Something I either forgot or didn't fully absorb when I was reading this as a kid, is not only how absolutely down to the wire the final battle is, but how completely out of nowhere the turnabout is, especially from the perspective of the villains.
Ferahgo had spent all summer slowly starving the hares and psychologically wearing down Urthstripe, then launched an ambush that left Urthstripe close to death, and finally breached the mountain when the hares were forced to leave it open in order to get Urthstripe to safety. The Corpsemakers were inside! The Long Patrol was losing! The biggest threat to Ferahgo was the mountain's one badger, and he was unconscious and swaddled up in bandages while Oxeye and the rest were getting ready for a last stand.
And then suddenly the place is swarming with an army of shrews plus one angry mole girl with an oar, a squirrel swinging a sword made of meteoric iron, and three more badgers. And from the point of view of the vermin, there is literally no reason for any of them to be there! The entire Long Patrol had been trapped in the mountain the whole time! Why are there three extra badgers?! Where the fuck did all these shrews come from?! The narrative even acknowledges how absolutely fucking flummoxed Klitch and Ferahgo are about this, culminating in Klitch literally grabbing a random henchman and screaming "NOBODY TOLD ME ABOUT THIS!"
It's not the first or last time in the series that the day is saved by eleventh hour reinforcements, but I feel like it's one of the more egregious examples of two wildly disparate storylines converging. Samkim and Arula have no reason to be there, everyone here is just like
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