse, it can not only arm many revolutionaries with arms, but also effectively cut off the arms supply of the army against the revolution, which can be said to be a killing of two kills.

Therefore, the capture of the armory became the most critical point of the entire project plan. Although the two targets of the bandit suppression outside had returned quickly, the revolutionary party did not form an overwhelming advantage in Wuchang City, and seizing the armory was the most important strategy to form such an advantage.

Given that the status of the armory was so important, when the Eighth Battalion of the Project was taking over the main force of the warehouse, Cai Jimin of the 29th Battalion and Wu Xinghan of the 30th Battalion led some soldiers out of the camp gate to Chuwangtai. Li Pengsheng, a revolutionary of the Mixed Cooperation Co., Ltd. stationed outside the city, also raised fire to send a signal of uprising. The artillery battalion responded immediately and advanced to Wusheng Gate with the baggage team. Because the city gate was closed, one of them detoured to Zhonghe Gate and went straight to Chuwangtai. There were nearly 100 scholars in the New Army Surveying and Mapping Academy who were quite in love with revolution on weekdays, and at this time they quickly gathered at Chuwangtai.

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Wu Zhaolin's wishful thinking turned out to be good. After taking down the armory, he used two platoons to defend the armory and established it as the location of the command center. The other platoons attacked the military police battalions and flag soldiers on the east and west sides of the armory with two platoons. Another team seized Zhonghe Gate to welcome the artillery team and bandit suppression troops into the city. He sent several people to Tongxiang Gate and Zhonghe Gate to reconnaissance the enemy situation, cut off the telephone line, and sent people to send letters separately to urge the battalions to respond. The reserve team stepped up to gather at the northern end of the armory to stand by.

But just as Wu Zhaolin rushed straight to the armory, he suddenly found that the situation seemed to be very wrong. There were originally several waving whistles outside the armory, but after the Revolutionary Army arrived, not only did the waving whistles disappear, but the ground was even covered with obstacles - this was a situation that had never happened before.

What's going on? Could it be that someone in the military police camp stationed next to the armory sympathized with the Revolution that had taken the lead in removing the post? But why do you still have to arrange obstacles? With such free time, it's better to pull more teams to the front line. The more Wu Zhaolin thought about it, the more he felt suspicious, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong, but he couldn't say what was wrong, so he had to continue to advance towards the arsenal.

It was as dark as the night was already deep and the city was dark. Even if the revolutionary army had torches, it could only illuminate a very small place. The troops identified the direction of the armory and rushed from all directions. The lights of fire were like fireflies forming a light net.

The armory was silent, as if such a big noise had not woken up it.

"Chief Sun... Look... the revolutionary party is here." Behind the neatly arranged simple fortifications, later generations pointed at the surrounding scenes.

"Hmph, how can a group of riots succeed?" The shouts and gunfires were originally a very powerful shocking effect on people's hearts, but in Sun Chuanfang's eyes, it was almost worthless. He put down his telescope and shouted in a low voice, "I'll listen to my orders later, put the revolutionary party in front of me and then fight them, so that they can taste the power of our Imperial Guard."

"Yes!" The same low voice passed the commands one by one.

Is there any movement in the armory? No! After receiving a large number of reports, Chen Huan did not know when the revolutionary party would launch, but he understood that the date was very close. As a Hubei native, he had a very clear understanding of the dynamics of the Hubei New Army, and he was eyeing the key point of Chu Wangtai at first sight. When it was just dark, he ordered Sun Chuanfang to lead a 120 team to quickly occupy and arrange fortifications.

The order Sun Chuanfang received was very simple - control the armory and hold it for 12 hours at all costs.

Faced with the imperial guards like divine soldiers and generals, the defenders and military police battalions in the armory did not dare to take action at all. At this time, the revolutionary party had not yet initiated an operation. The imperial guards held the orders issued by the emperor and had supreme authority, so the defenders obediently handed over control. On the one hand, Sun Chuanfang disarmed the original personnel and took them all into the warehouse to guard them, while on the other hand, he tried his best to build temporary fortifications. Fortunately, the armory was fully equipped and the construction was not difficult.

Just when I could breathe a sigh of relief, the gunshots in Wuchang City started to sound.
Chapter completed!