Red Moscow

When the ambassador saw this, he quickly boldly shouted: "What are you doing? Stop it!"

The colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who led the team looked at the ambassador sideways and said slyly: "Mr. Ambassador, we haven't done anything, how can we stop?"

The ambassador came to the colonel and said to him with a straight face: "Mr. Colonel, you broke into our embassy without permission. Do you know what this means?"

"I don't know." The colonel said, "Mr. Ambassador, please tell us."

"Mr. Colonel." The ambassador said righteously: "Your behavior of breaking into the embassy without permission is a blatant violation of international law and British sovereignty. I order you to leave the embassy immediately, otherwise I will report the matter to Domestic. If the relationship between our two countries breaks down because of this, can you bear this responsibility?"

"Mr. Ambassador, you are mistaken. The reason why we entered the embassy is because we received reliable information that a group of suspicious individuals have sneaked into your embassy and will pose a threat to the personal safety of the embassy staff." The colonel laughed. Di said to the ambassador: "We are here to arrest those suspicious elements. For your safety, I suggest you not to act rashly. Otherwise, if something unpleasant happens, don't blame me for not saying hello in advance."

After finishing speaking, the colonel waved his hand to his people and ordered loudly, without waiting for any reaction from the ambassador: "Leave a few people to guard these British guys, and the rest will follow me inside to conduct a search."

Seeing the Soviet colonel leading people to search everywhere, the British military attache walked up to the ambassador and asked worriedly: "Mr. Ambassador, are you going to let these Russians search our embassy?"

"Major, do you think you have the ability to stop them?" After the ambassador asked this question, without waiting for the military attache to answer, he said impatiently: "They broke into the embassy today. It was obviously premeditated. There is nothing you and your subordinates can do. Just cooperate and don’t anger them, otherwise there may be bloodshed today.”

Although there were only five or six officers and soldiers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the hall at the moment, the British soldiers who outnumbered them remained silent and did not dare to say anything, lest they make the other party unhappy and cause further conflicts. After all, the battle with Sokov's men made them feel intimidated.

At the same time, Yakov, who stayed outside, looked at the building in front of him and asked Sokov worriedly: "Misha, will something happen?"

"What could happen?" Sokov asked.

Yakov raised the secret letter in his hand: "Misha, don't forget what is written in the letter?"

"In addition to asking us to cooperate with the actions of the internal affairs troops, we are also specifically warned that the troops we go in to search may be provoked. Let us be ready for battle and rush in to rescue them at the critical moment." Sokov said After reciting the top-secret content in the secret letter, he said: "Do you think the British have the courage to provoke?"

"You just asked the soldiers to give them a severe lesson with your fists." Yakov said: "Before taking action, the British might still bar their teeth at us; but after being beaten by our soldiers, they no longer have any Courage provoked.”

"Yasha, although we have adopted restrained measures and taught the ignorant British people a lesson, they did not dare to be arrogant in front of us." Sokov frowned and said, "But I have a bad feeling. There could be bloodshed."

Hearing Sokov's words about the possibility of bloodshed, Yakov couldn't help but look nervous: "Misha, does breaking into the embassy like the Ministry of Internal Affairs count as invading another country's territory?"

Sokov remembered that under the initiative of the United Nations, countries around the world held the United Nations Conference on Diplomatic Intercourse and Immunities in Vienna, the capital of Austria, in 1961 and signed the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, accompanied by the "Options on the Acquisition of Nationality". Protocol and the Optional Protocol on the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes. This treaty has become the explicit basis for all modern diplomatic rights and the fundamental principle for settling all diplomatic disputes, including the issue of embassy protection.

Although the convention states that military police, judicial personnel, tax collectors and other personnel performing official duties in the host country are not allowed to enter the embassy or the private residence of the diplomats to perform any tasks without the consent of the diplomatic envoy or diplomats. The premises of diplomatic missions and the private apartments of diplomatic personnel, whether they belong to the government of their country or private property, or are leased by them, shall not be invaded. In addition, the treaty also stipulates that diplomats also enjoy inviolability in their private residences, documents and letters, and property.

