.Swordsman Rio Bella is 42 years old this year. He has a slightly curled beard under his jaw, a huge red rosacea nose, a dark brown half-length hair, and a small but dizzy eyes that always have bright eyes. (Remember me)

This middle-aged man who is like a tenant farmer than a soldier, but is already a veteran with 26 years of military experience. He is currently serving as a centurion in the Second Legion of the Swordsman Order of the Kingdom of Sisley.

This man who smiled loudly, showed his white teeth and a big red nose wrinkled together at any time was very popular within the Swordsman Order and even the coalition forces.

Although his military rank is not high, he was a long-term military service, kind-hearted and funny person, and he was even more in the war. His soldiers and officers were very respectful to him.

He would not even call him a military post in his words, but would directly call him "Uncle Leo".

However, Uncle Leo, who smiled silly, also has his own dreams and worries.

Leobera's father was an ordinary tenant farmer on the lord's land. He later joined the lord's guards, but he was only an ordinary warrior until he died in battle.

Leobera was a sixteen-year-old and was in charge of the lord in his hometown. She reached the first weapon in her life, a rusty iron sword.

According to the Lord's words, "Leobella, this is a sword used by your father in 2008. Although he has never killed the evil dragon, it is still very suitable to give it to you. You must take it well and defend our territory!"

The young Leobera didn't think about defending his territory. So much, he just wanted to inherit his father's will and strive to become a knight, and no longer a tenant farmer who could be bullied by nobles and knights.

Sometimes, dreams are so simple, but they are so difficult to realize.

When he took the rusty iron sword from the lord's hand, Leobera wrinkled his already red nose and smiled honestly. No one paid attention to this young man who died in the lord's war and did not receive any compensation. Why is he so keen to become a inferior warrior? He is cannon fodder on the battlefield?

But the dream of a boy is always fearless and meaningless!

From then on, Leobera went from being a servant of the knight under the lord to the eldest son of the lord, and then to the servant of the lord. Finally, because she saved the life of the idiotic son of the lord on the battlefield, the lord finally became kind and gave him the title of apprentice knight.

During this period, he suffered a lot of scruples and suffered a lot of hardship, but he persisted with the incomprehensible stubbornness of others.

Even if it is such a humble life, you must have your own dream, and that dream is the only courage to support him to persevere.

After taking the title of apprentice knight, Leobera resolutely bid farewell to her mother and her beloved girl, ran to the capital of the Kingdom of Sisley, and joined the swordsman brigade. At that time, the weapons in his hand had been replaced with a pretty good exquisite iron sword.

To this day, Leobera has become a centurion with her own efforts and courage, and her weapons have been replaced by a long sword made by the best blacksmith from the Duchy of Teutonic. Although the sharp blade has not drunk much blood from the enemy, it still carries the old dream of a boy.

However, he was just an apprentice knight, and that dream was still very far away.

Sitting by the warm bonfire, looking at the blue flames constantly licking against the small iron pot, and the delicious broth was being cooked in the pot. Leo Bella recalled her first half of her life. The only regret that she felt was that she had not become a real knight recognized by the Holy See? Even the idiot master from the lord's house who was returned from the battlefield by herself became a knight...

Although he was a little regretful, Leobera still twitched her red nose with satisfaction, and the fleshy fragrance immediately poured into her nose.

While the army continued to set off for war, he led his men to station in this relatively solid small village. Although the task seemed to be heavier, Leobera had no complaints.

After all, he is old and has no more passion to fight for fame and fortune. As long as he can lead his brothers back to Sisley alive, it is happiness.

Of course, Leobella was not a reckless person. Although she had no great enterprising spirit, on the first day she arrived at the small village called Liangchuan Castle, Leobella personally led her men to build a circle of relatively stable walls around the village using the remains of the destroyed buildings in the village.

I believe that with such strength, there should be no problem to resist the largest rebel army nearby with only a hundred people.

On the night of April 7, 999, Liangchuan Fort, northwest of the central and southern provinces of the Empire.

Liangchuan Fort is close to the "Zhongnan Avenue" that connects Sichuan-Shaanxi Provinces and Central and Southern Provinces. It is more than 400 miles south of Tongguan and more than 30 miles north of Zhongdu Longyang. Although the village is not large, after the Western coalition forces captured the Central and Southern Provinces, they still set up a military gate based on the original villages to monitor the people coming and going and control local resistance forces.

