* * * is Zuo Quan, deputy chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army, equivalent to Major General.
Zhang Zizhong (189 1- 1940), commander-in-chief of the 33rd Army of the National Revolutionary Army, was born in Tangyuan Village, Linqing City, Shandong Province. A famous patriotic general against Japan. 19 1 1 was admitted to Tianjin University of Political Science and Law and transferred to Jinan University of Political Science and Law the following year. 19/kloc-joined the army in 0/4, and served as platoon leader, company commander, battalion commander, colonel, brigade commander and division commander, and served as chairman of Chahar province and mayor of Tianjin. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he led his troops south to resist Japan. May 1940, 1, died heroically in the battle of Zaoyi (Zaoyi changed to self-loyalty). 1940 On May 28th, Chongqing National Government held a grand funeral. On August 15, people from all walks of life in Yan 'an held a memorial service for Zhang Zizhong, and Zhou Enlai and Zhu De made eulogies respectively. 1982, China people and the Ministry of Civil Affairs ratified Zhang Zizhong as a revolutionary martyr.
1940 In May, the aggressive Japanese army launched the Zaoyi Campaign in northern Hubei. The fifth war zone in Zhang Zizhong is responsible for confronting the enemy head-on. On the evening of May 6, Happy Shop Headquarters in the west of Xianghe. General Zhang Zizhong, Commander-in-Chief of the Right Wing Corps and Commander-in-Chief of the 33rd Army, called a meeting and announced: "I will cross the river to supervise the war tomorrow." This discussion was unanimously opposed by the participating generals, who thought that he should still be in Hexi. Despite repeated discouragement, Zhang Zizhong insisted on personal expedition.
At dawn the next day, Zhang Zizhong quietly crossed the river with a spy battalion and a regiment before the main force of his 74th Division arrived. This is the fourth time he has crossed the Xianghe River this year. 14 or so, the troops moved to pumpkin shop in Xinjie Township, Yicheng, Hubei Province. At this time, there was only a team of about 1500 people in Zhang Zizhong, mainly in the spy camp.
The Japanese army intercepted and deciphered the secret telegram sent by its headquarters to Nanjing, and learned that the General Command of the 33rd Army was located in a small mountain village called Guliyan in Pumpkin Shop, so it mobilized more than 6,000 superior troops to launch a general attack under the cover of planes and tanks. On June 16, in order to hold off the enemy, the 38th Division that came from the periphery to reinforce formed an anti-encirclement. After sending off the relevant civilian personnel, Zhang Zizhong could not hold on to the battlefield.
Gu, the only witness who survived when he died, recalled: When the commander-in-chief was advised to move to the southeast when the enemy encirclement was not closed, the commander-in-chief became angry and said loudly, "Soldiers who get cold feet have to be beheaded. Can the commander-in-chief run when he is in danger?" Is our life a life, and the life of the soldier in front is Tukla? ..... Today must be a bloody battle to the end! "
At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, after almost all his officers and men were killed, Zhang Zizhong and one of his adjutants and a guard retreated to Shili Changshan. At this point, Zhang has been shot several times, bleeding, shoes and socks are all wet. The encirclement is getting smaller and smaller. When Japanese soldiers with live ammunition approached Zhang Zizhong, Zhang suddenly stood up from a pool of blood beside the big stone and stared at the Japanese soldiers in front of him. ...
Zuo Quan, formerly known as Zuo Jichuan, formerly known as Uncle Ren. 1905 was born in a peasant family in Lumao Village, Xinyang Township, Liling City. /kloc-In 0/92, he entered Liling County Middle School and participated in the "Social Research Association" led by Zhong * *. 1924, Dan entered the Wujiang School of the Army in the Military and Political Department of Marshal Sun Yat-sen's Office, transferred to the first phase of Huangpu Military Academy in June, and joined the China * * * Production Party in February. Participated in the crusade against Chen Jiongming. He went to the Soviet Union at the end of 1925, and studied at Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow and the Volongzhi Military Academy of the Soviet Union.
