 The soldiers who encountered the "kehaya" ignored his pleas for mercy as they did not speak Turkish, killing him.Out of the initial force of 2,000 only 300 Turks survived the onslaught, escaping with the help of a Greek turncoat named Zeligiannaios; most of them perished in the snowstorm.The Greeks took 50 prisoners, most of whom also died from the effects of hypothermia.