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Loyalty comes from faith that remains unchanging to death; loyalty comes from unswerving pursuit; loyalty comes from unwavering faith.
Zuo Quan, born on March 15, 1905 in Liling, Hunan, died in May 1942 at Cross Ridge in Liao County (now Zuoquan County), Shanxi, while covering the retreat of the Eighth Route Army headquarters. A 37-year-old young life, forever dedicated to the motherland and people he loved. This Communist Party member who was "enough to be a model for the Party" and a brave revolutionary general who was good at war wrote a life of loyalty with his own blood.
Geng Geng Dan heart in the family letter
In 1940, due to the tight war in the front, Zuo Quan was too busy with work, in order to concentrate on planning the "Hundred Regiments War" and "anti-sweeping", but also so that his wife Liu Zhilan could study in a stable environment, Zuo Quan sent his wife and daughter Zuo Taibei, who was less than a hundred days old, to Yan'an. Since then, the heavens have been separated, and the hongyan has passed on the book. One by one, the hot words profoundly interpret the rich and beautiful inner world of a loyal revolutionary soldier.
For the difference between the two, Zuo Quan naturally did not give up, but this was a decision based on the overall situation. In a letter to Liu Zhilan on November 12, 1940, Zuo Quan said: "There are quite a few comrades who are amazed that we can really be separated, and you really went to Yan'an. Originally, they were painful, but for the sake of work, for the sake of progress, and for the sake of the benefit of the Party, there was nothing to distinguish. ”
Zuo Quan was concerned about his wife's schooling: "I am very grateful that you often have letters to me, telling you about your life situation, the situation in the north and the north... The good thing is that North North has grown up and fully agrees that you will of course leave her and go to school when the time comes. I am determined not to hinder your learning and to keep the promise of separation. I think our feelings are deep, and during the long-term parting period, the feelings for each other will increase day by day, and I want you to feel the same way. ”
Zuo Quan thought of his daughter in every letter, and he said: "When I return from four days and three nights of life-and-death battles, the first thing I will do is to write to you." If I die in battle, I have no regrets in this life, the only regret is that our daughter Beibei, I have not given her a little father's love, I have not fulfilled a little father's responsibility, only please ask you to kiss my daughter more for me. ”
The weather in Yan'an turned cold, and he remembered whether his daughter was afraid of the cold: "The weather in Yan'an must be very cold." Remember that the little guy in the north seems to be very afraid of the cold, when the rain and windy weather in the brick wall are cold in the past few days, the little guy is not cold hands, and the nose is not through the milk can not eat? Now what? Half a year old, a little older than before, it should be better! Be careful, don't be cold to this little baby, our little baby. ”
In a letter to Liu Zhilan on May 22, 1942, Zuo Quan imagined happily: "In idle swimming and sitting alone, sometimes it is as if you and Beibei are playing and talking with me. In particular, Beibei is very naughty, one moment underground, one moment crawling in the arms of his mother, and then from his mother's arms to his father's arms, it is really happy", thinking of the current cruel war, his pen suddenly turned: "Although I love Taibei so much, but if the situation changes, you can boldly deal with the problem of Taibei according to the situation, do not have to take care of me..."
On November 12, 1940, Zuo Quan wrote his first letter to his wife, and this letter on May 22, 1942 was the eleventh and final letter. The heart-wrenching text, how much affection it places, how rich and profound it contains. A revolutionary with a firm faith, an iron-blooded general who regards death as a homecoming, is also a person with flesh and blood, feelings and righteousness. In order to liberate millions of his compatriots and live an independent, free, and happy new life, he would rather give up the most difficult human affection.
He was a good father for his daughter, a good husband for his wife, and a good son for his mother. Zuo Quan wrote in a letter to his mother: "The Japanese Kou will not only destroy my country, but also destroy my seed, and the tragedy of destroying the country and destroying the seed has come to the head of every Chinese people... We are also determined to share weal and woe with the people of North China and live and die together... The officers and men of our army all have a determination that for the benefit of the nation-state, there was not a single copper plate in the past, and there is still no copper plate, and in the past they have eaten grass and are ready to eat grass. ”
The great righteousness of the nation, the heart of Geng Gengdan. In this test of blood and fire, Zuo Quan resolutely and resolutely chose the "big me" and abandoned the "small self."
