The intelligence room can be said to be the organization with the largest number of people and the largest area in the First Army General Headquarters. In order to screen and store those massive amounts of information, Lian and Fran have opened up an underground space for it exclusively for the use of the staff. Seventy percent of the nearly 200 staff members work here.
At the same time, it is also the office with the largest resource consumption. Not only is it equipped with a rather rare glowing magic stone, but also a free supply of Chaos Drinks for refreshment in the middle of the night, and its treatment is extremely envious of other departments.
But inside the intelligence room is often complaining.
Since Da Beidi Pearl proposed the espionage plan, the results have gradually emerged. The secret letters from Yongdong and Langxin have been sent from two to three a week at the beginning, and now there are nearly a hundred a day.
Although the main function of the staff was to analyze intelligence when it was established, most of the intelligence at that time came from reconnaissance and war situation reports. However, these hundreds of daily news are all rambling words, and even the wording and composition are problematic. It takes a lot of time just to understand the true meaning, making the screening process like a tedious jigsaw puzzle.
Of course it's not the worst.
Compared with analysis, dealing with secret letters is the most troublesome problem.
In theory, the ever-increasing number of messages is really counterintuitive. After all, the devil is currently blocking the Red Mist border, and it is not so easy to transmit information. After Hill Fox takes over the job of the spy chief, the means of transmitting information will change. to be varied.
For example, it is tattooed on the inside of the animal skin, or it is placed in the interlayer of a shoulder pole, or it is simply stuffed in the stomach of a salted fish... As long as the nobles in the occupied areas do not stop trading, they cannot prevent the flow of news from the enemy-occupied areas, and even most of the time even None of the transmitters know they are part of the intelligence chain.
But because of this, there are many kinds of secret letters. For example, the feeling of taking out the silk thread from the belly of the fish by hand is definitely not very good, not to mention the need to endure the stench to clean it, and then check it again. .
If the daily work changes from leisurely drinking afternoon tea while writing reports, to rummaging through a pile of junk-like items to find all kinds of letters, and then restoring them into usable information, anyone will be happy grumble.
But even so, no one dared to be lazy—after all, this department was also the most important institution for Edith and Iron Axe, so dragging work in front of the two would undoubtedly lead to death.
Walking into the intelligence room, Pearl North saw that Iron Axe was talking to Hill Fox, and there were dozens of notes on the table in the center of the room, all of which were obviously re-transcribed by the staff.
She scanned it roughly and found that most of these messages came from the Kingdom of Eternal Winter.
A large part of them are such as "An additional devil army was stationed in the north of a certain city today", "A certain noble died inexplicably, and his title was replaced by a certain", "There are huge living stone monsters in the direction of the border", etc. It is difficult to see too much valuable information from the scattered news without head and tail.
But this is not surprising. The reason why the espionage plan can progress so quickly is not only due to the credit of Kai Hill, but also related to black money.
Since she suggested to contact the sender of the black card, the person behind the scenes also came to the front desk—although it was only an agent, they still frankly expressed their willingness to help Greycastle. The organization originated in Dawn, and it also has a certain influence in Wolf Heart and Eternal Winter. Of course, this influence is mainly manifested in the underground black market and mice.
Since it is the intelligence collected by mice, the quality of it will not be much higher. Perhaps there are still many street rumors and fallacies, but no matter how inefficient it is, it is much better than the previous smear.
In addition, there were a few things that caught her attention, that is, the news of "forced boatmen" appeared in several places.
"What do you think?" Iron Axe also noticed the arrival of the Northland Pearl and asked actively.
"If I remember correctly, the third queen, Garcia, brought a large number of ships with her when they attacked Eternal Winter." Edith pondered for a moment, "If the church hadn't destroyed those ships, they would probably still remain in Eternal Winter. somewhere."
"It seems that you are more concerned about this."
"Compared with other intelligence, this news can at least be verified by multiple parties, and it is more credible." She spread her hands and said, "The role that sea ships can play is nothing more than transportation, either because the devil has a large number of troops to transfer, or Going to attack from the sea. But I don't think the second point is likely."
"Why?" Iron Axe asked.
"After fighting for so long, there is no reason why the devil does not know the power of artillery. Whether you are attacking Dagong Island or Shenchi Bay by sailboat, you will be severely bombarded before landing. With the speed of the sailboat, it is no different from dying." Si explained, "As for sneaking around Wolf Heart Harbor and going directly into Dawn and other places, you will face the dilemma of insufficient red fog. So I prefer the former - for the purpose of war, the devil needs to gather troops to the front line faster. , going by land and water is the most reasonable choice.”
After she finished speaking, she looked at Hill, "What do you think?"
Hill bowed slightly to Edith, "Sir, analyzing the battle situation is not my forte, so I can't figure out which way the enemy will take. Combining these clues and handing them over to the staff is the only thing I can do. things to come.”
It's a good talent.
Edith thought to herself, it is more valuable to be able to carefully judge one's own talents and understand what is appropriate than to blindly agree with herself. No wonder His Majesty appointed him to be in charge of the espionage plan.
"Since you can't see more clues, then there is probably no way." Iron Axe said helplessly, "So we only know that the devil is mobilizing troops, but we don't know their specific distribution and strategic purpose. People are suffering."
"The main reason is that the wolf heart was evacuated more thoroughly, which made Hill lose the opportunity to place eyeliners on the front line. If you didn't evacuate the residents, maybe we would have caught the devil's whereabouts long ago." Edith said half-jokingly.
"I dare not disobey His Majesty's order." Iron Axe shook his head, "What's more... the First Army can't put all its hopes on rats."
"Information won't be this trivial forever, my lord." Hill Fox said suddenly.
Iron Axe raised his eyebrows and said, "You mean, these messages will become more and more complete?"
"That's right," he replied, "I've been at the Dawn Circus for so long, and the most important thing I've 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.