If the villagers were armoured, had weapons and were well trained then maybe they could have put up at least some resistance, but they weren’t any of those.

All of them were malnourished, skinny and meek; their weapons were as primitive as they could be, and as for training? Well, they had none. They relied on paralysis poison and numbers to kill. Individually they were nothing, and they all fell like dead grass before a scythe.

It was not a battle, it was a massacre.