Red Moscow

Chapter 2627

The ambassador yelled for a long time, but finally gave up. People inside the embassy tried to come out of the building, but they were blocked by Sokov's men. You can't even leave the embassy, ​​so of course you can't see Molotov. Who can you protest to?

The counselor came up with a bad idea and asked the military attache to lead the soldiers in the embassy to forcefully open a way for the ambassador to leave the building.

But as soon as his words came out, he was retorted by the military attache: "Mr. Counselor, do you understand what you are talking about? If my subordinates had not had any conflicts with the soldiers outside and let them break out with the Ambassador, they might still be able to escape. Complete the mission. But now, when they see the soldiers who have beaten them outside, even if you whip them, they will not dare to go out of the building, let alone cover the ambassador from the building. "

"Forget it, stop talking." When the counselor wanted to say a few more words, the ambassador raised his hand to stop him: "Since the military attache said that the problem cannot be solved by force, then we can only continue to wait."

"How long will it take?" asked the counselor.

"I'm afraid the blockade on the embassy will be lifted only when their superiors get rid of their bad temper."

The soldiers on duty outside were divided into three groups and changed their posts every two hours. Soldiers who are laid off from duty will heat their tents to dispel the cold.

Sokov also ordered Bezikov to call in team doctors and ask them to examine the laid-off soldiers in the tent to see if any of them had frostbite. As a member of the team doctor, Asiya was naturally involved. The only difference is that other team doctors have to stay here all the time, but Asiya can go home after dark.

When it got dark, Sokov came to the tent where Asiya was and said to her: "Asiya, your body is too weak. If you stay here for duty, I'm worried that your body won't be able to bear it. You follow me now." Let the person who arranged it go home.”

Asiya knew that this was Sokov's care for her, and she did not refuse his kindness, so she went home in the vehicle arranged by the other party.

After Asiya left in the car, Yakov said to Sokov: "Misha, Asiya's physical condition has not been ideal since the last car accident. Anyway, we won't go to London again, the team doctor's The workload has been greatly reduced and the manpower is enough. Why not let Asiya rest at home? "

"Yasha, you think I don't want Asiya to rest at home." Sokov sighed and said: "If we don't find something for her to do, she will think about it all day long. I'm worried that if this continues, her nerves will be damaged." I'm afraid there will be problems."

"Hey, if there hadn't been that **** car accident, your child would have been born."

"Yes, the due date is within these two days." Sokov's nose felt sore as he talked about the child who died before he was born, but he suppressed his grief and said, "This may be his life."

"Although Asya's child is gone." Yakov looked left and right, and when he saw no one was around, he lowered his voice and said, "But don't you still have a child? That Karina from Vladimir , when is the due date?”

Sokov calculated silently for a while and replied: "If nothing else happens, it will be mid-July." After saying this, he clasped his hands together and began to pray, "God bless me and bless my second child." Be born and grow up in peace.”

"Misha, don't worry." Yakov raised his hand and patted Sokov on the shoulder, comforting him and said: "Karina is different from Asiya. Her activity areas are her home and the municipal building. The distance is only three to four hundred meters, and the possibility of another car accident is almost zero. I believe that she will be able to help you give birth to the baby smoothly. "

"I hope so." Sokov was thinking in his heart. After this period of time is over, he will go to Vladimir to see Karina. In any case, she is about to become the mother of his child, and he can't help but hear it. Just ask.

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When Asiya showed up at the embassy the next morning, she had a look of panic on her face.

Seeing her expression, Sokov couldn't help but feel a little in his heart, secretly thinking that something went wrong again, otherwise Asiya wouldn't be so worried.

"Asia," the anxious Sokov asked cautiously, "Did something happen?"

Asiya nodded vigorously, and then said: "Yes, before I came, I got the news that Marshal Rokossovsky fell ill, and the situation is very dangerous."

"Ah, Marshal Rokossovsky fell ill?" Sokov asked in surprise: "Where does he live now?"

"It's the underground hospital where you were hospitalized last time." Asia explained: "The hospital opposite the Lubyanka Building."

"Well, then I'm going to see him."

"Misha, what is going on? Marshal Rokossovsky was fine a few days ago, why did he suddenly fall ill?"

