First Encirclement Campaign

The First Encirclement Campaign is an abbreviated name used for several different encirclement campaigns launched by the Nationalist Government with the goal of destroying the developing Chinese Red Army and its communist bases in several separate locations in China during the early stage of Chinese Civil War between the late 1920s to mid-1930s, and these are:

• First Encirclement Campaign against Jiangxi Soviet, November 1930 to January 3, 1931
• First Encirclement Campaign against Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet, November 1930 to March 9, 1931
• First Encirclement Campaign against Honghu Soviet, early December 1930 to the end of January 1931
• First Encirclement Campaign against Hubei-Henan-Shaanxi Soviet, January to February 5, 1935
• First Encirclement Campaign against Shaanxi-Gansu Soviet, March 1934 to August 26, 1934