Third Encirclement Campaign against the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet

Third Encirclement Campaign against the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet
Part of the Chinese Civil War
DateNovember 1931 – June 17, 1932
LocationBorder region of HubeiHenanAnhui provinces, China
Result Communist victory
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 CommunistsThird 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 HubeiHenanAnhui 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 HubeiHenanAnhui provinces against the Nationalist attacks from November 1931 to June 17, 1932.

See also

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


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