For the past two months, Alexander had been building up all his supplies on Jamider (Earl) Tikba's fief, which was a day's march away here, with the idea being that once the siege began, these stocks could be easily accessed to get the camp going while replenishments from Zanzan slowly catch up to backfill the depot.
Alexander had come up with this tactic as a way to navigate around any potential problem that might arise due to supply issues, something that had plagued the army the previous time.
He reasoned that if things were to be done this way, then even if the army did not get any supplies for a while, it would still have no problem sustaining itself using the stocks at hand for quite some time.
It was a tactic with a much greater margin of safety.
But a critical part of that idea hung on the Jamider (Earl) Tikba bringing the supplies from his fief to the camp itself.
Without those Alexander would starve just like before.
