 Despite the apocryphal, the siege ended in Hōjō victory when Masashige and his men were cut off from water.When Masashige and Moriyoshi escaped the first fortress, Masashige contacted the local merchants he had connections with and managed to raise a new army with the funds provided to him by them.After retaking Lower Akasaka, he built Kami-Akasaka upon a small plateau surrounded on three sides by a low valley.