List battles where an outnumbered army won by sheer tactical brilliance. I'll start:
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>Persian advance guard stumbles upon the full might of the Ottomans
>Neutralize Ottoman artillery in the beginning stages of the battle
>Persian artillery wreak havoc on the Ottoman lines
>As the Ottomans retreat, Nader orders the hidden Persian troops to flank them
>90% of the Ottoman army killed, wounded, or captured
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I'm not a Leeaboo, but Chancellorsville was beautiful.
nader shah was a fucking madman
>Persian advance guard stumbles upon the full might of the Ottomans
That's wrong. He actually went ahead to meet the ottoman army with the vanguard instead of telling his army to come forward.
He was completely suicidal, and a genius.
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Basically every battle won by Germany in either world war fits in their category. They were always outnumbered, but often managed startling victories due to superior weapons (Lorraine), superior tactics (Somme), dumb luck (Tannenberg), or usually a combination of the three.
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Just learned about this one today. Cortes, a handful of Spaniards, and their native allies were outnumbered literally hundreds to one by an Aztec army fighting on an open plain, but through his grand strategy and tactical genius, he was able to- lol, JK. He charged headlong at the enemy general with a handful of his ballsiest men. It actually fucking worked. I cannot find it in myself to hate Cortes, even though he was a real bastard. A magnificent fucking bastard.
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Every battle in Armenia ever.
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My favourite I read about recently:
The Armenians were besieged in the fortress of Halidzor. Davit Bek, Mkhitar Sparapet and Ter Avetis were the commanders of the Armenians. After 7 days under being besieged, the Armenians were weary and short on food. Davit Bek organized a fierce suicidal downhill charge as last resort and the charge terrified the Ottoman soldiers. Fearing that the Armenians had many soldiers, the Ottoman Army began to flee. The heavily forested terrain hindered their escape and the Ottoman soldiers were slaughtered as a huge panic broke out. The charge was successful counter-attack, as a result the Turks lost around 12,000 soldiers, had thousands of wounded, and left approximately 150 Turkish banners behind.
The huge Ottoman Army was spread out all over the region and confusion and panic raged on through the whole army.
>70,000 t*rks
>300 Armenian soldiers
>about a dozen priests and bishops
>outnumbered 230 to 1
>sustains "light" causalities
>13,000 t*rks dead
>basically every Armenian killed 50+ t*rks each
>500 vs. 100,000
>win
Surely this can't be true. Those 100K men don't even have to be armed in order to win.
>superior weapons (Lorraine)
But they more or less had parity in weapons, the French having the Chassepot and the Germans/Prussians the Krupp-arty. A lot of it was French stupidity, better tactics and audacity (aka Autragstaktik)
Julian the Apostate against the Suebians.
Most of Julius Caesar's battles
And most of Napoleon's battles
My mistake I meant the Alamanni for Julian the Apostate, not the Suebians.
Same thing iirc. The Suebi called themselves Suebi and were called Alamanni
>the most basic trick
>tactical brilliance
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56k Georgians beat a MINIMUM of 100k Turks (possibly as high as 600k)
>send a group of "negotiators" while your army secretly surrounds theirs
>kill all the Turkish high command
>zerg rush the archers with your cavalry before they know wtf is going on
>use double-envelopment on the disorganized army to force a rout
It was shocking for its day.
Cortes's greatest resource throughout his storied career was a seemingly inexhaustible supply of dumb luck and it was in full effect here. While the Aztecs should've squashed their enemy like a bug, they took the field with the mindset that the Spanish were already defeated. They were just there to scoop up captives for sacrifice. Combine this lack of preparation with the fact that this was their first time facing a cavalry charge. With some know-how, they could've approached the Spanish with formations of spear wielding warriors to effectively counter charging cavalry, but the tactic was just such a shock they didn't stand a chance. Sure the Aztecs had the spears and the men to make it happen, but if you have no training or experience against armored cavalry, you are not going to hold firm. You're just not. Even with all this going for them, the Spanish should've lost hard, they were just so pitifully few. But Cortes saw a glimmer of hope. He recognized that his best chance was to kill the enemy leader and hope that the Aztecs fell apart. It must not have looked like a very good chance, but it was a chance, and like all slim chances that Cortes encountered, he went balls to the fucking wall.
He baited them perfectly, made his lines flexible to absorb the roman attack (completely unheard of at the time), somehow knew EXACTLY how the Romans would react, timed the deployment of the flanks enveloping perfectly, cavalry came in at just the right time, and the Romans army was almost completely enveloped, also nearly unheard of at the time.
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