I'd just like to second this point.
Harvest time was so important in normal times that everyone was out in the
fields. To miss the harvest = starvation. It's one of the advantages of a
standing army to be able to attack during the harvest season.
In short, no one takes people out of the fields in harvest season. Farmers
regularly desert the army to go home for harvest. If Durev initiates are in
the seige it's got to be because they have no fields of their own to
harvest and are hoping to seize some food from the siege to help their
starving people.
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