>>6306692
>I would also like to ask why our position was unthinkable. Isn't positioning behind a chokepoint ideal for holding off a greater force?
The issue lies in the fact that you're essentially giving up a great deal of your 'chokepoint' to get this. By staying behind the bridge, rather than having your pikemen on the other side or just on the bridge itself, all it takes is a little pushing before the enemy's troops were out of the bridge entirely.

So seeing you not only not destroy the bridge but actively give them this ground ended up making the enemy suspicious that there was something else going on.