 While crowds cheered—whipped into a frenzy by Strasser—shouting "Heil", the armed ragtag assembly wearing red swastika armbands accompanying Hitler and company encountered blue-uniformed Bavarian State Police, who were prepared to counter the Putsch.Around the time the marchers reached the "Feldherrnhalle" near the city center, shots rang out, scattering the participants.Before the exchange of gunfire ended, there were fourteen dead Nazis lying in the street and four policemen; the putsch had failed and the Nazis' first bid for power had lasted less than twenty-four hours.