Third Encirclement Campaign

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Second Encirclement Campaign
Part of the Chinese Civil War
Date April - May, 1931
Location Jiangxi
Result Red Army victory
Combatants
Flag of the National Revolutionary Army National Revolutionary Army PLA Chinese Red Army
Commanders
Flag of the National Revolutionary Army Chiang Kai-shek PLA Zhu De
Strength
300,000 30,000+
Casualties
30,000  ?
Chinese Civil War
Major engagements in bold
Encirclement Campaigns (First - Second - Third - Fourth - Fifth) - Long March (Luding Bridge) - Intermission (Wannan) - Shangdang Campaign - Longhai Campaign - Dingtao Campaign - Zhengtai Campaign - Liaoshen Campaign (Changchun - Jinzhou) - Huaihai Campaign - Pingjin Campaign - Island campaigns (Quemoy - Denbu - Nanri - Dongshan - Yijiangshan - Dong-Yin)

The Third Encirclement Campaign (Chinese: 第三次围剿) was the third campaign launched by the Chinese Nationalist Government in hope to destroy the Red Army in Jiangxi. It was launched less than a month after the previous campaign have failed. However, this encirclement was against repelled by the Red Army's Third Counter Encirclement Campaign (Chinese: 第三次反围剿).

After the second encirclement campaign had failed, Chiang Kai-shek brought his British, Japanese and German military advisors and arrived at Nanchang, and took over the position as chief commander of the campaign. Chiang appointed He Yinqin as the chief commander in the frontline, then organized 300,000 men and launched a larger scale campaign on the Jiangxi Soviets. On July 1, Chiang ordered the full assault in his Nanchang headquarter. The First Area Red Army at the time were away from their stronghold, spread around in northern and western part of Fujian and doing various fundraising and proprogating on the local civilians.

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