In the year 924, the armies of Yusuf Beshir entered Armenia, hoping to take advantage of the temporary conflicts of the Armenian king and his subjects, near Lake Sevan. He then besieged Ashot II. Hoping to overwhelm them by the superiority of their forces, Beshir had started arrangements for the surrender of the Armenians. The Armenians made a formal agreement, but by the next day in the morning, Ashot II had formed 70 of their best archers and headed towards Beshir,s camps, with seven archers for each boat. Enemy soldiers, assuming quick victory, had gathered around on the shore and the Armenian archers had gave out heavy fire into the enemy forces, The Arab army took to flight, and were defeated.