Then oncoming night separated the enemies; strength and arms dropped
from their agitated minds.[166]

This victory for us resulted in an apparent dimunition of their
strength and force, and their derisory remarks entirely ceased.
Moreover, the short supply of many things whose lack pressed our men
was amply replenished, thanks to God's benevolence. At daylight the
next day, some of the Turks came forth from the city to collect the
bodies of their dead; they found some, but others had disappeared,
carried off in the bed of the river. They buried those they found in
the temple called the Mahometry, on the other side of the Pharphar,
near the gate of Antioch. In these tombs they buried cloaks, gold
besants, bows and arrows, and many other utensils that I shall
refrain from describing. When they heard about these funeral
ceremonies, our men armed themselves and entered the cemetery, broke
open the tombs, took out the bodies, heaped them up and dropped them
into deep pit. Then they decapitated them and had the heads brought
to their own tents, in order to calculate accurately the number they
had killed, with the exception of the bodies that the ambassadors of
the Babylonian emperor transported on the backs of four horses, as
evidence of the victory won over the Turks. When the Turks saw this,
they suffered more bitterly from the uncovering of the bodies than
from the killings themselves. Now they did not restrain their grief
with a few modest tears, but, putting aside all shame, they screamed
in public agony. Three days later they began building the fort
mentioned above, with the very stones they had taken from the tombs
of the Gentiles that they had broken open. When the fort was
finished, the besieged town began to suffer exceedingly, and their
discomfort became even greater. Our own men were now free to go