Third Encirclement Campaign against the Honghu Soviet

Third Encirclement Campaign against the Honghu Soviet
Part of the Chinese Civil War

Location of Honghu, Jingzhou
DateEarly September 1931 – May 30, 1932
LocationHonghu, Jingzhou, China
Result Communist victory
Belligerents

National Revolutionary Army

Chinese Red Army
Commanders and leaders
Xu Yunquan 徐源泉 He Long
Xià Xī (夏曦)
Strength
>45,000 15,000
Casualties and losses
near 10,000 4,000

The Third Encirclement Campaign against the Honghu Soviet was an encirclement campaign launched by the Chinese Nationalist Government that was intended to destroy the communist Honghu Soviet and its Chinese Red Army in the local region. It was responded by the CommunistsThird Counter-Encirclement Campaign at Honghu Soviet (Chinese: 洪湖苏区第三次反围剿), also called by the communists as the Third Counter-Encirclement Campaign at Honghu Revolutionary Base (Chinese: 洪湖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 southern Hubei and northern Hunan provinces against the Nationalist attacks from early September 1931 to May 30, 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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