Encirclement Campaigns

November 1, 1930 – October 10, 1934

Part of Chinese Civil War

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Encirclement Campaigns

Series of Kuomintang 'encirclement and suppression' campaigns against the Communist soviets, climaxing in the five campaigns against the Jiangxi Soviet (November 1930 – October 1934). The fifth destroyed the Jiangxi Soviet and forced the Communists onto the Long March.

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Commanders

Communists 5

Mao Zedong · 1893–1976 Zhu De Commander-in-chief, Commander-in-chief of the Red Army during the campaigns · 1886–1976 Zhou Enlai · 1898–1976 Peng Dehuai · 1898–1974 Lin Biao · 1907–1971

Nationalists 2

Chiang Kai-shek Directed the Nationalist encirclement campaigns · 1887–1975 Tang Enbo KMT commander in the fifth encirclement campaign · 1899–1954