General Zuo Quan was a hero of the Chinese nation, one of the founders of our army's guerrilla tactics, a senior commander of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and the Eighth Route Army, and a famous military figure. Zhou Enlai praised his party as a well-deserved "military scientist with theoretical cultivation and practical experience"; Zhu De praised him as "a rare talent in China's military circles". General Zuo Quan was a general of the highest rank who died in the War of Resistance Against Japan.
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Zuo Quan was born on March 15, 1905, to a poor peasant family in Huangmaoling, Pingqiao Township, Liling City, Hunan Province. In 1924, at the age of 19, Zuo Quan entered the Whampoa Military Academy and became an outstanding cadet in the first phase of Whampoa with his extraordinary diligence and talent. In February 1925, Zuo Quan joined the Communist Party of China at the Whampoa Military Academy, and Zhou Enlai personally presided over the ceremony of joining the party. After that, he was selected by the organization to receive senior command training at the Frunze Military Academy, which has the reputation of "the brain of the Red Army" in the Soviet Union.
In 1930, Zuo Quan returned to China and soon threw himself into the front line of battle, and his guerrilla movement warfare and "plate-style circle fighting" tactics were deeply appreciated by Mao Zedong. After the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communists in 1937, Zuo Quan served as the deputy chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army, assisting Zhu De and Peng Dehuai in commanding the Eighth Route Army to the anti-Japanese front in North China. In this way, the 32-year-old Zuo Quan entered the top leadership of the Chinese Communist Party army.
In 1941, the Huangyadong Defense Battle, commanded by Zuo Quan, killed the enemy and wounded more than 2,000 enemy people at a very small cost, and was praised by the Central Military Commission as a model battle of "anti-sweeping". In the five years after the enemy in North China, he wrote and translated more than 200,000 words of military books and wrote more than 40 military works, which greatly promoted the construction of military theory of the Eighth Route Army. Mao Zedong once said, "Zuo Quan has digested all the foreign bread he eats, and this man is a general who is 'hard on both poles.'"
After 1941, the Invading Japanese Army continued to carry out "sweeping," "encroachment," and "public security strengthening campaigns," adopted the "three-light policy" of exterminating humanity, and strictly sealed off the Japanese base areas.
On May 25, 1942, the enemy situation on the front line was grim. Zuo Quan ordered that he do everything he could to immediately escort Mr. Peng out safely. At that time, the Japanese army tightened the encirclement of Cross Ridge even more, and japanese planes continued to strafe and bomb overhead. Zuo Quan commanded the relevant staff of the headquarters and the cadres and cadets of the Party School of the Northern Bureau who broke through with the headquarters to break through, and reminded everyone: "Don't be afraid of planes, rushing out of the mountain pass is victory." ”
After Tang Wancheng escorted Peng Dehuai to a safe area, he turned back to Zuo Quan and pleaded bitterly: "Chief of Staff, you go, leave me here." However, Zuo Quan did not agree to go first in any case. When the team rushed to the last blockade line of the Japanese army, Zuo Quan judged that this was the concentration point of the Japanese fire network, and beckoned the comrades who broke through: "Hurry up and lie down!" Hurry up and lie down! The soldiers fell to the ground in response, and at this moment, a shell exploded in front of Zuo Quan, and Zuo Quan was gloriously martyred.
In honor of the highest-ranking general of the Eighth Route Army who died in the War of Resistance Against Japan, in September 1942, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was renamed Zuoquan County, Shanxi.
Source: Learning to power the country
Editor: Yu Xiaojing