"Li cha, Weilian and Huang, help me take care of this old beggar!"

"Nooo!"

"Lei! Where is Lei?"

"Boss!"

"I want you to leave and tell old Jiao and old Cao to bring our stuff from the hotel. We can't stay in this city anymore. Bring the purebloods here, we need to escape as soon as possible. Have the two of them wait for us with the baggage and the other horses outside the city."

"No! Boss, I'll go ahead."

"Saya, you and the others barricade the stairway."

The tall and lanky retainer replied...

"No, boss."

With 3 people bearing down on the old man, he was soon trapped with nowhere else to go even though he was better than them. Li Cha was the tank attacking recklessly, Weilian was the damage dealer hounding the old man's flanks and Huang was the support aiming to hold the old man down while his new force still has'nt been brewed. And held him down, Huang did, thus prompting Li Cha and Weilian to also support the old Huang in holding down the beggar. They wrestled the old man and used the strength they use to suck milk in order to be able to barely hold the old beggar down long enough for Lin Feng to deal the coup de grace. Smashing a big winejar to the old beggar's head, Lin Feng finally put an end to the old beggar's rampage.

"Woah! That was intense!"

Lin Feng took a look around the place and saw that Saya, He, and Huo are barely holding the stairway, which by the way, is now barricaded after pushing out all the unrelated passerby out of the way.

"Boss, its Ouyang Feng, I think he's gonna make a move."

"Wew, its so tiring already. Saya, get a chair for me to stand on!"

"Here, boss!"

Lin Feng, while he standing on the chair, was barely able to support the defense line with his throwing skills against the renewed, combined offense of the people from the upper floor and lower floor. If it were'nt for the timely help of Weilian and Li Cha, these two who plug the defensive gaps, they surely won't be able to stop the attack of 15 2nd class martial fighter, 3 1st class martial fighter and 1 D rank martial expert. Thankfully, Huang soon tied up the beggar Huang Qigong like a BDSM chicken, thus freeing up everybody on the team to focus down on holding the floor.

"Not dissapointing the boss!"

"Good! Now we just need to wait for Lei."

Meanwhile, Lei, who jumped into the alleys of Garkash, saw the beggars marching in groups to the restaurant. With renewed energy, he ran to the Millenium Hotel, cursing himself for having two legs instead of four. He forcibly entered the lobby and ran straight to the rooms and found the retainers old Jiao and old Cao playing chess. The exhausted Lei then spoke...

"Hurry, you two, pack up, the things, and leave, the city, with the horses. Boss Lin, has done something, and he needs, to get out, of the city, quickly. We need you, to stand by, the western gate, to open the way, out of the city, just in case, things go awry."

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"Damn it! That kid really did it!"

"But what about general Tang Feng and Sergeant Hao?"

"We'll find, a way to contact them, but first, we need to leave, fast!! I'm going ahead with the purebloods."

In the restaurant, when Lei left and just after the retainer's repelled the attack, Lin soon told the group his plans.

"Once they find out that head on attack isn't possible, they'll try more cunning methods. Now, I want to tell you the rest of the plan. First, Li Cha, I want you to leave the area to carry Mei Chaofeng with you. Remember the warehouse we passed by? You need to wait there for Lei and the horses."

"After Li Cha, Huang will bring the boy Guo Jing there. After Huang, Huo will go with the Huang girl."

"Li Cha, you go now. We'll cover up your escape. Before they yin us, we need to keep them on their toes first. Everyone, let's take the top floor, it would be easier to defend and more conducive to my other plans."

On the top floor, Ouyang Feng is shocked by the difficulty in taking down the second floor. He is looking at a chopstick that just stopped him on his tracks.

"These bandits are not simple."

"What do you think, Uncle?"

"Attacking directly is not good. We need to make an uproar in the east and strike from the west."

"Not good!! They are coming at us."

"The audacity! We can't do much in attacking them, but not respecting our defensive prowess of us Imperial scholars is too insulting. Let's show these turtles that we Imperial scholars are not to be trifled with."

The Imperial scholars stop the charge of Huang and Huo easily. After failing to enter the defense of the army, Huang retreated to the second floor.

"Only two?! These lowlifes look down on our Imperial scholars so much! Attack them, show them hell hath no fury than the scholar scorned."

The entrenched Imperial scholars renewed their attack by sending their entire force from the upper floor to strike the retreating Tang retainers to the lower floor. The people on the bottom floor, seeing the top floor attacking the second floor, also sent their troops to redress their grievances against the people on the second floor.

Lin Feng was joyful once he saw the enemy was lured in, hook, line and sinker. He then led a fierce ambush on the scholars rushing on the stairway. Spearheaded by the scary Weilian carrying the unconscious Hong Qigong as a shield, the retainers easily split the opposing team of scholars into two. thus, allowing the group to wipe out and throw the imperial scholars one by one to the ground floor below.

After sending all the scholars off with a quick trip to the ground floor, Huo was sent to bluff the ground floor into thinking the second floor's defenses is still complete while Huang left with Guo Jing in tow. The rest of the team forcibly attacked the almost vacant defenses on the top floor and they met the initial outburst of the 1 D rank martial expert supported by 2 1st class martial fighters with the poor body of the unsconscious Hong Qigong.

Lin Feng then used his amazing talent in disrupting the tempo of the enemy, and the supposedly three versus three fight turned into three separate instances of one versus three. Needless to say, the two Ouyangs plus one Imperial scholar were cornered and forced to leave the third floor by jumping to the ground floor, one by one. Seeing that the third floor is as good as captured, the strained Huo guarding the second floor relaxed and finally took the unconscious Huang Rong out of the restaurant.

Huo found that the restaurant has many beggars surrounding it already, but he saw Lei is leading a pureblood horse and next to him is Li Cha arguing with the group of beggars. Not one to miss an opportunity, Huo jumped out of the restaurant into the nearby establishment's shed, and the opposite of this establishment is the block where the warehouse is located. He then signaled something to Lei, who saw him, thus he promptly nudged Li Cha to stop. Lei adjusted his horse to wait for Huo to intersect with them out of the alley, then he put a cloak on the unconscious Huang Rong and the group then left to escort Huang Rong to the warehouse.

In the third floor, the three people are now at their wits end. They saw that too many beggars have surrounded the restaurant and that they have no place to escape from. Not only that, the Imperial scholars and the people from White Camel Mountain manor are now recuperating themselves in the groundfloor and based on the time, the cityguard could be arriving any moment. Just when it seems all hope is lost, the huge group of beggars began to get agitated.