During the War of Resistance Against Japan, countless Chinese stood up to resist the invaders, and many heroes spilled their blood on the battlefield, including some senior officers, such as General Zuo Quan.
General Zuo Quan was the supreme commander of the Eighth Route Army who died on the anti-Japanese battlefield, then the deputy chief of the general staff of the Eighth Route Army, and died in May 1942 to cover the retreat of his comrades-in-arms, at the age of 37, which was a great regret for the revolution. Even more regrettably, when Zuo Quan died, his daughter Zuo Taibei was only two years old, and he was unable to see his little cotton jacket grow up. Alas.
Logically speaking, Zuo Taibei, as the daughter of a martyr, should be able to get some care in her life, but after the founding of the People's Republic of China, she was rejected because of the political trial when she applied for the Kazakh military industry.
Zuo Quan was born in the first phase of Huangpu, and during the Red Army, he successively served as the commander and political commissar of the Red 15th Army, the chief of staff of the Red 1st Army, and the acting commander of the Red First Army. After the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, he served as deputy chief of the general staff of the Eighth Route Army.
Although he was a deputy, he basically commanded at the front, and Ye Jianying, chief of the general staff, stayed in Yan'an most of the time, so in the telegrams sent by the Nationalist government and the CPC Central Committee to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, Zuo Quan was often associated with Zhu Laoquan and Peng Laozong, and called him "Zhu Pengzuo", and his status was self-evident.
His career has improved greatly, but Zuo Quan's love came relatively late, and in 1939, he was 34 years old before he met his life partner Liu Zhilan.
Liu Zhilan, a colonel of the Female Affiliated Middle School of Beijing Normal University, came to Yan'an in 1936 with her classmate Pu Anxiu and others, and later attracted the attention of Mr. Zhu when she went to Taihang Mountain with the organization to do propaganda work. Through the mediation of Mr. Zhu, Liu Zhilan and Zuo Quan came together, and a simple wedding was held on April 16, 1939, and the year after the marriage ushered in the crystallization of love.
The birth of the small life made the Eighth Route Army very happy, and the "matchmaker" Zhu Laozong gave the red cloth he received on his 54th birthday to Zuo Quan and his wife, and Liu Zhilan made it into a child's swaddling.
Peng Dehuai, who has a very good relationship with Zuo Quan, personally came to congratulate him, and when he saw the little baby, he was reluctant to let go of his hand after holding it in his arms. At that time, the child did not have a name, and Zuo Quan asked Peng Dehuai to take it on his behalf. Mr. Peng said: Liu Bocheng's child is called Liu Taihang, which is of great commemorative significance, and this little girl of yours was born in the Taibei District of taihang Mountain. Zuo Quan readily agreed.
A few months after Zuo Taibei was born, the Eighth Route Army launched the Hundred Regiments War, and General Zuo Quan was also the main commander, he was busy every day without touching his feet, and he had little time to spend with his family. When the Hundred Regiments War was over, they expected that the Japanese would carry out a crazy counterattack, so they sent the women and children back to Yan'an, and Zuo Quan was separated from his wife and children.
Before leaving, Zuo Quan specially invited a photographer to take photos of their family, but he did not expect that this was the last side.
After Zuo Quan's sacrifice, Mr. Peng was very sad, and he personally wrote the "Inscription of Comrade Zuo Quan": "Dew is cold and miserable, and the excellent command of the whole people has been lost." Takatsuka Monument, Yongzhao's perseverance. Dehuai is also deep, and the acquaintance is more cut..." He also organized an assassination team to go deep behind the enemy's back to take revenge, but unfortunately the painstaking search was always fruitless.
In September 1943, Mr. Peng returned to Yan'an from the front line, and the first thing he did after his official duties was to visit Xiaotaibei. At that time, because Liu Zhilan was very busy at work, he sent Xiao Taibei to the nursery, and Mr. Peng, who happened to be idle, went to pick up Xiao Taibei every day, and often took her to his side to teach, as if he was his own daughter.
Later, Liu Zhilan regained his strength under the comfort and encouragement of the central government, and in 1948, he remarried Chen Shouzhong, Zuo Quan's former secretary, and the family had a new life, and Zuo Taibei did not see Uncle Peng for several years.
