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Third Encirclement Campaign




  partof the Chinese Civil War
  date July - September , 1931
  place Jiangxi
  result Red Army victory
  combatant1 National Revolutionary Army
  combatant2 Chinese Red Army
  commander1 Chiang Kai-shek
  commander2 Zhu De
  strength1 300,000
  strength2 30,000+
  casualties1 30,000
  casualties2


The Third Encirclement Campaign () 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''' ().


PRELUDE


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 Chinese Soviet Republic . 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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