If they pulled this non-sense in breaking bad, it would drop their ratings 10 fold.
I'm thinking the Gov. won't be any focus next season, it's more that they just left it open for him to come back later, ala Merle. So he might come back, or he might not. Would also agree that since most of his soldiers weren't fighting people, that they largely panicked and ran once they saw it wasn't going to be "boom all dead." Not surprising there.
But it was well done scene/scenario. I was a bit annoyed at losing Milton tho...I was hoping he'd join our prison group as the resident nerd. He could have been useful at times. If you want to build a new town/civilization, you need more than tough people/fighters, you need thinkers, inventors, mechanical people too. 