Chapter 1075: Chapter 349: Storming the Bastille! (Part 3)

An officer said to David

"Go to your tent first."

"Where to?"

David finally managed to speak.

He was not French and did not know Paris well, but after a series of experiences, his emotions under the influence of the regulator boiled with anger and passion.

Just like a soldier should feel.

"The streets of Paris are in chaos, and you want me to stay in the barracks?"

The officer wanted to say something, but a disturbance sounded outside the station.

The soldiers ran to the fence gate of the station to watch, only to find a woman running away, followed by a group of German Imperial Guards wielding knives.

The soles of the woman’s shoes flew off as she ran, forcing her to run barefoot on the ground, and she finally stumbled and fell onto the street, covered in dust and blood.

She looked at the soldiers in the barracks and cried out in despair

"They’re killing! They’re killing in Paris, he’s going to kill us!"

The German soldiers behind her were getting closer, but the soldiers were still arguing.

Seeing this, David grew even angrier, the fire in his chest caused him to shout loudly

"Enough!"

Then he snatched a flintlock rifle, which he had no idea how to use, from a sentry.

"Are you going to watch our citizens die at the hands of those Germans and noble assassins?"

"We’re the army of the French!"

"We’re the people’s army!"

"The people’s army!"

"The revolutionary army!"

His roar overshadowed the original noise in the barracks.

The soldiers said no more, each took up their weapons, dismantled the wooden fence used to seal the station, walked onto the street, shielded the woman behind them, and confronted the German Imperial Guards, with no one daring to fire the first shot.

In the end, it was David who thought of the citizens killed on the streets by the Germans, and in his anger, he was the first to pull the trigger, followed by the other soldiers. After the German Imperial Guards sustained a few casualties, they refrained from clashing and hastily withdrew dragging their wounded.

David and the soldiers did not choose to stop, but proceeded from the station all the way to the most intense site of conflict between the suppression forces and the people, the Tuileries Garden.

The French Guards just plunged straight into the center of the conflict, forcibly separating the sides while aiming their guns at the suppression troops, forcing a ceasefire, or rather a one-sided massacre.

And here they stared down the suppression forces all night, and no one dared to order this disobedient force.

During the time they secured for the citizens, the citizens stormed into the Hôtel des Invalides.

Originally built as a rehabilitation home for disabled French soldiers, it also served as an armory, and the angry citizens seized over 24,000 guns and a small quantity of ammunition from inside.

Their next target was the renowned Bastille, which housed large quantities of gunpowder and cannonballs.

The Bastille, said to be a prison, was actually a fortress.

Over thirty Swiss foreign soldiers and sixty French local soldiers were stationed there.

The crowd quickly launched an attack on this prison, but how could untrained citizens with guns be a match for soldiers occupying the fortress? After several rounds of exchanges, dozens of citizens fell, while only one Swiss soldier in the fortress was hit.

In the end, it was still David and his men who pushed a few cannons to blast open the doors of the Bastille, killing the warden, with the prisoners also massacred by the rioting citizens amid the seizure of all gunpowder and cannonballs.

While our beloved King Louis XVI of France remained unconcerned with the chaotic and bloody turmoil in Paris, waves washing both openly and covertly.

He even wrote in his diary like this:

July 14

Nothing happened today

Watching the fortress fall into the hands of the people, seeing the gate crumble, David was thrilled because he saw a powerful force, one that the fortifications of Bastille could not withstand.

Just as the Killer Demon had once told him.

The power of the people, a strength sufficient to make history.

He was honored to be a soldier participating in this.

After taking off the Super Dream Headband, looking at the shock in the eyes of other recruits around him, the urgency in his heart relaxed slightly.

"Did such a thing actually happen in France? I never heard of it before."

"So many people, it feels like there are more than on the streets of Night City."

"It’s my first time seeing such a super dream, it feels better than those before, I just want to dash onto the street and smash Huang Ban Sanlang’s head!"

"Those nobles are really like beasts, born just like the corporations."

In these decades, not only technology has declined alongside the economy, but also literary works.

Looking at history, in any period, as soon as those in power start brutally suppressing the left wing, mainstream literary works begin to lack substance, whereas left-wing creators manage to produce works that resonate with people.

Who are the well-known left-wing literary creators?

Hemingway 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

Mark Twain

Tagore

Akira Kurosawa

Hayao Miyazaki

Lu Xun, etc.

And the right-wing?

Hu Shi, Osamu Dazai, Yukio Mishima...

These individuals can’t be said to be worlds apart, but they are as different as clouds and mud.

The most typical period is during the prevalence of McCarthyism, where red-hunting became obsessive, not unlike today’s cyber era.

And the consequence was that Hollywood, the center of artistic creation in the United States was directly silenced.

Because many screenwriters and actors were thrown into prison for interrogation, tortured with various electrical devices, some never coming out alive.

If you voice for the people a bit, I’m sorry, you’re suspected of being red.

In such circumstances, what good can be expected from the field of entertainment?

The result was extreme spiritual emptiness among people, and to fill this void, they turned to drugs, then crime, spawning people like hippies.

Compared to those Black Mewtwos that focus on short-term, intense mental stimulation.

The recruits watching this [French Revolution①] can only describe it as a dimensional strike.

And seeing the recruits’ various excited reactions, the Killer Demon breathed a sigh of relief.

In the first month, compared to military training, the emphasis was on ideological reformation.

This is a good start, because afterward there’s a whole host of revolutions waiting for these recruits to experience.

Once the whole series of punches is completed, those who remain will be truly qualified soldiers.