Belisarius' invasion of Mesopotamia in 541

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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.^[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.[1]