On this day, 83 years ago, on May 25, 1942 (April 11, 1942, lunar calendar), Zuo Quan, deputy chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army, died. On May 25, 1942, Zuo Quan, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Eighth Route Army, was hit and killed by Japanese artillery shells while commanding the logistics personnel of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters and the Northern Bureau Office to break through at Shiziling, Liao County, Shanxi Province. Zuo Quan was from Liling, Hunan. In 1923, he was admitted to the Guangzhou Xiangjun Lecture Hall, and in 1924, he was transferred to the Whampoa Military Academy for the first phase of study. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1925 and went to study at Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow. In 1927, he entered the Soviet Army University. In 1930, he returned to Shanghai and worked in the Central Soviet Area. He served as an instructor of the Officer School of the China Workers and Peasants Red Army, the president of the First Branch Branch, the Operations Section Chief of the Field Command of the General Front Committee of the Red Army, the Chief of Staff of the General Front Committee of the Red Army, the Political Commissar of the 15th Red Army, the Commander of the 13th Red Army, the Commander of the 21st Red Army, the Political Commissar of the Fifth Red Army, and the Chief of Staff of the First Red Army. He participated in the 25,000-mile Long March. After the Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi, Zuo Quan served as the Acting Corps Commander and Chief of Staff of the First Red Army, and participated in the Eastern Expedition and the Western Expedition. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Zuo Quan served as deputy chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army and a member of the North China Branch of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission. Zuo Quan is deeply attested in military theory and has written military articles such as "Sweeping Up and Counter-Sweeping Up","Attack Tactics","Tactical Issues","Traffic Warfare","On the Logistics Construction of Our Army","On the Characteristics of the War Situation in North China and Persisting in Several Basic Issues in the Guidance and Organization of Operations Behind the Enemy Lines in North China". Extended reading: Zuo Quan, who is capable of literature and martial arts, extended reading: Commander Zhu De, who is capable of literature and martial arts, once said that Zuo Quan "has extremely rich and brilliant achievements in military theory, strategy and tactics, military construction, staff work, logistics work, etc." and is a rare talent in China's military community. "In August 1937, the Red Army reorganized into the Eighth Route Army to cross the Yellow River eastward into Shanxi and join the fighting sequence of the Second World War Area. This was also the most arrogant period when the Japanese invaders invaded China. Zuo Quan was then deputy chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army and chief of staff of the forward headquarters. He once served as the commander of the 2nd Column of the Eighth Route Army, both strategizing and marching on the front line. As a leader of the Eighth Route Army, Zuo Quan had a deep understanding of Mao Zedong's strategic and tactical thoughts and combat principles, had the overall situation in mind, and had far-reaching plans. He implemented the Party Central Committee's policy on the War of Resistance in North China with outstanding military ability, and won a high reputation. In July and August 1938, Zhu De and Peng Dehuai returned to Yan 'an to attend the Sixth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Zuo Quan was ordered to preside over the overall work of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters. During this period, in accordance with the instructions of the Central Military Commission and Zhu and Peng, he commanded the Eighth Route Army to successfully crush the Japanese army's large-scale siege of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Anti-Japanese Base Area, further consolidating the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Anti-Japanese Base Area; presided over a meeting of major cadres attended by the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, the 129th Division and the Shanxi-Hebei-Henan District Committee of the Communist Party of China, which played a very important role in making timely preparations for the military and civilians in the Shanxi-Hebei-Henan Anti-Japanese Base Area to counter "mopping up". After the Sixth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, he actively assisted Zhu and Peng in implementing the Central Military Commission's strategic policy of "consolidating North China" and commanded the Eighth Route Army to enter the plain areas of Shandong, Central Hebei, southern Hebei, Hebei, Shandong and Henan to carry out extensive guerrilla warfare and expand various anti-Japanese base areas. In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, the troops expanded rapidly and the anti-Japanese base areas were divided and blockaded. The work of the headquarters urgently needed to be strengthened. Regarding the construction of the headquarters, Zuo Quan has always emphasized the need to "improve the organization and work of the headquarters at all levels in the spirit of building political work"; strictly enforce the headquarters regulations to improve the prestige of the headquarters; strengthen the education and training of staff personnel to improve their business level. In the winter of 1938, Zuo Quan personally convened a meeting of staff (chiefs) in southeastern Shanxi to summarize the experience of the work of our