Sokov did not immediately answer Yakov's question, but asked instead: "Yasha, let me ask you a question. Why can't ordinary people command large corps in combat?"

Without thinking at all, Yakov instinctively asked: "Why?"

"Let me give you an example," Sokov said to Yakov: "Suppose you are the principal of a school and want to organize thousands of teachers and students in the school to go on foot from Moscow to Leningrad. During this time, you Not only do you need to plan different travel routes, but you also need to coordinate the departure time of each class, the transfer and rest places, as well as the tents, dry food and water needed for the trip. In addition, you also need to make predictions in advance. There are risks and accidents that may occur on the road. With this operation, God bless you if you can get people there smoothly.”

Yakov did not speak, but nodded slightly to express his agreement with Sokov's words.

"In the same way, senior commanders on the battlefield are not commanding thousands of people, but tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of people. The pressure they will bear will be extremely huge. With this When these troops go to war, a wrong decision will cause the death of tens of thousands of people. Can ordinary people withstand such pressure? "Sokov continued: "During the defense of Moscow, Marshal Rokossovsky commanded The 16th Army, because the friendly forces on the left and right wings were repulsed by the Germans and their flanks were exposed to the enemy, there was a risk of being encircled if they continued to fight. Therefore, in this case, he proposed to Marshal Zhukov that the troops should retreat to. In the Istria Reservoir area, he used the easy-to-defend but difficult-to-attack terrain to build a new defense. At the same time, as the front of the defense was reduced, he could have more troops as reserves.

However, his request was rejected by Marshal Zhukov. Even after leapfrogging to the Supreme Command for instructions and obtaining approval, Zhukov stopped the retreat to the Istria Reservoir. Perhaps we will feel that Marshal Zhukov is unkind and puts Marshal Rokossovsky's troops in danger. But at that time, Marshal Zhukov, as the commander of the Western Front, faced huge pressure. He considered the overall situation, not the local area. As long as he could stabilize the defense line, he would not hesitate to sacrifice the 16th Army. "

When Yakov heard this, he couldn't help but feel a little confused. He just asked Marshal Rokossovsky why he was hospitalized, but Sokov told him a lot of inexplicable things. When he was about to interrupt him, he heard Sokov continued: "Because senior commanders endured tremendous mental pressure on the battlefield, after the war, when they have exhausted their energy, they will have physical problems of varying degrees. And Rokossovsky The Marshal was seriously injured during the Moscow Counterattack. I think his hospitalization this time may have been caused by excessive mental stress, which led to the recurrence of old injuries. "

"Oh, I understand what you mean." Yakov nodded and said, "You are saying that Marshal Rokossovsky was under tremendous pressure during the war, which caused the recurrence of his old injuries. Am I right?" "Yes, that's what I meant." When he learned that his old superior, Marshal Rokossovsky, was hospitalized due to an acute illness, Sokov would definitely go to visit him. He said to Yakov: "After I hand over the work here to Lieutenant Colonel Bezikov, we will go visit Marshal Rokossovsky, okay?"

"Of course." Yakov nodded and said, "He also once served as my superior. He was hospitalized due to illness. It is natural to visit him."

After the two handed over the work in the embassy to Bezikov, they took a car to the hospital where Rokossovsky was hospitalized.

However, when he arrived at the entrance of Lubyanka's underground hospital, he was told that Rokossovsky actually lived in another hospital, so Yakov turned around and drove towards the new target.

When the car arrived at the hospital, Sokov saw that the parking lot outside was filled with all kinds of cars. It seemed that they were all here to visit Rokossovsky.

When Sokov and Yakov came to the door of the inpatient department, they found that the place could be described as a shining star. There were dozens of officers standing outside, with the lowest rank being major general. Without exception, they were blocked by a dozen sentries on duty at the door.

The two passed through the crowd and walked directly to the door, but were stopped by a second lieutenant on duty: "I'm sorry, Comrade General, Marshal Rokossovsky cannot see outsiders due to poor health. You'd better please go back." ”

"I am General Sokov." After Sokov revealed his identity to the other party, he asked directly: "I am an old subordinate of Comrade Marshal. I heard that he was hospitalized and I came here specifically to visit him. Could you please be accommodating? Let me in."

