I’m not going to claim I’m a medieval military tactician, but if you have some amount of resources stockpiled and friendly armies in the field, why surrender immediately? Your forces or allied forces could pin the siege force against your walls possibly giving you an advantageous position. Perhaps stockpiling supplies that didn’t go bad was difficult back then or militaries didn’t consistent of more than one army so if there was a siege that meant your main force was already defeated?
I do remember that the first phase of the Punic Wars was basically Sparta chasing all the Athenians inside the city where they brought in supplies by boat and waited the Spartans out, rinse and repeat for a decade. Obviously that’s a different period and the Athenians suffered a horrible outbreak of some sort of plague possibly due to the overcrowding.
I do remember that the first phase of the Punic Wars was basically Sparta chasing all the Athenians inside the city where they brought in supplies by boat and waited the Spartans out, rinse and repeat for a decade. Obviously that’s a different period and the Athenians suffered a horrible outbreak of some sort of plague possibly due to the overcrowding.