Encirclement Campaign against the Hunan-Hubei-Sichuan-Guizhou Soviet

Encirclement Campaign against Hunan-Hubei-Sichuan-Guizhou Soviet
Part of the Chinese Civil War
DateFebruary, 1935 - August, 1935
Locationborder region of Hunan-Hubei-Sichuan-Guizhou, China
Result Communist victory
Belligerents

National Revolutionary Army

Chinese Red Army
Commanders and leaders
Chiang Kai-shek He Long
Strength
100,000 12,000
Casualties and losses
17,000 ?

The Encirclement Campaign against Hunan-Hubei-Sichuan-Guizhou Soviet was a series of battles launched by the Chinese Nationalist Government that was intended to destroy communist Hunan-Hubei-Sichuan-Guizhou Soviet and its Chinese Red Army in the local region. It was responded by the CommunistsCounter-Encirclement Campaign at Hunan-Hubei-Sichuan-Guizhou Soviet (Chinese: 湘鄂川黔苏区反围剿), also called by the communists as the Counter-Encirclement Campaign at Hunan-Hubei-Sichuan-Guizhou Revolutionary Base (Chinese: 湘鄂川黔革命根据地反围剿), in which the local Chinese Red Army successfully defended their soviet republic in the southern Jiangxi province against the Nationalist attacks from February, 1935 to August, 1935.

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