Hours earlier with the marines
Sounds of bullets and explosions can be heard as hundreds of tanks and men were at battle against each other.
The clones had started a massive offensive on the terrans and they outnumbered them drastically after they had dropped off an entire army of clones after their night attack. To make matters worse they had lost contact with the navy and were now on their own for the time being.
The battlefield was now filled with thousands of clones charging at the terrans lines as they opened fire on them with everything they had. A few yards from the battle, squads of terran marines were running towards the battle as tanks and Mechs followed along side them.
"Come on marines! We have to defend this position at all costs!" A marine yells to his squad as they advance.
As they run towards the rest of their forces, hundreds of blue blaster fire can be seen coming there way as the thuds of explosions rain down of them. Terran marines can be seen in foxholes with some even laying on the ground as they fired at the charging clones.
"There's to many of them. At this rate they are going to be right on top of us." A marine says as he lays down on the ground to deploy his machine gun tripod before spraying the clones with a hail of bullets.
"Just keep firing. They'll have to run out of clones to throw at us at some point." Another marine says as he spends magazine after magazine on his weapon.
"Tank! Get down." A marine yells as he dives to the ground as a big blue bolt hits into a line of marines killing most of them.
Those that survived the blast can be heard screaming in pain as they clutched their wound with some slowly dying in pain as they weakly called for help.
A combat medic can be seen trying to help stop the bleeding of one his squad members that was caught in the blast, but he slowly dies in his arms as he bleed to death. The medic calls his name out twice as he desperately tries to keep him awake, but it's to late as his eyes roll in the back of his head now dead. The medic now frustrated and filled with anger throws his medical tools on the ground before screaming out loud.
"Ahhhhh! Those fucking bastards! I'll kill them! I'll kill them all!" The medic screams as he witnessed the deaths of his brothers. As he is about to jump out of cover, another marine tackles him to the ground trying to get him to calm down with little success.
As the marines are getting hammered by waves of clones, the tanks are not doing any better as they slowly back up as the clones are almost on top of them. Some of the tanks don't even get the chance to respond before completely blowing up under a rain of rockets fired at them.
"Just what the fuck are we up against? The entire clone army!?" A marine yells out as he stands up firing his machine gun from the hip as well with one hand while a pistol was in the other as he backs up.
"Get the flamethrower!" Another marine says desperately as he hip fires not even caring about his accuracy as multiple clones run in front of him. As he runs out of ammunition for his rifle he switches to his pistol firing at them as he slowly backs up.
Seconds later a big man wearing protective gear to withstand the flamethrowers heat walk up before spraying the advancing clones with it as they scream in pain before dying a painful death. As the flame trooper burns them he laughs hysterically at the burning men.
"Hahahahah! How it feels to burned alive! Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves with it. But for me it brings great pleasure to see you burn to death. Hahahahah!" The flame trooper yells with joy as he sprays fire at his enemies that are well over forty yard's away from him.
A few yards from the front lines a Terran man can be seen standing in the middle of their command post as he looks around as marines around him run around trying to help any way they could to stop the clones advancements. As he does this he loads a magnum revolver before a Terran marine runs over to him with his radio.
"General I think I've made contact with our fleet. I'm not one hundred percent sure it's them but this may be our only shot at telling them our situation if it's them. What are your orders sir." The marine says to the general.
The general makes one last glance at the battle they are in before turning towards the operator.
"Broken arrow." The general says patting his back before walking off.
The marine looks at the general as he walks off stunned before talking through the comms hoping anyone can hear his message.
"To any Terran forces that can hear this. Broken arrow! We are being surrounded! I say again broken arrow! Broken arrow! They are charging through our lines!" The operator yells.
"If anyone hears this acknowledge back." The operator says.
"We hear you loud and clear. Help is on the way. Just hold on a little longer." A voice says. The marine on the comms breaths a sigh of relief that someone heard him.
"What is going on down there?" The person on the other side says as the clones assault on them continues.
"Those clones charged us when they were sent more troops. They are losing mass amount of troops, but they are slowly starting to overwhelm us with their numbers." The marine says.
We won't be able to hold our ground if this- incoming!" A random marine yells out as clone tank fires it's main gun at their command post throwing the operator back.
As he looks up the only thing left of their command post was now a huge hole as smoke poured out of it. As he slowly gets up the clones had now advanced on top of them and many of them were in hand to hand combat.
A marine not in combat yet yanks him up before handing him shotgun.
"Get up marine! This will be our last stand. If we're going out. We're going out with a bang." He says as he charges at the marines while shooting his last shots at the clones before taking a knife out and thrusting it in one of the clones.
Multiple Terran marines can be seen hitting clones with the stock of their weapons before more clones show up taking their place. The situation for them was looking bad and it really did seem like they were making a last stand against an army of clones.
A marine that was badly wounded makes the decision to pick up the last of his grenades and strap them across his chest before activating one and running towards a group of clones as he explodes killing an entire area of clones with him.
With a battle cry he runs into the battle firing the shotgun at the closest clone to him as it kills them in one shot with some even losing entire limbs because of how powerful it was.
As they continue to fight a clone comes from behind him ready to fire his gun at the Terran, but before he gets the chance to pull the trigger a energy blade comes from our of his chest as levitates off the ground as a outline of a tall figure can be faintly seen before it completely disappears as the energy sword deactivates.
This can be seen across the battlefield as clones fall everywhere, but does little to change the outcome of the battle.
As the rest of the surviving marines are about to fall back a loud explosion is heard as a big group of clones are killed from it. It seemed as if the battlefield had become quiet as no one knew where it came from as the marines also didn't know where it came from.
"Reinforcements!" A marine yells pointing at the air as pelicans and bombers fly down towards the battlefield. While the bombers create a wall of explosions on the advancing clones the pelicans drop off supplies and troops as they help the tired marines.
"About time you bastards showed up. We were about to have all the fun." A marines says grinning as he stumbles trying to walks with a messed up leg as a sign of him being shot was visible.
"Get a medic over here." An army soldier says supporting the marines weight on him as he brings him to get treatment.
Just like that the clones advancement on the terrans had been stopped with them having heavy loses on their side. It wasn't just the clones that had lost many men, but the marines had also lasky many with it being ni where near as many as the clones, but it was enough to put a sizeable dent into their ranks. It would have been more if it hadn't been for the cloaked soldiers that had helped them they might of all been dead and all trace's of them were not found.
The clone army had suffered a devastating defeat and the Terran marines had won, but at a cost. The most noticable thing about the clones that had attacked them was that they were not the original clones that they had attacked during the night. It almost seemed like they were just thrown at them with whoever was commanding them was hoping they won with no tactics but waves of men.
The Terran forces didn't seem to care about this though since it just gave them an higher chance to kill clones that may have killed their brothers with minimal loses on their side compared to them. It seemed as if the battle for Ryloth was going to be a longer battle for than they thought, but they weren't complaining. Most of them had faced worst situations than this and some even said this was just a walk in the park compared to the other wars they had.
And honestly...they were right, but the republic and separatist wasn't going to know about this until much later.
In space above Ryloth
The space battle over Ryloth had not toned down and multiple fighter squadrons with galm team leading them were picking off ships as they speed by.
As they continued to fight, a few miles away hundreds of ships appeared out of hyperspace.
It was the mandalorians and their entrance in the war was about to begin starting with this battle.