Although the Asakura clan, on which the Azai clan was relying as the last resort, once sent auxiliary forces to the Odani-jo Castle, pulled them back to its home base, Echizen Province, due to its own strategic reasons.
最も頼みとしていた朝倉氏は、小谷城への来援に現れるも自軍の事情で越前本国へ退却してしまう。