Having departed together with the Army's Supervisor Kiyoshi KIJIMA, Takehiko NAKAJIMA met Shinsuke BEPPU and Hisatake KATSURA en route to Kagoshima and held a military meeting with them on May 1 and decided that Shinsuke BEPPU should establish a temporary headquarters in Yokokawa and give commands for the Kagoshima area, and that NAKAJIMA and others in the front-line troop should advance further and raid Kagoshima from Yamada-go.
監軍貴島清を伴って出発した中島健彦は途中で別府晋介・桂久武らと会して5月1日に軍議を開き、別府晋介が横川に主張本営を置いて鹿児島方面を指揮し、前線部隊の中島らはさらに進んで山田郷から鹿児島に突入することとなった。