Late at night, in the 19th century, the Chiyoda area of Tokyo, which was as prosperous as daytime at night, is now just a slightly desolate suburb outside Edo Castle, without a single light, and it is as dark as ink. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Outside the mansion, countless black shadows flashed, and the guard dogs raised by several houses kept barking, as if there was some movement outside the door.

Several foreign soldiers yawned, listened to the dog barking violently, suddenly felt that something was wrong, carrying lanterns, carrying muskets, just wanted to walk over to check, suddenly a flower in front of them, but it turned out to be a few daggers, but it was too late to see it, the throat of the foreign soldier was cut, and blood gushed out. Several black-clothed men emerged from the darkness, reaching out to support the foreign soldier who was about to fall to the ground, covering his mouth to avoid screaming before he died.

After the sentry was erased, more black-clothed people flashed out, some were as nimble as swallows, and some were the "fat man" Hercules who appeared in the afternoon.

I saw a person shouting in Japanese: "The dark whistles have been removed!" Get moving. ”

"Hey!" In a few muffled responses, dozens of people began to pour vegetable oil around the mansion with wooden barrels.

After a short while, one of them shouted, "Light the fire!" ”

Suddenly, with a few snorts, the fire sickle ignited the strips of cloth, lit dozens of torches, and then threw them into the wooden house of the mansion.

At this moment, a foreign soldier opened the door sleepily and came out to pee, and when he saw the light of the fire, he immediately shouted in English: "It's on fire!" Get up! ”

Several men in black took a few steps and killed the foreigner with a single sword, but the noise had already awakened hundreds of soldiers sleeping on the floor of the hall.

They quickly turned over, picked up the foreign guns that were neatly arranged against the corner, and rushed out of the mansion.

I saw that the roof of the mansion and the people next to it were already on fire, and the beams and wooden pillars had begun to crackle and burn.

"Enemy attack!" Seeing the countless black-clad men armed with katanas outside the mansion shining out of the firelight, an American captain shouted: "It's me, go and inform General Perry and Lieutenant Colonel Buchanan, and the rest, open fire with me and open a passage!" ”

After speaking, Bendang led more than 100 soldiers to charge towards the gate of the mansion.

At this time, the fire had not yet risen, but the smoke began to fill, the vision was blurred, and the American soldiers only opened fire on the figures illuminated by the fire.

I only heard the banging gunshots, and more than ten muffled snorts outside the mansion, obviously someone was shot and screamed.

A third of the people surrounding the mansion were also armed with arquebuses, lit the arquebus, and opened fire with the American soldiers who rushed out of the gate.

Perry was awakened by gunshots in his sleep, and years of military experience made him immediately realize: something was wrong!

The next moment, Buchanan rushed in with several majors and captains, and when he saw Perry getting up, he hurriedly said, "General Perry, something is wrong!" He said that he had ill intentions and set the entire mansion on fire, wanting to put us to death. Let's rush out and get back to the warship! ”

"Shet! These damn people! Perry waved his hand and roared, "Kill it first, and hurry back to the warship." However, it is estimated that the warship will also be attacked by them! After this level, Lao Tzu's fleet will bombard this Edo Castle! ”

Buchanan and the others didn't have time to pack their things, so they quickly gathered their soldiers and rushed out around Perry.

Fortunately, the American soldiers were well-trained, and they all slept in their clothes and got up quickly.

However, even so, because the entire mansion has been burned to pieces, and the people who set it on fire are extremely ruthless, and all the houses around the mansion are also set on fire, and there is a sea of fire.

Apparently, the mansion was carefully chosen for the purpose of burning the Americans to death with a single fire.

Because of the smoke and fire, the five hundred American soldiers in the mansion were scattered. The American soldiers guarding Perry and others were less than two hundred.

The fire became more and more intense, and Perry and the others rushed to the outside of the mansion, and the fierce smoke made them choke and cough repeatedly, and their eyes couldn't open at all. Soldiers kept falling, and they never got up.

