Initially Muramune advanced unopposed by defeating Kataharu YANAGIMOTO who was a leader of the Harumoto party and Nariharu BESSHO who opposed to Muramune in Higashiharima.
当初は、晴元派の重鎮である柳本賢治や東播磨で村宗と対立してきた別所就治を破るなど破竹の勢いで進撃した。