The scenario is kinda ambiguous, but given the posted "situation," if I were being rapidly approached by four dudes with stated evil intentions; I'm out weighed by 100 pounds each; and given that I'm too old to get into "wrestling matches" with young thugs who would tear me to ribbons, and given that nine feet leaves virtually NO possibility of escape, I'd pull my Colt's Lightweight Commander and unless there was an INSTANT!!!!!! turning and running of the cowardly mutants, I'd shoot the nearest one in the chest, then the next, then the next, and if the fourth hadn't decided by then to take up a different profession, I'd drill that SOB in the head.
I've seen the results, far too many times, of innocent men and women who were either murdered, or beaten, stabbed, clubbed, nearly to death, their lives and health competely destroyed, for me to EVER put up with "negotiating" with some rotten pieces of dog feces on the bootheel of humanity.
FWIW. J.B.