After the invasion of the Western Army, although there was no imperial team that could form a large scale in Central and Southern Provinces, there were dozens of resistance troops organized by the people and the defeated Han soldiers, both of which were large and small. Although they were not large in scale, they could not hurt the fundamentals of the coalition forces. However, because of their flexibility and change, they attacked from all sides and continued to harass, which was quite a headache for the Western coalition forces.

However, it is precisely because this place is very close to Longyang and is in the depth zone of the actual control area of ​​the Western Alliance, so the actual allocation of troops in Liangchuan Fortress is relatively large among several garrisoned fortresses in the Central and South China Province.

There are only three 100-man swordsman brigade from the Kingdom of Siluxisli.

Although the coalition forces had been defeated in Tongguan a few days ago, the Yellow River Camp was still in hand, and the Han soldiers could not come here for a while. A dozen miles away was a larger town, with five thousand swordsmen from the Sisley Kingdom and one thousand Gaul light cavalry from the Kingdom of Falls.

Therefore, the Sisley soldiers stationed here are a little lacking in food and drink, and are basically much better than the fears they had in the past few days.

What's more, the famous "Moon Knight" Als, who led everyone to defend against the entire Central and Southern Province, did not believe that the enemy could easily attack him with him.

In Liangchuan Fort, Als sent a total of three hundred men from the Sisley Kingdom, and Leo Bella was always expected to be responsible for the unified command of these three hundred men.

"Tomorrow is the day to go to Longyang Command to report on his job. You must go early, buy the bead flower that you have already loved, and take it back to Ledar." Leobera thought to herself.

"Uncle Leo, do you think we will settle here in the future or return to the kingdom?" asked the little Juan, sitting beside him.

"Of course it's the kingdom. Why did Juan remember to ask this?" Leobera touched the head of the seventeen-year-old boy with a smile.

"Why not in the empire? How great it is, the land is a hundred times richer than Sisley, and the place is also larger. Maybe I will be given a castle in the future." Juan smiled happily.

"No matter how good this place is, it is not our Sisleys' home." Leobera suddenly sighed.

"I want to stay in the empire, it's best to bring my little Ada here, and be here with her. Uncle, what is your dream?" Juan was too young after all, and she also had a teenage dream. He didn't know if he understood Leo Bella's words, and he was imagining himself.

"My dream? My dream is to become a knight..." Leobera thought for a while, but did not answer, but just smiled.

"Juan, you are only seventeen years old, and you have always wanted to ride your little mare. Haha, aren't you afraid that your mother will hit you in the butt... Hey, the meat is cooked and it smells so good. This Valdo is secretly barbecued again. Didn't it mean that they were cooked and eaten?" The night wind was filled with a bit of warm feeling, and a Sisley soldier sniffed and cursed.

"What? Barbecue...the enemy attacked!" Leobera looked a hundred meters away. The bonfire on the edge of the village was flashing and dark, while the Sisley soldiers who had stood beside the bonfire were missing, but there were no one on the ground vaguely pouring on the bonfire.

"Uncle, be careful." Juan pushed Leo Bella hard, and Leo Bella fell sideways.

The next moment, a feather arrow shot into Juan's shoulder.

"Juan!" Leobera wailed, waved her sword and watched everywhere.

However, there was no figure in the endless darkness.

"Ah—" Another scream, and the soldier who made fun of Little Juan just now also fell into the darkness.

Then, the Sisley soldiers surrounding the bonfire were shot and killed by flying feather arrows.

"Extinguish the bonfire quickly!" Leobera woke up and kicked the broth on the bonfire, finally extinguishing the bonfire in front of her.

However, before he could breathe a sigh of relief, a more fierce feather arrow flew towards him and accurately nailed him to the thigh that kicked the bonfire.

Then, one feather arrow after another kept shooting, and before every rain of arrows, a feather arrow always arrived early, as precise and ruthless as a poisonous snake attack.

"There must be an archer among the enemies who can see through the dark night. Everyone else can just follow him to shoot." Leobera felt cold and stopped resisting. Instead, she slowly climbed to Juan who was lying on the ground, hugging the young man who was still moaning and rolling tightly in her arms and hugging it under her.

"Sorry, Leda, I can't go back, I've let you wait for me for twenty years in vain." Leobera felt ache in her heart. The girl who had been waiting for him in her hometown for twenty years and said to him, "Leo, as long as you become a knight, my father will definitely agree to me marry you. You must work hard, I'll wait for you..." - Adeleda.

For her, Leo worked hard to become a knight.

Adelaide, the princess in Sisley, the eternal dream in Leo's heart, surpasses the title of glory.
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