The Carthaginians tied up the Roman center with elite mercenaries and an elephant charge, while their cavalry put the Roman horsemen on the wings to flight.
Well, if you're worried about weakening part of your line, because you don't want those troops to get smashed and run away, Epaminondas does something unusual.
They scattered far and wide over the country, and it was not till a week later that the last of the survivors gathered together in a lower valley and counted their losses.
It's a total flip of the script here to have the non-European forces be the ones that are badly outnumbered and yet have the imperial forces on the run.
When you look at the numbers that the Japanese units were reduced to, I have a hard time finding similar numbers in any conflict anywhere, because normally units break and run before they hit those kinds of numbers.