1926 During the summer vacation, after Wang Tao returned to Jianghua, he invited holiday students to carry out anti-imperialist and patriotic propaganda activities in the county. They organized students from counties and schools to take to the streets to protest foreign goods and oppose imperialist aggression. His activities attracted the attention of his parents. In the winter of the same year, he graduated from a provincial-level industrial school and went home. His parents asked him to get engaged to a woman named Peng in the same street, so as to stay at home and inherit his ancestral business and avoid going out to "get into trouble". He refused to accept it. In a rage, he chopped the bride price with a knife, and then left home to take part in the revolution in Changsha.

1927, Wang Tao was selected by the party organization and sent to Sun Yat-sen University in the Soviet Union to study. At first he studied military affairs, and later he studied politics. After returning to China from 65438 to 0929, he served as special secretary of Guangdong Dongjiang Youth League and education director of Red Army School. /kloc-in the spring of 0/930, he was sent by the Guangdong and Guangxi provincial committees of the Communist Party of China and came to Bamish with Dai Yue. As a special correspondent, he helped the CPC Southern Hunan Working Committee to carry out rectification work and transformed it into a special CPC Southern Hunan Committee. Yin Zishao is the secretary, and the special committee is located in Guangdong Bashi. 1931August, according to the instructions of Guangdong and Guangxi provincial committees, he served as the secretary of the reorganized special Committee at the first enlarged meeting of the southern Hunan special Committee. This meeting mainly conveyed the criticism of Guangdong and Guangxi provincial committees on the mistake of not paying attention to mobilizing the masses and carrying out armed struggle, and emphasized the importance of carrying out armed struggle among the masses. The meeting also decided to change the southern Hunan guerrilla brigade into the southern Hunan red guerrilla brigade, and the special Committee moved to Nanxiang, Leiyang, in order to promote the recovery and development of the work in southern Hunan. By the spring of 1932, the red guerrillas in southern Hunan had developed into a team with more than 200 rifles and two machine guns, and eliminated the reactionary armed forces such as the gate valve regiment and the "shovel team" in the red area of Yizhang one by one, making the main armed forces in various places afraid to come out of the bunker. By March 1933, there were ten party branches and six league branches in the activity area of the Special Committee's leading center.

1April, 933, Hunan Special Committee led by Hunan and Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China. On April 26th, according to the instructions of the Hunan and Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee, Wang Tao convened the second enlarged meeting of the Special Committee to comprehensively summarize the past work of the Special Committee and plan the tasks of the Party in the future. After the meeting, the Special Committee sent personnel to Yizhang, Hengyang, Shuikoushan, Zixing and other places with Chen County as the center to establish party organizations and carry out mass guerrilla warfare. By the end of July 1934, the established party organizations included the CPC Central Committee of Lei (Yang) An (Ren) Yong (Xing) and five underground district committees; It has opened up a guerrilla zone in the mine border area with Zhumu Mountain as the center and hundreds of miles in vertical and horizontal directions. The red guerrillas led by the Southern Hunan Special Committee expanded to one battalion, won several victories in Chenxian County and wiped out an enemy special company.

During his work in southern Hunan, Wang Tao not only showed outstanding leadership skills, but also was particularly calm and witty when dealing with emergencies. He was chased by the enemy twice and escaped safely every time. He went to the Hunan-Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee to ask for instructions and report his work. He always goes alone, never takes anyone with him, and skillfully deals with the enemy's questioning. Once, the red guerrillas in southern Hunan were surrounded by a hill. After analyzing the situation, Wang Tao ordered the team to hide immediately. Once the enemy's defense was relaxed, he found a weak area to break through, so that the team did not suffer any losses.

1In the autumn of 934, Wang Tao left southern Hunan to follow the Long March of the Red Army. When passing through Guizhou and Sichuan, he was injured twice and was transferred to the Party School of Gongsijun as a teacher. After the Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi, he was transferred to the Central Party School as a teacher and battalion commander of the Red Guards. 1937 was appointed as the head of the United Front Work Department of the Northern Shaanxi District Committee of the Communist Party of China at the beginning, and in August he was transferred to the position of Deputy Director of the United Front Work Department of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region.

After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, according to the agreement reached between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the Red Army guerrillas in southern provinces were reorganized into the New Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army. At the end of the year, Wang Tao was sent to southern Hunan by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China as the secretary of the Lieutenant Colonel of the New Fourth Army. He wore the military uniform of the Kuomintang government and a lieutenant colonel's collar, and he was openly active in all parts of southern Hunan, which effectively promoted the development of the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. 1938 65438+ 10 served as the director of the communications department of the new fourth army in Chenzhou.

In February, the CPC Southern Hunan Special Committee was reorganized, and he served as the Secretary of the Special Committee. In order to reorganize the guerrillas, Wang Tao and Xie, member of the Southern Hunan Special Committee and secretary of the CPC Central Committee, came to Leiyang in March to negotiate with the Kuomintang authorities. During the negotiations, he solemnly pointed out that the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party means that the two parties are equal and jointly fight against Japan. After two days of intense negotiations, the Kuomintang authorities were finally forced to agree to his plan to openly reorganize the guerrillas. Later, he and Zhou Li went deep into the guerrillas to mobilize and educate them, so that 500 or 600 guerrillas scattered in Lechang, Ruyuan and Yizhang mountainous areas quickly went down the mountain to reorganize. In April, it was officially reorganized into the New Fourth Army, and the first and second brigades were temporarily compiled. Under the warm farewell of the masses, they went to the anti-Japanese front. Since then, he has worked with the Special Committee to rectify and develop the Party organization. In less than half a year, he established two central county committees, two central district committees and 26 branches, and the total number of party member reached 1400.

