The line at Kalisz collapses and a scratch squad is cut loose with a VIP in tow, mushroom clouds rising on every horizon. With two of their own badly hurt, Hurricane leads them into the ghost town of Kępno hunting for medical supplies - and finds a Soviet patrol instead. A rooftop ambush, a blown tyre, and a stranger in a tiara at a barricaded settlement near Oleśnica close out the first day of the rest of the war.