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I think it's funny how so many ancient battles involve the winning side's center giving way (whether intentionally or not), and the losing side's center over-pursuing their ostensibly routed foe and then getting slaughtered from the flanks. Cannae, Gaugamela, Hastings and a bunch of others all fit this pattern. Hell, even WWI (in the West at least) was basically this shit for most of its four years. Even Stalingrad and the Battle of the Bulge were exactly this in WWII.
The importance of NCOs shouting at overeager farmboy sons-of-bitches to keep it in their pants until ordered to pursue cannot be overstated.
... the importance of career officers firmly-but-politely informing their aristocratic glory-hound commanders to keep it in their pants until pursuit is viable also cannot be overstated.