User blog comment:Fintin/Doflamingo's Survival and Bird Cage/@comment-4164499-20140409140010/@comment-2109035-20140412193405

It was the King, Tank and some other soldiers. There was no need for him to control the entire army as just a few soldiers attacking along with the King is enough of an excuse to cause confusion and allow Doflamingo's men to subsequently take them all out. All in all, it was probably no more than 20 people.