تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.11.7

13.11.7

The first to say this was Nāṣir al-Dīn Muṭahhar al-Awharī, and all of them agreed with him. The Sultan acted on their advice and that night wrote to the amīrs and troops near him, and they came at once. He devised a clever stratagem in this: when, for example, a hundred horsemen arrived at his camp, he would send out thousands of his own men by night to meet them, and they would enter the camp together with them, as though all of them were reinforcements for him.