On Mt. Hachiman, the Maori Army's main camp was brightly lit, and it was heavily guarded from the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain, and the ashigaru men patrolled in groups of 20 people under the leadership of the general Ashigaru, which basically cut off the possibility of a night attack by the Toyotomi army.

Motomasa Amano sat in the formation, discussing his next move with Motoyasu Mori and others. Fearful of the day's defeat and considering the heavy losses of the army, Motomasa Amano intended to lead his troops west as soon as possible, but before that he could consider a plan to withdraw his troops to avoid another surprise attack by the Toyotomi army.

According to his vision, the Maori army could be temporarily divided into three armies, with 10,000 men in the front army, 8,000 in the middle army, and 2,000 in the temple army. The Chinese army is responsible for the protection of the front army and the reception of the temple army, and when the front army is safe, it is convenient to wait for a while on the platform south of Hachiman Mountain, at this time it may be early morning, according to the experience of the previous few days, the fog is thick, just enough to cover the retreat of the temple army, and when the temple army arrives on the platform, the two armies will retreat to Changji Pass together. At this time, even if the Toyotomi army pursued, it would not be a large force, and the two armies of 10,000 people were enough to deal with it, and the fog was both a cover and an obstacle for both sides, and the Toyotomi army was not sure whether there was a fraud or not, so they could only let the Maori army have a way out.

West of Nagayoshi Pass is the territory of the Mori clan, the Toyotomi army will never dare to attack immediately, which will give the Mori Terumoto a chance to transfer troops, as long as he can send the 10,000 troops in his hands to Otsu Castle and Amano Motomasa convergence, the Toyotomi army's strength advantage will also disappear, plus the terrain of Otsu Castle is steep, the city is strong, as long as the Toyotomi army attacks the city, it will fall into a war of attrition, with the big barrels and fortifications in the city, while hitting the morale of the Toyotomi army, while consuming the strength of the Toyotomi army, and then go out of the city to counterattack when the time is ripe, Definitely can turn defeat into victory. Even if it could not completely defeat the Toyotomi army, it could prevent it from advancing westward, and a confrontation situation could be formed along the Seta River. The Maori army could take this opportunity to consolidate the gains of the war, recruit soldiers, and wait for the Tokugawa army to return from the victory in Aizu, and destroy the Toyotomi army in one blow.

Amano's plan seemed to be seamless, and it was indeed as he thought in the early stages of the withdrawal, and the Toyotomi army did not attack until the early morning of the 28th, when the temple army retreated. However, when the former army arrived near Nagayoshi Pass, it was attacked by a small scale by the people of the country of Kuritai County, and the battle lasted less than three quarters of an hour, and ended with the retreat of the Kuritai people, although he felt inexplicable about the attack of the people of the country, but Motomasa Amano did not think much about it, but after arriving at the Nagayoshi Pass, he waited for the rear army to join the army according to the original plan and then marched to Otsu Castle.

At noon, the Chinese army and the temple army joined forces and marched to the area of Mt. Usayama, where they thought they had escaped, but here they were attacked by the 6,000 Maeda army who had taken a shortcut in the early morning to ambush nearby. The day before, Ogasawara Takakiyoshi saw that Mt. Hachimanta was heavily guarded, and it would be difficult to succeed even if he attacked at night, so he suggested that Maeda Toshimasa send a surprise attack team to quickly advance along the path to an ambush near Mt. Usa. As the only way from Mt. Hachiman to Nagayoshi Pass, it was inevitable that the Maori army would pass through this place, and an ambush here would surely be rewarding.

When it was learned from the envoy that the Maori army was retreating in three batches, Maeda Toshimasa and Takakiyo decided to let go of the 10,000 elite troops in the vanguard and focus on attacking the Chinese army and the temple army behind. In order to make the temple army lose their vigilance, the two deliberately did not launch an attack in the early morning, but asked the whole army to assemble at the southern foot of Mt. Goto, wait for the Maori army to go far away and then follow the advance, and strive to cooperate with the ambush soldiers in the area of Mt. Usa to destroy the 10,000-strong army in one fell swoop.

