First encirclement campaign against the Jiangxi Soviet explained

Conflict:First encirclement campaign
Partof:the Chinese Civil War
Date:November 1930, January 3, 1931
Place:Jiangxi
Result:Red Army victory
Combatant1: Nationalist China
Combatant2: Chinese Red Army
Commander1:Chiang Kai-shek
Lu Diping
Commander2:Mao Zedong
Zhu De
Casualties2:Unknown

The first encirclement campaign against Jiangxi Soviet was a series of battles launched by the Chinese Nationalist Government intended to annihilate the Chinese Red Army, and destroy the Soviet. The communists later responded with the first counter-encirclement campaign at Central Soviet, also called by the communists as the first counter-encirclement campaign at Central Revolutionary Base, in which the Red Army successfully defended the Soviet Zone in the southern Jiangxi province against Nationalist attacks from November 1930 to January 3, 1931.

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