When they set off some sergeants did begin to see through it, but Pizzoti insisted they follow the orders and clarified it was a "different recon" presumably with a smirk. Some ultimately had to be arrested.
But the batteries crossed legalist positions completely unharmed. In fact, they were joined by ammunition trucks from the Services Battery.
Captain Sanches saw Colonel Aldo coming his way and ordered the telephone line cut. Aldo saw the defecting convoy and, beside the road, tears in his eyes, shouted "Traitors! Traitors". He pulled his gun to commit suicide but Major Simon held his arm.

The Academy's cavalry welcomed them, but by a communications failure did not inform the others. Captain Ferraz, moving his infantry to another position, pointed his binoculars and saw a convoy clearly not belonging to the Academy. He immediately had his convoy stop. Troops climbed the hill and got in position. There was a sudden possibility of friendly fire. But through his binoculars he could see an Academy captain in the first jeep ahead of the convoy, and ordered not to shoot. The convoy stopped, cheered, and moved on.
The same chance of friendly fire happened with the artillery, but it saw men waving white shirts. Inside the vehicles, the sergeants were kept at the pistol sights of liutenants.

The defection shifted the balance of power, and it's not like the rest of the GUEs was any better. The 6th Infantry was at Queluz, just on the other side of the border. Colonel Sousa Lobo speculated to the press on the infantry's defection and then that it could mount a defense around Viúva Graça. But by this point the truce already began.