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Their firearms were reduced to a scare hundred of fusils Martini-Henry of the XIX
century and six pieces of fixed artillery, mounted on the towers of the wall: lacked absolutely of
handguns. The cutlery instead was abundant and varied, and they used it with regular
dexterity.

To these deficiencies of material, was added the low strategic vision of such
unfortunates, who had quartered the totality of their garrison, some hundred personnel, in two
barracks situated on both sides of the main gateway. Evidently, all the weight of its defense was
more based on psychological factors than reals, it means, that they trusted in the dissuasion of
the walls, and the scares loot that was behind them, to discourage the possible attackers. The
same pieces of artillery represented more a dissuasive object before a real peril for the
besiegers, because they would hardly work: and that only if the ideal conditions were given as
the existence of dry powder, ammunitions and wick, and that these elements be placed in the
correct way.

In sum, as the region was calm for the moment, and they had none motives to suspect
any attack, the guard was reduced to its minimum expression: one man on each tower, it
means, six watchmen; two in the main door and one behind each one of the other four lateral
towers, that is, six guards more; other six guards in the Temple of the White Isle, two outside
and four therein; and a personnel of forty men sleeping in each one of the barracks, but ready
to go out at the minor alarm.

That night, Kâly would make real the prayers of the Gurkha. Would not be the strikes of
Shiva’s Trident, neither the Fire of the Ray of Indra, nor the certainty of the arrows of Arjuna,
but the vengeance of Bangi would be instrumented by means of other similar powers: the
strikes of the bullets of our fusils, the fire of the grenades, and the certainty of the arrows of
the lopas.

For the number of men that it reckoned, the formation that von Grossen commanded
was barely a squadron; but, but for the combative moral and the awareness of the own force, it
had to qualified as phalanx or legion. A legion, it’d be said, for its great movability for the
blitzkrieg. First, we would attack divided: von Grossen would lead the bulk of the squadron,
while a gang guided by me would operate in the Temple. In a second phase of the plan, the
squadron would bifurcate in two squads, to be reunited then all, in a prefixed point, and
execute the retreat.

Only the German would go to the assault provided with fireweapons: a Luger handgun
and a machinepistole Schmeisser each one, apart of the other two obsolete fusils Mauser 1914,
which will be seen later for what they were going to serve. In those days, the Schmeisser of 9
mm. were secret weapons, and just to a body of Elite as ours had been permitted to take them

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