The troopers hit the dirt as a man shouted "Contact!" They slammed down into the gulley, the high grass hiding their location. Explosions tore through the air, sending high pillars of soil into the air. Only for it to come hailing back down upon them. Hasjo swept his gaze across, one of the explosives were about to land on them. He raised his hand and flicked his fingers, the bomb barreling away from them. Crashing into the fields. Hasjo looked over his men, confirming they were alright. "Frankie got hit" a soldier could be heard calling. Silence filled the air as medics tended the wounded. Hasjo brought his armoured wrist to his mouth, opening a comm link to May "Commander, prep the ships for a landing vector. They know we're here. I'll send you the coordinates when recon has got the grid. Organise November Company for hot insurgence." The Nautolan rested himself against the earth, where a riverbed had once rested in times past. The Jedi didn't appear like the ordinary Jedi. The General was garbed in Phase II armour, jungle camouflaged. A helmet sat under his arm, specialised for his head-tresses. He flipped the helm and slid it over his head. The clasps clicking into place. His webbed, clawed hand curled around the Lightsaber Pike at his hip.
A scout crackled over the radio, cutting through the deafening silence of those in the gully. "Grid kilo-two-three is hot. Recommend mission abort." First Lieutenant Astron glanced to the Jedi Knight, "Your call, General."
"Dig in. Thin the lines. We're staying put until November can relieve us."
"Right you're sir" Astron responded, taking a long blaster rifle from a sleeve "You'll need 'er"
Hasjo took the rifle and shouldered it, nothing now distinguishing him from the other troopers. But that of a long, metallic hilt clasped to his belt. He glanced over the gully and the long grass that concealed their numbers. He could see the approaching LAAT/i's. Soldiers piling out. Hasjo raised a hand, signalling a hold fire. They kept their heads low as laser turrets tore through the fields in massive diagonal swaths. Hasjo glanced to Fireteam Zulu, clenching his finger and then signalling an index finger. They nodded in understanding. They got onto their knees, exposed as they stood out of the thick, tall grass. Unshouldering RPG's, they quickly loaded them and set off volleys of rocket-propelled fire towards the LAAT's. As soon as they were out, they stood and sprinted away from Juliets position. He was surprised they had spotted them in the gullies and fields of great grasslands. They had kept themselves well concealed. They must have had sensors.
Hasjo nodded to First Lieutenant Astron. The officer whispered into the companies comms "Open fire, give 'em hell." They remained prone on the ground, reducing themselves as targets as much as possible. Blaster fire shredded through the air, eviscerating all that stood in it's path. Hasjo glanced down the iron sights of his long rifle, taking several shots at the enemy. Blaster fire was quickly returned as the massive field became a war zone. "I need a medic over here!" an unnamed corporal called. "Grenade out" a grenadier informed them in warning to keep their heads down. The Sixth Battalion weren't green boys. They were veterans of the Galactic Republic, and trained in unconventional warfare. They knew strategy and tactics like they knew the back of their hands, and the trigger of their rifles. They were pinned down, but the grass, gulley and prone stature was giving them a significant upper hand in their defence. Fireteam Zulu considered their zigzagging, firing off potshot RPG's at the LAAT's. Zulu was losing troopers, and fast. There was nothing Hasjo could do, or perhaps there was. He tossed aside his rifle, rolling onto his back. He unclipped his double-bladed Lightsaber Pike and ignited it with a hiss of cerulean plasma. He then launched it, high into the air at one of the various LAAT's, using the force to guide it. Attempting to cleave through the ships cockpit. He clenched his hand, returning the Lightsaber Pike back to his grasp. It shot through the air, back into his hand.