Third encirclement campaign against the Honghu Soviet

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 Communists' third 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 30 May 1932.

Third encirclement campaign against the Honghu Soviet
Part of the Chinese Civil War
Location of the Honghu (Lake Hong) Soviet
Date Early September 1931 – May 30, 1932 Location Honghu, 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

See also

• List of battles of the Chinese Civil War
• National Revolutionary 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