A bloody general on the battlefield
Zuo Quan was born in a poor family, and he also lost his father at an early age, and he was prepared for hardships. Zuo Quan entered the Whampoa Army Officers' School at the age of 19, joined the Communist Party of China in January 1925, was sent by the party organization to study at Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow, and later entered the Frunze Military Academy in the Soviet Union for further study, returned to China in 1930, and became the chief of staff of the Red 1st Front the following year.
In October 1934, the main force of the Central Red Army began the Long March, and Chiang Kai-shek dispatched troops and generals to pursue them relentlessly. The dadu river rushed to the shore, and Chiang Kai-shek vowed to make the Red Army the second Shi Dakai, which was the key place to determine the fate of the Chinese workers' and peasants' Red Army. In the battle to cross the Dadu River in May 1935, according to the deployment arrangement, Zuo Quan led the first unit of the troops, through the trail, waded through the dangerous beach, climbed the cliff, and quickly captured the Xiaoxiangling Pass with the speed of lightning and the speed of the ear, and occupied the county seat of Yuexi. Then, without stopping, the whirlwind rushed forward, swept through the Dashubao ferry port, posing as an immediate crossing of the river from here, inducing the Kuomintang encircling army to change its deployment, thus successfully covering the Red 1st Division from Anshun field to cross the Dadu River, and winning precious time for the main force of the Central Red Army to pass through the Luding Bridge and jump out of the Kuomintang's heavy army net.
After the reorganization of the Eighth Route Army was completed, Zuo Quan served as deputy chief of staff until his death. In the War of Resistance Against Japan, Zuo Quan led his army to victory in successive battles.
In the spring of 1938, the Japanese army attacked the southeastern Jin region in nine ways, and according to the decision of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, Zuo Quan commanded the troops to severely damage the elite Tomamidi Brigade of the Japanese Army. According to the topographical characteristics of Changle Beach, he preset the position, set up an ambush in advance, and made a pocket-shaped cloth. The Japanese army was cut into several pieces, and under the thunderous blow of the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, they were all annihilated. The brigade commander Tomamichi personally led the elite to the rescue and fled in defeat. Due to its thorough preparations, proper deployment, and good command, this battle annihilated more than 2,000 enemy troops and captured a large number of heavy weights, which dealt a heavy blow to the arrogance of the Japanese army and boosted the morale and fighting spirit of the anti-Japanese soldiers and people.
In October 1939, the Japanese army mobilized heavy troops and frantically launched wave after wave of "iron wall encirclement" against the Taihang Mountain revolutionary base area. Zuo Quan commanded the troops to give full play to the unique advantages of guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare, avoiding real attacks and attacking false situations, and capturing fleeting favorable fighters in a timely manner. Our army surrounded a regiment of the Japanese army that "swept up" in the Loess Ridge, annihilated more than 900 enemy troops in the first battle, and killed lieutenant general Abe Norihide, who was known as the "flower of famous generals." After the end of this battle, Zuo Quan wrote "From Killing Lieutenant General Abe to the Enemy Kou's Siege of the Jin-Cha-Ji Region This Time", summing up the experience of victory in the war in a timely manner.
At the beginning of 1940, the Kuomintang 97th Army, with the cooperation of the Japanese army, tried in a vain attempt to eliminate the people's armed forces in the TaihangShan revolutionary base area in one fell swoop. After four days and four nights of fierce fighting, Zuo Quan commanded the troops to consolidate the base area with the brilliant record of annihilating ten regiments of the Kuomintang army. From August to December of the same year, the Eighth Route Army launched the Hundred Regiments War. Zuo Quan assisted Zhu De and Peng Dehuai in launching more than 1,800 battles against the Japanese army, killing and wounding more than 40,000 Japanese puppet troops and pulling out nearly 3,000 enemy bunkers and strongholds. Zhu De praised Zuo Quan as an excellent general who was "as strong as steel and as brave as a lion and tiger.".
