Nico Robin's judgment had been correct. By the time the Spade Pirates' elites entered the town to sweep it clean, the war had already come to an end.
Those who possessed Observation Haki followed the Musket Squad from house to house, flushing out the pirates hiding inside, while the Spade Pirates' elites pushed into the town to conduct reconnaissance.
The others began handling the aftermath in an orderly fashion.
This was also why Leo had chosen to take Mock Town. This was a small-scale war. Although they had faced more than five hundred pirates with only a hundred men, they had still won through discipline, tactics, and coordination.
During the Marineford War, if the Whitebeard Pirates had possessed even one unit capable of fighting like this, utterly overwhelming ordinary soldiers, then Whitebeard Pirates' core members would not have had to fight Marine Admirals and Vice Admirals while also distracting themselves by looking after their companions.
The greatest difference between the Whitebeard Pirates and the Marines was that their basic soldiers varied wildly in strength. The strong ones could exchange a few blows with an Admiral, while the weak ones could not even stop an ordinary Rear Admiral.
The advantage of Leo training troops now was that he did not need to clash head-on with the Marines, whose average quality was exceptionally high, from the very beginning. The other advantage was being able to summarize combat experience.
Pirates were bound in heaps and thrown into the middle of the square. On either side of them stood neat ranks of muskets.
If they dared make any unusual move, those four rows of muskets could slaughter them as easily as playing a game.
They had already witnessed that kind of slaughter in the previous clash. Their courage had been completely shattered, and they