Meanwhile, they were taught the handling of weapons by the famous experts from the sultan's Court. There, the young Romanian prince learned the cruel punishments that he applied later, during his reign. In 1444, Vlad the Impaler returned home; he was already a young man with a rich life experience.
In 1445, Vlad the Impaler was taking part in the expedition on the Danube organized by the Burgundy fleet and led by the knight Walerand of Wavrin, because his father, the ruler of Wallachia, Vlad the Devil, was participating too.
Narrating the expedition, the chronicler Jean of Wavrin showed that he was welcomed, at Braila, by the son of Wallachia's ruler accompanied by boyars. They thought that the Romanian prince was Vlad the Impaler, because he pursued an Ottoman troop in order to catch its leader, that was recognized by Vlad the Devil as one of the gaolers that had tortured him during his detention in Galipoli.
It also looks that, at that time, the ruler's son told Walerand of Wavrin something in secret, without using a translator. This fact stresses the idea that Vlad the Impaler was speaking German. Maybe the agreement with the Burgundian was made in the same language.
The first reign - 1448

It constituted an episode of the fight between the noble families of Danesti and Draculesti and of the intervention of the troops of akingi (auxiliary pray troops) who seized the opportunity by robbing the country.
The event took place in October - November 1448 in the context of the battle at Kossovopolje, when Wallachia's ruler, Vladislav II was in Serbia. The ephemeral character of the first reign of Vlad the Impaler, the fact that the proud Vlad the Impaler was beaten and banished from the country without the possibility of a subsequent riposte, probably were the elements that determined the future ruler not to recall this first reign later.
Settled at Brasov with the fugitive boyars from the Draculesti party, Vlad the Impaler, inured to the machinations from the sultan's Court, began patiently to hatch the net in which Vladislav II would have been caught.