The Frankish generals agreed to help Shawar, and they battled
against Shirkuh and his soldiers and pushed them out of Egypt.
The Syrians fought bravely, but in the end they had to go back
to Aleppo with nothing to show for their hard work. Nuradin
was very angry. He thought that the campaign was a bad use of
time, money, horses and men. He didn’t want his army to go to
Egypt ever again. Shirkuh was angry too.
‘Don’t worry, Yusuf,’ he said to his nephew, ‘Shawar will
never win against me! Just wait. Nuradin doesn’t want more
fighting now, but when he sees how Amalric and the Franks get
rich in Egypt with Shawar’s help, he’ll send us again. And then
we’ll make that criminal Shawar sorry that he was ever born!’