new and confused about this battle

[Norfleet]

A possibility, although the original poster did state that he watched the battle, and results seemed to be contrary to the declared victory. If he had been using summons, and his normal troops got slaughtered but summons carried the day, it would still have looked like a victory.

The kind of victory that looks like a defeat tends to be the kind where your forces are massacred, and so are the enemy's, but he manages to flee the field before you do.