User blog comment:Harold Burned-Mane/The Tale of Baslod - Part II/@comment-29461586-20160802090559/@comment-17114085-20160802115252

Well the Jarl's army has already been destroyed, so it won't cause Baslod any problems.

If he was fighting an opponent with a standing army of similar size then the bandit raid might have caused them serious problems for the remainder of the war.