Third Encirclement Campaign against Shaanxi–Gansu Soviet

Third Encirclement Campaign against the Shaanxi–Gansu Soviet
Part of the Chinese Civil War
Date August 20, 1935 – October 25, 1935 Location Shaanxi and Gansu, China Result Communist victory
Belligerents
National Revolutionary Army	Chinese Red Army
Commanders and leaders
Chiang Kai-shek	Liu Zhidan 刘志丹 (Early stage) Xu Haidong
Strength
100,000+	14,000
Casualties and losses
9,000+	?

The Third Encirclement Campaign against the Shaanxi-Gansu Soviet was an encirclement campaign launched by the Chinese Nationalist Government that was intended to destroy the communist Shaanxi-Gansu Soviet and its Chinese Red Army in the local region. It was responded by the Communists’ Third Counter-Encirclement Campaign at Shaanxi–Gansu Soviet (Chinese: 陕甘苏区第三次反围剿), also called by the communists as the Third Counter-Encirclement Campaign at Shaanxi-Gansu Revolutionary Base (Chinese: 陕甘革命根据地第三次反围剿), in which the local Chinese Red Army successfully defended their soviet republic in the border region of Shaanxi and Gansu provinces against the Nationalist attacks from August 1935 to October 25, 1935. Some Chinese communist historians also consider the Zhiluozhen Campaign fought a month later as part of this 3rd Counter-Encirclement Campaign at Shaanxi–Gansu Soviet.

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