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However you argue it, German and English are related languages and the root word "Schlacht" relates to "slaughter." In English, a slaughterman kills animals, a butcher cuts up the meat from there on. Obviously the two trades overlapped.
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Although I am not a linguist, German and Dutch are pretty similar, more so than English and German.
Schlacht may be more closely related to Schlagen or to hit (we in dutch have slaan and slag, to hit and strike - the latter corresponds perfectly with ground attack or ground
strike).
Not field of slaughter, but field of battle (hitting field).
Even the English Slain may be more closely related to hitting than slaying.
hitting, striking, slaying or slaughtering all the same root