In order to carry out the Anti-Japanese National Salvation and the Anti-Japanese Guerrilla War, Wang Tao and the Southern Hunan Special Committee held many training courses for party member cadres in counties, districts and townships in Wansheng Hotel in Chenxian, Gengxu Village in Rucheng and Du Qifeng during the half year in Xia Hou in 1938. According to Wang, then secretary of the Party branch of Mao Suchong in Leiyang, "Comrade Wang Tao lives in a bookstore in Chenxian County ... Every time he comes to the party school training class to give a lecture, he wears a gown, dresses up as a businessman, and sneaks into Wansheng Hotel by a detour. ..... The vast majority of students are instructors who have long insisted on guerrilla struggle. They have been drilling in the mountains and forests for more than ten years, and rarely see the party's documents and revolutionary books and newspapers. The news is relatively isolated and the level of political theory is relatively low. In addition ... seeing the Kuomintang reactionaries slaughter our comrades, relatives and the masses with their own eyes, they have a profound hatred for the Kuomintang reactionaries. Therefore, when I heard that I was going to cooperate with the Kuomintang for the second time, I couldn't remember it at the moment. ..... Comrade Wang Tao always focuses on this central topic in every lecture, telling us the revolutionary situation and the party's United front policy in a simple way, helping us to improve our ideological understanding. " Under his leadership, the anti-Japanese national salvation movement was widely carried out in all parts of southern Hunan. In May, he presided over the opening of Chenzhou Xianzhi Bookstore, published revolutionary books and newspapers, founded People Weekly, held a "readers' meeting" and warmly welcomed customers with the bookstore staff. In order to do a good job in United front work, he paid special attention to extensive contact with upper-class people and would certainly help them if necessary. An activist named Li Zhaoxiu, whose daughter Li Lun was expelled from school, specially asked him to help send her to Yan 'an to take part in the revolution. He tried his best to meet this requirement. In addition, he also set up a Xinhua Daily distribution office in Leiyang, a Starlight Bookstore in Rucheng, a Battlefield Culture Branch and a Wartime Publishing House Supply Branch in Yizhang, and a Wartime Middle School in Leiyang to accommodate unemployed students who fled to enemy-occupied areas in North China and East China and all over the country. Through these efforts, the mass anti-Japanese national salvation movement in southern Hunan has flourished.

1939 In February, Wang Tao was elected as a member of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China. After the Pingjiang massacre, the Kuomintang authorities destroyed the communication office of the New Fourth Army in Chenzhou, and he was wanted. At this time, he was transferred from southern Hunan to the provincial party Committee as the organization department minister. 1May, 940, transferred to Guilin Eighth Route Army Office, ready to transfer to Yan 'an. Due to the obstruction of the Kuomintang authorities, he stayed in Guilin for half a year and failed to make a trip.

/kloc-in the winter of 0/940, the party organization decided to transfer Comrade Wang Tao as a member of the Southern Working Committee of the Communist Party of China and secretary of the Minxi Special Committee. Wang He and his wife took their son, who was only half a year old, to Meizhou, Guangdong via Hengyang and Shaoshanguan, and got in touch with Luotian sent by the Minxi Special Committee. Under the guidance and escort of Luo Tian, they arrived at Houtian Village, Longyan County, the resident of Minxi Special Committee in mid-June 194 1. At this time, the Kuomintang government authorities launched the "Minxi Incident", killing people and revolutionary masses everywhere, which made the revolutionary struggle in western Fujian enter the most dangerous and arduous period. Faced with this situation, he seems very calm and steady. After he entrusted his son to a family member of the Red Army to raise him, he organized forces to fight back, and at the same time transferred the secret service to the deep mountains and forests. He also appointed Zhang Zimao to continue to be responsible for editing and publishing Tuanjiebao, and often wrote articles for newspapers, exposing the crimes of the Kuomintang authorities that undermined the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and propagating the party's consistent position of adhering to unity and resistance. Although he has a serious stomach trouble himself, he still insists on sharing weal and woe with everyone; Moreover, he cares and loves his comrades-in-arms very much. Once the monitor Dai Binghui was ill. He visited several times a day and delivered meals in person, which moved Dai to tears.

194 1 September, Wang Tao sent Wei Jinshui and Chen Buren, members of the special committee, to open up a new area, while He, Zhang Zimao and more than 20 staff members stayed in the special committee. On 17, two of his journalists were arrested and defected, taking away more than 200 enemies lurking near the special commission's residence. At the dawn of 2 1, he was conducting military training on the small lawn. The lurking enemy shot at him and hit him in the right chest. When he reluctantly directed the soldiers to retreat, he was shot again and died at the age of 33. His head was also taken by the enemy to Longyan County and southern Hunan for "public display". On the occasion of the third anniversary of his sacrifice, the CPC Minxi Special Committee decided to name a people's armed force "Wang Tao detachment". Later, this team expanded into a column of the China People's Liberation Army in the border area of Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi, and cooperated with the southward troops to liberate the vast areas in eastern Guangdong and southwestern Fujian.