As latecomers, it is difficult for us to understand the cruelty of the Anti-Japanese War that occurred on our country decades ago. In that era when "the land does not distinguish between east, west, south, and people does not distinguish between men, women, and young and old, all have the responsibility to defend their territory and resist the war", as professional soldiers, they took on the important task of defending their homes and the country without hesitation. During the fourteen years of the War of Resistance, countless people of lofty ideals sacrificed their lives for it, and the highest level and position was General Zuo Quan, who was then the deputy chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army.
In 1942, at the proposal of the then commander-in-chief of the Japanese invaders in North China, Okamura Yasuji, the Japanese army implemented a crazy "iron wall encirclement" strategy for our base area. Our Eighth Route Army headquarters had no choice but to carry out a strategic transfer. On the way, Zuo Quan, who was then the deputy chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army, died heroically to cover up other comrades. The Liao County where he died was also renamed Zuo Quan County after the founding of New China to commemorate this hero of the War of Resistance.
After Comrade Zuo Quan died, he left only one daughter Zuo Taibei. As a descendant of a martyr, Zuo Taibei inherited her father's will since she was a child and worked very hard in studying. In 1960, Zuo Taibei was admitted to one of the highest institutions in China at that time with excellent results. However, just when Zuo Taibei was not yet admitted to school, she received a notice from the school's political review that failed. Logically speaking, as a descendant of martyrs, Zuo Taibei, who has a strong roots, should not have any problems with political background, so what is the ins and outs of it?
All this starts with General Zuo Quan's legendary life. Zuo Quan was born in an ordinary family in Hunan in 1905. It is logical that he should have spent a peaceful life. However, the darkness of the late Qing Dynasty made ordinary people unable to survive alone. When he was young, he saw the darkness and devastation of society. Fortunately, although his family conditions were average, Zuo Quan's parents were willing to devote their efforts to studying and studying. When he was 8 years old, his family saved money and sent Zuo Quan to a private school, hoping to change his destiny with the help of knowledge. Zuo Quan also relied on his diligence and hard work to get admitted to the county middle school at the age of 17. At that time, the Hunan countryside was still a illiterate situation. Zuo Quan, who graduated from high school, was considered a rare intellectual in the countryside at that time, and he was also willing to use his knowledge to help the poor people.
In addition to the knowledge in the book, Zuo Quan, who was studying in the county, was always thinking about the fate of his individual and the country. Zuo Quan, who was still a middle school student, and his classmates organized an organization called the "Social Issues Research Society" to try to promote social improvement and progress with his meager abilities. In this process, Zuo Quan also realized that in order to achieve national self-reliance in troubled times, he must have an iron army as a support.
Under the guidance of this goal, Zuo Quan, who was less than 19 years old at the time, came to Guangzhou alone to apply for the Whampoa Military Academy, which had just been established at that time. As the founding of the military academy by Mr. Zhongshan, the founding of the military academy by Mr. Zhongshan, Huangpu is significantly different from the old military academy in terms of teaching purpose and student system. In addition to teaching students' military skills and theories, it also cultivates them to become soldiers with firm beliefs. Thanks to his cultural level over the years, Zuo Quan passed the preliminary and re-examination levels of Whampoa Military Academy recruitment, and officially became one of them.
Looking back on history, the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy was filled with talents, and among Zuo Quan's classmates, there were many generals who would become famous in the future, and the one who had the most profound influence on Zuo Quan was Chen Geng, the future founding general. As a fellow villager in Hunan, the two have a natural sense of intimacy. Compared with Zuo Quan, Chen Geng had a richer resume before entering school. During his time in Huangpu, he was one of the famous "Three Masters of Huangpu" and Chen Geng was also the backbone of our party in Huangpu. The keen Chen Geng quickly noticed Zuo Quan, a fellow villager at the same level. In his opinion, although Zuo Quan is usually low-key, he always ranks among the top in his daily performance and various skills assessments. He also has his own insights in the discussion of the current situation in private. In addition, he has a passion for serving the country, and is undoubtedly the young talent our party needs.In the following period, Chen Geng also expressed his intention to accept Zuo Quan as a member of the organization on behalf of the party branch. In early 1925, Zuo Quan officially became a formal member of our party, and his introduction to the party was Chen Geng.
