However, three months after Kiyomori's death, the Taira clan government again sent a force along the Tokai-do Road to battle with the Kanto government forces and the Taira clan troops won a battle at Sunomata-gawa River in Owari Province (the Battle of Sunomata River).
しかし、直後の3月、平氏政権は再び東海道へ追討軍を派遣し、尾張墨俣川で関東政権軍と会戦して平氏軍が勝利を収めた（墨俣川の戦い）。