On November 5, 1556 Akbar's Mughal army defeated the numerically superior forces of General Hemu at the Second Battle of Panipat, fifty miles north of Delhi. Hemu had won the second battle of Panipat if he hadn’t got unconscious by the arrow in his eye. Hemu was brought before Akbar unconscious, and was beheaded. After which, his army got disturbed and withdrew the battle. Hemu was then captured and brought in front of Akbar where he was told to behead the king. However, some sources say that it was actually Bairam Khan who beheaded Hemu, but Akbar certainly did use the term "Ghazi", warrior for the faith, a term used by both Babur, his grandfather, and Timur. Hemu's head was sent to Kabul while his body was displayed on a type of gallows specially constructed to display this dead body. Even more gruesomely Akbar followed an old Khanate tradition, one which predates even Genghis Khan, and constructed a "victory pillar" made from the heads of the dead soldiers. Not only he had won Delhi back but along with it he was awarded by 1500 war elephants (of Hemu) which he used to reengage Sikandar Shah at the