Second Encirclement Campaign against the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet

Second Encirclement Campaign against the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet
Part of the Chinese Civil War
DateApril 1931 – July 1931
LocationBorder region of HubeiHenanAnhui provinces, China
Result Communist victory
Belligerents

National Revolutionary Army

Chinese Red Army
Commanders and leaders
Chiang Kai-shek Xu Xiangqian
Zeng Zhongsheng (曾中生)
Strength
100,000+ 20,000
Casualties and losses
10,000+ 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 communist Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet and its Chinese Red Army in the local region. It was responded by the CommunistsSecond Counter-Encirclement Campaign at Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet (Chinese: 鄂豫皖苏区第二次苏区反围剿), also called by the communists as the Second Counter-Encirclement Campaign at HubeiHenanAnhui Revolutionary Base (Chinese: 鄂豫皖革命根据地第二次反围剿), in which the local Chinese Red Army successfully defended their soviet republic in the border region of HubeiHenanAnhui provinces against the Nationalist attacks from April 1931 to July 1931.

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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