The Christian Bulgarians are spared, however, and…

The Christian Bulgarians are spared, however, and many of them are settled in Wallachia.

When hearing about the devastation, Mehmed—who is busy besieging a fortress in Corinth—sends his grand vizier, Mahmud, with an army of eighteen thousand to destroy the Wallachian port of Brăila.

Ţepeş turns back and defeats the army, and according to the Italian chronicle de Lezze, only eight thousand Turks survive.

Ţepeş's campaign is celebrated among the Saxon cities of Transylvania, the Italian states and the Pope.

A Venetian envoy, upon hearing about the news at the court of Corvinus on March 4, expresses great joy and says that the whole of Christianity should celebrate Ţepeş's successful campaign.

An English pilgrim to the Holy Land, William of Wey, passing through the island of Rhodes while on his way home, writes that "the military men of Rhodes, upon hearing of Ţepeş's campaign, had Te Deum sung in praise and honour of God who had granted such victories....The lord mayor of Rhodes convened his brother soldiers and the whole citizenry feasted on fruit and wine."

The Genoese from Caffa thank Ţepeş, for his campaign had saved them from an attack of some three hundred ships that the sultan had planned to send against them.

Many Turks, now frightened of Ţepeş, leave the European side of their empire and move into Anatolia.

Mehmed, when hearing about the events, abandons his siege at Corinth and decides to go against Vlad Ţepeş himself.