De obsiclione castri Cristmemele.
The Siege Begins
King Vithenus besieges Cristmemel with siege engines and archers, and the Teutonic brothers burn their own suburb as a scorched-earth defense.
In the same year, in the month of September, Vithenus, king of the Lethowini, having gathered all the men from his kingdom who were fit for war, besieged Cristmemel, and through October, for seventeen days, with two siege engines and many archers, attacked it most fiercely from every side. The brothers, however, seeing this, burned the suburb of their castle in order to guard against future danger.
The Failed Relief by Sea
A relief force of ten brothers and a hundred and fifty men arrives by ship from Sambia but is blocked by the Lethowini's control of the roads, forcing them into a costly naval skirmish with many killed and eighteen wounded.
In the meantime, while these things were happening, ten brothers and a hundred and fifty men came by ship from Sambia to relieve the aforesaid castle. But the Lethowini had so prudently seized the roads and approaches to that castle that, although it was attempted again and again, no one was able to gain access to it. As a result, the brothers were forced to remain in their ships, where the Lethowini attacked them day after day. In that battle, many were killed by the infidels and fatally wounded, and on the brothers' side, eighteen men were wounded.
The Siege Ends in Withdrawal
On the seventeenth day, learning that the master approaches with a great army, the Lethowini attempt one final assault to burn the castle but suffer heavy losses, destroy their own siege engines, and abandon the siege.
While they were thus making no headway, at last on the seventeenth day, when they wished to withdraw — it having been learned that the master was approaching with a great army — they came up to the castle's ditch and brought wood, hay, straw, and stubble, wanting to burn it down for certain. In that assault and attack, so many of the infidels were killed and fatally wounded — though I did not learn their number — and so, having burned the siege engines and abandoned the enterprise, they withdrew.
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Eodem anno mense Septembri Vithenus rex Lethowinorum, congregatis ^September omnibus de regno suo, qui ad bellum apti fuerunt, obsedit Gristmemelam, et — 11-October per xvn dies cumc duabus machinis et multis sagittariis ex omni parte fortissime impugnavit. Fratres autem hoc videntes, ut precaverent futurum periculum, castri sui preurbium cremaverunt. Medio tempore, quo hec agerentur, venerunt de Sambia x fratres etd cl viri navigio in subsidium dicti castri, sed Lethowini ita prudenter occupaverant vias et aditus ipsius castri, quod licet sepius attemptaretur, nullus tarnen poterat habere accessum ad ipsum. Unde coacti sunt fratres manere in navibus, ubi eos Lethowini singulis diebus impugnaverunt, in qua pugna de infidelibus plures occisi sunt, et letaliter vulnerati, et de parte fratrum xvm viri vulnerati. Dum igiture sic nonr proficerent, tandem die xvn cum vellent recedere, intellecto, quod magister cum magno exercitu appropinquaret, accedentes ad fossam castri, apportaverunt ligna, fenum, stipulas, et stramina, volentes ipsum utique concremare. In qua comportacione et impugnacioned tot de infidelibus occisi sunt, et letaliter vulnerati, quod eorum numerum non1' audivi, sicque combustis machinis infecto negocio recesserunt.
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