Zuo Quan is a senior commander and famous strategist of the Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants and the Eighth Route Army. Born in Liling County, Hunan Province, 1905. 1924 entered whampoa military academy 1 period. Joined China 1925 in February. In the same year, he went to the Soviet Union in 65438+February, and studied at Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow and Fulongzhi Military Academy. 1930 After returning to China, he worked in the Central Soviet Area. He has served as the education director of the Red Army School of Chinese Workers and Peasants 1 Branch School, the commander of the new 12 Army, the commander and political commissar of the Fifth Army 15 Army, the director of the First Bureau of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, and the chief of staff of the Red Army 1 Army. He has participated in all previous anti-encirclement campaigns and the Long March of the Central Soviet Area. 1 May, 936, Ren Hong1Acting Head of the Legion.
After the outbreak of the national War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he served as deputy chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army, chief of staff of the headquarters in front of the Eighth Route Army, and later served as commander of the second column of the Eighth Route Army. He assisted Zhu De and Peng in commanding the Eighth Route Army to go to the anti-Japanese front line in North China to carry out guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines, which smashed many cruel "mopping-ups" by the Japanese army and sublimated the enemy lines. His superb command art, meticulous staff service and solid work style were highly praised by Zhu and Peng.1In the autumn of 940, he assisted Peng in commanding the famous Hundred Regiments War. 194 1 year1kloc-0/month to command the Special Service Corps of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters to defend Huangyadong. After eight days and nights of fierce fighting, more than 1000 people were wiped out at a small cost, which was called "a model battle against mopping up" by the Central Military Commission. He is also a "strategist with theoretical literacy and practical experience". From 1939 to 194 1, he wrote more than 40 articles, such as Persisting in the War of Resistance in North China, Ambush Tactics, Offensive Tactics, Tactical Problems and Principles of Military Thought. Zuo Quan made immortal contributions to the establishment and consolidation of anti-Japanese base areas in North China, the development and expansion of people's anti-Japanese armed forces and the overall construction of the Eighth Route Army. 1942 in may, the Japanese army carried out a "sweeping" of the Taihang anti-Japanese base area. On 25th, when he commanded troops to cover the the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China North Bureau and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army near Matian, Liao County, Shanxi Province, he died heroically in the cross-ridge battle at the age of 37.
Zuo Quan was the supreme commander of the Eighth Route Army who died on the anti-Japanese battlefield. The famous soldier was killed and Taihang Mountain was swallowed up, which made the whole party feel sad. Zhou Enlai called him a "model of the Party" and Zhu De praised him as "a rare talent in China's military field". In memory of Zuo Quan, the government of Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Border Region decided to rename Liao County Zuoquan County and Laojing Village Zuo Quan.