Myths and Tales form Greece and Romania May 2012 | Page 109

Following the multiple campaigns against the
invading ottoman turks. Vlad would never show mercy
to his prisoners of war. The road to the capital of
Wallachia eventually became inundated in a "forest" of
20,000 impaled and decaying corpses, and it is
reported that an invading army of Turks turned back
after encountering thousands of impaled corpses along
the Danube River.