Playing an Almohad jihad campaign, one of my frontline provinces gets attacked by superior troops of the French, led by a 6* general. The defence is consisting of mostly jihad troops so the troops aren't exactly the best (although the UM and peasants were sent on a suecide mission earlier, 4000 of them, lost badly vs 600 steppe cav after walking through several provinces without a fight)

My troops is geting badly mauled, my general is dead, my reinforcements get crushed, everything is going straight to hell. In a final attemt to turn the tide, one of my naphta trowers kills the enemy general. But the fight continues and my remaining troops gets fewer and fewer. Until finally the French routs. My exhausted remains of the army, now consisting only of 9 men in three units cannot chase the routers as they're all exhausted.

The men consist of two units of hashishins with 2 and 4 men and one unit of naphta trowers with 3 men, waiting for the enemy reinforcements to arrive as the "the enemy is fleeing the field" haven't showed up yet.

Waiting and waiting . The only thing that happens is that my troops regain stamina. After a while I decide to check out the big forest in the middle of the map (the French starting point) with the 4 men unit. To my surprice, they are greeted with flying rocks. After scouting around, I find a lone catapult still sitting the in the woods. The battle was brief, leaving no survivors and grants me the victory .

My army was so weak that the comp actually considered victory possible with only his catapult crew (usually the comp withdraws his siege crews when abandoning the battlefield). And one hit/unit on me would probably had given him it.