Encirclement campaigns (Chinese: 中央蘇區反圍剿戰爭), officially called in Chinese Communist historiography as the Agrarian Revolutionary War, were the campaigns launched by forces of the Chinese Nationalist Government against forces of the Chinese Communist Party during the early stage of the Chinese Civil War.
Formulated by German advisors Hans von Seeckt and Alexander von Falkenhausen, the campaigns were launched between the late 1920s to the mid-1930s with the goal of isolating and destroying the developing Chinese Red Army. The Nationalist forces launched encirclement campaigns against Communist bases in several separate locations across China.[1]
The fifth campaign against the Jiangxi Soviet succeeded in dislodging the Communists in 1934 and forced the Communists into the strategic retreat of the Long March.
Campaigns
- Honghu Soviet (first, second, third)
- Eyuwan Soviet: (first, second, third, fourth, fifth)
- Hubei-Henan-Shaanxi Soviet (first, second)
- Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Soviet
- Hunan-Hubei-Sichuan-Guizhou Soviet
- Hunan-Jiangxi Soviet
- Hunan-Western Hubei Soviet
- Jiangxi Soviet (first, second, third, fourth, fifth)
- Northeastern Jiangxi Soviet
- Shaanxi-Gansu Soviet (first, second, third)
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