Tactical Byzantine victory In 541, General Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire led a counter-offensive in Persian territory into Mesopotamia, as part of a counter-offensive against the Persian King Khosrow I's prior invasion of the Roman East in 540.
[1] Belisarius took 6,000 of his best men with hunting equipment with him.
to the possibly larger Persian force, it looked like a small hunting party which would later result into baiting the Sasanian army into thinking a larger Roman army was behind the smaller Roman force.
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