LouisVII before leaving gave his men generous gifts, and to promote their safety paid 500 marks to Landulf, Manuel I's messenger, and the governor of Attaleia to take invalid pilgrims for recuperation inside the city. They were also to lead the remaining army past two local rivers and send them off to Tarsos with an escort. Theobald of Flanders and Archibald of Bourbon remained to oversee this process. Soon after Louis left, the Turks attacked the French army, which was waiting for the guides promised in the agreement. Theobald and Archibald with difficulty managed to defend the army, then demanded that the Byzantine leaders fulfil their part of the bargain. They refused, citing the threat of the Turks and winter weather. There followed long and fruitless discussions in which the Byzantines behaved dishonourably, and offered the French barons scant board and lodging. Finally the two French barons left in fury, having neither performed their task nor taken vengeance for the wrongs they endured. The French army continued to suffer terribly from the Byzantines, so that even the Turks took pity on them