As soon as Michael learned of the fall of Amisos, he ordered a huge force to be assembled (al-Tabari gives its size at 50,000 men) under his uncle Petronas, the Domestic of the Schools, and Nasar, the stratēgos of the Bucellarian Theme.
Only the Emir's son, at the head of a small force, managed to escape the battlefield, fleeing south towards the border area of Charsianon.