When the French reached Constantinople in October 1147, they discovered that Manuel had just made a 12-year truce with the Turks, the very enemy that the crusaders would have to fight if they were to reach Jerusalem. The subsequent French experience in Asia Minor seemed to suggest that the emperor had agreed not so much a truce with the Turks as a military alliance. The guides provided by Manuel led the army on the wrong road, and then abandoned it to attacks by the Turks.