The Battle Gets Fierce!.Ooarai manages to escape Kuromorimine's ambush by using smokescreens to conceal their movements, and take up defensive positions on top of a hill. A fierce battle begins, with Ooarai managing to disable several enemy tanks before taking advantage of a distraction created by the Turtle Team to retreat. On their way to their next destination, however, Ooarai has to ford a wide river. Midway across the river, the Rabbit Team's tank stalls, leaving Miho with the difficult choice of either continuing onward and leaving the Rabbit Team behind, or stopping to help and risk having Kuromorimine catch up to the entire Ooarai team. With the encouragement of her crew, Miho reaches a decision and takes a tow line over to the stricken tank, allowing the other Ooarai tanks to tow the Rabbit Team across. Ooarai then makes its way to an abandoned town, which Miho intends to use to engage Kuromorimine in urban combat. However, they run into Kuromorimine's trump card, the Panzer VIII Maus. Impervious to Ooarai's weapons, the Maus quickly knocks out the Mallard and Hippo Teams as the main Kuromorimine force continues to speed across the countryside towards the town.