military headquarters. At this meeting, he drafted the work regulations of the Eighth Route Army Command, conducted a detailed study of the institutions and division of labor that should be established by each department of the headquarters, and personally demonstrated it to the staff staff of each unit who participated in the meeting. It is no exaggeration to say that Zuo Quan is one of the founders of the business construction of the Eighth Route Army Command. In order to use the gap between combat to conduct training and improve the combat effectiveness of the troops, Zuo Quan wrote articles such as "Combat Coaching Work of the Eighth Route Army" and "Military Education of New Soldiers", proposing the integration of theory with practice, targeted coaching of Japanese operations, less but refined, and in-depth political work and other coaching principles. Since the spring of 1939, in order to improve the military and political quality of the army, he has assisted the Eighth Route Army Headquarters in consolidating the army three times, and paid attention to the political, military and cultural education of the officers and soldiers of the army, laying a solid foundation for the development and growth of the Eighth Route Army. "The soldiers and soldiers have not moved, but the food and grass have come first. As chief of staff, Zuo Quan "not only planned troops, but also planned food." In the winter of 1940, the Eighth Route Army held its first logistics work conference, at which Zuo Quan delivered a report entitled "On the Logistics Construction of Our Army." At a later logistics and political work conference, he talked about "Logistics Work under Various Situations." He also personally founded the Huangyadong Gun Factory in Licheng County. This is the largest arsenal in the Taihang Mountains. It not only produces "Taihang made" rifles, but also produces artillery shells, 79 rifles and grenade launchers. In the winter of 1941, when the Japanese invaders carried out a large-scale sweep, they made the Huangyandong Arsenal Factory the focus of their attack. Zuo Quan commanded the headquarters secret service regiment. With a force of less than a thousand people, he fought bloody battles with 5,000 stubborn enemies for eight days and nights, wiping out 1,000 enemies, setting a new record of 6:1 casualties between the enemy and the enemy since the Anti-Japanese War. Zuo Quan was deeply aware of the truth of "knowing yourself and knowing your enemy, and winning a hundred battles". He compiled and compiled "Intelligence" No. 1 at the Eighth Route Army Headquarters in Yunyang, and instructed: "The materials obtained on the Japanese invaders 'invasion of China are compiled and issued for research. I hereby inform you." He carefully studied all captured enemy documents, publications, and enemy and puppet materials obtained through other methods, explored patterns and determined future countermeasures from analyzing the situation between the enemy and the enemy. For a period, Zuo Quan often wrote a review of the military dynamics of the War of Resistance in North China every half or a month, emphasizing some major issues in the struggle against the enemy. In the famous article "The Year of" Sweeping Up "and Counter-"Sweeping Up", Zuo Quan summarized the situation of the "Sweeping Up" in various anti-Japanese base areas in North China, introduced the policies and characteristics of the Japanese invaders "Sweeping Up", and summarized six experiences of our army in winning the victory of the "Anti-Sweeping Up". In the article "Carrying out the Struggle against the Enemy's" nibbling "Policy, the problems existing in the struggle against" nibbling "and specific methods to solve them are comprehensively discussed. In addition, Zuo Quan also organized headquarters inspection teams to base areas such as southern Hebei, Hebei, Shandong and Henan to help the troops organize short-term training classes, disseminate and exchange experience, and cultivate cadres. Studying the characteristics and laws of the Sino-Japanese War, Zuo Quan put forward many important operational guiding ideologies: under the situation that the enemy is strong and we are weak, if the Eighth Route Army wants to achieve combat victory, it must adhere to the unity of a protracted war in strategy and a quick decisive battle in campaign and tactics, strategic defensive warfare and offensive warfare in campaign battles, strategic warfare of attrition and warfare of annihilation in campaign battles; It is necessary to implement correct exterior line operations in interior line operations, pay attention to the unity and coordination of anti-siege and siege operations, and avoid fighting alone; we must strive for strategic, campaign and tactical initiative, be good at discovering, creating and grasping the enemy's weaknesses, and at the same time, we should carry forward our own advantages and eliminate our own weaknesses; Pay attention to giving full play to the role of local troops and militiamen so that they can actively and effectively cooperate with the regular army's operations, and oppose the erroneous practice of restricting or weakening mass armed forces; When organizing battles, we must use troops flexibly, be good at advancing and retreating in great strides, be good at dispersion and concentration, and be good at organizing various forces to participate in battles; All military actions should be closely related to the people's revolutionary struggle; military struggle should be closely integrated with various other forms of struggle such as politics, economy, culture, etc., and pure militarism should be opposed; attention should be paid to accumulating strength, and we should not just focus on fighting without accumulating strength. Work, nor should we excuse