Even though the Nephites were preparing for an attack, the siege worked, and the city of Cumeni surrendered itself. The rapid fall of Cumeni suggests that they had been quite low on provisions before this supply train was to arrive, and the denial of the supplies placed them is a very difficult situation. The fall of Cumeni happened faster than one might suppose, and this is likely due to the fact that it had been a captured Nephite city. The fall of the Nephite Cumeni would have expended the stores of Cumeni from the days of the Nephite occupation, and the Lamanites inherited a city with few stored provisions, and the inability to replenish them by intensive farming. They were even more dependent upon the outside supplies, and their fall came rapidly when those provisions were not forthcoming.