Third encirclement campaign against the Hubei–Henan–Anhui Soviet

The third encirclement campaign against the Hubei–Henan–Anhui 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 Communists' third 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 Hubei–Henan–Anhui 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 Hubei, Henan, and Anhui provinces against the Nationalist attacks from November 1931 to 17 June 1932.

Third encirclement campaign against the Hubei–Henan–Anhui Soviet
Part of the Chinese Civil War
Date November 1931 – June 17, 1932 Location Border region of Hubei, Henan, and Anhui 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

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