Chapter 17 third quarter

Xiong Bingkun blew his whistle, gathered more than forty people, and marched towards Chu Wangtai Armory; Lookout.Several groups of troops joined together, repelled the few defenders, and captured the Chuwangtai armory.Tens of thousands of guns, countless bullets, and bombs are in the hands of the revolutionary army. In the Chuwangtai Armory, Wu Zhaolin, the captain (company commander) of the left team with the highest rank among the first batch of uprising soldiers, was elected as the interim commander. Half an hour later, the revolutionary army occupied the gendarmerie camp south of Chuwangtai.At the beginning of the uprising, the soldiers who were still hesitating on the sidelines also rose up, and the uprising team quickly expanded to more than 2,000 people.

The revolutionary army divided into three groups and launched a general attack on the Huguang Governor's Office, the symbol of the Qing regime in Hubei. There were hundreds of guards guarding the governor's yamen, and they resisted desperately under the artillery fire of the revolutionary army. A hole was opened in the back wall, and the guards went out through the hole, and went out of Wenchang Gate and went straight to the warship parked by the river. The governor just ran away. Zhang Biao, the commander of the eighth town, had a lot of troops in his hands, but suddenly he was like a discouraged ball. He had no fighting spirit and retreated to Liujiamiao in Hankou.

After fighting overnight, the next morning, revolutionary flags were planted all over the streets in Wuchang City, and a bright iron-blooded 18-star flag was hoisted on the Yellow Crane Tower.The eighteen stars represent the eighteen provinces south of the Great Wall, which is the first flag of the Republic of China. The feudal autocratic monarchy of more than 2,000 years and the Qing Dynasty of more than 260 years, the first domino fell in Wuchang.