First Encirclement Campaign against the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet

First Encirclement Campaign against Hubei – Henan – Anhui Soviet
Part of the Chinese Civil War
Date November 1930 – March 9, 1931 Location Border region of Hubei – Henan – Anhui provinces, China Result Communist victory
Belligerents
National Revolutionary Army	Chinese Red Army
Commanders and leaders
He Chengjun (何成浚) Li Mingzhong (李鸣钟)	Xu Xiangqian Zeng Zhongsheng (曾中生)
Strength
100,000+	20,000
Casualties and losses
> 10,000	Low

The First Encirclement Campaign against the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet was an encirclement campaign launched by the Chinese Nationalist Government that was intended to destroy communist Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet and its Chinese Red Army in the local region. It was responded by the Communists’ First Counter-Encirclement Campaign at Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet (Chinese: 鄂豫皖苏区第一次反围剿), also called by the communists as the First Counter-Encirclement Campaign at Hubei – Henan – Anhui Revolutionary Base (Chinese: 鄂豫皖革命根据地第一次反围剿), 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 1930 to March 9, 1931.

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