 The plotters had planned that General García Herrán would seize the army camp at Carabanchel and General Fanjul would occupy the inner city from the Montaña barracks, located on the Príncipe Pío, close to the Plaza de España.Other rebel officers should then have taken over the Cuatro Vientos and Getafe Air Bases, but the plan failed.Furthermore, the commander of the Civil Guard in Madrid, General Sebastián Pozas Perea and the Assault Guard—around 6,000 men—remained loyal to the government.