Castilian-Leonese forces instilled fear in the Murcian taifa population with daring raids on the orchards of Murcia and Orihuela, seizing control of the Guadalentín Valley and key Levantine communication routes.

The Muslim army set up camp at the foot of the castle of Aledo, and began to harass the Christian position by means of mangonels and ballistas shots,[5] built expressly by expert craftsmen brought from Murcia.

[1] Finally dismissed by Ibn Tašufin due to a fatwa, the Murcians abandoned the siege, refused to submit to the Sevillians and asked for help from the Christian king Alfonso VI.

[1] El Cid intended to relieve the city, but it would be the monarch himself who would march at the head of his troops to liberate Aledo, causing the Almoravids to retreat after a four-month siege.

[1] After this setback, Yusuf ibn Tašufin briefly continued his peninsular campaign, seizing Talavera de la Reina and Madrid, but after being rejected in Guadalajara he retreated to Cordoba, to end up returning to his North African possessions.