More crusaders had deserted before Kerbogha arrived,…
June 1098 CE
More crusaders had deserted before Kerbogha arrived, and they had joined Stephen of Blois in Tarsus.
Stephen had seen Kerbogha's army encamped near Antioch and assumed all hope was lost; the deserters had confirmed his fears.
On the way back to Constantinople, Stephen and the other deserters meet Alexios, who is on his way to assist the crusaders, and does not know they had taken the city and are now under siege themselves.
Stephen convinces him that the rest of the crusaders are as good as dead, and Alexios hears from his reconnaissance that there is another Seljuq army nearby in Anatolia.
He therefore decides to return to Constantinople rather than risking battle.
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