Implementing Secret Passage through Chen Cang - 36 Strategies
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Implementing Secret Passage through Chen Cang - 36 Strategies
Implementing "Secret Passage through Chen Cang" would sometimes be confused with "Feign an Attack in the East and Attack in the West", but there are subtle differences. "Implementing Secret Passage through Chen Cang" focus on the directions of attack instead and there are no fake objectives over here, only one objectives to be capture.
At the objective, you are making the rival focus on a direction and that is the direction that they believe you are coming from. For instance, in the illustration, General Zhang Han's attention was focus on the main route out of Shu, the most likely direction the Han troops are coming, since they are preparing the wooden bridges again. Thus they gather all their troops to defend that position resulting in the rear being weak. And the rest is like what is depicted in the illustration, General Zhang Han was defeated because the defence at the position where the actual Han troops are coming from was weak.
What are the factors that would lead to the successful implementation of "Implementing Secret Passage through Chen Cang"? Well the factors are the same as that of "Feign an Attack in the East and Attack in the West"
- Nature of Decoy
- Time from Realizing Decoy to Prevention
Nature of Diversion
The nature of the decoy is important. It must be such that the receiving party would believe that you are actually coming in that particular direction. He would then strengthen his defense so that you would not capture the objective. This leads to the point where you need to sustain the diversion. The longer you can make him believe that you are coming in that direction, the more time allowance you have in achieving reaching those positions where the defense is weak.
Time from Realizing Decoy to Prevention
This refers to the time period from the receiving party realize that they have been tricked by the decoy to strengthening the actual direction's defense position. If you are able to make the time lag in between these two points in the strategy execution to be as long as possible, you have a likely chance of capturing the objective.
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