Belisarius' invasion of Mesopotamia in 541

In 541, General Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire led an 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.

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.