"I'm sorry, Comrade General." But the second lieutenant said with a straight face: "The task we received is to not allow anyone to enter the inpatient unit, so as not to disturb Marshal Rokossovsky's rest. Please retreat to the alert Behind the line, don’t make things difficult for us.”

"Didn't you hear clearly who I am?" Seeing that the second lieutenant still refused to let him in, Sokov couldn't help but feel a little angry.

"Of course you heard me clearly, General Sokov." The second lieutenant said, neither humble nor haughty: "Look, there were three or four generals who were blocked by us at the door. We didn't let any of them in, and of course you are no exception. Please understand me. Difficulties, don’t make things difficult for us.”

Sokov wanted to say a few more words, but was pulled back by Yakov.

"Misha, it's useless." Yakov said: "Other generals came earlier than us, and they couldn't get in, let alone us."

"Then what should we do?" Sokov said dissatisfied: "Are we going to go back in despair?"

But after hearing this, Yakov smiled slightly, leaned into Sokov's ear and said: "Misha, we can't enter from the main entrance, can't we enter from other places?"

The words awakened the dreamer, and Yakov's words reminded Sokov: Yes, the main entrance is guarded by sentries, so you can't enter at all, but you can go around to other directions of the inpatient department and find other doors to enter. Even if you can't find the door, you can still consider climbing through the window.

Thinking of this, Sokov immediately pulled Yakov away from here, preparing to go around to the back of the inpatient department to find a new entrance.

But when the two came to the back door, they found that they had thought the problem too simply. There are also four sentries standing guard at the back door. They do not check people coming out of it; but if you want to go in from the outside, they have to carefully check your ID even if you are wearing a white coat.

"Misha, what should we do?" Yakov couldn't help but feel a little disappointed when he saw this: "It seems that we can't enter the inpatient department from the back door."

"Then there is only one last option left." Sokov gritted his teeth and said, "That is to find a place where no one is paying attention, climb through the window and enter the inpatient department. Although there are sentries guarding the front and back doors of the inpatient department, they cannot be there. There should also be a soldier behind every window."

In this way, the two found a deserted area, and using the cover of the green belt, they quietly approached an open window.

Sokov came under the window, turned around and said to Yakov who was following behind: "You lie down, and I will step on your back to see if there is anyone in the house."

Without saying a word, Yakov immediately bent down and squatted on the ground, letting Sokov step on him. After the other party stood firm, he stood up slowly while holding on to the wall, gritted his teeth and asked Sokov: "Misha, is there anyone in the room?"

"This should be a utility room, there is no one in it." Sokov said: "I will crawl in first, and then I will pull you in."

Sokov climbed into the window on his hands and knees, then turned over and stretched out his hand to pull Yakov outside. Yakov grabbed Sokov's hand with both hands, kicked his feet on the wall, kicked hard a few times, and climbed up the window.

After the two entered the room, Sokov said with emotion: "Fortunately, the window in this room is open, otherwise we would not be able to enter the inpatient department at all."

"Yes, the windows are closed in winter. Not to mention the first floor, even the windows on the second and third floors are closed." Yakov said: "If the windows are not opened, we will not be able to open them at all. Unable to enter the building.”

"The next step is to find Marshal Rokossovsky's ward." Sokov asked Yakov: "Do you have any good suggestions?"

"Although the inpatient department is not big, if we were running around like headless flies, we might not find anyone, but we would be discovered by the soldiers on duty in the building and kicked out." Generals Kove and Yakov were kicked out of the inpatient ward by sentries, which will become the biggest news in Moscow tomorrow, and we will also become the laughing stock of others. "

"Don't talk nonsense, do you have any good way to find Marshal Rokossovsky's ward in the shortest possible time?"

Yakov held his chin and thought for a while, then said: "The easiest way is to go directly to the nurse duty room and look at their registration records, so that you can find Comrade Marshal's ward in the shortest possible time."

"What if, I say if." Sokov said: "What if there are soldiers responsible for protecting the marshal's safety in the nurse's duty room? In that case, wouldn't we be throwing ourselves into a trap by doing this?"

Seeing that Sokov rejected his proposal, Yakov said with a sad face: "Misha, do you have any good ideas?"