Muntakhab al-tawarikh 56.2.5

56.2.5

And in the interval between each pair of gun carriages six or seven shelter parapets were placed, so that on the day of the battle the riflemen might be able to fire in safety from the shelter of the guns and parapets. He had determined to march, and encamp with the city of Panipath in the rear of his army, and to use the line of gun-carriages as a front line of defence for his troops, while the cavalry and infantry should come into action from behind the gun-carriages with arrow and musketry-fire, while the remainder of the cavalry should advance on both sides, and keep up a constant attack, and in case of necessity should retire to the cover afforded by the gun-carriages. Accordingly on Thursday the last day of Jumaidu-l-Akhir 932 H., he encamped in the vicinity of the city of Panipath, at a distance of six krohs from the camp of Sultan Ibrahim, whose force was composed of a hundred thousand cavalry and a thousand elephants, while the army of Babar Padishah comprised fifteen thousand cavalry and infantry on a rough estimate. The troops under Babar used to make daily sallies from unexpected quarters, and attack the Afghan army, bringing in several heads; in spite of which Sultan Ibrahim and his men did not dare to make a single attempt at any counter attack during all this time.