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Mahabharat : Krishna's strategies to win the war

In Star Plus' Mahabharat, Krishna tells the Pandavas that it is essential that Bhishma Pitamah move away from the war field while at the same time Dronacharya be fighting Arjuna so that they can catch Duryodhana without any protection and this would have to be done by stealth which is the fundamental reason behind this war in any case. He tells them that the war can be won in 5 steps.

The second day of the war begins. Dhritrashtra asks Sanjay to relay to him the strategy of the Pandavas. Sanjay tells him that they have made an offensive formation in the shape of a conch shell with Yudhistra at the very end. Meanwhile Bhishma Pitamah plans to break this formation.

Arjuna invokes dark stormy clouds to cover the entire battlefield which serves as a signal for Yudhistra to start moving towards Hastinapur which is the first step to win the war according to Krishna. The second step Krishna tells them would be to get Bhishma Pitamah away from the field but Yudhistra raises doubts over the ethics of this step as moving away from the battlefield would be going against the principles decided upon for the war. However Krishna explains to him that even this is a kind of a war formation and convinces Yudhistra to do so.

Krishna then takes the third step and asks Bheema to inform Dushyasan about Yudhistra moving towards Hastinapur. On getting this information, Duryodhana asks Bhishma Pitamah to follow Yudhistra but both Dushyasan and Bhisma Pitamah are unconvinced about Yudhistra ever doing anything wrong. However Shakuni convinces them that in the greed to win, even Yudhistra can do wrong. He tells them that it would be easy for Bhishma Pitamah to kill Yudhistra as he would be alone in such a scenario.

The upcoming episode will see Krishna telling everyone that the fifth step would be Bheema killing Duryodhana and leading the Pandavas to victory. Will Krishna's strategies win the Pandavas the war?