First encirclement campaign
Part of the Chinese Civil War
Location of Jiangxi
Date November 1930, January 3, 1931[citation needed] Location Jiangxi Result Red Army victory
Belligerents
Nationalist China	Chinese Red Army
Commanders and leaders
Chiang Kai-shek Lu Diping	Mao Zedong Zhu De
Casualties and losses
	Unknown

The first encirclement campaign (Chinese: 第一次围剿) 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 first counter-encirclement campaign at Central Soviet (Chinese: 中央苏区第一次反围剿), also called by the communists as the first counter-encirclement campaign at Central Revolutionary Base (Chinese: 中央革命根据地第一次反围剿), in which the Red Army successfully defended the Soviet Zone in the southern Jiangxi province against Nationalist attacks from November 1930 to January 3, 1931.

See also[edit]

• Outline of the Chinese Civil War
• Second encirclement campaign
• Third encirclement campaign
• Fourth encirclement campaign
• Fifth encirclement campaign