The first battle Zuo Quan experienced was the battle of the Eastern Expedition to fight against the reactionary warlords Chen Jiongming . Although he had only studied military theory before, Zuo Quan, who had truly entered the battlefield, did not have any timidity or fear. As an officer, he commanded the team many times to repel the attack of Chen Jiongming's troops and made important contributions to the victory of the Eastern Expedition. Zuo Quan's performance in this battle aroused the interest of Huangpu Principal Chiang Kai-shek's . He then showed his willingness to absorb Zuo Quan as his confidant general many times. However, due to the different political lines, he always had a cold attitude towards Chiang Kai-shek's kindness.
1925 decided to send a group of outstanding backbones from the party to Moscow, the Soviet Union to study and study. Zuo Quan was one of them. Two years later, Zuo Quan even entered Fulongzhi Military Academy with his outstanding performance. Faced with this opportunity, Zuo Quan also eagerly absorbed the world's advanced military theoretical knowledge and achieved excellent results in the evaluation of each academic year. His diligence and achievements were unanimously praised by the Soviet instructors, but also changed their inherent impression of yellow people.
In the summer of 1930, after finishing his studies in the Soviet Union, Zuo Quan returned to China and came to Shanghai and received a new task from the party organization. During Zuo Quan's study abroad, the domestic situation also underwent earth-shaking changes. Chiang Kai-shek, the principal who once won over Zuo Quan, did not hesitate to launch a "purge" movement in the country for his own selfish interests, and massacred comrades in the organization. In order to counterattack our party, our party also launched the first shot of the armed resistance against the reactionaries in August 1927. When Zuo Quan returned to China, the domestic anti-encirclement and suppression was in full swing, and he was also entrusted by the party organization with an important task to become the commander of the Red 12th Army.
In the early days of serving as the commander of the Red 12th Army, Zuo Quan was questioned by some internal questions from the army. It turned out that as a newly formed army, most of the commanders of the Red 12th Army came from the grassroots level, and few of them had received complete military academy education. Zuo Quan, the "airborne leader" who had drunk foreign ink, could not help but questioned his actual work ability and was even dissatisfied with him, believing that he was just a "scholar" with more empty talk but less practical experience. Zuo Quan knew everyone's emotions, but he did not struggle with words but was determined to change others' views on him with practical actions. In his daily work, Zuo Quan fully demonstrated his humble and generous side, bringing himself closer to his grassroots officers and soldiers. In terms of combat, he combined his rich theoretical knowledge with actual conditions and commanded many wonderful battles. Soon the whole army was convinced by the ability and character of the commander.
1932 Zuo Quan stepped down as commander of the Red 12th Army and came to the Red Army School as principal, responsible for military theory teaching. Although this work mobilization is considered by many people as "upward and downward" and has caused Zuo Quan to lose command power, Zuo Quan himself expressed his understanding of this. As a top talent in military theory in the entire army, Zuo Quan is naturally willing to make the greatest contribution in this educational position. During his tenure as the principal of the Red Army School, Zuo Quan changed the situation of not paying attention to military theory in the past, and personally compiled textbooks and taught students, allowing the officers of the low-educational level of Red Army officers and soldiers to understand the world's advanced theoretical knowledge. It can be said that Zuo Quan's measures greatly improved the scientific and theoreticalization of the Red Army command system at that time.
In October 1934, due to the wrong route of Bogu Li De, the Red Army was failing the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign and was forced to carry out the strategic transfer of Long March . Faced with the encirclement and interception of Chiang Kai-shek and other local forces everywhere. Faced with such a dilemma, Zuo Quan did not respond negatively but brought his military talents to the extreme. In the battles such as Xiangjiang Battle, Four Crossings of Chishui and Strong Crossing of Dadu River , Zuo Quan was the strategist of the front-line troops.Even though the Red Army's weapons, equipment and total number of troops were not advantageous, under his military strategy of avoiding the real and vain, the Red Army was often able to take advantage of the local area to carry out targeted attacks on the reactionaries. Chiang Kai-shek felt helpless when he saw his former disciples bring him a heavy blow. In October 1935, Zuo Quan followed the main Red Army troops to complete the Long March and came to the northern Shaanxi base.
1937 's outbreak has become another major event in modern Chinese history. The demise of the country has become the sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of every Chinese. This has also allowed the Kuomintang and Communist parties, which have been incompatible in the past ten years to join hands to fight against foreign aggression. The previous Red Army also accepted the unified adaptation into the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army of , nominally returning to the government to command the unified command. During this adaptation, Zuo Quan was appointed as the deputy chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army and went to Shanxi, the main battlefield of anti-Japanese war in North China with the Eighth Route Army headquarters.
From the battle sequence at that time, Zuo Quan's deputy chief of staff has always been a planner with no importance in weight or voice. However, in fact, Zuo Quan played an irreplaceable role in the Eighth Route Army. In the sequence of the Eighth Route Army at that time, Zhu De was the commander-in-chief of the group army and Ye Jianying was the chief of staff. However, as the War of Resistance progressed, the two returned to , Yan'an, , for overall coordination and went to Chongqing for mediation and united front. This also led to the fact that the Eighth Route Army actually exercised the power of the commander and the chief of staff in the Eighth Route Army at that time, Peng Dehuai and Zuo Quan, two deputy staff members with different personalities, jointly built the central brain of the Eighth Route Army.
During the War of Resistance Against Japan and the Japanese army, the Eighth Route Army's equipment and firepower were far behind the other side, so we must put more effort into tactics. In response to this situation, Zuo Quan not only carried forward the old tradition of guerrilla warfare , but also developed flexible and changeable tactics such as tunnel warfare and sparrow warfare in combination with the actual terrain and landforms of Shanxi at that time. Because the Eighth Route Army had a deep mass base among the people, and various flexible tactics caused the Japanese army in North China to suffer a heavy blow.
At that time, Okamura Yasuji, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese invaders in North China, was a scheming army officer. Faced with this situation, he planned a cruel "iron wall encirclement" aimed at eliminating the vital forces of the Eighth Route Army in North China. The so-called iron wall encirclement is to cut our base areas into blocks through heavy troops, bunkers and barbed wire. Without the support of the base areas, our army will often fall into a state of fighting each other and cannot resist the small-scale strangulation of the Japanese army head-on. Since the enemy implemented the iron wall encirclement in 1942, the anti-Japanese military and civilians in North China have suffered heavy casualties.
1942, under the pressure of a large Japanese army, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army located in the southeast of Jin, , , and the deputy commander-in-chief Peng Dehuai and Deputy Chief of Staff Zuo Quan and others were among them. However, because the headquarters contained a large number of non-combat civilians, their transfer speed was slow. On May 25, 1942, the slowly transferred Eighth Route Army headquarters personnel were discovered by Japanese Army aviation units, and then fired and bombed them violently. During this process, a shell was directed to evacuate Zuo Quan, who was commanding the evacuation at a high place. After a burst of smoke of gunpower, 37, died heroically. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, in order to commemorate Zuo Quan, the highest-level general of our army who died in the War of Resistance Against Japan, the country also renamed the Liao County where he died as Zuoquan County.
When General Zuo Quan died, he only had his wife and young daughter Zuo Taibei in his family. After becoming a martyr, Zuo Taibei took his father as an example from a young age and strictly demanded himself in his study and life. In 1960, Zuo Taibei achieved excellent results in the college entrance examination. When filling out her application, she did not choose famous schools such as Tsinghua and Peking University, but chose Harbin Military Industry, which was far away in the northeast. Influenced by her father, Zuo Taibei was determined to contribute to the national defense cause of the motherland.Judging from the results, Zuo Taibei can be admitted to Harbin Military Industry. However, one day during the summer vacation of this year, Zuo Taibei did not wait for the admission notice of Harbin Military Industry, but waited to learn the conclusion that his political review was not passed. As a descendant of the martyr, why did Zuo Taibei reach the conclusion that his political review was not qualified?
It turns out that when the school was reviewing the freshmen, the school inspectors found that Zuo Taibei's second uncle, that is, Zuo Quan's brother, had served Chiang Kai-shek's troops. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he also fled to Taiwan with the defeated troops of the National Army. With this relationship, Zuo Taibei naturally could not pass the review smoothly.
Seeing that the dream of Harbin’s military industry was about to fail, Zuo Taibei had no choice but to find his father’s friend Chen Geng, who was from the past. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Chen Geng was not only awarded the rank of general, but his identity was also the principal of Harbin Military Industry. After learning the whole story of the matter, Chen Geng, who likes to joke, smiled and said to Zuo Taibei: "You have filled in one more social relationship." Then Chen Geng explained the situation with the school's Political Department and withdrew the conclusion that the previous political review was unqualified. With the help of General Chen Geng, Zuo Taibei finally entered the coveted Harbin Military Industry. In the following decades, Zuo Taibei also made outstanding contributions to the country's military industry construction.
