But Nobunaga did not allow the losers to survive and implemented 'negiri' (extermination) by killing all men escaping from Nagashima and by burning out people in Yanagashima and Nakae, which were surrounded by palisades, forcing the leader Sagyo of Gansho-ji Temple to kill himself.
しかし、信長はこれを許さず長島から出る者を根切に処し、残る屋長島・中江の2個所は柵で囲んで焼き殺し、指導者であった願証寺の佐堯は自害した。