Governor Kabayama requested the government to send reinforcements, and the second division led by Maresuke NOGI (later the third governor in Taiwan) was dispatched from Liaodong Peninsula.
樺山総督は6月政府に増援を要請、遼東半島の乃木希典中将(後の第3代台湾総督)率いる第二師団を増派した。