In November 1941, more than 7,000 Japanese troops attacked from Licheng, Shanxi, to the area around Huangyadong, and Zuo Quan adhered to the principle of "no arrogance, no impetuosity, no trepidation, defensive attack, and static braking", seized the fighter plane, and bravely raised his might, and our army annihilated more than 2,000 enemy personnel in one fell swoop in the defense of Huangyadong, beating the Japanese puppet army that was threatening to attack and fleeing, creating a battle example of a 6:1 ratio of casualties between the enemy and us. The Central Military Commission spoke highly of this battle: "This defensive war was the most successful one, not only did I suffer fewer losses, but at the same time I inflicted several times more casualties on the enemy, which should be regarded as a model battle against 'sweeping' since 1941." ”
Classic examples of Zuo Quan's participation or command abound, and he is an uncompromising meritorious general.
Excellent staff officer of the High Command
Zuo Quan not only had "steel-strong courage and good fighting," but was also an excellent military staff officer in the revolutionary ranks. Nie Rongzhen commented on Zuo Quan in this way: "All the construction of the army, the management and education of the troops, the organization of combat campaigns, and all the planning and planning are meticulous and meticulous, and the big things are not forgotten, and the small things are not neglected, and they are responsible in their daily work, especially the courage to be responsible." Liu Baiyu, a writer who interviewed Zuo Quan, wrote in the article: "In the general headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, which controls half of the Chinese battlefield, Comrade Zuo Quan is indeed the busiest person. Except for important matters decided by Commander-in-Chief Zhu, the general work is handled by him... His military theoretical accomplishment, combat experience, and command ability are rare talents in the work of our troops' staff officers. ”
Zuo Quan was a highly qualified student at the two military academies of Whampoa and Frunze, with high military attainments. He loved to read, like to think, and was good at applying classic military theories at home and abroad to the actual course of war. When he was an instructor, his rich knowledge and popular explanations were well received by the cadets of the military academy. When teaching in the field, he held a topographic map on the one hand, pointed to the terrain and landform on the other, intuitively and concretely explained the scene, often making the trainees laugh, and many abstract and difficult military theoretical problems were explained in a few words by him in a few words.
Between wars, Zuo Quan wrote more than 40 articles, including "On Upholding the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in North China," "Ambush Tactics," "Attack Tactics," "Tactical Issues," and "On the Principles of Military Thought," which systematically expounded strategic and tactical issues such as opposing encirclement and suppression, opposing "sweeping," and persisting in guerrilla warfare. His co-translation with Liu Bocheng of the "Infantry Combat Regulations of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army of the Soviet Union" was listed by the Headquarters of the Eighth Route Army as the basic textbook for infantry tactical education. These achievements have made important contributions to the active study and application of Mao Zedong's military thought, and have also been unanimously affirmed by everyone.
Mao Zedong praised Zuo Quan for "digesting all the foreign bread he ate, and was a general who was 'hard on both poles.'" Zhou Enlai called him "a military man with theoretical attainments and practical experience." Zhu De praised him as "extremely rich and brilliant in military theory, strategy and tactics, military construction, staff work, logistics work, etc., and is a rare talent in China's military circles." A "Biography of a Martyr of Zuo Quan" published in the People's Daily in the 1950s said: "His strategic and tactical achievements are a combination of the most progressive tactics of the Revolutionary Era of 1925 and 1927, the Era of the Civil War, and the Soviet Red Army." He is one of the famous founders of guerrilla tactics in China. ”
In the early morning of May 25, 1942, three days after Zuo Quan's last letter to his wife, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was surrounded by heavy Japanese troops, and Zuo Quan refused the request of the guard company to escort him out, and led the troops to cut off the large troops.
"Comrades, don't be afraid of airplanes, rushing over is victory!" Zuo Quan commanded everyone to break through and put life and death aside. Enemy shells hit Zuo Quan in the head, and his shouts stopped abruptly.
History will not forget the heroes who sacrificed their lives to become heroes. On September 18, 1942, in honor of Zuoquan, the government of the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Border Region renamed Liao County in Shanxi Province to Zuoquan County, a name that is still in use today. After the founding of New China, Mao Zedong made a special trip to Zuo Quan's tomb to pay homage and take off his hat to pay tribute on the way to inspect the local work.
Today, in the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Martyrs' Cemetery in Handan, Hebei Province, we can visit the tomb of General Zuo Quan, with Zhu De's inscription on one side: "The famous general martyred the country, willing to fight for blood to defend Wuhua." Taihang Hao's qi has been passed down through the ages, leaving Qingzhang vomiting blood flowers. ”
Editor| Pipe Core You Producer | Zhao Jie
* Source: China Discipline Inspection and Supervision Daily
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