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Chapter 10 Fishing in troubled waters
Chu Cheng finally made up his mind to go down after observing for several minutes and found that most of the pirates' naval guns could not reach the back of the town, and even if they did, they would not be very accurate.

In addition, most of the naval guns were blocked by the house, making it difficult to threaten the adventers and militia hiding behind the house, so they officially made up their minds to go in.

I won't force the plot, he came too late, just take it as some experience and see if there's any loot, even a little bit of money still counts.

There was a path at the edge of the canyon. He went down along the path directly. There were some scattered shanties below. This was the area where the poor people of the town lived. The rich lived on both sides of the central street of the town.

There were not many pirates on the edge. Most of them were concentrated in the rear of the town, attacking the defense line built by many students and militiamen.

Chu Cheng entered the town and saw only dilapidated houses. Many of the doors had been knocked open and the insides were in a mess. Occasionally, he saw civilians who had not had time to escape being killed by the pirates.

After entering the town, Chu Cheng realized that the threat of artillery shells was negligible. Walking in the alleys, there were houses on both sides. A solid artillery shell would hit the roof first. With their reaction and speed, they had enough time to dodge.

Moreover, after the shells hit the house and were buffered, their lethality dropped sharply, making it difficult to kill people instantly.

Knowing this, Chu Cheng felt relieved and began to look for the pirates.

We walked along the edge of the house and turned a small corner, where we saw four pirates who were jubilant with all kinds of looted property hanging on their bodies.

Both parties were stunned at the same time, but Chu Cheng took the initiative to greet him.

The four pirates hurriedly drew their guns and swords. With two crisp sounds, two long bloody marks appeared on the bodies of the four pirates.

"clang!"

He blocked one with his scimitar, and another slashed through his armpit. Another pirate slashed at his back, and all the pirates staggered in unison.

pirate:????

After a few seconds, the four pirates fell to the ground and fell asleep.

There were no spoils of war, but the property they plundered could be collected and used to build relationships with the natives.

He continued walking along the alley and when he passed an intersection he heard a cry for help from one side. He immediately turned and saw an open courtyard on one side of the alley and heard a woman's cry for help from inside.

"boom!"

The door was kicked open, and three pirates were seen holding down a naked female townsman. There was also a dead man next to him, probably the woman's husband.

Without further ado, the three pirates drew their swords and charged forward.

Ten seconds later, he fell asleep peacefully on the ground.

Then Chu Cheng was followed by a burden.

Two minutes later, two more children who were hiding in the stove and were covered in black were rescued not far away.

You will gain 50 points of Brad Town reputation for each survivor rescued.

After walking back and forth in the area for more than ten minutes, they rescued a total of twelve survivors.

Most of them either escaped or were killed, and those who stayed behind could not escape.

After a final round of searching and feeling that there were no survivors, Chu Cheng led them along the alley to the back of the town to meet up with other refugees.

"Pah, pah, pah"

A series of flintlock sounds came from behind a row of houses, and from time to time the shouting and hacking sounds of pirates could be heard.

Chu Cheng stopped and looked back at the twelve burdens behind him. He looked around for a while and pointed to one of the stone houses and said to them:

"You guys stay inside, I'll go check out the situation ahead."

Fortunately, these civilians were very obedient and hid in the stone house. In order to avoid being noticed, the door of the house was not closed.

Of course, these defenses are unnecessary. Now most of the pirates are attacking the townspeople's last line of defense, and there are not many pirates wandering around in other areas.

After dealing with the burden, Chu Cheng quietly walked around the row of houses, stuck his head out from the corner of the wall, and saw a street behind. On the other side of the street was a row of houses. The space between the houses was filled with all kinds of messy furniture and dismantled wall bricks. There were only a few alleys that were too wide to be sealed. A large number of pirates gathered in these alleys, confronting the militia and adventers inside.

Every once in a while, a group of pirates would gather under the command of their leader, raising their shields or table doors and rushing in.

Then, after a burst of crackling gunfire, the sound of swords chopping and shouting, the pirates retreated, leaving behind a pile of corpses.

Rubbish!

After watching for a while, Chu Cheng could only comment like this.

The pirates' attack was disorganized and had no tactics at all. They just gathered their men and charged forward.

However, although the method is simple, the effect is not bad.

The pirates didn't have much in common except for their numbers. Hundreds of them broke into the small town, making it difficult for the town to resist.

To be honest, if there weren't dozens of students supporting us, the town's militia would have been unable to stop them.

The level of these students themselves is not much higher than that of the pirates. With the advantages of equipment and profession, they can fight one against two or three. A very few strong ones can fight four or five at once, but no more than that.

But they formed a formation and defended, with tanks standing in the front row, kitchen knife professions raiding the formation, other professions output in the back, and a few auxiliary professions at the very end, and even two extremely rare mages and healers. There was no way these disorganized pirates could defeat this lineup.

Of course, professionals have no way to reverse the situation.

Without favorable terrain, they were at a disadvantage in street fighting against the Pirates who had an absolute advantage in statistics.

After all, we only have one life, and we would never take risks unless we are sure enough.

"Unfortunately, I came too late and am destined not to get a high rating. I can only wait until next time."

Chu Cheng knew very well that if he went up now, even if he repelled the pirates, the total score would not be too high, because this group of students had already fought for so long and stabilized the situation. He would only be a supporter, and the majority of the credit would still be paid to others.

If you want to get high evaluation, you must open up a new battlefield and occupy a dominant position.

But given the current situation, it is difficult to open up a new battlefield.

Or he could run to the rear of the pirates, that is, to the seaside of the town, cut off their retreat, lead all the pirates in front back to the seaside, draw everyone's attention to himself, and then defeat the pirates head-on.

Either the current line of defense can no longer be stopped and collapses, and then I jump out to turn the tide.

Both of these can ensure that you are the core of the battlefield and achieve the greatest results.

But the problem is that the former method is too risky. If you intercept the pirates from the front and attack from the rear, you will be under the cannons of the pirate warships on the sea, within the range of most artillery fire. With hundreds of cannons firing randomly, the probability of being hit is too high.

The latter method is not risky, but he doesn't know when the defense line will fail, or when the defense line may collapse.

The premise of the aforementioned statement that fifty students and twenty to thirty militiamen could not stop the pirates is that the pirates would fight to the death regardless of casualties, but the fact is that the pirates would not fight to the death if they suffered a certain number of casualties.

They are just pirates, not a group of warriors. How could they fight to the death? They would collapse if hundreds of them died.

so.
"The timing is wrong. We came a little late."

"It would be easier if we had come earlier. With my ability to gather a group of militiamen, I can not only stop the pirates, but also push them back."

But there is no way, I never thought that this would happen before, and this was just a spur of the moment decision.

(End of this chapter)