The nearest East African military outpost to Tete was over a hundred kilometers away, but Portugal's troop movements in the Tete region had already been spotted by East African reconnaissance cavalry.
"Looks like the Portuguese planned to use Tete as their breakthrough point to attack us. We need to hurry back to Songo with this news."
Songo lay upstream of Tete. It was a military outpost established by East Africa on the banks of the Zambezi River, located more than twenty kilometers downstream from the Kabrasabasa Reservoir of the previous life.
There was an imbalance in intelligence between East Africa and Mozambique. Because East Africa had closed itself off, it was exceedingly difficult for Mozambique to enter East Africa and gather intelligence, while it was very easy for East Africa to obtain intelligence from Mozambique.
First of all, Mozambique's intelligence agents might be intercepted by East African border outposts, checkpoints, or border troops as soon as they reached the border. Even if they were lucky enough to enter East African territory, they would then face the problem of supplies.
If their wilderness survival skills were maxed out, they could continue deeper inland, but then they would run into the awkward issue of identity. East Africa implemented a household registration system. Without identification or relevant documents, they risked being discovered whenever they encountered a village or East Africans. If they avoided settlements, they would have to keep company with Africa's wild beasts.
In short, infiltrating East Africa to obtain intelligence could be said to be the most difficult task among all the countries in the world.
Of course, Portugal had obtained some information before, when East Africa had first occupied Matabele Province, Zimbabwe.
However, East Africa had not yet had time to develop Matabele Province then. Other than geographical information, the