But now there is not even a single word in the convention. In other words, whether the British embassy in front of you is protected by international law depends entirely on the attitude of the Soviet side. Wanting to understand this, he said to Yakov: "Yasha, if we recognize that the British Embassy is British territory, then it is British territory. If we do not recognize it, then it is not. As for the bloodshed that occurred today, it will What the consequences will be is not something we should consider.”

"Misha, do you really think there will be bloodshed today?" Yakov asked in surprise.

"This possibility is very high." Seeing that Yakov seemed to have not yet understood the intention of the superiors, Sokov reminded him: "Yasha, I think you may know that a few hours before the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, the General Staff issued an order to the front line, which mentioned that the Germans might take the initiative to take "provocative actions". The word "provoking" was also mentioned in the secret letter to the two of us today, which means that bloodshed is inevitable."

"What if, I said what if." Yakov asked tentatively: "If the British choose to forbear, can the bloodshed you mentioned be avoided?"

Sokov thought about it seriously, then shook his head and said: "Churchill's speech yesterday will have serious consequences. If we simply besiege the British embassy, ​​it will not have any deterrent effect at all, so we need to use ruthless tactics."

"Use ruthless tactics?" Yakov Kov asked puzzledly: "What do you mean?"

"You also heard Marshal Zhukov's intention yesterday. First, we need to conduct large-scale military exercises in Europe to deter the Allies militarily; at the same time, we need to condemn Churchill's remarks through diplomatic means." Sokov explained to Yakov: "Marshal Zhukov's proposal is very good, but it takes too long and the effect is too slow, so the superiors intend to take a quicker approach to force the British to bow to us."

"If bloodshed really happens, do you think we can still withdraw before dark?"

"Then I'm afraid we can't leave." Sokov's eyes swept over the soldiers on duty and realized a problem. If they have to stay in the embassy for a long time, these soldiers will be prone to frostbite at night if they don't have a place to live?

Thinking of this, he called Bezikov and ordered: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, I think we may have to stay here for a while, so we have to consider the accommodation of the soldiers."

"General Sokov," Bezikov replied, "I just thought of this problem."

"Is there a solution?"

"I will send someone back to bring a batch of tents and daily necessities." Bezikov pointed to the empty yard of the embassy and said, "We can set up tents on the open ground, and then prepare heating equipment, so that the soldiers can go in batches to keep warm and eat. In this way, let alone staying here for two or three days, even staying for one or two months will be no problem."

"Lieutenant Colonel Bezikov, you are very thoughtful, send someone back to pull tents and daily necessities quickly." Sokov glanced at the soldiers on duty everywhere, and frowned: "They have been standing in the snow for several hours, and they should find a place to keep warm."

Bezikov felt that there were a lot of things to prepare, and he was worried about sending others, so he personally took a dozen soldiers away.

Before Bezikov came back, several crisp gunshots were heard from the direction of the embassy building.

As soon as they heard the gunshots, Sokov and Yakov rushed out of the duty room, holding pistols and rushing towards the embassy building, trying to find out what happened.

Just as they were about to reach the embassy building, a window glass on the third floor was suddenly smashed to pieces, and then a reclining chair flew out of the window and fell into the snow outside the window.

Sokov saw the reclining chair fall to the ground and immediately guessed that the people in the room lifted the reclining chair to smash the window glass in order to escape. As soon as he thought of this, he saw a man in a white shirt jumping out of the window and falling directly into the snow.

Seeing someone jumping out of the building, the soldiers on duty nearby immediately stepped forward to arrest him. Unexpectedly, the man stood up from the snow and shot at the soldiers rushing over with a pistol. I don’t know if his shooting skills are too bad or the gun is not easy to use. He fired four or five shots in a row, but didn’t hit any soldier.

When Sokov and Yakov rushed to the front, they found that the man had been handcuffed and pinned to the ground by the soldiers.

