Third Encirclement Campaign against Jiangxi Soviet

Third Encirclement Campaign
Part of the Chinese Civil War
Location of Jiangxi
Date July 1 - September 18, 1931 Location Jiangxi Result Red Army victory
Belligerents
National Revolutionary Army	Chinese Red Army
Commanders and leaders
Chiang Kai-shek He Yingqing Chen Mingqu (陈铭枢)	Mao Zedong Zhu De
Strength
300,000	30,000+
Casualties and losses
30,000	?

The Third Encirclement Campaign (Chinese: 第三次围剿) against Jiangxi Soviet was the third campaign launched by the Chinese Nationalist Government in the hope of destroying the Red Army in Jiangxi. It was launched less than a month after the previous campaign failed. However, this encirclement was repelled by the Red Army's Third Counter Encirclement Campaign at the Central Soviet (Chinese: 中央苏区第三次反围剿), also called as the Third Counter-Encirclement Campaign at the Central Revolutionary Base (Chinese: 中央革命根据地第三次反围剿).

Merely three weeks after the defeat of the Second Encirclement Campaign, Chiang Kai-shek reached Nanchang on June 21, 1931 with his foreign military advisory delegations including military advisors from Great Britain, Germany and Japan. The nationalists planned to launch another encirclement campaign in very short time so that their communist enemy would not have enough time to regroup and prepare for the upcoming battles, and Chiang himself became the commander-in-chief of the nationalist force consisting of twenty-four divisions totaling more than three hundred thousand troops. The attacking nationalist forces were divided into two army groups, with the He Yingqing named as the commander-in-chief of the left flank army group, and Chen Mingqu (陈铭枢) as the commander-in-chief as the right flank army group.

Nationalist order of battle (300,000+ total)

Communist order of battle: (30,000+ total)

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