Zuo Quan is a senior commander and famous strategist of the Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants and the Eighth Route Army. Zhou Enlai called him a "model of the Party" and Zhu De praised him as "a rare talent in China's military field". March 1905 was born in a peasant family in Liling, Hunan. 1924 entered whampoa military academy 1 period. /kloc-0 joined the China * * * production party in February, 925. 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 Chinese Red Army School of Workers and Peasants 1 Branch School, the commander of the new 12 Army, the commander and political commissar of the 15 Army, and the chief of staff of the Red Army 1 Army. Participated in the opening of the Central Soviet Area and five counter-encirclement campaigns. 1934 10 participated in the Long March, and participated in the battles of the command post to cross the Dadu River and attack Lazikou. After arriving in northern Shaanxi, he took part in the battle of Zhiluo town and the crusade. 1 In May, 936, Ren Hong1served as the acting head of the Army Corps and led his troops to participate in the Western Expedition and the Battle of Mountain Castle.

After the outbreak of the national War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Zuo Quan 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 directing the Eighth Route Army to the anti-Japanese front line in North China, and launched guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines, which smashed many cruel "mopping-ups" by the Japanese army and had a great influence behind enemy lines. 1On May 25th, 942, he died heroically in the Battle of Crossridge in Liao County, Shanxi Province, at the age of 37. In memory of Zuo Quan, the government of Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Border Region decided to rename Liao County Zuoquan County.