Chapter 217: , Intelligence first

The Duke of Norfolk knew that in the upcoming battle, he must have the upper hand in absolute military strength. But in another aspect, he is at an absolute disadvantage-that is intelligence.
Because of the previous setbacks, fewer people in non-police areas are willing to cooperate with the British, and the difficulty and cost of buying them have risen substantially.
Even worse, the reliability of the information given by these people is also very problematic. These pieces of information often contradict each other, and even sometimes, the same person's information is obviously contradictory. This situation may occur because they are not professional intelligence personnel, so they cannot effectively distinguish; it may also be because these guys want to cheat more money, so they deliberately fabricate these shit. Something; of course there is another possibility that they are simply the guys on the side of the rebels, deliberately helping the rebels to mislead the British.
Of course, considering that many of the things sent by those guys are self-contradictory, the is too much, it's not like a really malicious traitor can do it (the maliciousness of cheating money is not counted), Then it is more likely that they have been discovered by the rebels, but the rebels saw them so stupid, so they deliberately kept them and used them to mislead the British.
In short, all intelligence in non-security areas is unreliable, even ridiculous. Among other things, take the portrait of the rebel leader as an example. There are more than a dozen portraits of the rebel leader Russell, each of which has the same appearance, and even the gender is different. In some portraits, Russell was even painted as a tall female soldier with slightly pointed ears, long chestnut hair and green eyes.
The Duke of Norfolk naturally knew that most of these portraits were nonsense, and Russell could not really be some kind of mythical creature. However, he still asked the soldiers to bring all the copies of the portraits (including the girl with pointed ears)-what if one of them was genuine? What if Russell is really Joan of Arc in Ireland?
As for the quasi-police areas, the intelligence work there is equally sparse, and the intelligence of the quasi-police areas is even more troublesome compared to non-security areas. Many of the "security forces" are guys who step on two boats, and you can’t believe all the news you get from them.
However, they are extremely diligent in reporting all kinds of information. For example, there is a detective captain named Jarvis. The information he sends every month about the traitors can be ordered into a book. Of course, in this book, It can be guaranteed to be true and reliable, probably not necessarily on a piece of paper; and in the true information that can be written on this piece of paper, there may not be a single sentence that is really useful; and such a useful sentence is timely Those who were picked out of this pile of stuff, and then it really worked, then even less.
In short, to obtain effective intelligence from them, the workload is too great. Therefore, the intelligence department has been requesting an increase in the number of people in order to improve the ability to process various information.
"Just to deal with one Jarvis, I need to add two more clerks. This idiot has reported the incident of the boss's male dog raped the West's as an intelligence report!"
As for the security zone, the main task at present is to catch bandits and spies.
For a period of time, especially when the first large-scale raid was a huge success, the work of catching bandit spies in the security area was quite successful, and the bandit spies were almost wiped out. But after the failure of the second sweep, the situation has changed dramatically. Many people, mainly the Irish, began to be less optimistic about the prospects of the British in the war. In order to "leave a way back", many guys started to step on two boats, turning a blind eye to the new infiltration of the rebels. , Close one eye. As a result, spies in the security zone became a problem again.
"If we can't do our intelligence work well, we will become blind again. And a blind man, even if he is strong and physically strong, will be the result of the battlefield, everyone knows. So this meeting, we have to arrange the first One thing is intelligence work." At the preparatory meeting before the sweep, the Duke of Norfolk and other officers and other officials said.
"Everyone knows that there will not be much time until the next round of clearance operations, so intelligence work must be done more closely. In the security zone, all suspicious persons must be immediately arrested. It is better to arrest a thousand by mistake. , Never miss one. The entire security area must act immediately. Even if we cannot catch all the spies in a short time, we must first isolate them so that their news cannot be spread at all! Understand? "
"Understood!" Several officials stood up and replied.
"In addition, our collection of intelligence on the rebels is unlikely to change significantly in a short period of time, so the focus of our work now can only be how to prevent the rebels from obtaining information about us. Gentlemen, Our opponents are very cunning and powerful. They have almost turned us into blind men. How can a blind man defeat a discerning man on the battlefield? The only way is to turn them into blind men, and then use us as The rich experience brought by the longer time of the blind will crush them." The Duke of Norfolk continued to preach, "So, how can we make our opponents blind too? Is there any way for you?"
"We strengthen confidentiality and prevent the various news that we mobilize from spreading?" an official said.
"If we do not need to use the'Irish Security Forces' for our operations, then there is a certain possibility." Another officer shook his head and said, "Those'Irish Security Forces' are full of two boats. The bad thing, let them know what to order in the morning. By noon, the rebels basically know everything."
"That is, unless all the guys from the'Irish Security Force' are put into the barracks, they are not allowed to run around."
"How is this possible? We are already limited in manpower, otherwise we don't need them. Now we have to send someone to stare at them, it would be better than..."
The Duke of Norfolk and others spoke for a while before speaking: "I found that everyone's thinking has entered a misunderstanding. Okay, now I ask everyone, if you want to make a person with good eyes invisible, what are the methods? ?"
"Blindfolded him."
"Put out his eyes."
The Duke of Norfolk shook his head: "You are so inexperienced. Think about how they blinded our eyes? In addition to blindfolding and gouging, what other methods did they use?"
Everyone was silent.
The Duke of Norfolk looked at everyone, shook his head, and sighed again: "There is another way to fill his eyes with stronger light! Just like mountain climbers, snow blindness will appear in the snowy mountains. Not because the light is too weak to see, but because the light is too strong to see.
We are looking at how our enemy blinds us, except blindfolded-to prevent us from seeing something, gouging our eyes-to kill some of our spies. What else did they do? They use our spies to give us a lot of useless information, use these noises to deaf our ears, and use these messy things to blind our eyes.
Gentlemen, our enemy is despicable, but very powerful. Everyone should remember this. In them, there are a lot of things worth learning. I don't know how you gentlemen do it. But myself, I study their methods and skills every day, and it will last until late at night. The more I study, the more I feel that there are many things worth learning. I hope you can take the initiative to learn and learn from our enemies.
Now our enemies have penetrated us to the point of pervasiveness. As just said, as long as the people of the'Irish Security Forces' know the news in the morning, the rebels will know it when they have lunch at noon. "
Speaking of this, the Duke of Norfolk stopped, looked around everyone, and said: "In that case, why don't we take advantage of this and use a lot of information that is mixed with true and false ~EbookFREE.me~ Fill their eyes and make them blind like this?"
So everyone applauded together.
In the following period of time, the United Irish Federation received a large amount of information about the British army's mobilization, orders, etc. almost every day. The amount of information is huge, but the content is often contradictory. For a while, the intelligence even made the people of the United Irish Federation a little hoodwinked. For example, there are at least seven or eight opinions about the direction of the British army's offensive. For example, there are many different and conflicting opinions about the material preparation of the British and the deployment of troops in each military station. In order to find out the real and reliable information from these messy news, the intelligence leaders of the federation are tired and sick. The following specific staff are also very tired and sick.
"The enemy seems to want to exhaust our comrades with this rubbish." Chairman Russell urgently called a meeting of the intelligence department for this. "But comrades, we can't follow the enemy's rhythm. The enemy is letting go. There are countless pieces of news. There are truths and falsehoods in it. We can’t look at them all foolishly, nor don’t look foolishly at all. We are fooled by the enemy. We must figure out a way to efficiently Filter out those useless and interfere. Only in this way can we defeat the enemy. Let me start with an immature idea. We can give them a rating based on their previous performance, and then make a decision based on this rating... …"