People's Crusade POD

People's Crusade POD here folks: anyways the Byzantine Emperor Alexius warned Peter the Hermit not to engage the Turks and instead wait for the main body of crusader soldiers which were marching on their way when all thirty thousand were shipped across the Straits. Let's say Peter and his French counterpart Walter Sans-Avoir decide to take heed of Alexius' warning and retain better control over the soldiers already there and wait for reinforcements. Some (let's say maybe a quarter to one third of them) might ignore the advice and split off from the main crusader army to go fight the Turks, especially the German and Italian contingents under Rainald and some of the Frenchmen under Geoffrey Burrel. They capture a few Turkish towns and probably get massacred like in OTL.

The remainder remain in whatever's left of Byzantine Anatolia, probably causing trouble for the locals despite as much as Peter and Walter may attempt to restrain them. They ultimately meet up with the four crusader armies under Hugh of Vermandois, Godfrey, Raymond, and Bohemond. It basically gives the Crusaders a huge boost in manpower though at the same time there's ample opportunity for arguments and division among the Crusaders as to how to properly divide the conquered lands between one another and there's the matter of supplying food and other needed supplies which will become greater due to the larger armies. Feel free to think long and short term about this.
 
The problem is that the restlessness of the People's crusade meant that Alexius basically forced them to get the hell out of Constantinople because they were regularly plundering the suburbs.
 
The problem is that the restlessness of the People's crusade meant that Alexius basically forced them to get the hell out of Constantinople because they were regularly plundering the suburbs.

I realize that Alexius ferried them across to Asia Minor so they wouldn't cause problems in Constantinople but he also warned them not to engage the Turkic forces until reinforcements arrived. Then there began the arguments and divisions between the crusaders once they reached the local Byzantine stronghold of Nicomedia.
 
I realize that Alexius ferried them across to Asia Minor so they wouldn't cause problems in Constantinople but he also warned them not to engage the Turkic forces until reinforcements arrived. Then there began the arguments and divisions between the crusaders once they reached the local Byzantine stronghold of Nicomedia.

Which they also attempted to pillage. You can see a pattern here. The problem[1] is that it's difficult to coordinate such a massively unruly mob and Philip the Hermit was not the man to do it.

[1]- Buggering hell I'm like a broken tape recorder
 
Which they also attempted to pillage. You can see a pattern here. The problem[1] is that it's difficult to coordinate such a massively unruly mob and Philip the Hermit was not the man to do it.

[1]- Buggering hell I'm like a broken tape recorder

Alright, alright. I understand. Just curious.
 
Which they also attempted to pillage. You can see a pattern here. The problem is that it's difficult to coordinate such a massively unruly mob and Philip the Hermit was not the man to do it.

I'm starting to wonder if "remission of sins for going on crusade" encouraged this, because it seems that pillaging was a sign a crusading army had moved through.

And its presumably worse than normal (as in, it gets called out as if it was expected to be different with the "a few mercenaries" Alexius asked for).
 
So basically this is improbable? Just to make sure so I can cross this out of the big book of what ifs that I am making.
 
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