| Third encirclement campaign against the Honghu Soviet | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of the Chinese Civil War | |||||||
 Location of the Honghu (Lake Hong) Soviet | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Nationalist China |
 Chinese Red Army | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Xu Yuanquan |
He Long Xia Xi | ||||||
| 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. The Red Army successfully defended their soviet republic against the Nationalist attacks from early September 1931 to 30 May 1932.
See also
- List of battles of the Chinese Civil War
- National Revolutionary Army
- History of the People's Liberation Army
- Chinese Civil War
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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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