Seizing on the confusion inside the Ikko sect, the Oda army immediately conquered Echizen without a single defeat and furthermore pushed into the southern Kaga Province, 'a country owned by peasants.'
こうした一向宗内部の混乱に乗じ織田軍は連戦連勝で瞬く間に越前を制圧し、さらに「百姓の持ちたる国」加賀の南部まで攻め込んだ。