Chapter 1303 Scattered Clues
The Intelligence Room can be said to be the organization with the largest number of people and the largest area in the First Army Headquarters. In order to screen and store the massive information, Lian and Fran opened an underground space for it exclusively for the use of the staff. Seventy percent of the nearly two hundred staff officers work here.
At the same time, it is also the office that consumes the most resources. It is not only equipped with rare luminous magic stones, but also provides free Chaos drinks for refreshing late at night. Its treatment is the envy of other departments.
But there are often complaints inside the intelligence room.
Since Pearl of the North put forward the espionage plan, the results have gradually begun to show. The number of secret messages sent from Everwinter and Wolfheart has increased from two or three a week to nearly a hundred a day now.
Although the main function of the General Staff was to analyze intelligence when it was established, at that time most of the intelligence came from reconnaissance and battle reports, which were not only neatly written, concise and concise, but also mostly traceable. However, these hundreds of messages every day are all irrelevant fragments. Even wording and forming sentences is a problem. It takes a lot of time just to understand the true meaning, making the selection process like a cumbersome jigsaw puzzle.
Of course that's not the worst.
Compared with reading and analyzing, processing secret messages is the most troublesome problem.
Theoretically speaking, the ever-increasing number of messages is really contrary to common sense. After all, the devil is now blocking the Red Mist border. It is not that easy to pass on the information. But after Hill Fox took over the job of spy manager, the method of passing on the information suddenly changed. Gotta be diverse.
For example, it could be tattooed on the inside of animal skins, or put into the sandwich of a pole, or simply stuffed into the belly of salted fish... As long as the nobles in the occupied areas did not stop trading, there was no way to prevent the flow of news from the enemy-occupied areas, even most of the time. Even the transmitter didn't know that he had become part of the intelligence chain.
But precisely because of this, there are many kinds of secret letters. For example, the feeling of taking out the silk strips from the belly of the fish is definitely not that good, let alone having to endure the fishy smell to clean it before checking it. .
If every day's work changes from leisurely drinking afternoon tea while writing reports to digging through a large pile of junk-like items to find all kinds of letters and then reducing them into usable information, anyone will be happy. Complain.
But even so, complaints are complaints, and no one dares to be lazy - after all, this department is also the institution that Edith and Iron Ax value most, and delaying work in front of them is undoubtedly asking for death.
Entering the intelligence room, Northland Pearl saw that Iron Ax was talking to Hill Fox, and there were dozens of notes on the table in the center of the room, which were obviously information that had been re-transcribed by the staff.
She scanned it roughly and found that most of these messages came from the Kingdom of Everwinter.
A large part of them are such as "An additional devil troop was stationed in the north of a certain city today", "A certain noble died inexplicably, and his title was succeeded by such and such", "There is a huge living stone monster infesting the border direction", etc. It is difficult to discern much valuable information from the scattered information without beginning or end.
But this is not surprising. The reason why the espionage plan can progress so quickly is not only due to Hill's contribution, but also has something to do with black money.
Since she suggested taking the initiative to contact the sender of the black card, the people behind the scenes have also come to the front - although they are only agents, they still frankly expressed their willingness to provide help to Graycastle. This organization originated from Dawn, and also has a certain influence in Wolf Heart and Everwinter. Of course, this influence is mainly reflected in the underground black market and rats.
Since it was information collected by rats, its quality would naturally not be that high. Perhaps there were a lot of street rumors and fallacies in it, but no matter how inefficient it was, it was still much better than the previous smear of darkness.
There were a few other things that caught her attention, that is, news of "forced recruitment of boatmen" appeared in several places.
"What do you think?" Iron Ax also noticed the arrival of the Northland Pearl and asked proactively.
"If I remember correctly, the Third Princess Garcia brought a large number of ships with her when she attacked Eternal Winter." Edith pondered for a moment, "If the church had not destroyed those ships, they would probably still be in Eternal Winter. somewhere."
"It seems that you care about this too."
"Compared to other intelligence, this news can at least be verified by many parties and has higher credibility." She spread her hands and said, "The role of sea ships is nothing more than transportation. Either the devil has a large number of troops that need to be transferred, or it is It is planned to launch an attack from the sea. However, I think the second point is unlikely."
"What's the reason?" Tie Ax asked.
"We have been fighting for so long. There is no reason for the devil not to know the power of artillery. Whether he attacks Grand Duke Island or Chenchi Bay on a sailing ship, he will be violently bombarded before landing. With the speed of the sailing ship, it is no different from dying." Yi Di Si explained, "As for sneaking around Wolf Heart Harbor and going directly deep into places such as Dawn, you will face the dilemma of insufficient red mist. So I prefer the former - for war purposes, the devil needs to gather his troops faster. On the front line, advancing both by land and water is the most reasonable choice."
After speaking, she looked at Hill and said, "What do you think?"
Hill bowed slightly towards Edith, "Sir, analyzing the battle situation is not my strong point, so I can't figure out what approach the enemy will take. Putting these clues together and giving them to the staff is the only thing I can do things to come.”
Quite a good talent.
Edith thought to herself, it is obviously more valuable to be able to carefully judge one's own talents and know where to take measures than to blindly agree with her. No wonder His Majesty appointed him to be in charge of the spy plan.
"Since you can't find any more clues, there's probably nothing we can do." Iron Ax said helplessly, "So we only know that the devils are mobilizing troops, but we don't know their specific distribution and strategic purpose. This is really frustrating. People are suffering.”
"The main reason is that Wolf Heart's evacuation was relatively complete, which cost Hill the opportunity to set up spies on the front lines. If you hadn't evacuated the residents, maybe we would have caught the devil's whereabouts long ago." Edith said half-jokingly.
"I don't dare to disobey His Majesty's orders." Iron Ax shook his head, "Besides...it's impossible for the First Army to put all its hopes on mice."
"Intelligence will not continue to be so trivial, sir." Hill Fox suddenly said.
Tie Ax raised his eyebrows and said, "You mean, these messages will become more and more complete?"
"That's right," he replied, "After staying at the Dawn Circus for so long, the most important thing I learned is that as long as the planning is reasonable, the intelligence line will automatically expand."
"Oh? Can you tell me in detail?" Edith asked with interest.
Please remember the first domain name of this book: . Dingdian novel mobile version reading website: