Hiroshige, together with shogunal reinforcements, attacked and drove Morimi away, but in 1401 Morimi raised a new army in Kyushu and made another attempt to win back the Ouchi lands, and after several battles between them, Morimi destroyed Hiroshige at Sakariyama Castle (in modern-day Chufu ward of the city of Shimonoseki).
弘茂は幕府の援軍とともに盛見を攻めてこれを追うが、応永8年（1401年）に九州で盛見は再挙し、数度の合戦の後、弘茂は佐加利山城（下関市長府）で滅ぼされた。