It was obvious that the 9th wave was well underway, and based on the sounds of artillery he was hearing in the distance, the fighters had been pushed back by quite a bit, as Cole himself had logged off close to the defense line they had made. If he's showing up in the middle of a horde then they have been pushed quite far back, and with the sounds of battle still reaching his head, it was obvious this wasn't going as well as they had planned.
