Yeah, and as I was saying to Sanjikun yesterday, this explanation is would be simply incredibly dumb LOL:
It hasn't even remotely any narrative sense, building an entire chapter/cliffhanger on Zoro's supposed plan and how he executed it, while this should have been completely irrelevant.
It's basically lesson 1 in writing.
If that was the case, have simply Zoro confront them from the front and be done with it. You don't go around buliding plot on this.
Literally manga working 1:1.