Good steel must be used on the blade's edge; now is not the best time for Monk and Yang Fan's teams to appear.
Shi Qinghua will hold on for a while longer, and even if it costs lives and injuries, he will not hesitate, aiming to make the people from the Skull Society outside believe that today, the Dark Night Army only has Shi Qinghua's forty-some people and no reinforcements.
The principle is simple: if there were reinforcements, they would definitely rush to help immediately given Shi Qinghua's complete encirclement.
Shi Qinghua did the opposite, creating the illusion that there are no reinforcements coming or that there might be none at all, confusing the people from the Skull Society outside thoroughly. Only when the timing is right and the two teams outside launch a sudden attack, will it truly catch the Skull Society off guard.
