Third Encirclement Campaign against the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet
Third Encirclement Campaign against the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet | |||||||
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Part of the Chinese Civil War | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
National Revolutionary Army |
Chinese Red Army | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Chiang Kai-shek Li Shiding (厉式鼎) |
Xu Xiangqian Zhang Guotao | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
100,000+ | 30,000 | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
60,000 | Low |
The Third Encirclement Campaign against the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet was an encirclement campaign launched by the Chinese Nationalist Government that was intended to destroy the communist Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet and its Chinese Red Army in the local region. It was responded by the Communists’ Third Counter-Encirclement Campaign at Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet (Chinese: 鄂豫皖苏区第三次苏区反围剿), also called by the communists as the Third Counter-Encirclement Campaign at Hubei – Henan – Anhui Revolutionary Base (Chinese: 鄂豫皖革命根据地第三次反围剿), in which the local Chinese Red Army successfully defended their soviet republic in the border region of Hubei – Henan – Anhui provinces against the Nationalist attacks from November 1931 to June 17, 1932.
See also
- List of battles of the Chinese Civil War
- National Revolutionary Army
- People's Liberation Army
- History of the People's Liberation Army
- Chinese Civil War
References
Military History Research Department, Complete History of the People's Liberation Army, Military Science Publishing House in Beijing, 2000, ISBN 7-80137-315-4