 Hideyoshi took the rebellion as a personal affront to his authority and efforts to bring the Sengoku period to a close, and by mid-year organized a retaliatory army to retake northern Tōhoku and to restore the area to Nanbu Nobunao’s control.The army had 60,000 troops and a cast of the most famous generals in the Sengoku period, including Toyotomi Hidetsugu, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Uesugi Kagekatsu, Maeda Toshiie, Ishida Mitsunari, Satake Yoshishige, Date Masamune, Mogami Yoshiaki, Tsugaru Tamenobu and others.The army quickly suppressed the rebellion in many locations and reached the gates of Kunohe Castle by 2 September 1591.