During the Chinese Civil War, the forces of the Kuomintang conducted '''encirclement campaigns''' against the revolutionary base areas of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).{{sfn|Hsu|2012|p=6}}{{sfn|Opper|2020|loc="Chapter 3: The Chinese Soviet Republic, 1931–1934, Section IV: The KMT Strategy and Alternative"}} The climax of these encirclement campaigns were the five "encirclement and suppression",{{sfn|Opper|2020|loc="Chapter 3: The Chinese Soviet Republic, 1931–1934, Section IV: The KMT Strategy and Alternative"}} or "extermination",{{sfn|Hsu|2012|p=6}} campaigns against the Chinese Soviet Republic (CSR) from 1930 to 1934.{{sfn|Opper|2020|loc="Chapter 3: The Chinese Soviet Republic, 1931–1934, Section IV: The KMT Strategy and Alternative"}} The final campaign, developed with German advisors, destroyed the CSR's Jiangxi Soviet and precipitated the CCP's strategic retreat in the Long March.{{sfn|Hsu|2012|p=137}}{{sfn|Opper|2020|loc="Chapter 3: The Chinese Soviet Republic, 1931–1934, Section V. CCP Territorial Control: From Guerrillas to Soldiers"}}
* Honghu Soviet ** First ** Second ** Third * Eyuwan Soviet ** First ** Second ** Third ** Fourth ** Fifth * Hubei-Henan-Shaanxi Soviet ** First ** Second * Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Soviet ** First * Hunan-Hubei-Sichuan-Guizhou Soviet ** First * Hunan-Jiangxi Soviet ** First * Hunan-Western Hubei Soviet ** First * Jiangxi Soviet ** First ** Second ** Third ** Fourth ** Fifth * Northeastern Jiangxi Soviet ** First * Shaanxi-Gansu Soviet ** First ** Second ** Third
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=== Sources === {{refbegin}} * {{cite book |last1=Opper |first1=Marc |title=People's Wars in China, Malaya, and Vietnam |date=2020 |publisher=University Of Michigan Press |location=Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA |isbn=978-0-472-12657-6}} * {{cite book |last=Hsu |first=Wilbur W. |date=2012 |title=Survival Through Adaptation: The Chinese Red Army and the Extermination Campaigns, 1927-1936 |publisher=Combat Studies Institute Press |series=Art of War Papers |location=Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, USA |url=https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/combat-studies-institute/csi-books/ArtOfWar_SurvivalThroughAdaptation.pdf }} {{refend}}
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Category:Encirclement campaigns (Chinese Civil War)