The only thing that I can compete with these stories is one time...I had 4 principles and 3 generals in a gallic settlement, and it was besieged by a full stack of gauls. A little bit of everything; skirmishers, chosen swordsmen, spear warbands, etc. I sallied, put them on 'fire at will,' caused a few units to rout from the pila, and charged them. I rushed my generals around the flank and before I could even charge their rear, there was an almost instant rout of all the gauls! I ran them all down with my generals. It was something like 1200 killed with about 35 losses or some such crazyness.
These were the finest soldiers I had at the time. All were silver chevron veterans with silver upgrade weapons and armour.