Tsunetaka received advice from his younger brother, Takatsuna SASAKI, who had become a priest and stayed in Mt. Koya at that time, and advanced his army with his younger brother, Moritsuna, and his nephew, Shigetsuna (the eldest son of Takatsuna), and drove off the believers.
経高は出家し高野山に在った弟の佐々木高綱から兵法の助言を受け、弟の佐々木盛綱、甥の重綱（高綱の嫡男）らと共に軍を発し、宗徒らを退散させる。