Chapter 385: Decisive
The war in the Alabasta Kingdom quickly came to an end.
With both the king and Princess in the enemy's hands, personally calling for surrender at the city gates,
the defenders of the entire Alabasta Kingdom swiftly laid down their weapons and began surrendering en masse.
If the Baroque Works agents mixed among them had opened fire now, they could certainly have caused chaos.
But weren't the core members of Baroque Works all over on the other side? Why the hell keep fighting?!
After they all disarmed themselves, the Revolutionary Army quickly began taking them into custody.
This opened the eyes of Cobra, Vivi, and the Straw Hat Pirates.
For example, when surrendering equipment, they first had to enter the city to hand over their gunpowder, then surrender their firearms. Those carrying cold weapons had to toss them aside, then line up by age, with the young on one side and the middle-aged on the other.
Once they had been divided like that, they were further sorted by build. In less than two hours, the tens of thousands of royal city soldiers had been divided into four somewhat irregular groups and were made to wash up and undergo hygiene cleaning together.
Do not underestimate such matters.
As highly concentrated groups, armies were practically packed shoulder to shoulder, face to face. Many infamous epidemics in history had broken out within armies before spreading with their movements.
Just think about it: in an agrarian feudal era, it was already huge news if an ordinary farmer entered a city several times a year, much less caught some epidemic from hundreds of miles away.
The most likely carriers of these diseases were either traveling merchants or soldiers.
And soldiers were the likeliest of all, so disease prevention within military camps was