A fraction of the provincial Protectors (shugo were tantamount to governors) like Tokiuji YAMANA also joined the Southern Court faction and fought for them, and with the struggle to recapture Kyoto widening in this way, the Southern Court gained a reprieve.
山名時氏など守護の一部も南朝に属して戦い、京都争奪戦が繰り広げられるなど南朝は息を吹き返すことになる。