Bando musha were scattered as they could not escape as a large group; eight soldiers (Yoshitomo, his children Yoshihira, Tomonaga and Yoritomo, and his family members MINAMOTO no Shigenari and Yoshinobu HIRAGA, as well as his servants Masakiyo KAMATA and Konomaru) left for Kanto.
大勢では逃げ切れまいと付き従っていた坂東武者たちを解散して、義朝と子の義平、朝長、頼朝、それに一族の源重成、平賀義宣、家人の鎌田政清、金王丸の8騎となり、関東を目指した。