ourselves to accumulate strength without fighting or fighting less. We must be good at conserving strength in the use of strength. On the basis of studying and summarizing the practical experience of revolutionary wars, Zuo Quan used Marxist theory as a weapon and wrote articles such as "On the Principles of Military Thought""" with the strategic vision that only the Chief Staff Officer has ". He pointed out with great foresight: " Military affairs is a kind of science "and its foundation is social and economic conditions. Therefore, the development of military science is inseparable from the development of social economy. Similarly, all military ideas change with social and economic conditions and are influenced by the social superstructure at that time. However, economic conditions at a certain time and place play a leading role. We must use "new methods" and "new viewpoints" to create "new Marxist-Leninist military ideas" to "replace old ideas." At the same time, it is necessary to strengthen the study and research of war experience and military theory. It is necessary to study Marxism-Leninism and the Marxism-Leninism doctrine on war, study the experience and lessons of our army's long-term wars, study the history and military theories of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign wars, inherit the tradition of China's revolution, absorb the advantages of the progress of Chinese military thought in past dynasties, and learn from the mature military thoughts of advanced countries, thereby pushing our country's military theory forward and creating "China's glorious Marxism-Leninism military science." "He also used a large number of convincing materials to repeatedly demonstrate the following military principles: " The essence of all wars is the continuation of political struggle ";" All strategies and tactics depend on the economic conditions of each society and on the productive forces of each stage, and move forward ";" The most important thing that determines war is people ", and" Political work cannot be the lifeline of the army ";"Use a dialectical perspective to understand all strategies and tactics, and we use dialectical methods to create new strategies and tactics from actual struggles. It can be seen that starting from political analysis, focusing on the connection between military, politics and economy, and putting military work in its proper position in the overall situation are important foothold for Zuo Quan's large number of military works. "Practice leads to true knowledge." An important factor why Zuo Quan was able to participate in good plans and be able to use literature and martial arts was his diligence and study, personal experience, and good at summarizing. Take the famous "Hundred Regiments War" as an example. The main plan, organization, and commander of this battle that shocked China and foreign countries had left power. In mid-July 1940, Zuo Quan braved the scorching heat and traveled to the headquarters of the 129th Division and talked with Chief Liu and Deng about Peng Dehuai's ideas about preparing for a major traffic battle. During the talks, he humbly solicited the opinions of Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping. After returning to the headquarters, he followed Peng Dehuai's instructions and quickly drafted the "Campaign Preparation Order" on launching the Zhengtai Campaign. After the Hundred Regiments War was launched on August 20, most of the headquarters's combat orders and instructions were drafted under the chairmanship of Zuo Quan and reviewed and signed by Peng Dehuai. During the battle, he was on duty at the headquarters day and night to keep abreast of the development of the battle and assist General Peng in commanding the operation. Just as the battle was about to be won but before it ended, Zuo Quan wrote an article of "On the Victory of the Hundred Regiments 'War" that lasted to four to five thousand words on September 2, analyzing the reasons and strategic significance of the Hundred Regiments' War. It is both comprehensive and precise, which is amazing. He pointed out in the article: "This 'Hundred Regiments' was an unprecedented general transportation attack in North China. It was the first active large-scale campaign offensive on the North China battlefield.""The victory of this battle proved that the Eighth Route Army in North China has grown and developed into an invincible force and the main pillar of the Anti-Japanese War in North China." More than a month later, he wrote the article "Victory in the Third Phase of the Hundred Regiments War" and published it as an editorial of Xinhua Daily (North China Edition). In the first three and a half months of the Hundred Regiments War, more than 40,000 Japanese and puppet troops were killed and captured. It dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese army's "cage" policy, curbed the Kuomintang's counter-current of surrender, and boosted the confidence of the people across the country in striving for victory in the War of Resistance. In this regard, Zhou Enlai once said: "In the five years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Comrade Zuo Quan never left the front line for a day. Anyone who knows a little about the history of the national war of resistance will think of the 'Hundred Regiments War'." Mao Zedong also said: "How did the Hundred Regiments Fight together? This is thanks to Comrade Zuo Quan. Unfortunately, on May 25, 1942, during the Japanese army's "iron wall encirclement" sweep of the Taihang Anti-Japanese Base Area, Zuoquan commanded the troops to cover the Eighth Route Army headquarters and other agencies to break through and move, and was unfortunately shot and died for the country. He was only 37 years old. Zuo Quan and his wife Liu Zhilan