Chapter 27: The First Shot to Break the Ancien Régime

If we still want to rely on the old system to complete a new change, then everything can only be a castle built on the beach, when the grassroots soldiers see the essence of the revolution from the heart, the consciousness arising from this is the beginning of the real change.

—The Autobiography of Terry, Vol. 17

Of course, although Terry was angry at the moment, his emotions were not completely out of control, so this shot was just a warning and did not hit the fat man.

"Damn, where did you come from, you dare to shoot, do you know who I am?"

The rough sound of Miller's rifle did startle the guy, and he reflexively rolled on the spot, but when he found out that Terry was just firing a warning shot, he didn't stop there, but jumped up and scolded angrily, which was extremely arrogant.

This guy does have the ability to be arrogant, you must know that his identity is an earl! Even in the face of Major General Oplar, he will not be polite, let alone facing a few soldiers.

"I don't care who you are, this is a military camp, your actions have constituted a crime, and we have the right to arrest you."

Although he didn't know this person, but the dress on the other party's body, Terry naturally knew that he was one of those nobles.

However, with Terry's character, no matter what your identity is, as long as you touch his reverse scales, you will never be polite, and when you see that this fat man is still so arrogant, she directly pulls the bolt again and aims the loaded muzzle at him.

"Second lieutenant, the other party may be the earl's staff officer in the staff house!"

At this moment, a veteran recognized the medal hanging from the fat man's chest, hurried to Terry's side, and reminded him in a low voice.

This veteran is not one of those recruits who doesn't know anything, he knows very well that although this team is under the banner of rebellion against the backward and decadent system, and under the slogan of liberating the oppressed poor people, the actual leaders are still those noble lords who are high up!

So when he saw Terry pull the bolt, he was worried that young Terry's impulsiveness would bring disastrous consequences to everyone, so he hurried to stop Terry.

"Humph! Now I know the identity of the master, let me tell you, if you know each other, just get out of the master, and by the way, go to that camp to help the master pick a few beautiful girls to come over, and the master will act as if today's incident did not happen, otherwise, hehehehe..."

The fat earl also heard the old soldier's reminder, and was a little nervous when he saw Terry aiming his gun at him, but now he saw that there was a "person who understands" on the other side, and he could relax at this moment.

"Did you hear that, do you want me to say it again, master?"

"You ruffian, put the gun down quickly, or believe it or not, the master will shoot you now."

Seeing that Terry did not do what he said, and still pointed the gun at him, the fat earl reached into his pocket, took out a small pistol and aimed it at Terry, and shouted arrogantly in his mouth.

In the imagination of the fat earl, this little ensign would never dare to shoot him after knowing his identity, which is why he dared to be so unscrupulous.

It's a pity that he was wrong, because he didn't know Terry, and he didn't know that his actions had completely led Terry's emotions down the road out of control.

"Bang!"

The moment the Fat Count raised his pistol, the rough sound of Miller's rifle echoed through the grass again, and a puff of white smoke drifted out of the muzzle of Terry's rifle, and the fat figure across from him shuddered and took several steps back.

"You... You... Really dare... Shoot? ”

Looking at the rapid expansion of the stained red on his chest, the fat earl looked incredulous, pointed at Terry with a trembling finger, and fell to the ground on his back as soon as his eyes were dark.

"Ensign, you...... Did you really shoot? That's it! ”

The dissuaded veteran was also directly dumbfounded, looking at the fat man who fell on the field and kept twitching, the veteran didn't have to think about it to know the big deal.

"What are you doing? Help. ”

Terry didn't care about that, he put away his rifle and kicked the veteran, reminding everyone to save people, of course, he was not trying to save the fat man, but the woman who had been lying there motionless on her back since they arrived.

With a pale face, blank eyes staring at the sky, and a large area of red rolling out of the corners of his mouth, Terry was stunned when he came to the woman to save her, because all he saw was a corpse that had bitten its tongue and killed herself.

Looking at the torn yellow military uniform on the grass, revealing the corpse covered with old wounds, looking at the unwilling eyes, and the ruined bouquet of flowers in the corpse's hand that still refused to let go, Terry's eyes were red, and the hand holding the rifle trembled violently with anger.

The scene in front of him reminded Terry of the scene when he first saw Nabu's daughter, and the scene when he saw these women in the dungeon, and Terry couldn't suppress his anger and roared to the sky, the howl like a wounded lone wolf.

The woman in front of her was rescued from the dungeon by herself, and it can be seen from the flowers that she refused to give up until she died, that she is still full of hope for life.

It's a pity that everything is like a sweet dream, and at the moment when she yearns for a better life the most, a sinful figure breaks her dream.

Looking at Terry, who was kneeling in front of the woman like a wounded lone wolf, looking at the dead body of the woman on the ground, and looking at the dilapidated bouquet of flowers, all the soldiers lowered their heads.

Tears fell from the young faces of the soldiers, and all the hands holding the rifles were bruised.

They didn't expect, they didn't expect that everything they wanted to change with their lives and blood was now happening again right around them, right under their noses.

Boredom, disappointed, aggrieved, angry, unwilling...... In the face of everything that happened today, all the soldiers present began to be confused in their hearts, what was the purpose of fighting for them with their lives? Who exactly are they doing for the sake of it? Is the ideal they fought for worth it? Is it possible that the promises made to them will be fulfilled? Faced with these question marks welling up in their hearts, the soldiers were at a loss.

Looking at Terry's back, the veteran who had dissuaded him just now felt more complicated in his heart at the moment, and at the same time he was ashamed, he also had an indescribable emotion.

He now understood why Terry would not listen to his dissuasion and would angrily and decisively fire that shot.

And he and all the soldiers, including Terry himself, didn't know that from this moment on, there was a strange emotion spreading in the hearts of these soldiers.

They didn't even know it, because Terry's shot was evaluated in later generations as the first shot to really rebel against the old system.

However, these are all later words, and today's uncontrollable shot by Terry again made him face another big turn in his fate.