In 1957, Chen Shouzhong wanted to go to Baotou due to work transfers, and Liu Zhilan was also ready to follow, but she thought that Zuo Taibei was studying at the Girls' High School of Beijing Normal University, and if she went to Baotou, she would probably not be able to find a suitable school, which would affect her grades. Therefore, Liu Zhilan found Peng Dehuai, with the intention of wanting Zuo Taibei to live in the school and let Peng Dehuai take care of it when he had time, so as not to let Zuo Taibei be left unattended and slack.
As a result, Mr. Peng directly said that he would let Zuo Taibei move to his home, just to be with his niece Peng Gang, but Liu Zhilan resigned, and he accepted it.
Mr. Peng has always been frugal, in fact, there is no extra empty house in the home, he thinks about it and then vacates part of the study after half a day, and then uses wooden planks to create a small single room, the niece lives in this small single room, and gives the bedroom to Zuo Taibei, which shows how much Mr. Peng loves Zuo Taibei!
Zuo Taibei lived in the home of Mr. Peng for many years, and subtly developed a hard and simple style, and she was similar to Peng Gang's age, and the daughters of the two martyrs had a particularly good relationship.
Peng Gang wanted to apply for the military academy since he was a child, and Zuo Taibei's ambitions slowly leaned towards this aspect, at that time, the Harbin Military Engineering College was very famous in China, many students were admitted to the Kazakh military industry as the goal, Zuo Taibei also wanted to follow in his father's footsteps and enter this higher military school.
Zuo Taibei's results were very good, and all other aspects were also qualified, but he was strangely stuck in the political trial stage. This incident made her very frustrated, but she had already gone to Harbin at that time, and she thought of visiting her father's old comrade-in-arms Chen Geng.
Chen Geng was the principal of the Kazakh military industry at that time, and he was once in Huangpu with Zuo Quan who was bunk-up and had a very good relationship, and at this moment he was naturally overjoyed to see the daughter of the deceased, and he hurriedly pulled Zuo Taibei for a while to ask for warmth, and after talking about some past events, he asked about Zuo Taibei's recent situation.
However, when Chen Geng learned that Zuo Taibei wanted to apply for the Kazakh military industry examination, he was very angry and said: How did it happen? How could the daughter of a martyr fail a political trial? Zuo Taibei then told the truth, and it turned out that she had also written the second uncle Zuo Tang when filling out social relations.
Zuo Tang and Zuo Quan entered the Huangpu Phase I school together, but the beliefs of the two brothers were different, Zuo Quan sided with the people, and Zuo Tang chose to follow the Kuomintang, so it affected zuo Taibei's political trial.
Chen Geng sighed with some embarrassment after listening: You have almost no contact with the second uncle, what do you fill him for? Zuo Taibei replied: I want to be honest with the party! Chen Geng nodded with relief, as if he saw the more real look of his former friend, he walked over and patted Zuo Taibei's shoulder: Rest assured, you are a descendant of a martyr, and the Kazakh military industry will definitely want you!
With Chen Geng coming forward, things quickly pushed forward, and Zuo Taibei was successfully admitted by the Kazakh military industry. She told this news to Mr. Peng, who was also sincerely happy for her, and specially sent her a notebook with the words "To Taibei, I wish you eternal youth." ”
During his studies in the Kazakh military industry, Zuo Taibei was particularly hardworking, thinking that he could not embarrass his father no matter what. After graduating, she successively worked in the State Economic Commission, the State Planning Commission, the Ministry of Aeronautics and Astronautics and other departments, following in her father's footsteps to serve the country.
Zuo Taibei, with her status as a descendant of the martyrs, could fully enjoy some welfare benefits, but she did not, but instead took a large part of her salary every month to help the poor households in the Taihang Mountains, which was where her father fought.
Since most of the money was used to help others, she and her husband worked for decades without saving any savings, and for a while the couple transferred to Shijiazhuang to work, and all the belongings were one suitcase per person.
After the reform and opening up and transfer back to Beijing, Zuo Taibei and his wife did not even have a place to live, and could only live in a friend's house, or Pu Anxiu found a room for them to temporarily settle down.
A few years later, the unit called on everyone to buy public housing at a very low price, but Zuo Taibei and his wife still couldn't come up with money, and they found someone to cobble together a sum of money, which had a safe place. After everyone moved into the new house, every household tried their best to decorate it beautifully, only Zuo Taibei's home was very simple, and their home was the only one that did not install a security door, so she laughed at herself: My family has nothing to steal.
Such a personality is great! Zuo Taibei is worthy of being the daughter of General Zuo Quan!