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
Domestically, if the relationship between our two countries breaks down due to this, can you bear the responsibility?"
"Mr. Ambassador, you are mistaken. The reason why we entered the embassy is because we received reliable intelligence 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.
He 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 loudly ordered, 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. You and your subordinates can do nothing.
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 were still silent and did not dare to say anything, so as not to make the other party unhappy and cause another conflict. After all, it was a contest with Sokov's men.
, making them feel scared.
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 rhetorically.
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 hard 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 may be bloodshed."
When Sokov said that there might be 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 express basis for all modern diplomatic rights and the fundamental principle for the settlement of all diplomatic disputes. The issue of the protection of embassies is also among them.
Although the convention states that military police, judicial officers, 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 diplomatic personnel to perform any tasks without the consent of the diplomatic envoy or diplomatic personnel. For diplomatic representatives,
The premises and private apartments of diplomatic personnel, whether belonging to their own government or private property, or leased by them, shall not be infringed upon. In addition, the treaty also stipulates that the private apartments, documents and letters, and property of diplomatic personnel are also entitled to the same rights.
Inviolable rights.
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
The British Embassy is British territory, so it is British territory. If it does not recognize it, then it is not. As for the consequences of the bloody incident that occurred today, it is not a question 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 didn't seem to understand the intention from above, Sokov reminded him: "Yasha, I think you may know that a few hours before the outbreak of the Patriotic War, the general
The word "provocation" was mentioned in the order issued by the staff to the front line. The word "provocation" was also mentioned in the secret letter sent to the two of us today, which means that bloodshed will occur.
Incidents are inevitable."
"In case, I say just in case." Yakov asked tentatively: "If the British choose to endure, 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. Simply besieging the British Embassy will not have any deterrent effect at all, so ruthless measures are needed.
.”
"A tough move?" Yakov asked in confusion, "What do you mean?"
"Yesterday at Marshal Zhukov's meeting, you also heard what the Marshal meant. First, he wanted to conduct large-scale military exercises in Europe to deter the Allies militarily; at the same time, he used diplomatic means to condemn Churchill's remarks." Sokov
Explained to Yakov: "Marshal Zhukov's proposal is very good, but it takes too long and is too slow to bear fruit. Therefore, the superiors intend to adopt a relatively quick method to force the British side to bow to us."
"If bloodshed does occur, do you think we can evacuate before dark?"
"I'm afraid I can't leave." After scanning the soldiers on duty, Sokov realized a problem. If they had to stay in the embassy for a long time, it would not be easy for these soldiers to show up at night if they didn't have a place to live.
Frostbite?
Thinking of this, he called Bezikov and said: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, I think we may have to stay here for a while, so we must consider the accommodation of the soldiers."
"General Sokov," Bezikov replied: "I just thought about this question."
"Is there a solution?"
"I'll send someone back to bring over a batch of tents and daily necessities." Bezikov pointed toward the empty yard of the embassy and said, "We can put the tents on the open ground and prepare heating equipment so that the soldiers can go in in batches to keep warm.
And eat. Let’s not say stay here for two or three days, even if you stay here for one or two months, it will be fine.”
"Lieutenant Colonel Bezikov, you are very considerate. Hurry up and send someone back to pull tents and daily necessities." Sokov glanced at the soldiers on duty everywhere and frowned: "They are all in the snow.
After standing in the ground for several hours, it’s time to find a place to get warm.”
Bezikov felt that there were a lot of things to prepare, and he was worried about sending others there, so he left with a dozen soldiers himself.
Before Bezikov could return, several crisp gunshots were heard from the direction of the embassy building.
As soon as they heard the gunfire, Sokov and Yakov rushed out of the duty room and rushed towards the embassy building with pistols in hand, trying to figure out what happened.
Just as they were about to arrive at the embassy building, a window glass on the third floor was suddenly smashed to pieces, and then a back chair flew out of the window and fell into the snow outside the window.
When Sokov saw the armchair that had fallen to the ground, he immediately guessed that the people in the room were trying to escape, so he lifted the armchair and smashed the window glass. Just as he thought this, he saw a man in a white shirt jump out of the window.
, fell directly into the snowdrift.
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 snowdrift and fired at the soldiers who rushed over with his pistol. I wonder if his shooting skills were too bad.
The gun was still not easy to use. I fired four or five shots in succession, but none of them hit any of the soldiers.
When Sokov and Yakov rushed forward, they found that the man had been pinned to the ground with his hands behind his back by the soldiers.
"Is anyone injured?" Sokov asked loudly.
"No." A squad leader replied loudly: "No one was injured."
Sokov looked up, and happened to meet the eyes of a man who put his head out to check. After seeing clearly that the man was the colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs leading the team, Sokov nodded to him, indicating that the man had been caught.
The colonel nodded slightly, then retracted his head.
"Misha, who was this person we captured?"
"I don't know." Sokov shook his head and answered simply: "Our task 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 matters are not our responsibility.
.”
Soon, the colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs ran out of the building panting, came to the two men, and said out of breath: "Two comrades generals, thank you. If you hadn't been guarding outside, this man
Maybe just let him run away."
"Comrade Colonel," although Sokov once reminded Yakov not to be too curious and not to ask inappropriate questions, he still couldn't help but ask the colonel: "What does this man do?"
"A spy." The colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs prevaricated: "After he stole important information about our army, he fled to the British Embassy. We were ordered to arrest him here today. Who knew that during the arrest, he actually asked
Our soldier opened fire, but fortunately his marksmanship was so poor that he did not cause any casualties to us."
As a person from later generations, Sokov naturally understands that many individual staff in the embassy are nominally staff, but in fact they are spies. Their task is to collect useful intelligence. This is the default unspoken rule. If
If he didn’t investigate, everyone would be fine and there would be no problems. If the country he was stationed in wanted to investigate, he would have to catch them all. Because of this, after arresting the person who jumped out of the window, he didn’t question the person’s identity at all, so as not to
Causing 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 to get them.
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 understood in his heart that his task today was to fully cooperate with the internal affairs forces, so he chose to see through the situation without telling the truth. Instead, he pretended to be extremely cooperative and said: "Comrade Colonel, since the embassy is so large, then you can search
You must be careful at all times, lest hostile elements hide in corners and shoot at your soldiers."
The colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs heard the implication of Sokov's words and nodded quickly and said: "Thank you, Comrade General, for the reminder. We will be more vigilant in the next manhunt 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, "Now 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 that happen."
"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 it, 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."
