But even though he was outnumbered by more than four to one, he marched out to meet the invaders on the field anyway in what would become the Battle of Zappollino.
The emperor gathered an army and marched out to meet the invasion in 1334, but one of his officers, who knew Sergianes well, offered to go ahead, win the traitor's confidence, and arrest him.
Those in the ambush also came out of the city against them, so that they were caught in the middle, with Israelites on both sides. Israel cut them down, leaving them neither survivors nor fugitives.
And Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and seize the waters against them as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan.