[Literature and History] Zuo Quan, deputy chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army, was martyred
Zuo Quan, qing guangxu thirty-one years (1905) was born in Liling Xinyang Township Huangmaoling. At the age of 17, he entered Liling County Middle School and joined the patriotic movement against imperialism and warlords. At the age of 19, he entered the Guangzhou Army Martial Arts School, and was later merged into the sixth team of the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy. He joined the Communist Party of China at the age of 20 and served as a platoon commander of the sixth company of the second battalion of the First Regiment and a company commander of the Guard Battalion of the General Headquarters of the Hubei Army, and participated in the Eastern Expedition twice. He studied at Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow and the Frunze Military Academy.
In the 19th year of the Republic of China (1930), he returned to China and entered the central revolutionary base area, successively serving as the chief of education of the first branch of the Officer School of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, the standing committee member of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Committee in western Fujian, the commander of the newly organized Red Twelfth Army, the chief of operations of the commander-in-chief of the Red Army, the political commissar of the Fifteenth Army of the Red Fifth Army, the commander and political commissar of the Red Fifteenth Army, the staff officer of the Operations Bureau of the Central Military Commission, and the chief of staff of the Red First Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. He commanded the Red Fifteenth Army to conquer Longyan City, break through the Tianbaoshan defense line, annihilate the Fujian warlord Zhang Zhen's main force Wang Zuqing Brigade and most of Yang Fengnian's troops, and liberate the important town of Zhangzhou in southern Fujian; participated in the overall command of the Battle of Huangpi, completely annihilated Chiang Kai-shek's Fifty-second and Fifty-ninth Divisions, and captured division commanders Li Ming and Chen Shiji alive. He has participated in successive anti-encirclement and suppression struggles and has made many achievements in battle.
In October of the 23rd year of the Republic of China (1934), the main force of the Central Red Army began the Long March. Zuo Quan led the Red First Army to cut through the pass and seize the pass, break the enemy's encirclement and blockade, break through the four blockade lines, and cover the victorious crossing of the Xiang River by the central organs. In May of the following year, Zuo Quan, commander of the Right Column, led his troops to attack Dashu Fort in one fell swoop, causing Fulin to be in a hurry and clamping down on the main force of the Sichuan Army, creating favorable conditions for the main force of the Red Army to seize Anshun Field, rush to cross the Wujiang River, fly the Luding Bridge, and successfully cross the dangerous Dadu River. In the 25th year of the Republic of China (1936), Zuo Quan served as the acting commander of the Red First Army and participated in the February Eastern Expedition and the May Western Expedition. Commanded the Battle of Mountain Castle and completely annihilated the Seventy-eighth Division of Hu Zongnan's First Army.
In the 26th year of the Republic of China (1937), Zuo Quan served as deputy chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army and chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army's Forward Command, crossed the Yellow River with Zhu De and Peng Dehuai, commanded the Eighth Route Army to go deep behind enemy lines, carried out independent guerrilla warfare, and created the lüliang mountain, Wutai Mountain, and Taihang Mountain base areas, laying the foundation for the anti-Japanese resistance behind enemy lines in north China. In April of the following year, 30,000 men of the Japanese 1st O 8th Division attacked the Taihang Mountains, and Zuo Quan personally came to the front line to take command. In the First Battle of Changle Village, it smashed the Japanese 9-way siege, annihilated more than 2,200 people of the 108th Division, recovered 18 county towns such as Yuci, expanded the base area in southeastern Jin, and laid the foundation for the liberated areas of Jin, Hebei, Lu and Yu.
In February of the 29th year of the Republic of China (1940), Zuo Quan concurrently served as the commander of the Second Column of the Eighth Route Army. In March, he commanded the battles of Ciwu and Shilin, annihilating more than 10,000 enemy troops. In July, Zuo Quan assisted Peng Dehuai in carefully formulating the battle plan for the "Battle of the Hundred Regiments". The "Battle of the Hundred Regiments" lasted 3 and a half months, with 1,824 large and small battles, killing, wounding and capturing more than 44,000 Japanese troops, and pulling out 2,993 Japanese strongholds. In November of the following year, more than 5,000 Japanese troops pounced on the Huangyadong Arsenal, and Zuo Quan commanded the guard regiment to defend the Battle of Huangyadong, annihilating more than 1,000 enemy troops. This battle was commended by the Central Military Commission as an "anti-sweep model battle".
Beginning in February of the 31st year of the Republic of China (1942), the Japanese army launched several major sweeps aimed at the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, all of which were repelled by the troops under the command of Zuo Quan. In May, the Japanese army once again gathered more than 30,000 troops to attack the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in 5 routes, and the headquarters decided to find an opportunity to cross the gap and transfer the outer line to fight. On the 25th, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, the Northern Bureau of the CPC, the Party School, and the Xinhua News Agency brigade gathered in the ravines of the Nan'aipu and Gaojiapo lines during the transfer. The Japanese army narrowed the encirclement, the situation was very urgent, the general part of the 3-way breakthrough, the left power commanded the breakthrough battle. At noon, the headquarters organ finally broke through the siege, but the soldier who could pick up the document box did not come up, zuo quan ordered the guards around him to find it, and did not agree to the guard regiment's request for him to transfer. At 2 p.m., on the eastern slope of the cross slope, a shell landed on Zuo Quan's side, and the general's blood stained Taixing and he was martyred. On September 18, Liao County in Shanxi Province was renamed Zuoquan County.