Encirclement campaigns (), 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
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and One-party state, sole ruling party of the China, People's Republic of China (PRC). Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the CCP emerged victoriou ...
during the early stage of the
Chinese Civil War
The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China and forces of the Chinese Communist Party, continuing intermittently since 1 August 1927 until 7 December 1949 with a Communist victory on m ...
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Formulated by German advisors
Hans von Seeckt
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and
Alexander von Falkenhausen
Alexander Ernst Alfred Hermann Freiherr von Falkenhausen (29 October 187831 July 1966) was a German general and military advisor to Chiang Kai-shek. He was an important figure during the Sino-German cooperation to reform the Chinese Army. In 19 ...
, 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 Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army or Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, commonly known as the Chinese Red Army or simply the Red Army, are the armed forces of the Chinese Communist Party. It was formed when Communist ...
. The
Nationalist
Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people), Smith, Anthony. ''Nationalism: The ...
forces launched encirclement campaigns against
Communist
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bases in several separate locations across China.
Encirclement campaigns by location
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Encirclement campaign against the Eastern Fujian Soviet
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Encirclement campaign against the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Soviet
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Encirclement campaign against the Hunan-Hubei-Sichuan-Guizhou Soviet
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Encirclement campaign against the Hunan-Jiangxi Soviet
The encirclement campaign against the Hunan-Jiangxi Soviet was a series of battles in the border region of Hunan and Jiangxi provinces initiated by the Chinese Kuomintang (''Nationalist'') Party / Government. The encirclement campaign was met by ...
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Encirclement campaign against the Hunan-Western Hubei Soviet
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Encirclement campaign against the Northeastern Jiangxi Soviet
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Encirclement campaign against the Yunnan-Guizhou-Guangxi Soviet
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Encirclement campaign against the Zuojiang Soviet
Encirclement is a military term for the situation when a force or target is isolated and surrounded by enemy forces. The situation is highly dangerous for the encircled force. At the strategic level, it cannot receive supplies or reinforcem ...
First encirclement campaigns
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First encirclement campaign against the Central Fujian Soviet
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First encirclement campaign against the Hailufeng Soviet
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First encirclement campaign against the Honghu Soviet
The first encirclement campaign against the Honghu Soviet was an encirclement campaign launched by the Chinese Nationalist Government that was intended to destroy the communist Honghu Soviet and its Chinese Red Army in the local region. It w ...
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First encirclement campaign against the Jiangxi Soviet
The first encirclement campaign () against Jiangxi Soviet was a series of battles launched by the Chinese Nationalist Government intended to annihilate the Chinese Red Army, and destroy the Soviet. The communists later responded with the fir ...
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First encirclement campaign against the Qiongya Soviet
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First encirclement campaign against the Shaanxi-Gansu Soviet
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First encirclement campaign against the Youjiang Soviet
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Second encirclement campaigns
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Second encirclement campaign against the Eastern Guizhou Soviet
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Second encirclement campaign against the Hailufeng Soviet
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Second encirclement campaign against the Honghu Soviet
The second encirclement campaign against the Honghu Soviet was a series of battles launched by the Chinese Nationalist Government that was intended to destroy communist Honghu Soviet and its Chinese Red Army in the local region. It was respond ...
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Second encirclement campaign against the Hubei-Henan-Shaanxi Soviet
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Second encirclement campaign against the Jiangxi Soviet
The second encirclement campaign () against Jiangxi Soviet was a series of battles launched by the Chinese Nationalist Government in the hope of encircling and destroying the Jiangxi Soviet after the previous campaign had failed. The Red Army ...
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Second encirclement campaign against the Nantong-Haimen-Rugao-Taixing Soviet
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Second encirclement campaign against the Qiongya Soviet
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Second encirclement campaign against the Shaanxi-Gansu Soviet
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Second encirclement campaign against the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet
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Second encirclement campaign against the Southern Fujian Soviet
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Second encirclement campaign against the Youjiang Soviet
Third encirclement campaigns
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Third encirclement campaign against the Honghu Soviet
The third encirclement campaign against the Honghu Soviet was an encirclement campaigns, encirclement campaign launched by the Chinese Nationalist Government that was intended to destroy the Communist Party of China, communist Honghu Soviet and ...
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Third encirclement campaign against the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet
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Third encirclement campaign against the Hubei-Henan-Shaanxi Soviet
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Third encirclement campaign against the Jiangxi Soviet
The third encirclement campaign () 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 f ...
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Third encirclement campaign against the Shaanxi-Gansu Soviet
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Third encirclement campaign against the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet
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Third encirclement campaign against the Youjiang Soviet
Fourth encirclement campaigns
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Fourth encirclement campaign against the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet
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Fourth encirclement campaign against the Honghu Soviet = 2nd stage of the
encirclement campaign against the Hunan-Western Hubei Soviet
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Fourth encirclement campaign against the Jiangxi Soviet
The fourth encirclement campaign against the Jiangxi Soviet () was the fourth campaign launched by the Chinese Nationalist Government in hope to destroy the Red Army in Jiangxi. The Nationalist headquarters in the provincial border of Jiangx ...
Fifth encirclement campaigns
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Fifth encirclement campaign against the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet
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Fifth encirclement campaign against the Jiangxi Soviet
The fifth encirclement campaign against Kiangsi (Jiangxi) Soviet was a series of battles fought during the Chinese Civil War from 25 September 1933, to October 1934 between Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese Nationalists (Kuomintang) and the Chinese ...
Consequences
The first four Encirclement campaigns of the Chinese Nationalists military were unsuccessful. However, with the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany in 1933, and the subsequent close
cooperation between Nazi Germany and the Republic of China, the nationalists succeeded in the final 5th campaign which led directly to the famous
Long March
The Long March (, lit. ''Long Expedition'') was a military retreat undertaken by the Chinese Red Army, Red Army of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the forerunner of the People's Liberation Army, to evade the pursuit of the National Revolut ...
of the Communist Red Armies.
See also
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List of battles of the Chinese Civil War
The following is a list of Chinese wars and battles, organized by date.Xiaobing Li, ''China at War: An Encyclopedia.'' (ABC-CLIO, 2012).excerpt/ref>
Ancient China
Imperial China
Qin dynasty (221–206 BCE)
Han dynasty (206 BCE – ...
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National Revolutionary Army
The National Revolutionary Army (NRA; ), sometimes shortened to Revolutionary Army () before 1928, and as National Army () after 1928, was the military arm of the Kuomintang (KMT, or the Chinese Nationalist Party) from 1925 until 1947 in China ...
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People's Liberation Army
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the principal military force of the People's Republic of China and the armed wing of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The PLA consists of five service branches: the Ground Force, Navy, Air Force, ...
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Chinese Red Army
The Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army or Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, commonly known as the Chinese Red Army or simply the Red Army, are the armed forces of the Chinese Communist Party. It was formed when Communist ...
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History of the People's Liberation Army
The history of the People's Liberation Army began in 1927 with the start of the Chinese Civil War and spans to the present, having developed from a peasant guerrilla force into the largest armed force in the world.
Historical background
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