However, by that time Tadayoshi had escaped from his monastic confines in Kyoto to surrender to the Southern Court and gone to join Tadafuyu in the Southern Court; together, they raised an army to conquer Moronao (Kanno Disturbance).
しかし、この際に直義は京を脱出して南朝に降参、南朝・直冬と共に師直誅伐を掲げて挙兵した（観応の擾乱）。