First Encirclement Campaign against Honghu Soviet

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

Location of Honghu, Jingzhou
Date Early December 1930 – end of January 1931
Location Honghu, Jingzhou, China
Result Communist victory
Belligerents

National Revolutionary Army

Chinese Red Army
Commanders and leaders
Xu Yunquan 徐源泉 He Long
Strength
>22,000 5,000
Casualties and losses
5,000+ Light

Major engagements in bold
Nanjing incident
Encirclement Campaigns: First (v. Jiangxi, Hubei-Henan-Anhui, Honghu, Hubei-Henan-Shaanxi, Shaanxi-Gansu Soviet) · Second (v. Jiangxi, Hubei-Henan-Anhui, Honghu, Hubei-Henan-Shaanxi, Shaanxi-Gansu Soviet) · Third (v. Jiangxi, Hubei-Henan-Anhui, Honghu, Hubei-Henan-Shaanxi, Shaanxi-Gansu Soviet) · Fourth (v. Jiangxi, Hubei-Henan-Anhui, Honghu Soviet) · Fifth (v. Jiangxi Soviet, Hubei-Henan-Anhui) • Long March (Luding Bridge) • Intermission (Wannan) • Yetaishan • S. Jiangsu  • Baoying • Yongjiazhen • Tianmen • Linyi • Wuhe • Yinji • Huaiyin-Huai'an • Xinghua • Dazhongji • Lingbi • Zhucheng • Lishi • Pingdu • Taixing • Wuli • Xiangshuikou • Rugao • Weiguangnuan • Shicun • North China Plain • S. Tongpu Railway • Datong Jining • Shangdang • Longhai • Ruhuang • Dingtao • Linfu • Zhengtai • Datong-Puzhou • Huaiyin–Huai'an • Houma • 1st Siping • 2nd Siping • Lüliang • Linjiang • Guanzhong • 3rd Siping • S. Baoding • Niangziguan • Tang'erli • N. Baoding • Nanlin • Summer 1947, NE China • Heshui • Meridian Ridge • N. Daqing River • Autumn 1947, NE China • Mt. Funiu • Winter 1947, NE China (Gongzhutun) • Phoenix Peak • W. Tai'an • Linfen • Zhouzhang • Hebei-Rehe-Chahar • Yanzhou • Shangcai • Liaoshen (Changchun · Jinzhou · Tashan) • Battle of Jinan • Menglianggu • Huaihai(Shuangduiji) • Pingjin (Tianjin) • Jiulianshan • Taiyuan  • Shanghai • Lanzhou • Ningxia • Nanchuan • Bobai • Jianmengguan • Bamianshan • Tianquan • Yiwu  • KMT Insurgency 1950-58 • Burma-China border •

Island campaigns (Quemoy · Denbu · Nan'ao · Hainan Island · Dongshan · Wanshan · Nanpeng · Nanri · Nanpeng · Dalushan · Dongshan · Yijiangshan · Dachen · Dong-Yin)

The First Encirclement Campaign against Honghu Soviet was an encirclement campaign launched by the Chinese Nationalist Government that was intended to destroy communist Honghu Soviet and its Chinese Red Army in the local region. It was responded by the Communists’ first counter-encirclement campaign at Honghu Soviet (Chinese: 洪湖苏区第一次反围剿), also called by the communists as the first counter-encirclement campaign at Honghu Revolutionary Base (Chinese: 洪湖革命根据地第一次反围剿), 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 December 1930 to the end of January 1931.

See also

Main events pre-1945 Main events post-1945 Specific articles

Part of the Cold War

Primary participants

Reference

Military History Research Department, Complete History of the People's Liberation Army, Military Science Publishing House in Beijing, 2000, ISBN 7-80137-315-4