In the martyrs cemetery, there stands a tomb made of bluestone. On the front of the tombstone is Zhou Enlai's inscription "Tomb of General Zuo Quan". On the west is He Long's eulogy, and on the east is Zhu De's seven-character poem "Hanging Comrade Zuo Quan". For this old comrade-in-arms, Zhu De wrote:
A famous soldier will die for his country and be willing to fight for my country.
The heroic spirit of Taihang has been passed down through the ages, leaving a clear picture of vomiting blood.
Loyalty for the country, heroic spirit spread through the ages, this is the evaluation of his old comrades, but also the eyes of future generations of Zuo Quan. But many years later, people found a very warm general in his letters.
1982, 40 years after Zuo Quan's death, his only daughter, Zuo Taibei, received a stack of letters from her mother, Liu Hu Lan Zhi. These letters were written by my father himself, and the mailing date was1August 940 to1May 942, that is, five days before my father died, totaling 1 1.
At this time, 42-year-old Zuo Taibei really understood her father's love for her for the first time. It turns out that the great hero in the eyes of outsiders, like Qian Qian's ten thousand fathers, left her the gentlest side:
This is a passage from Zuo Quan's letter to his wife Liu Zhilan on the evening of May 20, 1942, five days before his death. My daughter is two years old this year, and it has been more than 1 year and 8 months since the last meeting between father and daughter.
Seeing this, do you think Zuo Quan is a person who is deeply in love? How can such a person become a good soldier who scares the Japanese army? Perhaps this is a poem written by Lu Xun: Ruthlessness may not be a real hero, so how can Reiko Kobayakawa not be a husband? In this issue, the author will introduce you to the legendary life of the famous warm-hearted Zuo Quan. The article is very long, please wait patiently, I believe there will be gains.
Zuo Quan was born in a poor peasant family in Hunan. He lost his father when he was one and a half years old. His widowed mother brought him up with great pains. Because his uncle is the headmaster, he has received a good education since he was a child. /kloc-admitted to the county middle school at the age of 0/7. Three years later, introduced by Chen Geng, he met Zhou Enlai and joined China. In the same year, he was sent to study at Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow.
This was the first batch of international students sent to the Soviet Union at that time. The Kuomintang and the Communist Party add up to only 200 people, and Zuo Quan is really one in a million. Before he left, he bought a new suit and shoes and took a handsome photo.
In the days of the Soviet Union, Zuo Quan conquered Russian and systematically studied military technical knowledge. This group of international students was very rare in China at that time, and they will definitely become "hot cakes" after returning to China. The Japanese army was well aware of this and decided to strike first.
1930, Zuo Quan returned to China. At that time, he and his friend Liu Bocheng made an appointment to meet at a small station on the northeast border, and then returned to Shanghai together. But when he saw Liu Bocheng, he found a Japanese spy following him. Zuo Quan took his time, agreed with Liu Bocheng in fluent Russian, and met for a while at the grocery store in front. The spy didn't know Russian, but he kept up with him. Zuo Quan directly knocked down the other side and ran into the alley, allowing Liu Bocheng to get away smoothly. In this way, under the tight blockade of the Japanese army, Zuo Quan and Liu Bocheng arrived in Shanghai.
After returning home, Mao Zedong arranged Zuo Quan to the Red Army Academy, hoping that he, an international student, would train a batch of new talents for our army. At that time, the teaching conditions were poor, there were no formal teaching materials and no systematic teaching mode, and the enthusiasm of teachers and students was not high. But after Zuo Quan came, all this changed.
His lectures are very popular and interesting. When it comes to the principle of shooting, many students don't know why the trajectory of a bullet is curved. Zuo Quan humorously used the metaphor of an urchin peeing. He said that the "trajectory" is also curved, and the students understand it at once.
Zuo Quan only stayed in the military academy for more than a month, but he trained more than 200 military cadres, which played a significant role in the anti-Japanese war.
Mao Zedong noticed Zuo Quan's performance in the military academy. 1933, 19 In February, Zuo Quan was transferred to the post of Chief of Staff of the Red Army. Mao Zedong said: This man is a general with two sides and three knives. Two poles, one is a pen and the other is a gun.
