Bodies of soldiers from both sides who died in a battle on October 18 near Liujiamiao Station on the outskirts of Hankou. The insurgents defeated the Qing army in that battle.

　On October 18, 1911, the Wuchang Uprising of the Xinhai Revolution killed soldiers from both the rebel and Qing forces in a battle near the Liujiajiao Station in the suburbs of Hankow. The corpses of the two armies were scattered near the Liujiaomiao Station in the suburbs of Hankou. The rebels defeated the Qing forces in the battle that day. The Qing forces retook the rebel city of Hankou on November 1 after the battle of Hankou on October 18, and the Beiyang forces retook the rebel city of Hanyang on November 27. The city of Wuchang was reduced to ruins with numerous casualties.

　On October 10, 1911, at about 8:00 p.m., the 8th Battalion of the Hubei New Army's 8th Township (Division) Engineers delivered the first blow to the Wuchang Uprising's Qing police force. The rebels then occupied the Zhuangdai Armory. After the outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising, the 8th Standard (Regiment) Battery, stationed at Nanhu on the outskirts of the city, entered the city through Wuchang's Zhonghe Gate (later renamed the Gate of Unrest) and entered the battle for the Governor's Palace. The rebels carried their artillery to the top of Wuzhou Mountain and bombarded the Huguang Governor-General's Office. Hunan and Guangdong Governor Ruolei fled by train from Dazhimen in Hankou, and the rebels then occupied Hunan and Guangdong Governor-General's Office. After occupying Wuchang, the rebels heavily guarded the gates of Hamyang and checked passersby.

 　On the night of October 11, 1911, soldiers of the 2nd Battalion of the 42nd New Army in Hankou mutinied, seized the armory at Chumangdai, and overran Hankou; by noon on October 11, about 500 more Qing soldiers were killed; on October 11, the rebels captured the entire city of Wuchang. Later that day, the revolutionaries established the Hubei Military Government of the People's Republic of China in the Hubei Consultative Bureau of the former Qing government. The rebels set up the Ejundubu and installed their officer Li Yuanhong as governor-general, the representative of the military government, and on October 31, the People's Network News, the official newspaper of the military government in Hubei Province, proclaimed the success of the revolution in the name of Sun Yat-sen. Sun Yat-sen proved to be the leader of the revolutionary party at the time of the Wuchang Uprising.

　In response to the uprising, the Qing Dynasty sought help from the Beiyang Army's Yuan Shikai. The Beiyang Army invaded Wuchang, and on the side of the revolutionary forces, Huang Xing arrived in Wuhan in early November and took over command. The Beiyang Army then attacked the Revolutionary Army's positions, and the Qing forces retook Hankou on November 1 after the Battle of Hankou on October 18, and the Beiyang Army retook Hanyang on November 27. The ROC negotiated with Yuan Shikai and gave him the position of Grand President in return for his surrender of the Qing court; on December 29, 1911, the ROC elected Sun Yat-sen as President in an extraordinary presidential election; on February 12, 1912, Empress Dowager Long Yu announced the abdication of the Qing Emperor in the name of Emperor Puyi, thus ending the Qing Empire. About 8,000 Qing troops were killed, and about 4,000 revolutionary troops were killed.