During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, Zuo Quan went to the Central Soviet Area after returning to China on 1930, and served as the director of education, the commander of the new 12 army, the commander and political commissar of 15 army, and the chief of staff and acting head of 1 army. In Fujian, he commanded the anti-encirclement campaign and crusaded against Zhangzhou and Huangpi. In June, 1936, 1 1 participated in and directed the Battle of Mountain Castle.
During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, Zuo Quan was the deputy chief of staff and former chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army (later renamed the No.1 18 Army). Assist Zhu De and Peng to command the Eighth Route Army to carry out guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines in North China and create anti-Japanese base areas. He has participated in commanding campaigns and battles in southeastern Shanxi, the "Nine-way Siege", the Hundred Regiments War, and the Huangyadong Defence War. He is good at grasping the overall situation, carefully planning and showing outstanding military talent. 1On May 25th, 942, he died heroically when commanding troops to cover the transfer of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army near Matian, Liao County.
Zuo Quan has made great achievements in military theory, strategy and tactics, army building and other aspects. He has cooperated with Liu Bocheng in translating the Operational Rules of the New Infantry of the Red Army of Workers and Peasants in the Soviet Union, and published more than 40 monographs and papers such as Persisting in the Anti-Japanese War, Ambush Tactics and Offensive Tactics in North China, On the Principles of Military Thought, and On the Logistics Construction of Our Army.
1989, the central military commission identified Zuo Quan as one of 33 military strategists.
Zuo Quan (1906- 1942) was born in Liling, Hunan. He was an outstanding strategist of our army and the highest general of our party who died in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. Zhou Enlai called him a "model of the Party" and Zhu De praised him as "a rare talent in China's military field".
1924 Zuo Quan entered the first phase of Whampoa Military Academy, and 1925 joined the China * * * Production Party in February. In February 65438, he went to the Soviet Union and studied at Sun Yat-sen University and Fulongzhi Military Academy successively. 1930 After returning to China, he went to the Central Soviet Area. During his stay in 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 as commander of the second column of the Eighth Route Army. He fought on the Taihang Mountain for a long time, founded the anti-Japanese base area, and successively participated in and commanded the smashing of the Japanese siege, the Hundred Regiments War and the Huangyadong Defence War of the Ninth Road in southeastern Shanxi, which made great contributions to our army's victory.
1In April, 938, the Japanese aggressors gathered more than 40,000 people and besieged the main force of the Eighth Route Army in nine ways in an attempt to destroy the Taihang Mountain anti-Japanese base area. According to the unified deployment of the headquarters, Zuo Quan quickly mobilized Wuxiang, the main force of our army, to make a surprise attack on the enemy. 16 at dawn, on the beach of Changle village, the Eighth Route Army cut the enemy into several sections with the trend of tigers going down the mountain, and fought bloody battles for a day to destroy the enemy. This battle * * * wiped out more than 4,000 people, recovered 18 counties such as Liao County and Licheng, and liberated millions of people from the brutal rule of the enemy.
Unwilling to fail after being repeatedly attacked by our army, the Japanese invaders mobilized more than 30,000 troops around southeastern Shanxi in May 1942, and launched an unprecedented cruel "encirclement and suppression with iron walls" to attack Matian, Liao County, where the Eighth Route Army headquarters is located. On 25th, in order to cover the comrades in the rear organs from jumping out of the encirclement, Zuo Quan led his troops to insist on commanding the battle, and didn't start to break through until the end. When the team rushed to the last blockade of the enemy, a shell exploded in front of him, and Zuo Quan died heroically.
The news of Zuo Quan's sacrifice spread and the whole country mourned. * * * The Central North Bureau and the Field Political Department of the 18 Army issued the Decision on Mourning Comrade Zuo Quan, calling on the soldiers of the whole army to carry on Zuo Quan's legacy and persist in carrying out more arduous struggles behind enemy lines in North China until War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression finally won. Taipedestrian renamed Liao County Zuoquan County, and wrote a popular song of General Zuo Quan, so as to remember this hero who spilled blood on this land forever. (Contributed by China People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression Memorial Hall)