Written, before Zuo Quan became chief of staff, our army actually didn't have a deep understanding of this position, and many troops didn't have the position of chief of staff. At that time, our army emphasized a "heart", which was the commander; A stomach, which is the logistics department. Grassroots cadres, on the other hand, do everything, and the division of labor is not clear. After Zuo Quan became the chief of staff, he systematically sorted out the work that the chief of staff should be responsible for. Give advice to commanders during the day, write military papers at night, and sort out operational processes. He is the founder of staff work in China. His military articles "On Persisting in the Anti-Japanese War in North China" and "Ambush Tactics" also played an important role in the overall victory of our army.
On the barrel of a gun, Zuo Quan is a "sharpshooter" in Mao Zedong's eyes. He is a sharpshooter, which means not only stable marksmanship, but also stable tactics. 1936165438+1October, in the mountain castle, Zuo Quan and Nie were under the eyes of the enemy, and only two regiments completed the siege of the 78th Division in Hu Zongnan. Later, Liu Bocheng also admired it, calling the war an example.
/kloc-at the end of 0/938, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was stationed in Lucheng County, with Zhu De as commander-in-chief and Zuo Quan as deputy chief of staff. Zhu De attaches great importance to Zuo Quan, but one thing has always been on his mind: 33-year-old Zuo Quan is still single.
Finally, Zhu De found Liu Zhilan among the female soldiers, and personally became a "matchmaker", so the two revolutionary soldiers came together. At the simple wedding, Zhu De said to Zuo Quan, "You can't bully our deputy chief of staff, Comrade Liu!" !
Mr. Zhu, who said this, probably didn't expect this usually vigorous comrade-in-arms to become a warm husband and a "daughter slave" after marriage.
A year after marriage, Liu Zhilan gave birth to a daughter. This year, Zuo Quan was 35 years old. When the child was born, Zuo Quan worked in other places. The first person to get the news was Mr. and Mrs. Peng. When Mr Peng told Zuo Quan the news, we could imagine how happy Zuo Quan was. In wartime, family ties are always more precious. What name to give the child, but he was stumped.
Many years later, Zuo Taibei realized that his father gave himself this name on Peng's advice. Boss Peng said: "The children in Liu Bocheng are called Taihang, so the children in Zuo Quan are called Taibei!" At that time, the place where they fought was Taibei District of Taihang Mountain, and the children of soldiers all had such special names!
A few days after the child was born, just before the Hundred Regiments War, Zuo Quan was rarely with his wife and children. Having just given birth to a child, Liu Zhilan is weak, and life on the battlefield is extremely difficult. Her husband often can't find anyone, so it is inevitable that she will complain.
At this time, Zuo Quan can only be coaxed, explain to her the difficulties of the current situation, and personally take her daughter's dirty diapers to the river to wash, and then dry them carefully after washing. As soon as the child cries, he picks up the bowl and feeds his daughter rice soup. At that time, Zuo Quan was not only a big player with a horizontal knife, but also an out-and-out "slave girl".
The baby will be 100 days soon, and Liu Lanzhi's mother and daughter will be sent to Yan 'an. Before leaving, Zuo Quan, who always disliked taking pictures, specially asked someone to take a picture of herself and her daughter. In the photo, Zuo Quan, who has always been serious, holds her daughter for more than three months and laughs so happily. But who would have thought that this time it was the difference between father and daughter. In his later years, Zuo Taibei often looked at this precious photo and burst into tears.
After leaving his wife and daughter, besides writing Junbao, Zuo Quan's happiest thing is to write to their mother. The title of the letter is always "Lan Zhi", and the signature is his number "Uncle Ren". The signature time is often in the evening. In addition to asking his wife to take care of herself, Zuo Quan always repeatedly mentioned his daughter Little Taipei in his book:
At present, there are 1 1 letters, which were once regarded as treasures by Liu Zhilan. In fact, Zuo Quan and her daughter get along for less than 100 days. When he wrote it, he didn't know whether her daughter was naughty or beautiful. Like thousands of fathers in the world, he thinks his daughter should be so lovely.
1942 in may, the Japanese army frequently mobilized its troops to prepare for encirclement and suppression of our eighth route army headquarters. On May 23rd, Zuo Quan got the news that the Japanese army had completely surrounded the headquarters.
