Cheng Mingrui did not care much about Khorne's fleet. His Boss Slick's Ship had outstanding defenses; Chaos energy striking its force field was little more than a tickle. To overload the power system and break through the first layer of shielding, Khorne's fleet would have to bombard it at least a hundred thousand times.
Being ignored must have felt awful, because all the pursuing ships of Khorne's fleet turned and concentrated their fire on Boss Slick's Ship. There were over a thousand of them.
Empowered by Warp energy and built with large amounts of daemonic machinery, these Khorne Warships might have had weaker armor than the Imperium's warships, but their firepower was far superior. They hit hard, and they hit accurately.
Under such concentrated long-range fire, Boss Slick's Ship's force field strength dropped rapidly. Even now, Cheng Mingrui did not care. Boss Slick's Ship also had extremely high structural integrity, with large amounts of living metal forming its critical framework.
Cheng Mingrui was not being conceited: even if he let Khorne's fleet bombard Boss Slick's Ship for three days and nights without fighting back, they might still fail to sink it. These enemies were not worth activating the emergency Dimensional Rumble Cannon for.
As for not fighting back? Since when did Orks take a beating without hitting back? Without waiting for Boss Slick's orders, every weapon system aboard the warship opened up at full power as soon as Khorne's fleet entered range.
Space torpedoes and missiles struck Khorne's fleet first. A single volley wiped out a third of the fleet. Then came barrages of lances and macro-cannons. The folded space inside Boss Slick's Ship held ample reactor power, and its lances were powerful enough, its macro-cannon calibers large enough.
By the time Khorne's fleet closed to teleportation boarding range, only