Pay you with your life

This might be a group of men that attacked the others outside the gates as well. Where were the rest? Were all of them defeated? 

One of the female shadow guards released a signal of help. They were regretting to not have done this in the first place. Their overconfidence had just ended up hurting their Wangfei. 

They tried to fight and save Gao Lan Mei at the same time.  While attacking and defending, the female shadow guards used their feet to kick parts of the collapsed mud wall to slowly dig their Wangfei out. 

Kai Kai was attacked as well by the men who had saved Ming Ya, the hound was angrily retaliating. 

"Young Miss sorry we are late." Li Shao apologized faking while helping Ming Ya to get a hold of herself. Why would they care if Ming Ya lived or died aside from the fact that half of their payment was not given yet?