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Toyotomi Hideyoshi, having learned of the assassination of his lord, quickly signed a peace treaty with the Mōri and, alongside Tokugawa Ieyasu, rushed to be the first to avenge Nobunaga and take his place. He force-marched his army to Settsu in four days, catching Mitsuhide off guard, with a strength of 20,000 men. The two forces met at the Battle of Yamazaki, and Hideyoshi immediately seized the advantage by securing the 900 foot heights of Tennozan; his vanguard maneuvered against the Akechi forces along the Emmoyji river, starting a rout lasting only two hours after the battle had begun, and enacting revenge for his master’s death. Upon fleeing Yamazaki, Mitsuhide died en route to Sakamoto, killed by a peasant warrior, Nakamura, with a bamboo spear.