The Usayama ambush began with the three-stage attack of the Maeda army's iron artillery, and under the early suppression of the bow and iron cannon ashigaru, the cavalry team was able to successfully cut the Maori army, and as the army fell into chaos, the ashigaru team entered the battle, and the Maori army collapsed in a short time, but fortunately, there were old ministers such as Mori Motoyasu in charge, and the battle lasted for about half an hour, and the Maori army gradually recovered from the panic and began to counterattack the Maeda army. The Maeda Army did not have an advantage in terms of strength, but in order to buy time for the main force to arrive, it still bit the Maori Army to the death, greatly reducing the speed of its withdrawal.

In the process, Maeda Shigetomo Takayama and Aoyama Yoshiji were killed in battle, and the Iron Artillery Corps also withdrew from the battle due to the repeated charges of the Maori army, but fortunately, the sacrifice of these people was not in vain, and the main force of the Toyotomi Maeda coalition army arrived at the time of the most stalemate of the battle, and immediately launched a fierce attack on the Maori army.

Knowing that he was invincible, Mori Motoyasu led the cavalry to withdraw from the battle to Changji Pass, so the battle situation became clear in an instant, and under the attack of an army several times his size, the Mori Ashigaru who remained on the battlefield was like a fish on the ground, and let it be slaughtered. In less than half an hour, the battle was basically over, and the Toyotomi Maeda coalition army counted a total of 4,000 Maori corpses under the banner of "one character and three stars" everywhere, and nearly 2,000 wounded and captured.

The Maeda army's ambush troops also suffered heavy losses in this battle, in addition to a few important ministers killed, a total of nearly 3,000 people, including the iron artillery team, were killed, accounting for about half of the total number of ambush soldiers. An ambush battle was fought so fiercely, which neither Maeda Toshimasa nor Takakiyoshi expected, but this was not the time to regret it, in order to completely destroy the Maori army, the army continued to pursue westward after a short rest, and at this time, Amano Motomasa encountered an accident outside Otsu Castle.

It turned out that when the Maori army was fighting fiercely with Kuri Taizhong, a team sent by Takakiyo took the opportunity to bypass the Maori army and rushed to Otsu Castle to persuade Kyogoku Takaji's retainer Akao Izu Mamoru to try to delay the Maori army into the castle and buy time for the Toyotomi Maeda coalition army. Out of resentment towards Amano's previous seizure of Otsu Castle and the seizure of grain and grass in the castle, as well as his trust in the Toyotomi army, Akao Izu Mamoru agreed to Takakiyo's request and refused Amano's request to let him open the castle on the grounds that "there is not enough grain and grass in the city, so please send grain and grass to the city first".

Motomasa Amano only felt that this was Akao Izumori's revenge for his previous seizure of grain and grass, and did not think of the Toyotomi Maeda coalition army behind him, so he persuaded him and asked Akao Izumori "How can there be a reason to send grain and grass into the city before the army moves." But Akao was determined not to let him enter the city, and in desperation, Motomasa Amano really planned to send half of the grain and grass into the city first.

But at this moment, Mori Motoyasu and the remnants rushed to converge, and Amano Motomasa was shocked, and while scolding Motoyasu for his poor command, he felt that the matter of entering the city could not be delayed any longer, so he decided to attack Otsu Castle with all his might.

There were only 400 peasant soldiers in Otsu Castle, but Akao Izu Mamoru had already taken precautions, and relying on fortifications did not allow the Maori army to take much advantage of the charge. Seeing that it was difficult to capture for a while, Motomasa Amano decided to abandon Otsu Castle and retreat to Osaka via Fushimi in order to avoid being annihilated by the Toyotomi army.

Maeda Toshimasa and Takakiyo, who arrived later, felt that it was too variable to continue westward into the Yamashiro and Hanoi areas controlled by the Maori army, and that the Maori army was unable to launch a counteroffensive for a while after this battle, so they gave up the idea of pursuing and entered Otsu Castle to rest. At the same time, he sent someone to infiltrate Osaka and deliver a letter to Ishida Mitsunari and Ukita Hideya, hoping that the two could persuade Mori Terumoto to withdraw from the army and prevent the residence of Hideyoshi and Hideyori from being destroyed in the war.