elephant vs paladin

I decided to make my own map and just stick a huge battle with altogther about 3000 pople well over the pop limit so it went really slow and i left it running through the whole day. eventually the battle had finished the elepants had won easily except because i left it i wasnt controlling anything. i found i had 2 paladin left one had 1hp and the other had 2 hp. i new they were doomed so i got the paladin with 1 hp and anttacked an elephant and saw the paladin attacked 1st. after that died i had a plan for my second paladin. I made it attack then runa awayy right after so the elephant lost health but my paladin didnt i did this many times and eventually the paladin bet the elephant. I was shocked a paladin with 2 health can beat an elete war elephant with full hp. but it took about 20 minutes to kill one and there was still about 20 elephants left so i charged my guy into and elephant and he died :D R.I.P