Li Jing commands the main prong of…
May 630 CE
Li Jing commands the main prong of the Tang dynasty’s attacks against the Eastern Turkic Khaganate, with the generals Li Shiji, Xue Wanche, and Chai Shao commanding the other prongs, but with Li Jing in overall command.
In spring 630, Li Jing's forces, surprising Ashina Duobi's, capture Dingxiang (in modern Hohhot, Inner Mongolia), approaching Ashina Duobi's imperial tent.
He then sends spies to Ashina Duobi's camp and persuades a number of Ashian Duobi's close associates, including Kangsumi, to surrender (along with Sui's Empress Xiao and her grandson Yang Zhengdao).
Ashina Duobi withdraws to the Yin Mountains and offers to submit to Tang—but at the same time he is negotiating with the Tang envoy Tang Jian, whom Emperor Taizong had sent to negotiate with him, he is considering withdrawing further, north of the Gobi Desert.
Li Jing and Li Shiji, believing that Ashina Duobi is merely stalling for time, join their forces and attack Ashina Duobi, defeating him and killing his wife (the Sui Dynasty's Princess Yicheng).
Ashina Duobi flees further to his subordinate khan Ashina Sunishi), but is soon captured by the Tang general Zhang Baoxiang and delivered to Chang'an.
Turkic nobles largely surrender to Tang, while the Turkic Khaganate's people scatter in three directions—either surrendering to Tang, surrendering to Xueyantuo, or fleeing west to the Western Turkic Khaganate and the nearby kingdoms.
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