Baptism of Fire

Did I do something wrong or is this literally the worst quest in the game so far? So I’m like level 8 and I don’t understand how I’m supposed to “deal with the archers” when I have a horrible bow because I have 500 coins to my name, zero arrows, and have no skills in archery because the only time I’ve had to use a bow was when I was hunting rabbits for a quest. wtf did they expect of me? Were there supposed to be people helping me kill the 15 archers and the quest just bugged out? One arrow and my whole health bar vanishes. Am I just severely under leveled or something? I just need to vent my frustration because this is such a cool quest bogged down by some bs.