He was the first emissary of our Party to send an envoy to the Communist International, and he was the only central leader of our Party to hold the highest office in which he had made a glorious sacrifice on the battlefield. He is the outstanding leader of the Communist Party of China.
Zhang Tailei, formerly known as Zhang Zengrang, was born in June 1899 in Wujin, Jiangsu Province. In 1915, he was admitted to the law department of Tianjin Beiyang University to study, and because he was determined to break through the old society by turning into a thunderous thunderbolt, he changed his name to Zhang Tailei.
Zhang Tailei profile
In 1919, Zhang Tailei actively participated in the "May Fourth" Movement and became one of the important backbones of the Tianjin Patriotic Movement. Under the influence of Li Dazhao, he began to accept and believe in Marxism, participated in the Marxist Theory Research Society organized by Li Dazhao at Peking University, assisted Li Dazhao in the creation of the party, and joined the early organization of the party in October 1920, becoming one of the earliest party members.
In 1921, Zhang Tailei went to the Soviet Union to work and study, and was appointed secretary of the Chinese section of the Far East Secretariat of the Communist International. He accompanied the representatives of the Comintern to meet with Li Dazhao, Chen Duxiu, and Sun Yat-sen on many occasions, which promoted the first cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.
Zhang Tailei served as the commander-in-chief of the Guangzhou Uprising.
After returning to China in 1924, Zhang Tailei was responsible for the work of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and in 1925 he was elected secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and an alternate member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
In 1927, Zhang Tailei attended the Fifth National Congress of the Communist Party of China and served as a member of the Provisional Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. After the "Eighty-Seven Conference", he was appointed secretary of the Guangdong Provincial CPC Committee, secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Military Commission, secretary of the Southern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and member of the Military Commission of the Southern Bureau.
The Guangzhou uprising army achieved a stage victory.
In December 1927, in order to break through the white terror of the reactionaries, according to the instructions of the central authorities, Zhang Tailei, Ye Jianying, Nie Rongzhen, Xu Xiangqian and others planned to launch together
The Guangzhou Uprising. In the early morning of December 11, due to the sudden change of hostilities, the uprising began ahead of schedule. The rebel fighters ripped off the Kuomintang hat emblem on their hats, wore red cloth belts around their necks, braved the enemy's artillery fire, and soon occupied most of the city of Guangzhou. The Guangzhou Soviet Government was established under the auspices of Zhang Tailei. Zhang Dalei was elected chairman.
Guangzhou uprising, the rebel army in the brave battle.
However, the enemy was not willing to accept defeat and gathered a large number of troops to counterattack Guangzhou. On December 12, 1927, the crazy Chiang Kai-shek bandit army captured some of the main positions of our army. Zhang Tailei immediately organized everyone to move, but he himself drove forward to the north gate, ready to organize troops to resist the enemy there, unfortunately on the way, he was ambushed by a group of enemies disguised as workers' Red Guards, and died heroically at the age of 29.
Zhang Tailei was not only brave and tenacious in the struggle against the enemy, but also very strategic in the struggle and at a very high level. Qu Qiubai was a very good leader in the early days of our party, and Zhang Tailei was his introduction to the party. Zhang Tailei's sacrifice is a great loss for our party and has had a great impact on the future development of our party.
Although Zhang Tailei sacrificed, his spirit of "willing to turn into thunder and shatter the old world" has always inspired us to move forward.