It could be said that the Intelligence Room had the largest number of people and occupied the largest space in the First Army's General Command. In order to filter and store the massive amount of information, Lotus and Fran had specially opened up an underground space for the Adviser Department. Seventy percent of the nearly two hundred Advisers worked in this space.
At the same time, it was also the most resource-consuming office. Not only was it equipped with a rare Stone of Lighting, but it was also provided with free Chaos Drinks to refresh one's mind at night, which made the other departments extremely envious.
However, the Intelligence Office often complained incessantly.
Ever since the Pearl of the Northern Region proposed the spy plan, the results had gradually become apparent. The number of secret letters sent from the Kingdom of Everwinter and the Kingdom of Wolfheart had increased from two or three a week to nearly 100 a day.
Although the Adviser Department's main function was to analyze intelligence when it was first established, most of the intelligence came from investigations and war reports, which were not only neat, concise, but also traceable. However, the hundreds of pieces of information every day were irrelevant, and even the wording was a problem. It took a lot of time just to understand the true meaning, which made the screening process like a complicated jigsaw puzzle.
Of course, this was not the worst.
Compared to reading and analyzing the information, dealing with the secret letters was the biggest headache.
In theory, the increasing amount of information was really against common sense. After all, the demons were now blockading the Red Mist border, so it was not easy to send information out. However, after Hill Fawkes took over as the Spy Department's director, there were many ways to transmit information.
For example, the secret letters were tattooed on the inside of animal skins, placed in the middle of a shoulder pole, or simply stuffed in the stomach of a salted fish. As long as the nobles in the occupied areas did not stop trading, they could not stop the information from flowing out of the occupied areas. Most of the time, even the messengers did not know that they had become part of the intelligence chain.
However, because of this, there were many kinds of secret letters. For example, the feeling of personally taking out the silk from the stomach of a fish was definitely not very good, not to mention that they had to endure the fishy smell and clean it before reading it.
If their daily work changed from leisurely sipping afternoon tea and writing reports to finding all kinds of letters in a large pile of rubbish and then restoring them to useful information, anyone would feel dissatisfied.
But even so, no one dared to slack off. After all, this department was also the department that Edith and Iron Axe valued the most. Procrastinating in front of them was undoubtedly courting death.
Walking into the intelligence room, the Pearl of the Northern Region saw Iron Axe and Hill Fawkes talking about something. There were dozens of pieces of paper on the table in the middle of the room, which were obviously transcribed by the staff officers.
She scanned through the messages and found that most of them came from the Kingdom of Everwinter.
Most of them were scattered news such as "A new troop of demons has been stationed in a certain city's north today", "A certain noble has died mysteriously, and his title has been replaced by a certain person", "A giant living rock monster has appeared in the direction of the border", and so on. It was difficult to glean much valuable information from them.
However, this was not surprising. The reason why the spy plan could progress so quickly was not only because of Hill's contribution, but also because of Black Money.
Ever since she suggested contacting the sender of the black card, the person behind the scenes had also come forward. Although he was only an agent, he had frankly expressed his willingness to help Graycastle. This organization originated from the Kingdom of Dawn and also had a certain influence in the Kingdom of Wolfheart and the Kingdom of Everwinter. Of course, this influence was mainly manifested in the underground black market and the Rats.
Since the information was collected by the Rats, the quality of the information was naturally not very high. Perhaps there were many street rumors and fallacies, but no matter how inefficient it was, it was much better than the previous black information.
There were also a few pieces of information that caught her attention. That was, there was news of "forced recruitment of boatmen" in several places.
"What do you think?" Iron Axe also noticed the Pearl of the Northern Region's arrival and took the initiative to ask.
"If I remember correctly, when Princess Garcia attacked the Kingdom of Everwinter, she brought a large number of ships." Edith pondered for a moment. "If the church didn't destroy those ships, I'm afraid they're still somewhere in the Kingdom of Everwinter."
"It seems that you also care about this."
"Compared with other information, at least this piece of information has been verified by many parties and is more credible." Edith spread out her hands and said, "Ships can only be used for transportation. Either the demons need to transfer a large number of troops or they plan to attack from the sea. But I don't think the second possibility is very likely. "
"What's the reason?" Iron Axe asked.
"After fighting for so long, the demons have no reason to not know the power of cannons. Whether they attack Archduke Island or the Sedimentation Bay by sailing ships, they will be fiercely bombarded before they land. With the speed of sailing ships, it's no different from suicide, "Edith explained. "If they secretly bypass the Wolfheart Harbor and directly enter the Kingdom of Dawn and other places, they will face the dilemma of insufficient Red Mist. So I'm more inclined to the former. For the purpose of war, the demons need to quickly gather their troops at the front line, so it's the most reasonable choice to advance by land and sea. "
Then she looked at Hill and asked, "What do you think?"
Hill bowed slightly to Edith and said, "Your Excellency, I'm not good at analyzing the battle situation, so I can't predict what the demons will do. The only thing I can do is to combine these clues and hand them to the General Staff. "
"He's a good talent," Edith thought.
"Compared to blindly agreeing with me, it's obviously more valuable for Hill to be able to judge his own talents and know his place. No wonder His Majesty appointed him to lead the spy plan."
"Since even you can't find any more clues, I guess there's no other way," Iron Axe said helplessly. "So we only know that the demons are gathering troops, but we don't know their specific distribution and strategic purpose. It's really torturous."
"The main reason is that the evacuation of the Kingdom of Wolfheart is very thorough, so Hill lost the opportunity to plant spies at the front line. If you didn't evacuate the residents, we might have already found the demons," Edith said half-jokingly.
"I don't dare to disobey His Majesty's order." Iron Axe shook his head and said, "Besides … the First Army can't put all their hopes on Rats."
"The information won't always be so trivial, Your Excellency," Hill Fawkes suddenly said.
Iron Axe raised his eyebrows and said, "You mean, the information will become more complete?"
"Yes," he replied. "The most important thing I've learned after staying in the Kingdom of Dawn for so long is that as long as the plan is reasonable, the intelligence network will automatically expand."
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