The Baschurten siege, which would decide the southwestern front, had now entered a lull. It was because Fried had accepted General Alexander's counsel to regroup rather than press the attack.
The encirclement was maintained as it stood, but a welcome rest was granted to the soldiers.
General Alexander prepared for a possible enemy surprise attack, however unlikely, and he also drew up a plan to charge in at once should the gates so much as open for a sortie. In other words, he'd laid a variety of traps.
But the Baschurten army, as though determined to hunker down, didn't budge an inch.
Saying that people with such patience were rare, General Alexander came to consider a last resort. That was to hurl diseased livestock, filth, and the like into the castle using the trebuchets.
It was the medieval era's signature biochemical attack.
