While the war council took a long time because the opinion to attack the castle with the total force insisited on by Kirino, Shinohara and the opinion to march in separate groups insisted on by Shiro IKEGAMI, Oshisuke NOMURA, Kohei SAIGO did not reach agreement, the first brigade (Shizuo NOZU) and the second brigate (Shigeomi MIYOSHI) of the government army started to the south.
本営軍議で桐野・篠原らが主張する全軍攻城論と池上四郎・野村忍介・西郷小兵衛らが主張する種々の分進論が折り合わず、軍議が長引いている間に、政府軍の第一旅団（野津鎮雄）・第二旅団（三好重臣）の南下が始まった。