A captain who somewhere found a wet cloth handed it to Payne and Buchanan, holding back the smell of urine, and Payne covered his face with the wet cloth. When he rushed out of the back door of the mansion, there were only sixty or seventy soldiers left behind him.

As soon as he left the mansion, he heard a bang, and the entire mansion was burned down, the three-story wooden building collapsed, and the burning wooden beams killed several soldiers.

At this time, outside the mansion, hundreds of Samurai gathered outside the back door, armed with shiny katanas, and killed Payne.

Buchanan hurriedly ordered the remaining sixty or so soldiers to line up, surrounded Payne in the middle, and fired with all his might at the rushing warriors.

At this time, on the other side of the mansion, there were only about 50 of the more than 100 American soldiers who rushed out of the main gate of the mansion first. However, after shooting and killing nearly 200 people in black, he finally broke out of the encirclement, passed through the private house, and made a detour to the back door of the mansion.

"Fight in and rescue General Payne!" One of the captains shouted.

The more than 50 American soldiers were divided into two columns, one column opened fire, the other column was charged, and they immediately shot and killed.

The more than 200 samurai who were besieging the back gate did not expect that another American soldier suddenly came out from behind, and reflexively rushed towards these fifty people.

People kept falling, but these warriors were not afraid of death, and their hideous faces were even more terrifying in the light of the fire. Finally, after losing more than 80 men, the remaining 100 rushed into the crowd of American soldiers, swung their katanas, and slashed the Americans to the ground.

Indeed, once they get close, the Americans are no match for these samurai in terms of force. In the blink of an eye, more than 30 people were killed and wounded, and seeing that something was wrong, there were less than 20 people left, and they hurriedly fled into the darkness.

At this moment, a banging gunfire came, bullets rained down, and more than half of the more than 100 samurai were quickly shot.

But it turned out that it was Payne, Buchanan and others who led sixty soldiers to rush out at the opportunity.

Twenty American soldiers who had taken refuge in the darkness came out, shouting in English to join Payne's team.

For the rest of their lives after the disaster, everyone was a little happy, but when they remembered that so many soldiers were burned to death in the mansion, there was a burst of sadness.

In the dark night, I escaped temporarily, and I didn't have a compass and couldn't tell the direction, but if I didn't take advantage of the chaos to escape, I wouldn't wait for dawn, and I would be searched by myself, and it would be even more difficult to escape.

Just as he was about to look up, he saw a major next to him screaming, and an arrow hit him in the chest.

Someone released an arrow? But how do you know where it is in the dark? In an instant, more than 30 people were killed and wounded, including Buchanan's shoulder, which was also wounded by an arrow.

As a last resort, Payne led the remaining forty people, found a general direction, and ran into the darkness.

……..

A few miles away, at the mouth of the Edogawa River, on the two warships docked, the flagship cruiser USS Mississippi and USS Suskehana, a group of American soldiers were still drunk and unable to wake up because they had drunk too much sake and barbecue that they had sent them last night.

There were only a hundred people left behind to guard the two warships, and only six people were on guard.

More than a dozen men in black took advantage of the night to slowly swim under the warship, used ropes to quickly climb onto the warship, easily killed several sentries on duty, put down the sampan, and hundreds of black-clothed men rushed lightly onto the warship and began to fight.

The frigate anchored in the middle of the river next to it heard the gunshots, immediately turned on its lights and sailed over to support. At this moment, a whistle was clearly heard in the distance in Edo Bay.

"There's a warship coming! Hurry up and report to General Perry! All warships raise their sails and prepare to meet the enemy! "One of the majors who stayed behind ordered. Although there was no enemy in the dark, judging by the sound of the voice, it should be the same fleet as them.

"Report, the flagship docked at the dock has been attacked!"

"It turned out to be me! It's not good, the generals must have been attacked! Send two frigates to support the flagship and sail the flagship away from the dock. Captain, you take 200 men off the ship to support the generals. ”

At this time, the sky slowly began to light up.