Encirclement campaigns (Chinese Civil War)

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During the Chinese Civil War, the forces of the Kuomintang conducted encirclement campaigns against the revolutionary base areas of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).[1][2] The climax of these encirclement campaigns were the five "encirclement and suppression",[2] or "extermination",[1] campaigns against the Chinese Soviet Republic (CSR) from 1930 to 1934.[2] The final campaign, developed with German advisors, destroyed the CSR's Jiangxi Soviet and precipitated the CCP's strategic retreat in the Long March.[3][4]

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  1. 1 2 Hsu 2012, p. 6.
  2. 1 2 3 Opper 2020, "Chapter 3: The Chinese Soviet Republic, 1931–1934, Section IV: The KMT Strategy and Alternative".
  3. Hsu 2012, p. 137.
  4. Opper 2020, "Chapter 3: The Chinese Soviet Republic, 1931–1934, Section V. CCP Territorial Control: From Guerrillas to Soldiers".

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