…Antioch. Arslan tries to negotiate but Manuel,…
September 1176 CE
…Antioch.
Arslan tries to negotiate but Manuel, who is convinced of his superiority, rejects a new peace.
He sends part of the army under Andronikos Vatatzes towards Amasia while his larger force marched towards the Seljuq capital at Iconium (Konya).
Both routes are through heavily wooded regions, where the Turks can easily hide and set up ambushes; the army moving towards Amasia is destroyed in one such ambush.
The Turks will later display Andronikos's head, impaled on a lance, during the fighting at Myriokephalon.