Liu Zhipeng's heart suddenly sank.
His red bionic eye quickly brought up a live feed of the battlefield beyond the bridge.
Outside the Planet Killer's battered hull, hundreds of Chaos warships had converged from every direction like sharks scenting blood. They had abandoned their engagements with the Imperial Navy ships in orbit and turned every gun on the three out-of-place "wrecks."
At the breach where their flagship, the Good Teeth, Good Appetite, had driven its enormous Siege Drill into the Planet Killer, an even bloodier battle was unfolding, with both sides feeding more troops into the slaughter.
Thousands of Black Legion Space Marines, led by their Chaos Lords, surged forward like a tide, trying to charge through that single passage into the flagship, retake their bridge, and rescue their master.
The Big Tooth Gang's Ork Boyz held fast at the narrow entrance, building an impassable green wall of steel with their flesh, their teeth, and their fearless madness.
An Ork Nob, his body riddled with bolter shrapnel, still roared as he wedged his enormous bulk into the passage. His chain-powered cleaver had long since overheated and broken down, so he used his fists and his head to smash the Chaos Space Marines trying to squeeze past him!
"WAAAGH!"
In the end, after dozens of Chainswords pierced his body at once, he pulled the pins on every grenade he carried, taking the dozen or so Chaos Space Marines before him down with him.
The battle had become a slaughter beyond imagining.
"Fuck!"
Liu Zhipeng swore furiously, unwilling to accept defeat. He drove back Khârn's frontal charge with a swing of his axe, then took Lucius's sword through his shoulder blade, using the tremendous impact to leap backward and briefly break free of the fight.
There was no point in fighting any