Now, when the real war kicked off tomorrow and their side got pushed back—'cause that was this place's trend—they still needed a way to capture it.
Sure, surrounding the mine completely would do the trick too, but that would take bodies. Lots of them. And tomorrow? They wouldn't have bodies to spare.
The fighting would stretch across the entire region like a damn wildfire, and every soldier counted. They couldn't afford to babysit a mine, not when the front lines became a mess of chaos, blood, and fire.
So, cutting off supplies? That was cleaner. Let 'em starve. Let 'em boil under the Shams with no water and nothing to keep them going. Let the desperation do most of the work for them while they destroy their gate.
And honestly, the timing wasn't half bad either.
The mine didn't run during the day—too hot, too risky.
