After the outbreak of the "road protection movement" centered on Sichuan, the Qing government mobilized more than half of the new troops stationed in Wuhan to suppress in Sichuan, and a large number of new troops marched into Sichuan, providing a good opportunity for Wuhan revolutionaries to launch an uprising.

Wuhan, located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, is an important transportation hub in Central China and is known as the thoroughfare of nine provinces. Besides, it was the second largest commercial port after Shanghai at that time. So Wuhan naturally became the heart of reactionary rule. After the founding of the League, Wuhan was also favored by revolutionaries and soon became one of the centers with the most concentrated revolutionary forces. The revolutionaries have done long-term and in-depth work here and trained a large number of backbones in the Hubei New Army. With the propaganda and encouragement of revolutionaries, the local people are also actively inclined to revolution. The revolutionary movement in Wuhan has a profound mass base and good conditions.

Wu Hanyou's two revolutionary groups, one called * * * Hui Jin and the other called Literature Society, are closely related to the League. When they saw that the uprising was ripe, it was convenient to set up the headquarters of Hubei Revolutionary Army in August. Presumably, the head of the literary society is the commander-in-chief, Sun Wu, the head of the * * * meeting, is the chief of staff, and Liu and Peng Chufan are making military preparations for organizing the uprising. After discussion, 19 1 1 is scheduled for June 65438+1October1uprising.