Between attrition (lost in battle), needing to leave troops behind to control conquered territory, and longer supply lines, shouldn’t the armies have gotten significantly thinner and weaker.
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Thinking of it like the game RISK . . .
The winning army loses units available for advancing because of lost units, and because it needs to leave a force behind to occupy space.
The losing side may have put all the extra units in one place for their defence.
So at the start it may have been 200 units to 100. After that big defensive army is killed, it is now 100 units against 1.
Add in the human elements like morale, supply chain, age and ability of people left behind, you gat a much different calculus.
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