He’s a liar and scared to hear the truth, because he knows they failed:
TREASON.
You know, that’s a point i missed, and needs to be repeated.
When they claim they didnt have time to get there, how long did they KNOW it was going to last?
When it started, as far as they knew, it could have been an all-out attack or nothing- they had no way of knowing if it was going to be a 5 minute protest ar the beginning of a month-long seige... so, how would they know how long they had to respond?
You just RESPOND AS SOON AS POSSIBLE in the hopes of getting your people out safe.
But they didnt respond, at all.
Were they just lucky that it ended in 7 hours?