1912年2月29日晚8时,北京城突然响起了密集的枪声。谁也不知道发生了什么事。直到深夜,人们才得知是北洋陆军第三镇以索饷为名发动了兵变。次日,兵变像瘟疫一样蔓延到了保定和天津地区。驻保定的北洋陆军第二镇突然起兵,将城门烧毁后,到处劫掠纵火,附近的州县均未幸免,城内百姓纷纷出逃,造成的损失难以估计。 At 8 pm on February 29, 1912, a burst of gunfire suddenly sounded in Beijing. No one knows what happened. It was not until late at night that people learned that it was the third town of the Northern Army that launched the mutiny in the name of the paycheck. The next day, the mutiny like the plague spread to Baoding and Tianjin. The second army of the Northern Army stationed in Baoding suddenly launched a military operation in Baoding. After the city gate was destroyed, looting and arson were looting everywhere. None of the nearby counties and cities were spared the people in the city fleeing their fleets and the losses caused were hard to be estimated.