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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 its Chinese Red Army in the local region. It was responded by the Communists' third counter-encirclement campaigns, encirclement campaign at Honghu Soviet (), also called by the communists as the third counter-encirclement campaigns, encirclement campaign at Honghu Revolutionary Base (), in which the local Chinese Red Army successfully defended their soviet republic in the southern Hubei and northern Hunan provinces against the Kuomintang, Nationalist attacks from early September 1931 to 30 May 1932. See also *List of Chinese battles#Modern China, List of battles of the Chinese Civil War *National Revolutionary Army *History of the People's Liberation Army *Chinese Civil War References Military History Research Department, ''Complete H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honghu Soviet
Honghu () is a county-level city in the municipal region of Jingzhou, in the south of Hubei province. The city lies on the northwest (left) bank of the Yangtze River, across from Hunan Province and Xianning, Hubei. It is named after the adjacent Hong Lake, which since ancient times has periodically flooded. The traditional Chinese holiday, Dragon Boat Festival, celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, features boat races which are run on Hong Lake. By means of its famous lake, Honghu City produces forty kinds of fish and an abundance of plants, such as lotus, reed and a type of black algae. As of 2000, Honghu City had a population of 335,618 or more people. History Honghu is celebrated as an important supporter of the Communist side during last century's Chinese Civil War. Westerners know it for New Zealand communist Rewi Alley's relief work and Gung-ho (共合, ''Gonghe'') co-operative movement. Civil War Honghu and other regions around its lake were part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
