With support from Yoshimitsu and the feudal loads of Aki Province and Iwami Province, Hiroshige attacked Moriharu and temporarily succeeded in expelling him into Buzen Province, but Moriharu and his troops launched a counterattack at Shiojiyama-jo Castle in Chofu Province in December 1401, and Hiroshige was defeated and subsequently killed at Sakariyama-jo Castle in the Chofu Province.
弘茂は義満や安芸国、石見の諸大名から支援を受けて盛見と戦い、一時はこれを豊前に放逐したが、1401年12月に反攻してきた盛見の軍勢と長府の四王司山城で戦うが敗れ、同じく長府の佐加利山城において討ち取られた。