The Duke of Norfolk knew that in the upcoming battle, he would definitely have the upper hand in absolute military strength. But on the other hand, he was at an absolute disadvantage - that is intelligence.

Due to the previous series of setbacks, fewer people in non-security areas are willing to cooperate with the British, and the difficulty and cost of buying them have increased significantly.

What's more serious is that the reliability of the information given by these people is also a problem. These intelligences are often conflicting with each other, and sometimes, the information given by the same person before and after is obviously contradictory. This situation may be because they are not professional intelligence personnel, so they cannot effectively distinguish them; or it may be because these guys want to cheat more money, so they deliberately fabricated these shitty things; of course there is another possibility, that is, they are just guys from the rebels, deliberately helping the rebels mislead the British.

Of course, considering that many of the things sent by those guys are contradictory and are too messy, it doesn't seem like a real malicious rebel can do it (the malicious intention of cheating money is not included), then the greater possibility is that they have been discovered by the rebels, but the rebels saw that they were so stupid, so they deliberately kept them and used them to mislead the British.

In short, all information in non-public areas is unreliable or even ridiculous. Not to mention anything else, just take the portrait of the rebel leader as an example. There are more than ten portraits of the rebel leader Russell, each of which has the same appearance, even the same gender. In some portraits, Russell is even painted as a female warrior with tall figure, slightly pointed ears, chestnut hair and green eyes.

The Duke of Norfolk naturally knew that most of these portraits were nonsense, and Russell could not be really some kind of mythical creature. However, he still asked the soldiers to bring all the copies of the portraits (including the pointed-eared girl) - what if one of them was real? What if Russell was really Joan of Arc in Ireland?

As for the quasi-security zone, the intelligence work there is just as bad, and compared with non-security zones, the intelligence in the quasi-security zone is more troublesome. Many people in the "public security forces" are guys who are on two boats. They cannot believe the information they get from them, nor can they not believe it.

But they are very diligent in reporting various intelligences. For example, there is a detective captain named Jarvis. The information about the rebels he sent every month can be ordered into a book. Of course, in this book, one piece of real and reliable one can be guaranteed to be true and reliable, and probably not a piece of paper is included. Among the true information that can be written in this piece of paper, there may not be a word. And such a useful sentence is promptly picked out from the pile of shit, and even fewer things really work.

In short, it is necessary to get effective intelligence from them, and the workload is too great. Therefore, the intelligence department has always asked to increase the number of people to improve its ability to process various information.

"I need to add two more documents to deal with one Jarvis. This idiot takes the news that his boss's male dog raped the western boss's female dog as intelligence reports!"

As for the security areas, the main task at present is to capture bandits and spies.

For a while, especially when the first major sweep was a huge success, the work of catching bandits and spies in the public security area was quite successful, and almost cleaned up all the bandits and spies at one point. However, after the failure of the second major sweep, the situation changed dramatically. Many people, mainly those Irish people, began to be less optimistic about the prospects of the British in the war. In order to "stay a way out", many guys began to step on two boats, open their eyes to the new infiltration of the rebels. So bandits and spies in the public security area became a problem again.

"If we cannot do the intelligence work well, we will become blind again. Everyone knows what the result will be if a blind man is strong and strong when he goes to the battlefield. So the first thing we have to arrange for this meeting is intelligence work." At the preparation meeting before the grand sweep, the Duke of Norfolk said to his officers and other officials.

"Everyone knows that it is not long before the next round of clearance operations, so the intelligence work must be taken more quickly. In the public security area, all suspicious people must be arrested immediately. It is better to arrest a thousand mistakenly than to let one go. The entire public security area must take action immediately. Even if we cannot capture all the spies in a short time, we must isolate them first so that their news cannot be spread at all! Do you understand?"

"I understand!" several officials stood up and replied.

"In addition, it is unlikely that there will be any major changes in the collection of rebel intelligence in a short period of time, so the focus of our current work can only be how to prevent rebels from obtaining information about us. Sir, our opponents are very cunning and powerful. They have almost turned us into blind people now. How can a blind man defeat a discerning person on the battlefield? The only way is to turn them into blind people, and then use the rich experience we have brought to be blind for a longer time to crush them." The Duke of Norfolk continued, "Then, how can we make our opponents blind? What are you?"

"We strengthen confidentiality and prevent all kinds of news from being mobilized from spreading?" said an official.

"If our operations do not require the use of the Irish security forces, then there is still a possibility." Another officer shook his head and said, "The Irish security forces are all bad things that are on two boats. Let them know something in the morning, and by noon, the rebels basically know it."

"That is, unless all the guys from the Irish Security Forces were locked into the barracks, they were not allowed to run around."

"How is this possible? Our manpower is limited, otherwise we wouldn't need them anymore. Now we have to send people to stare at them, that's better..."

The Duke of Norfolk and others spoke for a while before speaking: "I found that everyone's thinking has fallen into a misunderstanding. Well, now I'll ask you, what are the means to make a person with good eyes unable to see things?"

"Blind his eyes."

"Double his eyes off."

The Duke of Norfolk shook his head: "You are so inexperienced. Think about how they blinded our eyes? What other means did they use besides blinding and digging them?"

Everyone was silent.

The Duke of Norfolk looked at everyone, shook his head, and sighed: "There is another way to fill his eyes with stronger light! Just like a mountaineering person, snow blindness will appear in the snow-capped mountains. It is not because the light is weak and invisible, but because the light is too strong and invisible.

We are looking at how our enemies blind us, except blinding us - not letting us see something, digging our eyes - killing some of our spies. What else did they do? They used our spies to give us a lot of useless intelligence, use these noises to deafecate our ears, and use these messy things to blind our eyes.

Sir, our enemies are despicable, but they are very powerful. Everyone should remember this. There are many places worth learning in them. I don’t know how you guys do it. But I myself, I study their methods and skills every day, and it lasts until late at night. The more I study, the more I feel that there are many places worth learning. I hope you can also take the initiative to learn and learn from our enemies.

Now our enemies have penetrated us to an all-pervasive level. As I said just now, as long as the people of the "Irish Security Force" know the news in the morning, the rebels will definitely know it when they have lunch."

Speaking of this, the Duke of Norfolk stopped, looked around everyone, and said, "In that case, why don't we use this to fill their eyes with a lot of information, real and fake, and let them blind them like this?"

So everyone applauded together.

In the following period, the United Irish Federation received a large amount of information about British troops mobilization and orders almost every day. The information was huge, but the content was often contradictory. These complex intelligence even made the people of the United Irish Federation confused for a while. For example, the direction of the British attack, there were at least seven or eight statements, such as the preparation of the British materials and the deployment of troops without a single station, and there were many different and mutually resistant statements. In order to find truly reliable news from these messy news, the intelligence leaders of the Federation were all tired and sick, and there were many specific staff below.
Chapter completed!