The Duke of Norfolk knew that in the coming campaign, he would definitely have the upper hand in absolute military strength. But in another area, he is at an absolute disadvantage - that is, intelligence.

Because of a series of previous setbacks, there were fewer people willing to cooperate with the British in the non-security areas, and the difficulty and cost of buying them up have increased significantly.

What's worse is that the reliability of the information given by these people is also questionable. This information is often contradictory, and even sometimes, the information given by the same person is obviously contradictory. This situation may occur because they are not professional intelligence officers, so they cannot effectively distinguish between them; It's also possible that these guys want to cheat more money, so they deliberately make up this bullshit stuff; Of course, there is also a possibility that they are simply the guys on the traitor's side, deliberately helping the rebels mislead the British.

Of course, considering that many of the things sent by those guys are contradictory, and the bullshit is too much, and it is not like a real malicious traitor can do it (the malice of cheating money does not count), then it is more likely that they have been discovered by the traitors, but the traitors saw that they were so stupid, so they deliberately kept them and used them to mislead the British.

In short, all information in non-policing zones is unreliable and even ridiculous. Not to mention anything else, take the portrait of the rebel leader as an example, there are more than ten kinds of portraits of the rebel leader Russell, each of which has the same appearance, and even the gender is different. In some of the depictions, Russell is even depicted as a tall warrior with slightly pointed ears, long maroon 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. Still, he told the soldiers to bring a replica of all the portraits (including the pointy-eared girl) - what if one of them was real? What if Russell is really Joan of Arc of Ireland?

As for the quasi-security zones, the intelligence work there is just as sparse, and the intelligence in the quasi-security zones is more of a headache than in the non-security zones. Many of the people in the "security forces" are guys who have two boats on their feet, and the information they get from them cannot be believed or disbelieved.

However, they are also very diligent in reporting all kinds of information, for example, there is a detective captain named Jarvis, and the information about the traitors he sends every month can be ordered into a book, of course, in this book, it can be guaranteed to be true and reliable, and there may not be a single piece of paper; And in this piece of paper can be written in the true information, what is really useful may not be a word; And even fewer of these useful phrases were picked out of this pile of shit in a timely manner, and then it really worked.

In short, it is too much work to get effective intelligence from them. So the intelligence services have been asking for an increase in the number of people in order to improve their ability to process all kinds of information.

"Just to deal with one Jarvis, I need to add two more paperwork, this idiot has reported the fact that the male dog of the owner raped the female dog of the western family as intelligence!"

As for the security districts, the main work at present is to catch bandits and spies.

For a period of time, especially when the first sweep was a great success, the work of catching bandit spies in the security area was quite successful, and at one point almost all the bandit spies were wiped out. But after the failure of the second sweep, the situation changed dramatically. A lot of people, mainly the Irish, began to be less optimistic about the prospects of the British in the war, and in order to "leave a way back", many guys began to step on two boats, turning a blind eye to the new infiltration of the rebels. As a result, bandits and spies in the security area have become a problem again.

"If we don't do a good job of intelligence, we will be blind again. And a blind man, even if he is strong and strong, knows what will happen when he goes to the battlefield. So the first thing we have to arrange for this meeting is intelligence work. At the preparatory meeting before the sweep, the Duke of Norfolk said to his officers and other officials.

"As we all know, there is not much time before the next round of clean-up operations, so we must pay close attention to intelligence work. In the security zone, all suspicious persons must be arrested immediately and preventively. It is better to catch a thousand by mistake than to let go of one. The entire security zone must act immediately. Even if we can't catch all the spies in a short period of time, we must isolate them first, so that their news can't get out at all! Do you understand? ”

"Understood!" Several officials stood up and replied.

"In addition, it is unlikely that our collection of information on the rebels will make any major changes in the short term, so our focus now can only be on how to prevent the rebels from obtaining information about us. Gentlemen, our opponents are cunning and powerful. They have almost made us blind now. How can a blind man defeat a clear-eyed man on the battlefield? The only way is to make them blind too, and then use the wealth of experience that we've been blind for longer to crush them. The Duke of Norfolk continued, "How, then, do we make our opponents blind too?" Is there anything you can do about it? ”

"We have strengthened secrecy and prevented the news of our transfer from getting out?" An official said.

"If we don't need to use those 'Irish security forces' for our operations, then there is a possibility." The other officer shook his head and said, "Those 'Irish security forces' are all bad things with two boats in them, let them know something in the morning, and by noon, the rebels will basically know." ”

"That is, unless you put all the guys from the 'Irish Security Forces' in the barracks, and don't let them run around."

"How is this possible? We have limited manpower, otherwise we wouldn't need them. Now if we want to send someone to keep an eye on them, it would be better to ......"

The Duke of Norfolk waited for everyone to speak for a while before he spoke: "I find that everyone's thinking has entered a misunderstanding. Well, now let me ask everyone, if you want to make a person with good eyes unable to see, what are the means? ”

"Blindfold him."

"Gouge out his eyes."

The Duke of Norfolk shook his head, "You guys are so inexperienced. Think about how they blinded us? In addition to blindfolding and digging, what other means did they use? ”

Everyone was silent.

The Duke of Norfolk looked at everyone, shook his head, and sighed again, "There is another way, which is to fill his eyes with stronger light!" Just like a mountaineer, snow blindness occurs in a snow-capped mountain, not because the light is too weak to see, but because the light is too strong to see.

Let's see how our enemies blind us, except to blindfold - to keep us from seeing something, gouge out 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, and they use this noise to deaf our ears and stab us in the eyes with all this nonsense.

Ladies and gentlemen, our enemies are vile, but they are very formidable. Everyone should remember this. There is a lot to learn from them. I don't know how you gentlemen do it. But myself, I studied their tricks every day, and it lasted until late at night. The more I researched, the more I felt that there was a lot to learn. I hope that you will also take the initiative to learn and learn from our enemies.

Now our enemies have infiltrated us to the point of pervasiveness. As I said earlier, as long as the people of the 'Irish Security Forces' knew the news in the morning, the rebels would know it by the time they had lunch at noon. ”

At this point, the Duke of Norfolk paused, looked around at everyone, and said, "In that case, why don't we take advantage of this and stuff their eyes with a lot of information, mixed with true and false, and make them blind like this?" ”

So everyone applauded.

For a period of time after that, the United Irish Federation received a large amount of information about the movements of British troops and orders almost every day, which was huge in quantity and often contradictory in content, and even the people of the United Irish Association were a little confused for a while. For example, there are at least seven or eight theories about the direction of the British army's attack, such as the material preparation of the British and the deployment of troops without a single station, and there are many different and contradictory theories. In order to find out the real and reliable information in these messy news, the person in charge of the intelligence department of the federation is tired and sick, and some of the specific staff below are also very tired.

"The enemy seems to want to exhaust our comrades with this garbage." President Russell urgently convened a meeting of the intelligence services for this purpose, "But comrades, we cannot follow the rhythm of the enemy. The enemy is releasing countless messages. There is truth and falsehood. We can't stupidly look at it all, and we can't stupidly not look at it. To do so would be to fall for the enemy. We have to come up with a way to efficiently filter out the useless distractions. Only in this way can the enemy be defeated. I'll start with the premature idea that we can give those sources a rating based on their previous performance, and then make trade-offs based on that rating......"

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