At that time, the total population of the headquarters was more than 1 000, and the number of security organs was less than 1 000. In addition to leaders like Mr. Peng, there are a large number of handyman and technicians, such as power generation technicians, who send and receive various battle reports. In other words, most people in such a huge evacuation team have no combat experience, which makes it very difficult to evacuate.
At the critical moment, Zuo Quan stepped forward. After making a complete evacuation plan, he let Peng Xian go. After years of cooperation, Zuo Quan knows the importance of being handsome at a critical time.
Boss Peng didn't want to go, so Zuo Quan had to disobey. He ordered the guard company commander: "Whether he likes it or not! If you pull hard, you have to pull him on the horse and evacuate! "
After Mr. Peng left, Zuo Quan found the weak link of the Japanese army and let the guards take the lead to break through and cover the evacuation of non-combatants. The troops threw away all the food and grass and ran forward. Along the way, Zuo Quan constantly stressed that veterans with combat experience must take out the technicians of confidential departments and take out valuable information such as radio stations.
At two o'clock in the afternoon on May 25th, Zuo Quan led his men to Crossridge in the east of Liao County. At this time, the army had Japanese fighters on its head and artillery attacks behind it. Although the situation was critical, under Zuo Quan's witty arrangement, he commanded the troops to pass Crossridge in an orderly way.
Later, people said that if Zuo Quan kept going, he wouldn't be sacrificed. But when he saw that all the technicians who didn't keep up with the team ran away, he turned around on his own. He stood in Crossridge and shouted at these deserters over and over again, telling them which direction to run and how to avoid the enemy's air-dropped shells.
According to later soldiers' memories, shells exploded around Zuo Quan and Zuo Quan didn't come down. He is still standing on a high place, commanding and shouting. Veterans know that not hiding in battle is a matter of death. Why didn't Zuo Quan know? But he probably didn't have time to think about whether he was safe or not. In this way, another shell came and Zuo Quan fell forever.
In the smoke, a generation of famous Zuo Quan died heroically at the age of 37, leaving behind his wife who had been married for only 3 years and his 2-year-old daughter.
On May 27th, 1942, Mao Zedong in Yan 'an finally received a telegram from the front line of Taihang. After learning the news of Zuo Quan's sacrifice, Mao Zedong held a telegram with tears in his eyes and was silent for a long time. Because of the tight war, Zuo Quan's public burial was not held in Shexian until June 10. Peng wrote the inscription of Comrade Zuo Quan for him, and finally wrote:
Signature: written by Peng.
After Zuo Quan left, Shanxi people made sacrifices in Liaoxian County, Zuoquan County, in memory of him.
In Mao Zedong's eyes, Zuo Quan is a dead shot, a general who digested all foreign bread and was hard at both ends.
In Zhu De's eyes, Zuo Quan is an excellent general made of steel, as brave as liger.
In Zhou Enlai's eyes, Zuo Quan is a model of the Party.
In the eyes of his daughter Zuo Taibei, her father is a real hero.
After Zuo Quan left, his only daughter, Zuo Taibei, was taken good care of. She lived up to the expectations of her father and uncles and inherited her father's ambition. After graduating from the Missile Department of Harbin Institute of Military Engineering, she worked in the Aerospace Research Institute for many years, and then engaged in military plan management. In 2000, he stepped down as deputy director of aviation industry corporation of china Comprehensive Planning Department. On June 25th, 20 19, Zuo Taibei died at the age of 79.
Now that General Zuo Quan's letter has been published, looking at those warm words, we can easily imagine that Zuo Quan would be a qualified father if he had been born in peacetime.
He is an iron man with a straight knife, but he also washes his daughter's diapers.
He has never laughed in his life, but he always laughs when he holds his daughter.
He doesn't worry about food and clothing, but he can find beautiful cloth and want to make a beautiful little dress for his daughter.
These heroes in the bonfire years are not ignorant of being affectionate with their children, nor do they want to enjoy family happiness, but only know that there is a country before there is a home. I want to use this article to commemorate General Zuo Quan, who dared to fight on the battlefield and was willing to wash his daughter's diapers off the battlefield!