In the midnight on October 17, the separate 12,000-soldier troops led by Masanobu KOSAKA and Nobuharu BABA went toward Saijo-san Mountain, and Shingen brought his main 8,000-soldier troops to Hachimanbara and gave an order to take the crane-wings-shaped battle formation.
9月9日深夜、高坂昌信・馬場信春らが率いる別働隊1万2千が妻女山に向い、信玄率いる本隊8000は八幡原に鶴翼の陣で布陣した。