"Is anyone injured?" Sokov asked loudly.

"No," a squad leader answered loudly, "No one is injured."

Sokov looked up and happened to meet the eyes of a man who had come out to check. After seeing that the man was the colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who led the team, Sokov nodded to him, indicating that the man had been caught. The colonel nodded slightly and then retracted his head.

"Misha, who is the person we caught?"

"I don't know." Sokov shook his head and answered very straightforwardly: "Our mission is to assist the personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to guard the embassy building and prevent anyone from escaping. The rest of the matter is not our business."

Soon, the colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs ran out of the building panting, came to the two men, and said breathlessly: "Comrade Generals, thank you. If you hadn't been guarding outside, this person might have escaped."

"Comrade Colonel," although Sokov had reminded Yakov not to be too curious and not to ask questions that he shouldn't ask, he still couldn't help asking the colonel: "What does this person do?"

"A spy." The colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs evaded the question: "After he stole important intelligence from our army, he fled to the British Embassy. We were ordered to come here today to arrest him. Who knew that during the arrest, he actually shot at our soldiers. Fortunately, his shooting skills were too bad, so we didn't cause any casualties."

As a person from later generations, Sokov naturally understood that many individual staff members in the embassy were nominally staff, but in fact they were spies, and their mission was to collect useful intelligence. These are all unspoken rules by default. If no investigation is carried out, everyone will be safe and there will be no problems. If the host country wants to investigate, then it will be a matter of one and all. Precisely because of this, after arresting the person who jumped out of the window, he did not question the identity of the person at all, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble.

"Comrade Colonel, has the search in the embassy been completed?"

"The embassy is very large," the colonel from the Ministry of Internal Affairs said in a difficult tone. "It will take at least a whole day to complete the search mission."

Sokov almost laughed out loud when he looked at the other party's serious nonsense. There was a three-story building in front of him. He led more than a hundred people into the search. It only took half an hour at best. All the rooms were turned upside down. The colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs said this just to extend the time they stayed in the embassy building, so as to put pressure on the embassy.

But he also knew in his heart that his task today was to fully cooperate with the internal affairs troops. Therefore, he chose to see through the situation without speaking out. Instead, he pretended to be extremely cooperative and said: "Comrade Colonel, since the embassy is such a large area, then you can search Be careful at all times, lest there are hostile elements hiding in the corner and shooting at your soldiers. "

The colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs heard the hidden meaning of Sokov's words, nodded quickly and said: "Thank you, Comrade General, for the reminder. We will be more vigilant in the next search to prevent hostile elements hiding in the embassy building. Shoot our soldiers with black guns.”

The ambassador in the building was anxiously asking the first secretary who had just returned from the telecommunications room: "How is it? Has there been a call back from London?"

"No, Mr. Ambassador." The first secretary said with a grimace: "So far, we have not received any reply from London." After a pause, he continued to ask, "The Russians are still in the building. Search, what should we do?”

"What else can we do? Of course we need to cooperate with their manhunt." The ambassador told the first secretary, "Go tell all the staff to stay in their rooms and let the Russians do whatever they want. Go ahead and don't go against them, otherwise I won't be responsible for any accidents."

"Yes, Mr. Ambassador." The first secretary agreed, "I will convey your order immediately."

"Wait a minute." Just as the secretary turned around and was about to leave, the ambassador stopped him: "Call the military attaché over. I have something to say to him."

"Mr. Ambassador, he may not be able to come."

"Why?" The ambassador was surprised when he heard this, and then asked: "What happened to him?"

"He and his gang are locked in the house by the Russians and are not allowed to leave the house at all. Naturally, they cannot come to see you."

"Damn, these damn Russians." After hearing this, the ambassador gritted his teeth and cursed: "What on earth do they want to do?"

"Mr. Ambassador," the first secretary asked tentatively, "can I leave?"

"Yes, yes." The ambassador nodded and said feebly: "As soon as there is a call back from London, come and notify me immediately."

"Okay, Mr. Ambassador."