What ended up happening in this case was that MY big friend and I attacked. 2 of them. What I believe happened was our show of aggresion stopped the others from continuing. They were pretty shocked at the speed in which those two were on their backs.
I took the guy down by quickly hitting him in the head, followed by grabbing and kicking his leg out from under him, we then kinda tumlbled down a hill, I ended up on top, with a few more strikes to the head he was done. I told him I was done fighting and he should leave ASAP before it gets worse. He said okay so I let him go. Same sort of thing happened to my friend. The bad guys were kind of shocked and I don't think they wanted to try it anymore. Pretty much ended the situation.
We did have a major advantage in that we were situated on the top a very steep hill/cliff. I guess it could be considered luck that I ended up on top, thus being able to continue hitting him, But I don't believe in luck only skill