However, the Wakae Three, the chief retainers of Yoshitsugu, and others were afraid of Nobunaga's power and betrayed him, so Yoshitsugu committed suicide on December 20, and this was the end of the Miyoshi clan.
しかし、信長の実力を怖れた義継の家老・若江三人衆らによる裏切りで義継は11月16日に自害し、三好氏もここに滅亡した。