When Sun Yat-sen introduced Xiong Bingkun to people abroad, he said that he was the person who fired the first shot of the Wuchang Uprising, which may be a bit of a misunderstanding, because the person who really should have this title is Cheng Zhengying. Although the name is not so famous, he was indeed a great contributor to the Wuchang Uprising at that time.
In the second half of 1911, two revolutionary groups in Wuchang agreed to revolt on October 6, but the matter was learned in advance by the Qing government and eventually failed. An explosion on the 9th, so that the patrol accidentally discovered the plan of the uprising and the list of participants, seeing that the revolution was about to be strangled before it had begun, the revolutionaries immediately decided to revolt the next day, and their signal was that after the first gunshot, all the organizations would revolt together.
Just that night, the revolutionaries in the Hubei New Army quietly made preparations for the uprising, and when the platoon leader came to routinely check, he found that they did not sleep but wiped their guns there, and suddenly felt that the situation was not right, so he looked at Jin Zhaolong and asked him if he wanted to rebel, the uprising was about to start, Jin Zhaolong simply did not hide the quarrel with the platoon leader, the platoon leader let the two guards around him disarm him, but in the face of a shed, these two did not dare to move, Tao Qisheng started on his own, But soon the other people in the shed also gathered around, and the platoon leader ran as soon as he saw that the situation was not right, and at this time Cheng Zhengying was worried that he would make a mistake when he ran out, and in a hurry, he shot at him.
Of course, the sound of the gun alarmed the officers around him, Cheng Zhengying simply fired a few shots in a row, hitting the officers, and the other revolutionaries came out to see the situation, simply shot into the air, and went to the armory that had been set before. Hearing the gunshots coming from the engineering camp, everyone thought that the signal of the uprising had arrived, so the soldiers around them also responded one after another and rushed out of the camp, and in this way, soon a large number of gunshots sounded throughout Wuchang, and the Wuchang uprising began. Therefore, Cong cheng Zhengying was definitely the one who fired the first shot of the Wuchang uprising, but why did he not move later?
This can only be blamed on Cheng Zhengying himself, originally the future is very good, but he in the revolutionary army because of some internal contradictions, produced a huge pessimism, he himself analyzed for half a day, or felt that the most powerful at that time should be Yuan Shikai, so he chose to abandon his former comrades-in-arms, became the people around Yuan Shikai, and also helped Yuan Shikai fight his former revolutionary comrades-in-arms and become a traitor who was spurned by thousands of people.
Of course, such a person would be punished, so after Cheng Zhengying was caught by the revolutionary army, he was drunk and tied up and directly sank into the Yangtze River. Such a person with a stain is naturally not eligible to stay in the history, so the name on his body is also retired to Xiong Bingkun's body.