Also the three platoons of Kohei SAIGO, Naonoshin ASAE, Kichinosuke SAGARA crossed the river under enemy fire and took other attempts to recover Takase, but the reinforcements of the government army pushed them back and it was nearing sunset, thus, the platoons retreated toward Ohama.
西鄉小兵衛・浅江直之進・相良吉之助三小隊も敵前渡河を強行したりして高瀬奪回を試みたが官軍の増援に押され、日没もせまったので、大浜方面へ退却した。