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......The archers belonging to Chandragupta's deputy Baali managed to eliminate the guards on Kusumbha fort's outer wall in the darkness of night. Some trained climbers threw ropes with anchors on the outer wall of the fort and climbed it. Just before sunrise,Baali and his men used ladders made of wooden planks and rope dropped from above to scale the huge outer wall of the fort. When they dropped down on the other side of the wall, Baali and his twenty men found themselves in a pool of a water barricade which ran around the boundary of the fort. Baali instructed his men, “Just an obstruction, don't worry just walk” . The water barricade between the outer and inner wall of the fort was deeper than they had expected. Most soldiers were neck deep into water. Baali who was very well built had the water level upto the upper part of his stomach. The palace guards had quickly deployed their archers who were now shooting arrows at them in the dark. The arrows were splashing into the water left and right. One of them digging into the arm of a rebel soldier standing ahead of Baali . Baali instructed his men , “Do not swallow the water, it may have poison mixed into it”. To which one of the shorter men from behind who had water till his face replied jovially, “If the water was poisoned, I would have been dead by now. Its salty though”. One of the men stepped onto something metallic and PHAT !, the metallic jaws of the trap snapped and closed. He gave out a sharp cry of pain grabbing his leg under water. Baali instructed his men, “Keep soft steps, there are metallic traps inside this water which can crush every bone in your toe when it snaps and closes”. The hustling and bustling increased on the top of the inner wall. There was a creaking sound of some metal gates getting opened. By now the rebel group of Baali and his some twenty men were in the middle of the water barricade almost fully submerged in water, more men were joining them from behind. Faint ripples appeared in the water from all sides. One of the rebel soldiers cried out in pain and the one next to him screamed in horror............

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