Enraged, the Sultan decided to personally lead his troops to teach such an arrogant Dracula a lesson. He quickly deployed and assembled 150,000 troops, and a major war was about to break out. In fact, the Sultan has long had ambitions to attack Western Europe, and successive Sultans have basically wanted the whole of Europe and even the world to be bathed in the light of Allah God. The reason why Dracula has been allowed to be arrogant for several years is because Constantinople has just been taken, and many internal affairs need to be handled, and foreign forces on all sides also need to be properly handled. What the Sultan never expected was that Dracula not only disobeyed the Sultan's rule, but also tortured and killed his own emissaries. Such a blatant rebellion, if not punished, would be a formidable act of anti-Ottoman forces, and if these forces colluded, Ottoman rule would be in great trouble.
Mohammed II
But there were many more things that the Sultan never expected. From the moment he killed the Ottoman emissaries, Dracula knew there would be a day. Unwilling to be a puppet, a war with the Ottoman Empire was inevitable. Dracula also quickly gathered an army of 24,000 and marched south to defend against the Ottoman army. Fending off an Ottoman army of 24,000 with 150,000 was an absolutely crazy move. There are very few cases in history of winning more with less, unless the opposing general is extremely incompetent or leads a ragtag crowd. The Ottoman Empire had just destroyed the Eastern Roman Empire, with plenty of food and grass and a strong army. Will Dracula be able to withstand this elite division?
Dracula is not a man who only abuses and loves to kill. Over the years of his career as a hostage, he not only worked hard to learn a lot of knowledge about governing the country. He studied marching and fighting in depth, especially the Ottoman army structure, deployment, and so on. This also laid a solid foundation for the victory of the next war.
Dracula ordered a force to pretend to be Ottoman cavalry to sweep all the way along the Danube Toward the Ottoman Empire and wrote to the Ottoman sultan to show off, claiming to have killed more than 20,000 Turks. The Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II was so enraged that he led his troops directly to Dracula. Faced with the familiar structure of the Ottoman barracks, Dracula planned a "decapitation operation". Taking advantage of the night to raid the Austrian camp, the Austrian army could not react quickly, and was beaten to the head, and many soldiers lost their lives in the panic. Dracula led his elite men to pound the Sultan's tent. It was only under the resistance of the Sudanese Janissaries that the "decapitation operation" was unsuccessful. But the raid killed 15,000 Ottoman soldiers at the cost of 5,000.
Ottoman cavalry
Who would have thought that Dracula would be so crazy that he took the initiative to raid the Ottoman camp and almost "beheaded" the sultan. The sultan was furious again and led his troops in pursuit of the retreating Dracula. During the pursuit, Muhammad saw the most horrific scene he had ever seen in his life. It was a "forest" with more than twenty thousand stakes, each of which was dressed in a man. The entire "forest" is 3 km long and 1.2 km wide and emits a terrible putrid smell. Flocks of crows fly, chirp and peck through the forest. Mehmed II was stunned by the view in front of him and ordered an immediate withdrawal. Except for the hell of Dante's "Divine Comedy", where there are such terrible scenes, how can there be such a tragic scene in the human world? What kind of demon would do such a thing?
Puncture the forest
Dracula's story quickly spread throughout Europe, earning him the title of "Puncture Duke". Of course, what awaited Dracula was not a verbal condemnation, but a feast of praise, and Dracula became a national hero who destroyed the pagans. Vlad II, Dracula, and The Puncture were well-known in Europe and are still regarded as democratic heroes in Romania. However, such an evil and brutal act is absolutely manipulated by an incomparably twisted heart, and how can such a murderous desire not lead to bad luck? Just as Dracula was immersed in the thrill of victory and revenge, a plan against Dracula quietly unfolded.
After the Ottoman army retreated, Mehmed II, unwilling to accept defeat, began the second "pseudo-Wallachian regime" plan. Dracula's younger brother, Radu, who had gone with him to the Ottomans as a hostage, was sent back to Wallachia. When Ladu returned, he turned against Dracula and ended up fighting each other. Although Dracula won several victories at first, his brother's betrayal made his twisted heart even more vicious and tyrannical. The people and the old aristocratic forces could no longer tolerate his oppressive rule and fell to Radu.
Desperate, Dracula had to turn to King Matthias of Hungary for help. King Matthias, who ascended the throne because of his non-royal blood, was fighting against the aristocracy and strengthening the king's power, and had no time to help Dracula against the Ottoman Empire (Radu's rebellion was the Ottoman Empire's "pseudo-wa regime plan"). Dracula was imprisoned in the Castle of Visegrad for 12 years, and Dracula's younger brother Radu became The Third of Radula. The conspirators go around preaching that "Dracula is dead", his beloved wife mistakenly believes the rumor and dies for him, and Dracula loses the last glimmer of light in this world. The movie "Four Hundred Years of Thrilling Love" tells their love story.
12 years in captivity turned Dracula into a walking corpse. In order to allow Dracula to fight for him, the Hungarian king of Matthias demanded that Dracula convert to Catholicism and that his sister betrothed to him. Dracula regained his freedom after acceding to King Matthias' request. He quickly defeated Radu and ruled Wallachia for the third time. However, due to the conversion to Catholicism, the people of Wallachia, who believed in Orthodoxy, were basically lost.
In the winter of 1476, the year after his release, Dracula fought the Ottoman Turkish Empire with his own small army in the suburbs of Bucharest and was killed in the last soldier without foreign assistance. After the Turkish army later dismembered Dracula, the head was sent to the capital Istanbul (formerly Constantinople) and worn on a wooden stake for public display. Now the "Snakov" monastery in Romania enshrines only the soul of Dracula, who is said to be the eternal guardian of Romania.
It has to be said that Dracula's genius ability and tragic experience have created such a life. From childhood, Dracula was displaced, tortured and imprisoned, his father and brother were killed by traitors, his brother betrayed the family, his wife martyred himself, and the four people closest to him left him. During his house arrest, he gave up his faith in despair, and his long life of house arrest, which did not see the light, made him suffer from the strange disease of fear of light and water and excitement of blood. It is rumored that he has sold his soul to the devil and become a "vampire". (End)